Parent/Student Email and Security Updates
The main difference is in the tools available. The student has a widget that will allow him or her to check off items on a “To Do” list.
No, all of your students can be included under one account. Please note that only students in grades 6-12 appear in the portal.
Please contact your student’s main office.
Emergency Priority 1 is the primary contact.
This person’s Phone 1 and Primary Email are used by the Auto Call system when we need to contact the family about building or district events such as important happenings in the school or for snow days.
If other phone numbers are provided for the primary contact, they would be used if someone from the school needed to talk to the parent/guardian about the student.
Emergency Priority 2 and 3 contacts
if provided, these are the additional contacts for direct communication if the school cannot reach the primary contact. They would not receive Auto Call messages. These contacts are helpful if your student is ill and the primary contact could not be located, for example.
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.
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.
Grade questions should be addressed with the teacher for that specific course.
Each teacher will determine the frequency with which he or she updates grades. He or she should provide you with information on those expectations at the beginning of the course.
NEVER provide someone else with your login!
Report cards will still be available to you in a printed or printable format, so you can use that to show a family member if you choose.
Aspen records highly confidential information about your student. Winchester Public Schools takes great care to ensure that your child’s privacy is being respected and the information is handled on a need to know basis.
Additionally, not every staff member will have access to your child’s information, and even your child’s teacher may not have all of the information available that you can see. Grade information is private and considered confidential. It should not be used to compare students, teachers, and/or schools.
Parents and students will be expected to act in a responsible, ethical, and legal manner. Inappropriate use could result in the cancellation of your Aspen account.