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Teacher Access Center (TAC) Gradebook

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How to access TAC from homeTo begin, you should start or restart your computer at home and ensure that your are connected to your home network. Attempting the following steps from a computer that has merely been asleep can result in a failure to connect to the district network properly. (These steps have been tested on district and personal computers.)

Taking attendance in TAC; Elementary

Taking Attendance in TAC; Secondary

Enabling Email Notifications in TAC for Attendance and other notifications.Email, Pop-ups, etc.

How to Customize Your TAC Gradebook Settings

How to Add, Enter, and Publish Assignments in the TAC Gradebook

Locating and viewing student alerts in TACStudent alerts will give you a glimpse into a student's Academic, Special Education, Medical, Personal, and District information. For greater details you will need to contact the respective leaders of these departments on your campus.

How to create an assignment and copy it to other classes.

How to create a list for recording grades (on paper or in Excel).

How to send an Email to parents, students, and guardians using Teacher Access Center

How to view Daily Attendance for a specific student (daily, yearly, or 6 weeks).

Navigating the Gradebook and Student Reports in the 'Student Drawer'

How to Generate a Student Detail Report from the GradebookThis report illustrates all grades for all assignments as specified by you.

How to Revert or Cancel overrides in GradebookOnly needed if your averages are in BOLD lettering and those averages do not change when you enter additional grades.

This is the teacher process to enter an Incomplete for a student if needed.

How to enter an INC for a student if needed.

How to create an elementary report card from a teacher gradebook.

Creating a printable IPR001 Progress Reports on CognosThis is specific to elementary schools. Secondary Progress reports are sent via email. The process is similar if a secodary teacher needs to send a progress report.

How to import assignments from a previous campus and course.You will likely want to do this when a student enrolls on your campus during a 6-week session.

This document shows how to enter comments or accomodations specific to the student and the assignment.

How to enter comments or accomodations regarding student assignments using comment codes or typed entries.

Create and personalize indicators, grade thresholds and comments in TACYou will now be able to see multiple indicators at one time (see picture below).  These indicators include attendance, comments, history of a score, and a highlight if the score is below the threshold level that you set. 

Configuring Gradebook Indicators

This is an updated version of the steps shown on the left.

Create this report if you need to print comments or accomodations for a specific student and his/her assignments.

How to create a Cognos report that includes assignments, grades, and annotations of accomodations given for student assignments.

This document outlines how to enter 'Load' the gradebook averages and enter conduct grades.

How to enter 6 weeks grades at the Elementary level.Teachers are responsible for the data that will be printed on the report card. The grades in your Gradebook will be copied into the eSchool six weeks grade database and report cards will be printed from there.

This document shows ONLY how to enter conduct grades in TAC.

How to enter conduct grades in TAC

How to enter 6 weeks grades and conduct at the Junior High levelTeachers are responsible for the data that will be printed on the report card. The grades in your Gradebook will be "LOADED" into the eSchool six weeks grade database and report cards will be printed/emailed from there. Your campus should inform you of the last day to enter grades and conduct scores.

How to find/view inactive students and their grades.

How to find/view inactive student grades.These could be students with recent schedule changes, withdrawn students or students who have been placed at another campus temporarily.

These indicators will hilight or create indicators on your gradebook making low grades, absences and the like easy to see at a glance.

Configuring Gradebook Indicators

Jr High End of Semester: Teacher Instructions

JH end of semester Teacher Instructions.pdf

HS End of Semester: Teacher Instructions

High School Report Card Procedures 1st six weeks.pdf

*Cover individual 6 weeks that don't include the end of the trimester.

These are all the steps that teachers will need to complete for the end of each trimester at the high school level.

End of Trimester Gradebook instructions for High School teachers. This includes Loading 6 weeks averages, entering final exam grades, overriding averages, and loading the trimester average.

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