Getting started: Teachers

Attendance, gradebook and families.

1. 1 Teachers: your first dayFind your classes, take attendance, set up the gradebook and reach families.
2. 2 Finding your way aroundThe menu, Home, the alerts bell, Jump to, and the phone layout.
3. 3 Taking attendanceMark the class, save, and the office sees it at once.
4. 4 Assignments and the Due listPosting work, turning it in, and keeping families in the loop.
5. 5 Gradebook basicsPoints or standards, scores, missing work and term grades.
6. 6 Standards and mastery scalesReporting progress against standards with your school’s own scale.
7. 7 Report cardsHow report cards are put together, written and released.
8. 8 Messaging families and teachersPrivate conversations between a parent and a teacher about one child.
9. 9 News: announcements, polls and photosPosting news to the whole school, a grade or a class.