Aspen in the Cloud

Pages

- Acts as a home button to return you to the home screen
- Aspen has the ability for teachers to create web pages in the software.
- These sites would be listed under pages.
- Not widely used at this time.
- Groups may also use this capability to create web pages to share information.
- Look for this in the future.

Student Information

- Currently, you may view the information that the school has on file for your student.
- In the future, you will be able to update this information via Aspen. This is not currently available.

Viewing Academic Information

- Choose the Academics tab
- This will give you details about classes for the current school year including attendance and academic performance.
- Change term and year. Current year allows you to change terms, previous years default to all terms
- For each class you have information on:
  - course number and description
  - term
  - schedule
  - teacher
  - room
  - teacher notes - comments about class
  - attendance summary - displays absences, tardies, dismissals for term. Also current total for year.
  - average summary - lists assignment categories with their weight and overall grade, a grade for each term, current average.
- Assignments - allows you to view specific information about individual assignments
  - Click on Category drop-down
  - Select All to see all assignments
  - Select a single assignment to see all assignments in that category
- Grade Term - select the term by choosing it from the drop-down
  - All - see all terms
  - Q1 - see quarter 1
  - Q2 - see quarter 2

Sending Emails to Teachers

- Choose your student
- Click on Academics tab
- Select Options -> Send Email
  - All of your students teachers will appear in the email TO box.
  - Click X to remove a teachers name from the email
- Add your name to the BCC box if you want to receive a copy of the email.
- Add a subject in the subject field
- Add your message in the text box.
- Click SEND and confirm by clicking YES

Notifications

Setting Up a Subscription

- - 1. Login to the Family Portal
    2. Click the Family tab
    3. Click the Notification side-tab:
    4. At the top of the page, select the checkbox next to your email address.
    5. Select the Subscribe checkbox to receive email notifications for Grades.
    6. Define a Grade Threshold by typing a value between 1 and 100 in the box as shown above. The system will send an email when the student receives a grade below this percentage.
    7. Your changes to this screen are saved automatically. There is no SAVE button.
    8. To change the email address associated with your Family Portal account, click Set Preferences on the settings bar at the top of the page, then the Security sub-tab.

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