Tech Tip Tuesday: Gradebook Keeps Parents Informed

Did you know your gradebook may be a place for keeping students and parents informed more than what grade was received on the final project?

Progress Book allows teachers to maintain a class page for announcements and the best part I've found is that in addition to using the grade book, I can post homework to the homework page. By inputing my upcoming assignments BEFORE I'm ready to grade them I can check the post to homework page and parents and students can see upcoming homework on a calendar and agenda style format.

How it works:

Post Assignment to the Homework Web Page.

Input assignments in advance to post them to the homework web page. Give the assignment a description, select an assignment type, assign a due date, assign points and select post to homework web page.

This is what your parents will see.

They will know when it was assigned, and when it is due. They can see this in the same place where they are already viewing student grades without having to visit another site.





You can also Post Homework.
(This method will NOT add an assignment to your gradebook, you will still need to add assignment.)

Click the Post Homework link.

This window opens:

Select Add New Homework

Enter details, select a due date, select which classes the homework applies to, then click save at the bottom of this screen.

After you hit save on the previous screen new tabs will open. You can leave it as is or you can add a link to an online book/page/resource or you can add a file attachment. Select the appropriate tab, if you are adding an attachment enter a sequence number (which homework is it?), name the homework, click save.

An upload attachment button will appear. Click the upload attachment button, select your file, then save again.

Now parents have access to assignments at home if a student is absent or forgot their paper.