Start of Year Setup - Elementary
How to set up your grade book and enable standards mode at the start of the school year.
Elementary Grade Book Articles
Contents
- Grade Book Setup
- Import Class Standards
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Video Based Instructions at the Bottom!
Grade Book Setup
1. Open Grade Book Setup
2. On the "Grade Book Settings" tab, set the "Grading Period Default For New Assignments" to the assignment due date.
3. Click on "Class Settings"
4. Note that standards mode is currently off. Click the 'Edit" button to turn it on.
5. Toggle "Standards Mode" to "On" for all of your classes.
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7. The class settings screen should look like this when you are done.
8. On your main grade book screen you will see a new "Standards" button to switch to standards mode.
9. On your main grade book screen, go to "Filters & Options" and check the "hide class grade" box. This will hide the overall class grade that is used at the secondary level.
Import Class Standards
There are two methods for bringing in class standards. Either way, this is a once a year process.
- Homeroom, reading, music and PE teachers will be able to click a link to import all their class standards.
- ELD classes, since they don't have fixed grade levels associated with them, will browse for their standards by grade level and import them manually.
Homeroom, Music & PE Classes
1. Load the "Set Up Class Standards" screen
2. Clicking the "load standards from course alignment" link on the left will bring in your report card standards with the report card calculation method set to "mode." This article explains how the calculation works. If, as a grade level team or as a school, you decide to use a different calculation method, you should make this change (on the "grade book setup" standards tab) before loading course aligned standards.
3. Your course aligned standards will appear on the right. Save is automatic on this screen so you are done.
Report card (aka "Course Aligned") standards imported into class.
ELD Classes
1. Load the "Set Up Class Standards" screen.
2. Click the "add from district standards bank" link on the left.
3. A "Choose Standards" floating window will appear. Click on "TTSD Elementary Standards" then ELD, then the grade level.
- Click the (possibly truncated) standard text under the grade level. This will cause the full text of the standard to appear on the right.
- Click anywhere on the full standard on the right. This will select it.
- Click on the next standard text on the left to load the full standard on the right. Click this to select it.
- Repeat until you have all of your standards for the class. Then click "Done"
4. Clicking "done" will import the standards into your class. No additional need to save anything.
Video Based Instructions