Teachers

Attendance

• Attendance Cheat Sheet - one-page reminder to keep on your desk

• Creating a Seating Chart - instructions for creating a seating chart for attendance

Lunch

• Recording Lunch Count & Room Number in PowerTeacher

• Recording Lunch video tutorial

Gradebook

RAMS

• RAMS- Setting Up and Using the Gradebook - full step-by-step instructions, including creating and  weighting categories, creating assignments, and entering grades, and the new scoring area!

• Gradebook Reference Card - one-page (front and back) quick reference for using the gradebook 

• Viewing a Student's Category Averages  REVISED! - step-by-step instructions for finding the category averages

• Submitting Grades and Comments - full step-by-step instructions to prep grades and comments for progress reports and report cards.

  • Entering Final Exam scores

  • List of available comments (HHS)

  • Reviewing comments and term/exam/final grades

  • Print Grade Reports for Students (including category totals)

• "My grades stopped updating!" - a solution to a common problem when your term grades don't change after entering new assignments.

• Codes for Schedule and Gradebook Abbreviations

• Discipline (RAMS only)

• Student Tutorial

• Viewing Standards Grades in Art (Families)

• Custom Class Names in All Portals (9-12-2022)

HHS

• HHS- Setting Up and Using the Gradebook- full step-by-step instructions, including creating and  weighting categories, creating assignments, and entering grades, and the new scoring area!

• Gradebook Reference Card - one-page (front and back) quick reference for using the gradebook 

• Viewing a Student's Category Averages  REVISED! - step-by-step instructions for finding the category averages

• Submitting Grades and Comments - full step-by-step instructions to prep grades and comments for progress reports and report cards.

  • Entering Final Exam scores

  • List of available comments (HHS)

  • Reviewing comments and term/exam/final grades

  • Print Grade Reports for Students (including category totals)

• "My grades stopped updating!" - a solution to a common problem when your term grades don't change after entering new assignments.

• Codes for Schedule and Gradebook Abbreviations

• Covering a class - instructions for taking attendance in someone else's class. Good for substitute teachers and for covering colleagues.

• Students: Checking Your Grades (HHS version)

• Student Tutorial

• Codes for Schedule and Gradebook Abbreviations

• Recommendations - instructions for HS teachers to recommend students for next year's classes

• Custom Class Names in All Portals (9-12-2022)

Miller 

• Entering Grades

• Custom Class Namess

• Custom Class Names in All Portals (9-12-2022)

Placentino

• Entering Grades

• Custom Class Names

• Custom Class Names in All Portals (9-12-2022)

ELL Staff

• How to Enter Term Comments

• How to Print Individual Progress Reports in PowerTeacher

Communications

Viewing Student & Parent/Guardian Emails in PowerTeacher Portal

• Instructions for Accessing and Copying Student/Parent/Guardian Emails in PowerTeacher

Bright Arrow Instructions

• Bright Arrow's system features and capabilities 

• Sending Bright Arrow Emails Before the 1st Day of School

• Bright Arrow Instructions (including translations, attachments, and scheduling)

• Selecting Bright Arrow Recipients- how to select students, parents, or both as recipients of a message

• How to Images or Pictures in Bright Arrow emails -how to images or pictures to Bright Arrow emails from your computer

Bright Arrow Lists

• Creating Bright Arrow Lists- create, configure, and save a class list of contacts (helpful for sending regular messages)

• Creating Bright Arrow Lists (video)

Bright Arrow Contacts

• Viewing Student and Parent Contact Info

• Exporting Parent/Guardian Contacts-  how to export parent/guardian contact info for Bright Arrow emails

• Exporting Bright Arrow Contacts (video)

Bright Arrow Reports

• Bright Arrow Reports- how to access message reports and search for individual parent/guardian emails

Unified Classroom Contact Info

• Searching Student Contacts in Unified Classroom (document)- search and navigate student contact info in Unified Classroom

• Searching Student Contacts in Unified Classroom (video) 

Printing/Exporting

• Class Rosters (including birthdays!) - step-by-step instructions for printing or exporting a blank roster chart for your classes

• Student Gradebook report - step-by-step for printing student grade reports, including all assignments and categories for the current term

• Printing Student Photos (and Other Reports) by Class- instructions for printing student photos and grade level for each class

• Printing "Cohort" Class Lists

• Printing Family Address Labels - use this report to print address labels for students in Power Teacher.

Miscellaneous

• PowerSchool Product Names -  one pager describing what all those names like Unified Classroom and BrightArrow mean.

• How to Recalculate Final Grades - instructions for recalculating final grades due to a change in category weights or grade scales

• How to View Grades on the Student/Parent Portal- instructions for viewing the student and parent/guardian view of grades using the Quick Lookup screen (Grades and Attendance in the student/parent portal)