Parents and students can now receive email notifications for Attendance and Grade entries in Aspen. The system allows you to subscribe to these notifications. Notifications are not sent until you subscribe to them. The email message for attendance is sent daily at approx 10:30am on a day when there is an attendance entry for a student.
Messages are only sent to you only
if you have subscribed for notifications
When an attendance or grade event (as described below) has been entered for the day.
Attendance
Grades
This subscription will notify you of any attendance entry for this student.
This subscription will notify you when any grades below a specified threshold are entered for this student. Grades are scaled as a percent from 0 to 100.
If a student receives a class assignment or test grade that is below the specified threshold, a notification will be sent to your email address.
The threshold should be a number from 0 to 100.
For example, an entry of 75 would trigger a notification for any grade entered that scaled below 75%.
Log into your Parent or Student Aspen Account.
Parent Accounts should then click on the Family tab at the top, then click on their child's name. Student account users should click on the My Info Tab at the top.
Click on the Notification side tab.
Check off the Notification(s) you want to enable.
Enter a grade threshold if you are activating the grade notification.
Please note that parents with multiple children need to activate these notifications for each of their children. The grade notifications only apply to assignment grades on the Academics Tab. Transcript grades posted at the end of each quarter or at Progress report time do not trigger these notifications.
Each teacher will determine the frequency with which he or she updates grades. Please note that teachers are only required to post grades at progress report and report card times. As teachers become more and more comfortable with the new system, grades will be posted with more frequency in many classrooms.
Grades can fluctuate severely throughout the course due to factors like weighting and missing assignments. Aspen will always give you a running average based on the information currently recorded in the Gradebook. For instance, if a project is used to demonstrate learning for several weeks during a class, the teacher could weigh it as being the most important factor in the student’s grade. If the student does poorly on the project, or does not turn it in, that will significantly lower the overall grade in the class. In that instance, a child could be passing one day and failing the next.
Grade questions should be addressed with the teacher for that specific course.
Please contact your child’s guidance counselor.