School Net

1. Power Teacher &
GradeBook Training
Purpose of training: Learn how
teachers enter, view, and analyze
student grades and information using
Power Teacher and the Power Teacher
GradeBook.

2. Power Teacher
• Log-in for 2013-2014
– As of now, your user name/ID will be the
same as your McREL/UID #
– You will be given a generic password and then
reset this to your preference
Note: you will be assigned a temporary user name and
password for training.

3. Power Teacher
• If you select the following Icon, no matter
where you are in Power Teacher it will take
you back to the Start Page:

4. Power Teacher- Daily Bulletin
• Announcements to communicate with fellow
teachers, administrators, teachers, and/or
students
– To post announcement in bulletin
• Email to:
– Can send links
– Can change date
– Can limit who sees the announcement
(students & parents, teachers, and/or office staff)

5. Power Teacher- Start Page
• Attendance
– Select the Chair icon for attendance list
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Right now attendance will be single day
If chair is greyed out the class is not meeting that day
Alerts (i.e. medical)
Default is Present
Change Attendance Code (A or T)
– select who is absent, tardy, etc.
• Make Comments if needed- only seen by office and you
• Click Submit when done
– Green light/bubble means attendance has been taken
– Multi-Day- will not have access to edit
– Seating Chart
• Take attendance by picture/seating chart
• Design to aid subs in taking attendance
• Printable
– Can also get to attendance from inside Gradebook

6. Power Teacher- Start Page
• Backpack- Student information
– Edit your display preferences in the
Personalize tab
– Select Student then you can select:
• Schedule- displays individual student’s entire
schedule
• GPA
• Demographics
• Graduation Progress

7. Power Teacher- Start Page
• Backpack Cont.
– Select Student then you can select: (cont.)
• Meeting Attendance- which classes students have
attended, missed, been tardy to throughout the day.
• Net Access- tells when parents/students log in
• Quick Lookup- attendance, all grades for all classes, etc.
• Submit Log Entry
– Communicate with front office but after submitted only
admin will be able to see.
– Possible use = office referrals
• Term Grades- final grades

8. Power Teacher- Other Pages
• Staff Directory
– Only seen by staff at your school
– Email addresses are links
– If you don’t want your specific info posted, like
home phone number, tell admin.
• Personalize
– Set your preferences, password, etc.
• Reports
– Print Roster
• Recommendation
– Recommend Course of Study, Honors, AP, etc.

9. The GradeBook
• General Layout
– Classes
• Remember to Select Current Classes
• You can also go back to previous classes and edit
– Student Groups
• Create, Edit, Filter, and Delete Groups
– Categories
• Create and filter types of assignments

10. The GradeBook
• General Layout Cont.
– ScoreSheet
• Spreadsheet of names, assignments, and grades
– Notifications
• Birthdays & Added/Dropped
• Log-In (see which administrator logged into your
account, administrator can see your Gradebook but
cannot save changes)
– Lock Gradebook
• Under File Tab or Press Ctrl+L

11. The GradeBook
• Student Information- View student info
– Add custom column
• Extra Class Columns=> custom #=> Edit
• These are unique only to you
• Drag and move columns like MS Excel
– Teacher Personal Note (only seen by you)

12. The GradeBook
• ScoreSheet
– Categories + (add) and – (remove/delete)
– Can filter categories to see all homework
or all quizzes, etc.
– Edit
Name
Abbreviate
Color Code
Points- Grades are entered as total points but can be displayed as
total points, percentages, or letter grades. Example – Assignment
is worth 20 points, a student earned 18 points. You enter 18 as
his grade but it can be displayed as 18, 90%, or B.
• Score Type (this is what parents see)
• Include/Don’t Include in Final Grade- Good to track paperwork
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– Click summary to see mean, median, mode for each
assignment

13. The GradeBook
• Assignment ( + to add and – to remove)
– Assignment Tab or Scoresheet
On Assignment Tab
look for + and –
on Bottom of screen
If on Scoresheet
look for + and –
beside assignment titles
– Add Content: Name, category, points, score
type, weight, due date, comments and links
• School Content- Set by School
• My Content- Your links
– Description of assignment is an excellent way to
communicate with parents
– Can add assignments ahead of time or as you grade
– Publish: set the day that your students/parents are
able to see
– Standards: assign standards to that assignment

14. The GradeBook
• To Copy Assignment
• Tools Tab=> Copy Assignment=> Select
Assignments to copy=> Next=> Select Classes to
copy to=>OK

15. The GradeBook
• Enter Grades Options:
– Manually type each score
– Fill Scores: Right Click
– Score inspector: Right Click
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Change Student
Change Assignment
Mark Late, Missing, Collected, Exempt
Make Comments
– Premade Comments from Bank
– Grade codes
– Manually change final grades.

16. The Gradebook
• Enter Grade Shortcuts – quick entry keys
Checkmark = col, ., or click collected
Late = lt, *, or click late
exempt = ex or click exempt
Missing =mi, /, click missing

17. The Gradebook
• Notify admin when final grades are ready
– Select class, select reporting period, click in
progress box, check final grades complete, and
enter comment
– In progress box will turn green
More information will be provided about
final grade set-up as well as submitting
grades.

18. The GradeBook
• Student Groups
– Add/Remove Custom Groups (+ or -)
1. Add New Group Set- right click to edit/rename
2. Add New Student Group
3. Add and remove students- select and drag
students into each group (also use +/- to
add/remove students)
– Highlights to see which students are added
to each group

19. The GradeBook
• Tools Menu
• Can import and export scores to and from excel
spreadsheet
• Email Students/Parents
• Preferences
– Add Comments: “Comment Bank”– smart text
– Mail – adds your mail signature
– Score Codes- Codes for grading
ex. If a Student Cheated: CH and change % to 0: when you
type CH in scoresheet it will automatically calculate a 0
– Section- Determines how courses/days are displayed
– Spell Check –automatically defaulted on, can add word to
dictionary
– Standards
– Students

20. The GradeBook
• Reports– can print individual student report, all
student and all classes reports, and/or just a class report
1. Attendance
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Choose your preferences
2. Category Total Report
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Compare Assignments/grades
3. Final Grade & Comment Verification
4. Individual Student Report
• Choose your preferences
• Add Comments

21. The GradeBook
• Reports
5. Missing Assignment Report
6. ScoreSheet•
Shows all assignments
7. Student MultiSection
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Shows all classes
8. Student Roster
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Add Columns
Use for fieldtrips, printing rosters for
attendance, printing for written gradebook

22. Special Notes
• Admin can view your gradebook, but cannot
alter your grades.
• You will have access to view your
spreadsheets from year to year. Storing
grades/posting final marks will be addressed
in a future training
• Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers
are best to use with Teacher Gradebook.

23. Wrap Up
• Parent Portal
– Parents can view grades and attendance.
– Parents will have 1 login for multiple children
– Parents can get email notification, enter
settings, and can enter a second email address
• Power Source: PowerTeacher
Tab, “Mastery in Minutes” & “Distance
Learning”
– For Questions/Help
• PowerSchool & PowerTeacher is
international. There are many
resources available online.