Aspen is an Student Information System (SIS). As classroom Educators, Aspen is used to see which students are assigned to your class, add assignments and grades, and run various reports.
Who is it for?
All MPS staff, students in grades K-12, and now most families have access to Aspen.
Use this tool to:
see your assigned classes and students
take daily/ class attendance
read a student's IEP/ 504
post progress reports and end of term grades (report cards)
For Families
What is the family portal/ How to download the app
General Over view
Progress Report/ Report Card Directions
Progress report directions 9-12 (comments in same document)
Quarter 1-3 Report card directions 5-8
Report card directions 9-12 & Report card comments (revised 2020)
Step 1: Set your Gradebook Preferences
This video will walk you through setting up your gradebook preferences. This video is intended for new classroom teachers to Aspen, or those who may need a refresher.
Step 2: How to take homeroom and class attendance in Apsen
This video will walk you through how to take attendance in Aspen. This video is meant for those who teach grade Prek-12.
Step 3: Selecting Gradebook Weight: What does that mean?
This video will walk you through selecting the Gradebook Weights for your gradebook. This video is intended for staff who teach grades 5-12.
Step 4: Creating Gradebook Categories and Linking Classes
This video will walk you through creating Gradebook Categories and special codes for your gradebook. This video is intended for staff who use 1 of the following average modes: Categories, Categories and Assignments, or Categories and Total Points as their Average Mode.
Step 5: Creating and Entering a Grade for an Assignment, How to Assign an Assignment to Only SOME students and Creating Special Grading Codes
This video will walk you through Creating an Assignment, Assigning an assignment to only a select group of students, and adding a grade for that assignment.
Step 6: The Student Tab
In this video we walk through the student tab. In this tab you will be able to see data on your students, including contacts, IEP/504 documentation, their schedule and more.
How to send email to students from X2.
This video will walk you through how to send an email using your roster list in your Gradebook section of Aspen. This process will work for all student with an email.
How to use the announcement feature in X2 with your classes
In this video we will walk through how to create an announcement that will appear for students when they log into X2.
Where to find Student usernames and Passwords
In this video we will look at where you can find your students usernames and passwords in X2.
This video will briefly review how to enter grades for report cards. This is a similar process for progress reports. Please be sure to refer to the documents in the section above to see the codes to use in your gradebook.
This video will briefly review how to enter grades for report cards. This is a similar process for progress reports. Please be sure to refer to the documents in the section above to see the codes to use in your gradebook.
Coming Soon. This video will review how to enter course recommendations which is done during the spring time.
Tour the Family Portal (For students and Families)
This video is shared on the Family Portal page in the announcement section for families. Watch this video for a quick tour of what families and students see in their portal.
This video will show you how to view your student's progress report or report card. This video was made using a Chromebook, so some downloading steps may vary slightly for users on a PC or Mac.