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1. j Oooooocjooococoocijooocoocoococoooocoooocoojioocooc c NUMBER OF SCHOOL DAY 1 2 8 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 39 34 35 36 37 38 79 TOTALS DAILY RECORD DESCRIPTIONS DAILY RECORD DESCRIPTIONS ABSENT EXCUSED BY PARENT S First Day of Period September 6 1994 ABSENT PRE ARRANGED BY PARENT Last Day of Period October 28 1994 ABSENT C H S SCHOOL FUNCTION Number of Days in the Period 38 ABSENT ILL IN THE INFIRMARY ABSENT UNEXCUSED BY SCHOOL No School Was Held These Days ABSENT SUSPENDED UNEXCUSED 09 26 94 ZEBULON PIKE DAY ABSENT TRUANT FROM SCHOOL 3 TARDY TO CLASS AND UNEXCUSED TARDY TO CLASS amp V E R Y LATE UNPREPARED FOR CLASS ACTIVITY lt ABSENT EXCUSED BY PARENT S First Day of Period September 6 1994 lt ABSENT PRE ARRANGED BY PARENT Last Day of Period October 28 1994 ABSENT C H S SCHOOL FUNCTION Number of Days in the Period 38 ABSENT ILL IN THE I
2. Semel ran wees nt pee m OH Printing Confidential Reports Annotations Special Window For the TEACHER dM Gradebooks For the STUDENTS Grading Scales For the CLRSS Confidential Line Library Missing Assignments Report Card Summaries Daily Records Seating Charts Templates SCANTRON Assignment 94 We take great pride in the friendly accountable look and feel of Making the Grade but we cannot emphasize too strongly the sensitive potentially dangerous nature of this one document The options screen below reveals the problem To right of each student s name lies his or her I D Code roster number The combination of these two data may seem innocuous but having this document fall into the wrong hands could pose serious legal problems especially if you ever post student data As a matter of fact many universities and districts have recently forbidden this practice primarily because of adverse court decisions based on the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act Access to students academic and personal information 1s tightly controlled by federal mandate so do be very careful to guard this sheet against all interlopers foreign and domestic Confidential Report for teachers eyes only HER REPORTS Dele of this repart MEE 14 FERID 1 IME EMCLIS
3. pon 9H dm 4 E 3 n Rounding to the nearest letter grade is ON 98 Student Report 3 With Assignments Chronological AKES L POFBEGGCET PHB CPL Prema I um uama mami s m l rom Bg rig ruri REM Zeb i EEr PEL FREE F Pegs pee be EET Comments from your 100 Line Library will appear here in the order you select them Of course if you in clude more remarks than can fit on one page student re ports will grow in whole page increments MR JAY A KLEIN CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL JAMES L CHANCELLOR SOPHOMORE 3 4B ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Parent Signature Line is optional also but it s an element we know you ll use frequently during the year It profits little to work so hard keeping the home front in formed if you never get any feedback right NOVEMBER 24 1998 LORD OF THE FLIES The Movie QUARTER 1 1998 99 CATEGORY SUMMARY gt The Average Scores column is optional and may be deselected in Screen 3 of the Student Reports setup de scribed in full later The parentheses indicate that a score within has been officially dropped by Making the Grade and its point value has been subtracted from both the Points Earned Your Scores and Points Possible columns N A Not Applicable has no computational value Abbreviat
4. 27 10 38 25 38 19 25 130 39 89 100 75 82 66 77 84 71 77 AVERAGE SCORES AVERAGE PERCENTS 31 N A 38 35 42 10 35 31 606 105 92 77 84 100 71 85 79 CLASS MEAN 75 9 C ASSIGNMENTS l Author Identification Exercise 09 07 11 Spelling Vocab Unit 04 Homework 2 PRETEST Spelling Vocabulary Dev 09 07 12 LORD OF THE FLIES Reading Qz 2 3 Spelling Vocab Unit 01 H 09 08 13 Spelling Vocabulary Unit 04 Quiz 4 Spelling Vocabulary Unit 01 Quiz 09 12 14 PARENT SIGNATURE Prog Report 1 5 Spelling Vocab Unit 02 H 09 13 15 Spelling Vocab Unit 05 Homework CATEGORIES 1 MAT MATERIALS CHECKS 2 SPL SPELLING VOCAB DEV 3 LIT LITERARY ACTIVITIES 4 WRT WRITING ASSIGNMENTS 5 ORL ORAL PRESENTATIONS 6 GRM GRAMMAR EXERCISES 7 COM COMPUTER LITERACY ASSIGNMENTS ABBREVIATIONS 21 Spelling Voca r i iz 10 07 31 DISCUSS Essence of Leadership 10 24 Inc ete computed as a 22 Spelling Voca i 10 11 32 LORD OF THE FLIES Final Test 10 25 and computed as a 23 LORD OF THE FLIES Reading Qz 4 10 12 33 LORD OF THE FLIES The Movie 10 26 27 24 Materials Check 4 LORD OF FLIES 10 13 34 COMPOSITION 1 The Nature of Man 10 28 25 Spelling Vocabulary Unit 7 Quiz 10 14 35 QUARTER I Spelling Final Test 10 28 26 Spelling Vocab Unit 08 H 10 17 36 27 LORD OF THE FLIES Reading Qz 5 10 18 37 28 PARENT SIGNATURE Prog Report 2 10 19 38 Score reduced for l
5. AMADE infuimual BUILD te Lim Library aE IC s mu CHAPE rore eanpnlatians COMM 2E leer grades DMP SUS BOP the eee gem If ever there was a special feature in Making the Grade that reeked of raw reporting power it is this one the ability to dump the entire student database in raw ASCII form for import into the greater application of your choice If you presently own Microsoft Works ClarisWorks FileMaker Pro or similar package you will absolutely adore this feature for with it you can create mailing TITIECTETTTESUUDE labels field trip notices emergency notification cards folder labels and the like at INDICATE changed scores the touch of a button or two Interestingly enough this capability has always LOCK the screen taraporeriig HE SET Ehe urs 4 reperi rangs existed within MtG in the Export student data segment of the program under ILE RT mix i d Rin percentage File but it involved too many mouse clicks and too much searching around in the SELECT SHOP 100 fields listed there With this new and improved interface however you her aie made export the complete database for as many students as you wish from as many 30 LLEIDBEHSE specsal scores separate classes any time you wish The screen at right features a full Hm Teen E PEPERIT
6. 60 THe TIT m 60 er qu 63 Summary Reports The Short 63 cuoc me O E TR 64 oglase REDONS 66 zo PO MT PNE REN 66 67 rs gk T rr m 68 Print BUCKS and P 69 TIDS THOKS ard Trade SCC els cn PEU EN a Qe Rui dai n S died ot 69 PUGS FU TIMING POSTERO D 70 TD eas eee eaves eee 71 Updating Printer Drivers 73 5 TT 74 12 Special Functions Attaching Individual Student Comments 19 8 fend Yo ERE e ux On Due ou vers 75 Building the Line Library ET 76 Calculating Incomplete GCOrES caue uv a a 77 1126 11 77 Dropping Undropping the Lowest Grade nnne nnn nnns 78 Entering Category Effort Grades 79 Expotting the Student DaldbdSsQs c ate oie A cote Poet o NEU 79 Indicating Changed Scores Reverting to Previous
7. Archer Benni i __ Homies A Lhenceller J rmes 4 I Garcia FugenmF Seles Grey Kathleen Mj Howe a DOP a scare EDEETUSE in class TRI and euriudedi CO DROP a scare SELECTED STUENTS anig Lg BOT FHBIELT asm DEIEBBEIES Irom being drbpgaed C ane ar mure CATEGORIES from hem EJ E3 E31 E RO PRICE HHRIBSHIESTS drappid GQ PRTELT one more b SEATS from being amp mpge d Screen 2 Selecting the Beneficiaries PAUPPOSG THE SORE bharti Da qua wish pradert from ihe dregpis process Screen 1 Dropping the Lowest Grade Preferences EHUFPFIND IHE LULUTSS SEDEHE Fleece Gelert lhe ATL CATEGORIES prorer being MATERIALY CHELETE SPELLING TAR ib bor Uden ici PRETEST Spelling arobul ers Des Od 5palling lzseb Unit Pi OMAE pel 111 ery Snit DI Quiz Selling aco Unit EZ Hamsa Lard at Flies DEI 4 nit OAE Hamawark DAt gui rb IENTR EARL STATINS LJ E E E E E E E Cancel Screen 4 Protecting Specific Assignments Screen 3 Protecting Assignment Categories 78
8. an N R N R 1954 E LITEHHLT PAHENI 110 First TESTS Student Data With SCORE ANALYSIS James L Cham eliar I 5 English SCORE HSHLYSIS Incomplete pr Cheeding Druanr y FHrused lIrngge d amp RRDE FOR THIS TERM F ihnl Cemed Possible 1515 1751 45 Choose to display the same student s performance as a line graph and you ll see the screen below right the first of sixteen possible displays 16 X 20 assignments per screen 320 scores per class A QUICK WORD OF EXPLANATION Making the Grade displays student performance as line graphs rather than the bar charts used by most other programs for a simple but important reason one that can be found at right in Jim Chancellor s Assignment 11 Testingthis part of Making the Grade with students at Coronado High I soon found that bar Student Data By LINE GRAPH charts possessed one serious psychological weakness Any missing assignment or one for which students received a zero appeared only as a gap in the chart The students interpreted this space as some kind of place holder or grouping mechanism and not once exhibited the terror Iexpected when they beheld the worst of all possible grades Apologies to Monsieur Voltaire On the other hand when I display
9. 2B Nuss 21 0qden 22 0 Grady 235 Pomell Jr 24 Raymond Z5 Rutledge 26 45ampson 27 smith 28 51 James 29 Torrence 36 Winston The Making the Grade Filtering System Need to print progress reports for sophomore football players in danger of losing athletic eligibility Want to find out which sixth graders are candidates for the honor roll Curious to see which students on each of your five grading scales have A s at this time Then this feature is for you You may enter as many as five criteria to select the students for whom you wish to print a report In this example I m searching for sophomore athletes J10 in my traditional grading system GS 1 who are failing academi cally 0 5990 and have exhibited less than satisfactory behavior in class UNS See how easy itis Keep in mind that we will select only those students who match your criteria exactly so consider your combinations carefully 42 iHindiock Choose the type of document you wish to print for each student selected Choose the students for whom you wish to print each document selected Choose the report options you wish to include in each document selected Choose the comments from your 100 Line Library you wish to include in STUDENT REPORTS WITH ALL ASSIGNMENTS Date of this report 24 1998 Please select the STUDENT GROUP for whom you wish to print these reports amp EVERY student in this class
10. ee TITLES Wu uu ms m n iz Spelling Exit Sair A ca i if Z3 Loe OE Feir fe GLa x iF nac goes and oie rel coegi aed 1 pend E pour eeoxh Offer eon rese sp qe geo deo n A px dise porke Ke Luh B REKINMEMEHT TITLES biel 11 DDALEN alee __ Let Pelicula da lmacsnisas OLS pi H gralas gabiriarra Lind mE z 2 AFENEETTATICHME SP feb heck iri Denim dem i rmi N reb dne Res pihi debe elite rris hm cl m narum 9 S zz Exi LZ tpe umm JEFFREY P LEWZS Tou pode SLEE tbe ernie le pedrks Please coll me sh TLF 2 3 cwn ef Pursber belo sr peer rr 933 in Eds cle c JL cm Mp coin ardente mess z Please 11 me ab FIT ee Eh IX cen sp help PAEIT SLT LATE PLEFET SCT ETE Printing Student Reports The Short Forms Annotations Special Window For the TEACHER d For the STUDENTS d For the CLASS 2 From THIS CLASS only With ALL assignments With MISSING assignments
11. JEJO GIE Reports Special Window Seating Chart 1 seating Chart 2 Seating Chart 3 seating Chart 4 Seating Chart 5 With Student NAMES Only With Daily Record TABS With Student GRADES With Student RANK With Student PICTURES B With Student Names The Making the Grade Seating Chart displays in five basic modes with names only the generic brand with data entry tabs for Daily Record entry with current student grades with current rank in class and with students pictures The wanes oul sample Gradebook Chart 1 18 38 98 chart at right is perfect Lester L Kristi de x Thomas L for use early in a school St James Ogden Ingram term when no assign ments attendance or be Eugene F Helen B Jason D Jeremy D Garcia Glenn 5 Kosterman Torrence havioral data have been al that the drag and drop opener feature used to set up the Michael 5 Kristin chartis still active so you Rutledge Winton may move your charges around at will Susan L Michael Stacey E Tamara Huntington Dickerson iH Howard Lee A HINT Drag H ee 99 your shows out of Shelli N Stephen B j Carie S Donald T the main body of your D Grady Huston Raymond Morgan charts to a back row or column until they arrive With Daily Record Tabs This flavor of MtG sea
12. used to calculate J L The Answer It s not easy to see but The grading system above is Categories o Weighting method of evaluating student performance Notice that the sixth category in the table has been encoded EXC for EXTRA CREDIT POINTS and has been assigned a weight of 0 0 of the overall grade And there it is In this system and contrary to the best laid plans of mice and men extra credit work will not affect students final grades one iota Why Because as a category recording above and beyond student effort it has no computational value whatsoever 0 0 The only solution to problem is to return to a Total Points With Categories system or to place all extra credit work within the other five active categories Student Grade Annotations Another innovation in Making the Grade of which we re especially proud is the ability to append one of five teacher generated comments to students scores These annotations appear in the hardcopy gradebook and individual student take home reports as a superscripted number 2 65 and each will be fully described in reports ABBREVIATIONS at the bottom of the page These highly specialized commentaries on specific class assignments lend additional power to more generalized comments on student behavior and achievement found in the MtG 100 LINE LIBRARY described later ALMOST FINISHED In addition to the 180 Line Library you
13. P 100 100 200 TOTALS Archer Dennis E 76 wi E a A A CH ID Bowles Charles A v i INDICATE changed scores LOCK the screen temporarily RESET the display report range REVERT to previous entry ROUND score percentages SELECT A GROUP SELECT A STUDEMT SET the Teacher Ride mode SHOWCASE special Scores Chancellor James L Dickerson Michael Garcia Eugene F Glenn Helen EXC EXC MRsananuanusanansuuanassuduansanuusuan uzuauusuumuuauuumauuuuuusuuuaruuuusERusuasauususansasa uuu n o D Gray Kathleen 25 YS 4 C HELL IU IT III UIHUUTIENIZIL IE Ee terim innen nennen Howard Stacey E ASSIGNMENT TITLES 34i COMPOSITION 1 The Mature of Man 10 281 100 C TRE LE T DIL IEEE IE IE OR D D ee UI HL HE OI dl LL D CIL I DIL ULL CDILI DOS LIS Cu 35i QURRTER 1 Spelling Final Test 10 281 200 100 DIE dee eee SER SHOWCASING SPECIAL SCORES Showcasing the Down Side With this feature you may set a percentage range The outlined
14. From MULTIPLE CLASSES With ALL assignments With MISSING assignments Hs a SUMMARY repart As a REPORT CARD Merge Terms Classes As a DAILY RECORD summary As a SCANTRONG Analysis Once you have mastered the previous segment of Making the Grade and what s to master you ll find yourself even more at home here The processes for selecting students report options and Line Library comments are virtually identical to those above only the look feel and scope of the data reported differ 63 Student Report 9 Without Assignments Total Points PH DD EssSm JAMES ELLOE HET Piba isimin Pe BDVIHMIEX IS PH DEBES MICHAEL B OEE BOFRZHMUONI EF DEO EM TARCIA Bras PERLE EU oe ee PEE FALE De 4 the eveilable pinks T EF JT m mt 1 mum pg ra riz af Xj 1 ar kelj n I DUST IDA This report is available no matter what grading system you use Total Points Total Points with Categories or Weighted Categories Student Report 10 Without Assignments By Category Foc MW ie Ls IAM EE L CHAME ELE DR mim iom 1 T 1 TE Pe SE SU
15. Paste Likewise this section presents some very familiar items that is if you personally entered your students setup information We ve always envied those who enjoy department secretaries and paraprofessionals student aids teaching interns spouses responsible chil dren and magic wands You may edit any or all of the following data STUDENT NAMES no DROPPING or DELETING students here however STUDENT NUMBERS again no deletions STUDENT SEX GROUP CODE GRADING SYSTEM CITIZENSHIP MARK COUNSELOR NAME PARENT NAME STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP CODE BOOK NUMBER LOCKER NUMBER BIRTH DATE HOME OR WORK TELEPHONE NUM BER and CUSTOMIZED FIELDS 1 10 You ll notice that we do permit positive changes to your class roster at this point that is you may enroll NEW STUDENTS here as well as in the ADD a Student section such additions to your class will receive the usual EXC for assignments entered prior to their enrollment and will have a grade of N A from the onset 39 B Gradebook Preferences class M OPEN a class 0 CLOSE this class SAUE class data SAVE class REVERT to saved class EXPORT student data Page setup PRINT a report SELECT a print macro MtG Preferences Lalculating INE Scores Including date in assignments Positioning dropped students Printing color bw reports Printing displaying s
16. SITE Display Reports Annotations Assignments ADD an assignment Students b CHANGE an assignment Setup Info DROP UNDROP an assignment Empty Blank Clear DELETE an assignment Repeat Previous Score REPOSITION an assignment Repeat 5core Fill Column Lut Paste Special Window Stliigars tian B d IH You may wish to commit these and other hot key com mands to memory for they offer the fastest method pos sible of performing special functions Click anywhere in an open assignment column or line Once you confirm that you do indeed wish to record a set of scores you ll be presented with the first of two assignment setup screens three if you ve activated the Spanish language option Type in the Category Code here if applicable or click on a line within the category box If you wish the date from the system clock is displayed here See MtG Pref erences to remove it The cursor is in Title 89 88 the insert mode and will push the date along as you enter an assignment title Category Code Code Click CATEGORIES if you forty characters maximum wish to modify OR set up that system now Click here to bring in the setup informa tion for a single assignment or all assignments from this or a different class Doing so will not only save you eee time It will ensure uniformity of dis
17. 2 Chek anywhere here on the line of the assignment you wish to change and we ll take you directly to the two Assignment Setup screens described earlier 29 Here s a handy feature and one that ap pears in two places If you re careful to record assignments chronologically in your gradebook and then discover that you ve placed one out of sequence we rise to the rescue You may change the number of any assignment here or with the REPOSITION an assignment option and it will automati cally move to the new spot Keep in mind that you may not move an assignment to a position beyond the number of assignments currently recorded that is you may not move Assignment Number 7 to Assignment Number 20 if you have recorded only 19 assignments thus far No such gaps are permitted OK ADDING AN ASSIGNMENT Assignment Number 19 CHANGE to insert an assignment Assignment Value points Enter 8 if Extra Credit if Highest Score and if only Credit is desired Number of Items if different from points possible H Factor 1 888 stored with each score entry PREFERRED METHOD OF SCORE ENTRY SEQUENTIAL in order from the gradebook RANDOM also from the gradebook screen RANDOM from a separate roster screen Dropping Undropping an Assignment Edit Assignments Students Setup Info Cut Copy Paste Display Reports Annotations
18. OTIS T T T T TL TT IT 35 Gradebook PrelerenCes imm 36 Miscellaneous Features Tips era rna cd Ecken aS av a roa Ud 38 8 Exporting Student Date niter Raten uud neus herum UE 39 9 Displaying Data THe COOK 44 0 E 45 cer 47 T DE 48 10 Printing Reports The Aard acts or POMNO LI G caos es te UG cua orev 50 Teacher Documents GaradebOOKS at icd oed mese fais 52 equ aL M UE EU 54 Gontiderillal REDONS ieee cee 54 THe etc UMS 55 56 Student Documents With Assignments The Works cccccecceeceeceeeeeceeceeeeeeaeeeeeaeeseeeeeeeeaeeneeseeaeeneeneeseeneenenees 57 WINS COVER 0 1 mt RE aw cca ee 58 The Grading Scale eais 59 ci cosets ceil tu pedo 59 The Categorical Listing h ORO cod eto DEO ee eta eme Qon exu o teda mb 59 TNE Glass aM
19. SET the Teacher Hide made SHOWCASE special Scores And now two favorite features of Making the Grade As the first official users of Grade Busters Mac we can t tell you how much fun we and even my students had with these functions In fact sophomores and seniors alike became virtually addicted to them so much so that almost no one would volunteer for anything collectively or individually without Saggy and Sassy their nicknames formed from the acronyms I personally found both functions indispensable after a few uses for they ably took the heat off my shoulders when it came to picking students for group or solo activities placing it squarely on the circuits of a fair disinterested microchip where it belongs To be sure much consternation has been voiced recently in both public and private circles concerning the selection of students within cooperative learning situations Do we tend to favor boys over girls as volunteers for math problems say and girls over boys when it comes to music and literature questions Is it even possible to be impartial and unbiased in such an intricate value based selection process Yes it is now 82 SELECT A GROUP You will note that the first screen of this feature is remarkably similar to the second screen of S A S Your first step at this point is to exempt students not available for the learning activity at hand then you must decide how many of the remaining students should be
20. Weighting is used calculate a single grade of 18872 value e You now have the option of creating up to 18 ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES into which you can enter your students scores You may Weight these categories into a single grade use the TOTAL POINT system Description 75 Total MATERIALS CHECKS SPELLING UOCAB DEL LITERARY ACTIVITIES WRITING ASSIGNMENTS ORAL PRESENTATIONS OFT ia PAR PARENT NOTIFICATIONS lur QUARTER FINAL TESTS PRE _ SKILL UNIT PRETESTS d L Ch Sophomore 5248 English fissinnmant Catennriek k Points Points Current Letter 9 9 Weight Earned Possible A brade MATERIALS CHECKS sej 48 48 1800 0 Re SPELLING UDCRB DEU 18 8 576 662 878 B LITERARY ACTIVITIES 15 8 423 492 859 WRITING ASSIGNMENTS 15 8 79 1880 798 C ORAL PRESENTATIONS 10 0 58 80 0 B GRAMMAR EHERCISES 1861 8 COMPUTER LITERACY 108 8 PARENT NOTIFICATIONS 5 8 25 25 1800 0 QUARTERFINAL TESTS 20 0 552 382 86 9 B skimi UNITPRETESTS eaf N A Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 We multiply the percentage Jim has earned in each active category by its assigned weighting factor That is we multiply his 100 0 in Materials Checks x 5 0 to get a Weighted Arithmetic Mean figure of 500 0 We call t
21. bri KECTIMIEKI P 1 HSCHAEL DIC FEOF ROEL GM lean porum FART EZTIEL iL i Fs JH DCE yra receive r ae rr i ADI TI CIR 1 I dd 8 BEDT IDGTEE This report is available only if you have set up the class with Categories Weighted or with Total Points Printing Student Reports The Report Cards Annotations Special For the TEACHER d For the STUDENTS d For the CLASS b Window From THIS CLASS only With ALL assignments With MISSING assignments From MULTIPLE CLASSES With ALL assignments With MISSING assignments As a SUMMARY report As a REPORT CARD Merge Terms Classes Hs a DAILY RECORD summary Hs a SCANTRON Analysis There are only two requirements for utilizing the Making the Grade Report Card to its fullest capacity the courage to experiment a little and a good imagination Picture for instance parsing a single class s gradebook into as many as 15 different reporting units First Five Weeks Second Five Weeks First Quarter overall Third Five Weeks Fourth Five Weeks Second Quarter overall First Semester overall and more Or picture searching through student data in as many as fifteen separate classes and then combining and weighting if you wish the results into asingle comprehensive re
22. of these marvelous features go for naught however if the devices don t make your job easier or save massive amounts of your precious time Simply put colleagues this the ScanMark 2000 and 2500 do with aplomb not to mention genuine concern for your depart mental building or district hardware budgets Take a close look and judge for yourself SCANTRON CORPORATION http www scantron com 119 Setting Up The Machine We re pleased to announce that setting up and connecting the ScanMark 2000 and 2500 to each of our three testing station Macs required no technical savvy whatsoever and not even one visitation to the User Manual accompanying the instrument Of course that document should be your first and primary resource for assembling the components of the ScanMark and for connecting it to your computer Based on our experience however we can offer only two additional pieces of advice SETUP SUGGESTIONS Because the ScanMark is easily carried from room to room you ll probably set it up and tear it down frequently perhaps even daily If so make doubly sure each time to secure the cable firmly to the backside of the machine Fingernails or coins from your pocket or purse just won t do so get yourself a little screwdriver and keep it handy You may connect the ScanMark to your Mac s printer or modem port Connect it to the latter Every time we connected through the printer port we couldn t access it because App
23. 20 21 22 23 23 For the Students FORIS dimer TET E 98 For a Day Week Month ssssssssssessseseeeeee nee nenne nn nnns ne nne ne nsi ss sii serre aes r esse sre 99 Mo 100 Printing Daily Record Reports me M 101 TT T TUNE 102 FO TS he 104 THE SEATING CHART Setting Up the Seating Chart Glassroom LayVOUE D eese agni pus ei 107 ALT rr 108 Manual Placement Of o ac acd ie e mde voci noo oe ad 109 Automatic Placement of 109 Final Adiustmienpol tie Chat dme seem esl agate UI ndr EE eR M MEUM EU 110 Editing the Seating Chart New and Existing seating dw dct one te ies achiral gS ciudad sae 111 TNC MSA DIALS p Geass ates antes 112 The Date ODay Record ENUY oiov SO E a base 112 Displaying the Seating Chart MITA SUIS Til Names es iota fece tante tied 113 Wit Daily Record ADS sxe ces a O E 114 With Grades Or Rank M 61885
24. ERAO r Wace Cee ee Des Lad L1 DARE T TOTAL Corrert beepers n Bem CHAKLES A ES Lie LEE ihn TS HETT LL 115 2n THE COENURICT ERA oe ee oe m me mn oa a s un m TOTAL arei Panpa TOL Foams 5 HE eS METRCRTECEOL JAN EB L CEAL ELLE Pe NES NEN rick i LX PLI Pus enr ey 209847 EMIT aa TUTAL Bee zi i uk i 1 RE I EEEE i zpER al ld Tims Tarp Talal Tink Bii Tita Student Scantron Reports with Answer Key Class Scantron Analysis for Assignment 36 123 B Scanner Preferences class OPEN a class CLOSE this class Site Edit Display Reports Annotations Special Window SAUE class data SAUE class REVERT to saved class EXPORT student data Page setup PRINT a repart SELECT a print macro MiG Preferences QUIT The ScanMark 20900 and NCS scanners possess the ability to print raw scores number correct on student answer sheets Do you wish this feature to be active Ves amp No Calculating INC Scores Including date in assignments Positioning dropped students Printing color bm reports Printin
25. Ix iT E a a n T eed Poa ea at bed ha kee ee d FERI wm L2 1838 P g a 1 mE MP ON ON Lime D F o Printing 100 Line Library Window Annotations Special For the TEACHER For the STUDENTS d For the CLASS 4 Gradebooks Grading Scales Confidential Line Library Missing Assignments Report Card Summaries Daily Records seating Charts Templates SCANTRONG Assignment Printing the what The Line Library that s what and for a full explanation of this program feature you may wish to skip ahead to the Special section and find out exactly what it is you d be printing here You just can t be too careful these days Like the Confidential Class Report described above the Line Library Printout is useful only to you the 20 author of this specialized bank of comments We store your library within each class file so the only way to lose your collection of remarks completely is to trash all previous gradebooks You may print the comments from your Line Library at any time of course during or after its constructi
26. NOTE 1 Feel free to toggle among the many for mats of gradebook display butremember that all such manipulation is temporary That is no display format is saved with the close of aclass each time you reopen a file it defaults to the display mode detailed earlier NOTE 2 Asasmall reminder of the display option you have selected the small rectangle beneath the summary column on the lower right side of the screen will always reflect the current gradebook display mode That is depending upon your choice of score display Scores Letter Grades Percent ages or In Out will appear in that box NOTE 3 Everything in this section of the display menu deals with manipulating the entire academic record except one For This Assignment the next to last option in the menu pull down list To obtain specific background information for any assignment in your gradebook just click on a score select For This Assignment or click Short Cut rectangle mentioned earlier and behold The summary column on the right displays percentages and grade level equivalents for that assignment only You may click around at will within the spreadsheet grid while this mode is active of course and you may edit any score Displaying Student Data VG Reports The GRADEBOOK a STUDENT data CLASS data p d GRADING OPTIONS Annotations special Window By CATEGORIES tif applicable By LINE GRAPH
27. l Zlaceles Charles R i E we er the cell You can always toggle back and forth 3 lor James L 42 DPP i 85 between old and new scores to see what effect the Died E change has upon student s overall grade as long as 6 Stenn Helen 1 1 89 you don t save the class to disk no harm is done Consider the possibilities of this feature If you ASSIGNMENT TITLES POINTS ITEMS X FACTORS pretest skill and content activities in your classes SS you can now record such preliminary scores in your electronic gradebook without adversely affecting students current overall grades When you set up 31 DISCUSS Essence of Leadership 10 241 this new assignment entry give it a point value of and then enter your pretest data as usual The check mark neutralizes the entire assignment column as you know and no one s cumulative grade is affected in the slightest Then when it comes time to record post test scores change the value of the assignment from V to its real Points Possible and enter your new scores right over the old ones Making the Grade willremember the earlier pretest scores and present them for comparative analysis whenever you wish Likewise itis this REVERT feature you must use to undo an edited score and replace it with its original Keep in mind though that if you ever get off track entering a set of scores any corrections you make will unavoidably create previ
28. ri class database opened in Microsoft JOLIE Works With this or similar data eerie EM base tool you can manipulate student tmp ream Knew pente i LX records and fields in whatever man ner you may require merging them later with your favorite word proces sor for hardcopy publication SPECIAL NOTE If generating mailing labels is of particular inter est to you please keep in mind that the Avery company offers a remark able series of Laser Labels and inte grated software templates in such programs as WordPerfect M Micro soft Word M Lotus Word Lotus Ami Pro Now Contact and more We use Remove Em all the time and they re great I T ri F F Indicating Changed Scores Reverting to Previous Entry These two features of Making the Grade could prove tobe surprising upon window ATTACH individual student comments first glance because they reveal another dimension to our program another level BUILD the Line Library to its record keeping ability that remains unique in the industry Simply put the CALCULATE INC s as COMPOSE score annotations gradebook for each of your classes possesses two layers of scores not just the CUSTOMIZE letter grades surface one you see on screen and paper Every cell in the gradebook is capable OROP UNDROP the lowest grade ENTEH category effort grades of showing and calcu
29. smi grade OF use the TOTAL POINT system equals of several categories which do Dascripiian a A Total not have a rational value such _ Total Points Tptal WW HOMEWORK ASSIGNS ERMA reas as the first three assignment groups at left They must combine to equal 50 Pointe impas 002 wzzts nsa of the grade for the class which means hae ara Te that each has to be worth 16 6666 ad Compo rie brade NP E infinitum 96 Since this number has no rational end all you have to do 1s click single grade of 2 DB value the Equalize button in 90 column foreach category Youcan also manu ally enter EQUAL in each cell the effect will be the same We ll handle all of the heavy duty math in the background while your school board marvels at your nonplussed professionalism Hiding Student Info For those of us who don t have luxury of importing class rosters from the district mainframe this feature may prove to be a godsend The Making the Grade student data Se FINALLY 1 s Time be up your class rester base can hold a wealth of information E Er ME but collecting and entering such data by the Cia METREN mover te cup _ qt 1 0 bresa rni y j hand for 35 students is by most stan Lait Manet First Name Sumber Ses Code si arenae dards an overwhelming task Butwhat i
30. w ON DP anm ab DELETE an Prit REPOSITION Bi TIT DD Once again a handy feature for those times when you need to tidy up the old gradebook a bit and yet don t wish to exhaust yourself doing it The process is elementary as usual 1 Enter the number of the assignment you wish to move to a different location and we ll confirm your choice with its full title 2 Enterthe new position you wish this assignment to occupy earlier or later in your gradebook Make sure this latter number is not greater than the number of assignments currently recorded for that request will most certainly be denied We permit no unused columns or lines in your gradebook you see 31 Changing the Roster Adding Students Display Reports Annotations Assignments Students Empty Blank Clear Repeat Previous Score Repeat 5core Fill Column 3 Cut Copy C Paste aspi Special ADD students Setup Info b DROP UNDROP students DELETE students i TRANSFER the selected student Window If you ve been keeping student records by hand for any length of time this has to be one of your most enjoyable tasks adding a new student to your roster once it has already been set up and neatified Nevertheless we trust we ve made this chore as painless as possible Witness below is saripis Click on an HT emp
31. Ee ee ee ee ami mw mi a mb jn wi gu m wi pu d jn wc gu gn m m mi uc E TEIL n T Fi d T T ik k F 1 Ya ras T 1 n LEI T mn T m Hu Em m i pu x L Fi B 2 E m I 9 For the TERCHER Ld For the STUDENTS For the CLASS b Tote Annotations Special From THIS CLASS only By TABLE By HISTOGRAM By BAR GRAPH From MULTIPLE CLASSES By TABLE By HISTOGRAM By BAR GRAPH With DAILY RECORD info As a SCANTRON Summary Window 67 You have read about and seen the Making the Grade histograms Lr avs HEATED ERI Dale od this report Hh d 2 er CALORIES Ae By AMES mares eniyi CE Hu STURT AUS rar posting tance bret LLH EP Ev LAAFE Dalr cf ibis reparti MBER 24 For ihe PERCHE G Fora AYES DST Fora CERO oF EHTEBDHIES Far reg Figgis LAE duin mm ma at 68 D SIRGLE in The Works page 60 so tr
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33. It seems to be a law of nature that no man ever is loth to sit for his portrait Such is certainly true within Making the Grade for students have the power in the MtG Portrait Studio to take their own pictures and perfect at their leisure their electronic likenesses perhaps for the first time ever Haven t we all taken more than one bad school picture And once students finally approve of their portraits even if imported from the school s CD ROM they re ready for placement in seating charts for you and for your substitutes in take home student progress reports just think of parents reactions in Select A Student activity windows and much more All it takes to bring this magic to your classroom is one of the electronic gizmos below or pictures already taken elsewhere Portrait Studio Hardware The best news for students about to take electronic pictures is that do overs are not only tolerated they re expected Film is exceedingly cheap for devices like these the prices of which range from under 100 to thousands of dollars for professional models The HandyCam below left and QuickCam below right 127 capture pictures on line enabling students to see and manipulate their images in real time The Mavica M previous page center left and JamCam previous page center right take pictures off line transferring their images to Macintoshes via floppy diskettes and 8 pin cable connections respe
34. brading Scales Line Library Comments Date nf this rhei Teu bg dalait big AM i ier Missing Assignments Report Card Summaries Ssign ut Sheets Seating Chard 1 Daily Records j Seating Charts 1 Templates 557 Chari 5 _SCANTRON Assignment seating TE HEA REPORTS FEHLER HET HHTS of Eb Dale Wis 24 195 SOMMER 24 198 ne Fiona iiig plsans avamanle rar bari pH be size m ch pking hu may pitius prim prr page ih sgu amp enEs SARS OSL Ina dala iih student s SAMS and IBERS 19051 br A down amp 4 pirTurg wise ugs 4 peges Dh studens and An fuente GRADES in pes cores inp Eii Mp Ed Fal ie Ral k CO tirait SEA giclurg it piga students MERE I ORS in parh carner Ca Rago Bere SET gpiriurge rise gars pee x5 acres GYS pirlurg riz uses 7 neges Wh 1 i HIDS S Fii h IB SET giriure ize uses 1 Mh nni i fer manual entryl teme Pregeaus L et Pr eae i MR JAY A KLEIN 2 APRIL 10 1999 CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL QUARTER 1 1998 99 Sophomore 3 4B Engl
35. p ME ies if your students could accomplish this Samples feat for you That is what if each Comet person in your class could enter his or her personal information into your da tabase without violating anyone else s right to privacy Well such is now a possibility All you have to do is place a student in front of your monitor click on the next available line in the above database screen and then press Command on your keyboard student data recorded on other lines will temporarily disappear the student at hand can then record his or her information without the distraction of others confidential information Pressing Command H toggles the feature on and off of course If you take advantage of this option be sure to remind your students that the information they enter may be exported someday into mailing labels letters home and the like so it is very important that entries be accurate in all respects 24 HIE Edit Display Reports Annotations Special Window class OFEN a class CLOSE this class SAUE class data SAUE class REVERT to saved class EXPORT student data Page setup PRINT a report SELECT a print macro MtG Preferences DUIT ab 0 Setting Up an Assignment At last You ve done all the preliminary work and it s time to get down to the business of recording and analyzing your students data Opening a Making the Grade file
36. 1 both methods are intuitively obvious we feel and 2 they are virtually identical to their counterparts in the MtG gradebook At this point loyal users of Grade Busters 1 2 3 for the Apple IIe c gs will be gratified to see that the Daily Record is wide open and completely avail able for recording information not just one day at a time We do listen to your requests colleagues and with a wonderful platform like the Macintosh imple menting this request was a piece of cake To enter your data sequentially just click in the appropriate day s column enter a code number from to 0 and Lone amp rimeb nk Deu Becend Pe FF Ah BS SEETHT HIERFWEZ FRED FA SS NS 7 BT PR ELL PLS INI MEET VER 64 oe a Lacon ursi TAS DFEN D IR GAR FOR CURE KT Choosing to enter information randomly brings up the screen at right a spittin image of the gradebook s random entry screen At the top of the window we remind you of the date for which you re recording information but that s about the only difference in look and feel All you must do is enter a student s roster position number then the applicable daily record 1 Hr bear Gea 1 helen Char 13 Dmm 9 1 hinm Bh F Hii and thee IH Hun imqbrn 9 Herlan tiep 8 hi
37. 3i lor James L 4 Dickerson Hichael RS RS TL TL ae BE RE EUER SENEDE DAYS fOr 7 98 Tres PUPPET cag al ben sample 38788 Ene dag ar cen peepee ee Pi import Cimpari ONT lrrprdisisp Heat Calendar DATES Setup Screen Modifying Daily Record Codes and Categories Sie Display Reports Special Window Setup Info Calendar DATES Daily Record CODES R ABSENT TARDY Categories Emptuy Blank Clear Cut aen Copy Paste dL Remember you were warned this was going to be easy Changing your attendance behavior codes and descriptors 1s identical in every respect to the feature above Selecting the option from the main menu takes you directly to that part of the setup process as will clicking anywhere within the DAILY RECORD CODES box at screen bottom At the same ja time you can edit those categories which fall into the realms of Absence and Tardiness Sample Gradebook Daily Record HONTH OF TERM DAY OF TERM DAY OF HEEK ee ces DD 1 Archer Dennis E link ali Ennio niu 0 0 qi iua gn zi Bowles Charles A aBurrEF gee end ue FE al em dar eer 3iChancellor James L Cisi Tardy 4iDickerson Michael R HI Fatt mT Cin F SiGarcia E
38. 9 Use COMMAS as separators iSchonl Phone Extension 1 School Name LJ Include HEADER information 2 School Number Use Daily Record 5 28 98 5 Class Title Use Daily Record Info TOTALS Meeting Time ReademicTerm Sais 6 Course Number EHPORT All Setups 8 Student Last Name 9 student First Name Clear Choices Select All Fields Student Number Change your mind Make a mistake Then click here and start over Our only requirement is that you select at least one field to export but feel free to clear all selections or rearrange them to your heart s content You may select any or all of 118 data fields from a class s Gradebook and Daily Record for exportation as an ASCII file Keep in mind the following options and features 1 You may arrange your data in any order simply by clicking the field s title 2 You may separate fields with tabs or commas as your word processor or data base may prefer Return ends a record 3 You may include an explanatory header showing precisely how your data fields are arranged or export a nude ASCII data stream 4 You may export Daily Record infor mation for a single day or as totals for a marking period The two Daily Record 39 Teacher Number 3 E School Phone Number School Phone Extension i schootName 2 2 schanl Number Class Title EXPORTING C
39. ATE T MINNS im dee nope Ed rema cba s i ee rcr WERDE oes This summary information pertains to active students only Class Report 2 For a Single Assignment By Rank EN LIT OL FET REO RU Ru FEMROD SF BORRAR Wah CLA T CARTER Final FERIE Fa Pa Pee da i GGL of oem boi 1 e i ie E al rir c4 a P pa oil ld ei ME SL ETAT EITE ET zT 1 n 23 SNB d FEES INN a d Ls BE T scores for dropped students have been removed from these totals Please veleck Ine axsignmment category eh yis bo prs Ini reperi AIRE NT EHTERSRIES MATERIALS CHECES PELL eS I LITERARY RETISITIES ASS 81S PHESESTHEEU SS Print sheet Select Previous Selecting the third hardcopy option here enables you to obtain class data for a specific category SPELLING VOCAB DEV above or for ALL categories within a class s setup the Print a summary sheet box This latter document can be printed by student name or number by roster order or by rank in class of course Class Report 3 For All Categories By Roster Dh TERE Y See PEERI 1 EDI Eu FS
40. Dropping the Lowest Grade RULES AND REGULATIONS You must have recorded at least two droppable assignments in a gradebook or weighted category before you may drop a most damaging score This feature is designed to raise students grades of course and if only one eligible score is recorded dropping it will effect an N A which we do not consider an improvement By the same token students will not receive a DRP if they have no scores which when excused raise their overall grade We will drop the most damaging score for a student only if that entry is a numerical value including 0 or an Incomplete We will not excuse the scores of TRU or CHT for ethical reasons nor EXC DRP or Y for logical ones By the way you may wish to assure your students that no extra credit scores will ever be dropped in this process You may not manually entera DRP in your gradebook Making the Grade reserves that score exclusively forits automatic dropping feature Youmay REVERT toa DRP but not originate one EXC serves the same function of course and you may utilize it at will Our intent with the DRP score is to enable your students to differentiate between automated coldhearted forgiveness and that emanating from your warm loving heart Entering Category Effort Grades Window If you re aprimary school teacher who uses a single gradebook file for your ATTACH individual student comments BUILD the Line L
41. J INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS chosen by name J INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS chosen by grade percentage range Group Code brad ing Scale and or Citizenship Mark Selecting specific students by name is child s play of course requiring only a little mousing around Click on a last name to select it for printing and click again to deselect You will note that dropped students names are dimmed and cannot be chosen for printing Those teach ers who are fortunate to have more than 40 students in a class will see an active scroll bar at the right of the screen the rest of us will just have toimagine how displaying the second group of 40 works Print reports only for those Students having total scores Greater Than or Equal To als And Less Than Or Equal 59 in Group Code and Grading Scale and Citizenship Mark Choose the type of document you wish to print for each student selected Choose the students for whom you wish to print each document selected Choose the report options you wish to include in each document selected Choose comments from your 100 Line Library you wish to include in each document selected You ll note that the sample Student Report 3 with chronological listing of all assignments shown Date of this report earlier in this section features this option If se 24 1998 lected the numerical mean for each assignment will appear between the Points Earned
42. and then divide by the points possible They are seldom aware of Weighted Arithmetic Means formulas and unless you your school or your district has sent home a position paper on the subject confusion usually reigns Depending upon the relative weights of the categories used and the number of assignments recorded students grades can swing wildly here and test the limits of one s mathematical credulity This 15 especially true early in a grading period when few points have been accumulated in each category so please be very careful when using this system It can easily effect more harm than good if not used judiciously 19 20 The sample student report below available only with weighted categories of course 1s Grade Busters unique way of helping students and parents understand how this system works Truly with this graphic document you should never again have to field lengthy not to mention hostile telephone calls inquiring about the unfathomable mysteries of weighted categories The formulas delineated on the previous two pages have been laid out here with great care and everyone concerned should be overwhelmed with your attention to detail in this report CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL NOVEMBER 1 1998 MR JAY A KLEIN QUARTER 1 1998 99 WEIGHTED GRADE COMPUTATION FOR JAMES L CHANCELLOR 5 0 10 0 Materials Checks Grammar Activities 5 0 15 0 Spelling Vocab Dev Computer Literacy x
43. assignment numbers titles and values to aid you in the selection process 2 ClickOK and you ll returnto the grade book screen where you ll notice that all pertinent data for the assignment s you selected have been grayed That is the setup information and student scores for each assignment are still displayed barely on screen but they are not included in any calculations for students or the class as a whole Now any time you wish to undrop or reactivate one or more of these assignments all you must do is unclick the above check box and it s alive and well in your gradebook again Sound simple It is And it s ideal for those times you wish to show a class or students how they were doing before the most recent unit during a specific week or the like There s no harm possible with this feature no data can be lost so use it freely 30 Deleting an Assignment Setup Engiu Blask Clear BeprEs Prezsinus Wart Copy Parie thia Fa Colemn ADD an assignment CHANGE UDP This feature is almost self explanatory If you ve ever recorded an assignment and wished you hadn t or if you ve ever been so tired that you accidentally recorded the same set of papers twice you ll be happy we included it in Making the Grade The process 15 simple and consists of only two steps 1 Step one in deleting an assignment is to type its num
44. haare been From Ubi Dherk the appropriate bog En T eG lode That aes lala CLARY fiudens Ln Gran Ae umher Ende 5355 59 87 71 088 H5 HH 3 8B7 9 122 709 317 5 1 Hoa ton Tepnhen Jenkins Lgms FAurrinrk beret l DEBBIlLE Transferring a Student Sie Display Reports Assignments Students Empty Blank Clear Repeat Previous Score Repeat 5core Fill Column Cut Paste Annotations Special RID students Setup Info DROF UNDROF students DELETE students TRANSFER the selected student As always the DELETE function itself is quite simple dangerous but simple you must do is click the check box next to the student you wish to remove from the gradebook and Voila of that person s personal and academic information 15 earmarked for the trash bin Of course no data will be destroyed for real until you save the class to your hard drive or data disk NOTE Should you have a last minute change of heart anywhere in this process click the Cancel button or click the appropriate Delete Student check box a second time and all student information will remain untouched Window In twenty three years in the English classrooms of Colorado Springs I found this task one of the most irritating and time consuming duties I had to
45. you may enter any number between and 41 as the starting point of your new gradebook We permit no columnar gaps in your official class record The first assignment number in the display report range must be less than or equal to the last assignment number in the range Thatis you may display assignments 40 through 80 or even 40 through 40 if you wish but not 40 through 25 Down with non sequiturs Changes in the display report range parameters take place immediately upon clicking the Done button However remember that no change is permanent until you save the class to disk once again Also keep in mind that even though your gradebook is being displayed and calculated for say assignments 40 80 assignments 1 39 are still there just waiting to be activated again when the appropriate time comes Nothing is ever erased or otherwise destroyed with this feature it is only stored temporarily in a back room of sorts awaiting your beck and call Selecting A Group and Selecting A Student Special ATTACH individual student comments BUILD the Line Library CALCULATE INC s as COMPOSE score annotations CUSTOMIZE letter grades DROP UNDROP the lowest grade ENTER category effort grades EXPORT the student database INDICATE changed scores LOCK the screen temporarily RESET the display report range REVERT to previous entry ROUND score percentages SELECT R GRU UP SELECT R STUDENT
46. 5 9 C Kathleen Grau Donald T 9 p Morgan Lewis ome L Inqr arn amp 26 Beverly Jansen Dennis E Archer Helen B Glenn Carie 5 Ray roond 3 Eugene F Garcia 25 z Kathleen zu Grau Dee File Edit Display ities Special Window For the TEACHER For the STUDENTS p For the CLASS 4 Gradebooks Grading Scales Confidential Line Library Missing Assignments Report Card Summaries Daily Records Seating Charts Templates SCANTRON Assignment 4 Seating Charts and the Room Template Date of ihis rreri MEET MBER 24 bg 1 l ci Big br AE b qiue Tier aling cibariis vestig Chart I Seating Chart 2 testing Chet 3 Chart 4 G Chart 5 Cancel You may choose to print any of six variations upon each seating chart With Names Only With Names and Numbers With Names and Pictures With Grades for the term or an assignment With Rank for term or assignment or With a Two Week Daily Record Grid at the top and bottom of each seat We ve included sample reports on the following page so do take a look So what s left to say about printing a Making the Grade document By now you re probably an expert in the publication process so we ll offer only a few tips samples and words of explanation These seating chart titles are the Mt
47. By MISSING ASSIGNMENTS ASSIGNMENT data With the student s NAME Student BIRTHDAYS b the student s NUMBER This display option depicts a single student s gradebook data in three basic forms as shownabove Click on any one of a student s scores to select him or her and then choose how to display that information By CATEGORIES if applicable By LINE GRAPH By MISSING ASSIGNMENTS With the student s NAME or With the students NUMBER We default to the student name version but the choice is yours The first screen of the CATEGORY display below left breaks down student performance by Category and Weight if applicable Points Earned Points Possible Current and Letter Grade equivalent Click Next and a second screen appears further analyzing the student s overall performance Scores are broken down into more specific groups from Incomplete to Dropped and the student s Cumulative Grade for the Current Term is presented in full detail Of course this information is identical to that found in the first screen if you re using a Total Points Without Categories system Click here on the student name bar to move among your charges Student Data By CATEGORIES Jamel Chae ear Cancel J 3 48 Fents Ponte Sanit HTS CATES am ave L am ws IE ERR se 9 HB D IDE
48. Entry 80 LOCKING The Screen undated Moe 81 Resetting the Display Report Range 81 AU 1 serene es E 82 oelecb A SIUdel ea cto sshd hed 84 Setting Teacher AIde ModE iier E ule oed eere eee eh eee one 85 Showcasing Special Scores essessssssessssssssseses nens een nnn n nnn nnns 85 otar ng a New Grading eee qa ocu ou boe 87 THE DAILY RECORD 13 Setting Up the Daily Record Eniening First Last Days petet 92 Identifying No School 92 8 Miri aedem 92 Creating Attendance Behavior 93 14 Editing the Daily Record Changing Term Starting Finishing NS Dates sees nennen nnne nnns 94 Modifying Daily Record Codes and Categories ccccceccseccsecceeeeeeeceeeeeeceeeseesseeeuetsueseeeseeeaaes 95 Choosing the Mode of Data 96 15 Displaying Daily Record Data FORING Teacher ETT Um TP 97 16 17 18 19
49. Gradebook Daily Record and Seating Chart modules They automatically scroll the screen at least eight names in the Gradebook and Daily Record and one row at a time within the Seating Chart Anything we can do to save time and mouse clicks you know 38 Hssignments Students Setup info Empty Blank Clear Repeat Previous 5 Repeat 5care Fill Column 3 Cut Copy Paste 1 Hssignments Students Setup info Empty Blank Clear Repeat Previous 5core B Repeat Score Fill Column 3 Siz Edit Display Reports Annotations Special Window class class CLOSE this class SAUE class data SAUE class as to saved class EXPORT student data Page setup PRINT a report SELECT a print macro MiG Preferences QUIT You ve done your time in the trenches you ve paid your dues and now you ve typed your last list of student names for a field trip But even if you re chained to a desk or otherwise imprisoned on your campus there will be times when you need blocks of data from your Gradebook and Daily Record in unfettered form and here s the perfect tool for the task In fact with a little cooperation from your MIS or Data Processing Department this option may be the death of the dreaded grade reporting bubble sheet Intrigued Then read on 3 TeacherName a LER an amp Use TABS as separators Us
50. MAFCIH 20 Send RSet AHS STH SOPHOMORE Hag POU Te CITARTER 1 rn Heig TE FERRO Zac ee KIT Exe colic Hace Soe TEM AH H s br Fame Pied Hamer of EE Sr Fre Larter CH ibe Conta et Pd 1 5 k al Tahi wm ben pe Deci ERS DER TOC OD m7 a Eun T Heer See Pa YTE Ten 1 ees Ag Leges Bw bok G Fri 34 ars And Voila At left 15 the Sample Gradebook file on your Program Disk as it appears with student data exported into one of the bestof all word processors Frankly this record will not always import as neatly as that shown here For in stance you may have to adjust a few tabs to com pensate for the irregular length of students names Once you ve straightened that out however most other data fields fall into place rather nicely You may always elect not to include the header infor mation shown at left of course we offer its inclu sion for layout purposes only 41 Third Party Data Exports Locked KJ EJ KJ IJ EJ EXPORTING Class Information Setup EXPORT SETUP TITLES Daily Attendance Information Quarterly Grade Reports Field tri
51. OF ACTIVE STUDENTS EHEOLLED 31 HUMBER OF ASSIGHMEHTS RECORDED THUS FAR 35 CURRENT CLASS AVERAGE 76 378 STUDEHT STUDEHT GROUF LETTEE DAILY RECORD HAMES CODE GRADE GRADE AF AI AU AS TU TL UH archer Dennis E Bowles Charles Chancellor James L 695 536 953 5 10 Dickerson tichael E 937 863 627 5 10 Garcia Eugene F 293 077 961 3 10 Glenn Helen 124 252 295 5 10 Gray Eathleen E 374 851 483 5 10 Howard Stacey E 313 482 265 5 10 Huntington Susan L 858 438 9934 Huston Stephen B 533 469 087 Ingram Thomas L 202 545 634 Jansen Beverly H 743 712 029 Jenkins Lynn T 385 885 8923 Enight Febecca J 561 820 224 Eosterman Jason Lee Tamara C Lewis Jeffrey Cann Holly Horgan Donald T Huss Timothy Ogden Eristi O Grady Shelli 452 860 754 Powell Jr John C 808 119 796 Raymond Carle 5 499 771 707 Eutledge Michael 5 776 057 459 Sampson Eugene J 194 540 669 Smith Tickie E 072 955 930 St James Lester L 217 579 061 Torrence Jeremy D 570 628 350 Winston Kristin E 447 247 346 Yoder Jeremy I 057 196 240 5 11 Herai d 529 558 4353 5 10 659 703 903 5 11 c 11 5 00 292 864 575 970 371 797 255 490 355 799 218 047 635 627 277 397 145 265 675 760 422 Hd bd ca pe ona xcu C3 40 cO cObocoocoocoococoocoocoooc
52. ParentLink Voice Processing for Schools Li parlant 800 735 2930 http www parlant com 42 ParentLink is part of the Teacher s Assistant package from Parlant Technology in Provo Utah Making the Grade and ParentLink have partnered in voice processing technology to save teachers administrators parents and students alike more time and effort than once thought possible Using a touchtone telephone parents can call from home or business to access reports on student grades missing or incomplete work future assignments and of course daily attendance For teachers the downloading process for five or six classes takes less than a minute so accurate student information can be given to parents every day if need be without the hassle factor of lengthy involved contacts ParentLink is the perfect informa tion vehicle for authorized parties to query the educational system whenever they wish at their convenience And for you just think fewer staffings fewer confer ences to arrange around your busy schedule fewer progress reports to print and best of all fewer surprises at the end of the grading period File Edit Reports Annotations Special Window The d STUDENT data p CLASS data d ASSIGNMENT data P Today s BIRTHDAYS GRADING OPTIONS This portion of Making the Grade is our proudest enhancement of the Grade Busters series of classroom management tools It was designed f
53. S One of our proudest features on gradebook side of Making the Grade is the ability to display and calculate selected parts of a student s academic record Of course and not to be outdone the Daily Record boasts the very same capability for student behaviors That is should the occasion arise and it will if you use the program conscientiously you possess the power to analyze your students deportment for example on every Friday during a given term Screen 1 Or you may cull out a specific week or month of the term upon which to cast your steely gaze Screens 2 and 3 The summary screen which always follows each of these selections will contain totals for that term segment only Screen 4 Without going into too much detail suffice it to say that I ve found these options to be particularly useful when dealing directly with parents and guardians In face to face conferences I often open the exchange with a summary printout for the entire term then I up the ante on my PowerBook by breaking that information into smaller patterns ones of which the adult may have been completely unaware To put it mildly I ve seen more than one look of astonishment and horror on a few parents faces Screen 1 Student data by selected DAYS 563p Inditole 1 ihe OAV Tar ghich gau wink Pam Imar Ge Accord infarmelion Keeps in mind ihal you mag criar THEM OSE
54. Th nes L Changer 595 Fugene F Garcia 1 Ha 97 biz 3 Kathie B Gre 290 B EJ E 148 a DLE LE Han L 622 17M CLASS DATA by roster position and student name Click Next and the screen which follows breaks down all scores for a class such as the 1085 entries in the sample at right 31 active students X 35 assign ments I found this feature particularly informative one spring when the average for my Period 8 Sophomore English class fell to an all time low A quick look at this screen for that class showed the number of Inc entries to be a major factor for it was almost double the norm Clearly poor attendance was the culprit and further investigation revealed that frequent early dismissal for distant sports events and failure to make up missed work lay at the heart of the class s problems aphempore English UusHrELH r 1245 9 FrErind 8THE NT Correa SHAE Farmed Foibe all 5usani Hunlinglnn 1778 Lit be M mills ELE a a 2 0 Bererti dansen 1ep amp en B Reston 1528 UTR Jamex l Chanrellar 1515 T dersmi B Terrvace B T Morgan bee 2 75 9 Kristin A instan 1776 4 CLASS DAT
55. ZNM TITEL L Lu ee mui LLL 1 EP m A ml hm eee eee ee 0 1 Ree Frere la mm amp File Edit Display Reports Annotations Remark 1 Remark 2 Hemark 3 Remark 4 Hemark 5 Special Window 1 3E 2 3 34 aen REMOVE a remark 6 As you can tell from its prominent placement in the main menu bar we consider Score Annotations an extremely important element of the Grade Busters Mac gradebook You ve already seen these five remarks in the Class Set Up portion of the documentation but if your menu looks like the one above and you d like to utilize the feature now go to the Edit Set Up Info CLASS information Score Annotations submenu and enter your comments For your convenience we have placed the same function in the Special menu under the title of Compose score annotations Or you can slide the thumb tab on the bottom gradebook scroll bar to the far right and then click on any of the displayed comment lines Note Do not forget the Import button when you access this function it can save considerable time if you ve ever recorded annotations for another class Sample Gradebook ASSIGNMENT MUMBERS 27 28i 29 30 34 35 36 ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES gt PAR OFT ASSIGNMENT VALUES a v l Rrcher Dennis E James L 3 Chancel lor 6 Eugene F Helen B 33 LORD OF THE FLIES The Mowi
56. a little curious to know immediately what Assignment 11 was you know the one that so devastated his line graph All you must do is click on any assignment line in the graph and behold Student Data By LINE GRAPH with Class MEAN LINE GRAPH Insert Assignment 11 James Chancellor WF Prete j James L Chimia ir aphemure 4 40 English Vorab Unit G 89 235 1 Ponds Farrer ISE Assignment Cabegary IPFI Assignment Prin Umbar Hem 2E 1 far thin lar IPLE T A P Phi unnng Stor tik ihe Pide of The MEDIAE 3 ES E bane An informational insert previous page bottom right appears revealing the assignment s title number category items points possible points earned percentage mean mode median and standard deviation Whew Is that convenient or what I ask this because in the earliest alpha version of the program I had to back out of the first screen and reenter the gradebook to discover all the pertinent details of Assignment 11 Needless to say we added this particular feature as soon as we could Who needs a hostile or anxious youngster breathing fire over one s shoulder while time is a wastin Grade take a look at the second screen of
57. again It s too bad we still can t make the same claim for grading their papers and marking their report cards Herbert A Sweat Media Specialist Coronado High School P Peter R Jahelka Jay A Klein English Communication Arts Teacher Head Programmer Making the Grade Finalist Colorado Educator of the Year rogram ReqL Before you go any farther into Making the Grade please make sure you possess the following minimums in hardware and skills Macintosh System File Mac OS 7 x 8 x or later Available RAM 2 5 MB minimum 4 MB on PowerPCs Hard Drive Space 2 MB for the complete application pack age 150 for each class Input device One hard disk drive and at least one HD floppy diskette drive for program installa tion Output device At least one output device driver such as LaserWriter 8 6 1 and a corresponding output device such as a LaserWriter 8500 selected within the Chooser Printer Fonts Standard sizes 8 9 10 12 14 18 24 of Chicago Courier Geneva Helvetica Monaco New York and Times Before you install Making the Grade make sure that your Macintosh hard drive contains only one System Folder and that it contains only one System file and one Finder file Always be sure to use the most recent version possible of these and other Macintosh system files Also in order to use your new program most effectively you must be familiar with the operation of your Macintosh pla
58. and trouble free as possible an occasional misunderstanding or elec tronic malfunction will rear its ugly head However after eight years of faculty workshops telephone technical support and personal on site usage we think we ve seen just about everything that can and sometimes does go awry with our program Even if you ve experienced no difficulties whatsoever with MtG and its data files you might wish to examine carefully the anomalies listed here Just in case Perhaps you can come to the rescue some day for a colleague who s in dire need of your expertise When I double click on a class file to launch Making the Grade I get a message saying application is either busy or missing I can see the program sitting right there in the same folder so I know it s there on my hard drive What gives It s the responsibility of the Macintosh Finder to locate and launch documents and their creator applications Sometimes however the finder becomes confused frequently because of a corrupted Desktop file Itis precisely this invisible file which needs to be rebuilt to bring your Mac to its senses The Desktop contains a wealth of information about folders and files on hard drives and floppies and when it becomes damaged or befuddled your Mac will appear to have lost its mind Thatis applications will unexpectedly and mysteriously quit because of Type x errors files and folders will suddenly display weird
59. correction in your hardcopy gradebook that you make the same entry or correction in your computer record as well A particularly inven 2 Never never throw away old gradebook printouts even when you replace them with brand new ones As the most contemporane ous record of your students performance they may someday be required to satisfy legal de mands Likewise should the unthinkable oc cur losing your hard drive and all backed up copies of your classes data they may be tive colleague in Chicago has a wonderful system for doing this Using a neon highlight ing marker she strikes through any grade on paper that has also been saved to disk No neon no entry simple and the pattern works very well for her Remember putting a new score on paper 15 always just half the battle with Making the Grade Printing Grading Scales For the TERCHER aM XEPSQGHUUERNE For the CLRSS HI Confidential Line Library Missing Assignments Report Card Summaries Daily Records Seating Charts Templates SCANTRON Assignment Even though these printouts appear under the Teacher Reports heading they re really not for you They re for your students and their parents and we strongly recommend that you publish and post for public viewing or for taking home all grading scales employed in your classes If you will recall you may set up as many as five evaluation systems with Ma
60. day Tar this display 1999 Screen 2 Student data by selected WEEK Berk Sunn ary tobe sls The usb uua wish summiscr Herprd information Esap i mind tat gou mag crinri TERN werk for this dispa 1302 B Tug Wea Thu Iri im Fha dig Aisia Se Peg Indicale 1 Ihe MOST Tur which quu bg summar Ge Baily Accord information Keep mind thal you meg ABSENT AY PREENTIXI criar ABRE THER OSE active far ther 999 Tue Thu FEE HEHH SLELD 3 PALSY ABSENT Toe ABSENT BLL LIN THE PNFIRPBRTI ABSENT DV SCHEOLI 85 HBSENT SUSPESDED IPSEHCESEDI TRAST FRI SX HDSL 09 15 PR CLASS LISEHDIERSEDI THEE CLASS amp B E H V LAE UNPREPARED F R CLAS Screen 3 Student data by selected MONTH Screen 4 S Huntington s data for September only 99 Displaying Class Information Reports CLASS data The DAILY RECORD gt STUDENT data d Special Window p For the ENTIRE PERIOD For DAY S For WEEK S For MONTHS This Daily Record feature was designed almost exclusively
61. except the one above and with rank Beware FERPA Room Template With Flow Numbers LAT LLEF HE n HOS UL SOP HCH eB BRNOLISH ROOM 23d TEMPLATE File Edit Display Reports Special Bii UN The The DAILY RECORD The SEATING CHART The SCANMARKA 2688 The NCS amp READERS PARENTLINK MtG WINDOWSE The PORTRAIT STUDIO The PDA CONNECTION Here they are the newest elements in Making the Grade s integrated package of teacher productivity tools the ScanMark 2000 and 2500 Optical Mark Readers OMR It has been our good fortune to work with Scantron Corporation for over ten years now starting with the 1100 1200 1300 and 2100 series and Grade Busters 1 2 3 As easy as it was to scan students multiple choice answer sheets into the Apple II the ScanMark 2000 and 2500 set unparalleled new standards for user friendliness and machine scored testing within Macintosh classrooms These marvelous devices are not only simpler to set up and operate than any of their predecessors they re truly plug and play they re completely portable as well They don t have to be bolted to a table in the faculty workroom or welded to a cart in the media center for each weighs only 16 7 pounds and comes in its own travel case This looks so much like a bowling or ski boot bag that my students asked if we were going on a field trip recently instead of taking a scheduled monster test
62. faces in all the right places Landscape and Portrait your camera 2 take a The former describes an as picture and then 3 re pect ratio that is wider than view any and all student it is tall the latter one that pictures taken iu is taller than it is wide left 3 Students SE Set Landscape Mode The Resize but NOTE cm The Take Picture and CAP TURE buttons will not be 26 Students set Portrait Mode active unless and until an on line device 15 detected ton switches between these two modes EA Once you select Landscape Portrait mode ALL Landscape by MtG Again this means student images will be converted to that format 162x122 that the camera must be by resizing and cropping if necessary pixels properly connected to your Mac the port must be free WARNING This action alters students images of encumbrances by other permanently To avoid these changes click the software hardware and Cancel button here or on the previous screen QuickTime 3 0 2 or later must be present and active within the System folder If these buttons are active but no picture appears Clicking the Resize button displays the screen above detailing how within the portrait rect many pictures have been taken thus far and in what modes If you ve angle the port you vecho rotated your camera and mixed the two aspect ratios you may sen is still not completely reunify them permanently into a single mode by clicking f
63. for new students MR JAY A KLEIN CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL MR JAY A KLEIN CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL NOVEMBER 24 1998 QUARTER 1 1998 99 NOVEMBER 24 1998 QUARTER 1 1998 99 PERIOD 1 SOPHOMORE 3 4B ENGLISH PERIOD 1 SOPHOMORE 3 4B ENGLISH POINTS EARNED ASSIGNMENT NUMBER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ASSIGNMENT CATEGORY LIT SPL SPL SPL SPL MAT SPL SPL LIT SPL SPL LIT SPL PAR SPL MAT SPL SPL LIT SPL SPL LIT MAT SPL SPL LIT PAR SPL ORL LIT LIT WRT ASSIGNMENT VALUE 50 50 50 28 10 54 30 25 182 50 100 YW 100 200 Archer Dennis E 47 43 43 24 10 3d 27 23 121 DR 76 Bowles Charles A 38 36 34 0 24 103 30 CHANCELLOR JAMES L 45 48 49 er 24 168 40 Dickerson Michael R 48 46 42 158 45 Garcia Eugene F 42 43 37 107 40 Glenn Helen B EX EX 164 DR Gray Kathleen R 35 37 63 35 Howard Stacey E 49 41 152 40 BY THE ROSTER 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 1776 100 0 92 1302 75 4 C Archer 120 1103 62 4 D Bowles 164 1515 86 5 B CHANCELLO 120 1395 79 6 B Dickerson 164 1310 74 1 C Garcia 174 547 89 3 B Glenn 92 1238 70 7 C 158 1377 80 1 B Howard 186 1622 92 6 A Huntington 198 1528 87 2 B Huston 68 1204 68 1 D Ingram 174 1574 89 8 124 1137 64 3 Jenkins 104 741 42 9 Knight 1342 78 1 Kosterman 1257 72 9 C Lee 956 54 5 F Lewis 1375 2 78 5 Mc Can
64. for teachers eyes only even though it contains no dangerously proprietary or confidential information Its operational steps are identical to those found in the individual Student data option However this func tion analyzes the performance of a class as a whole and the rev elations it proffers are often noth ing less than astonishing FYI Depending upon the length of period chosen for a whole term for days weeks or months we compile the num ber of entries within each Daily Record category and display those figures in the Totals col umn at right Then we multi ply the number of days within the selected period by the number of active students in the class to ascertain the number of incidents possible within each category Dividing Totals by Possibles gives us the of Possible shown in the far right column above 79 1178 38 days x 31 students 06706 for the category of ABSENT EXCUSED BY PARENTS SOPHOMORE 3748 ENGLISH Descriptions RE ABSENT ENCUSED BY PARENTIS aP_ ABSENT PRE ARRANGED BY PARENT ABSENT SUSPENDED UNEXCUSED ABSENT TRURNT FROM SCHOOL ABSENT UNEXCUSED BY SCHOOL ar TU TARDY TO CLASS AND UNEXCUSED L TL TARDY TO CLASS amp U E R LATE UN UNPREPRRED FOR CLASS ACTIVITY 100 Kristi A Ogden PERIOD SUMMARY Y Totals Average ERES SOPHOMORE 3748 ENGLISH CLASS DAILY RECORD SUMMARY o Of Codes Descriptions Totals Possible RE ABSE
65. i rau MESKO ANZIHIHMOEHTE FEREC SOPEOMORE WE FHGLISE Egad begi S rum larg hen HINTS fees eee ee nm TALON HHF E ALE Toke E ZU dmm mat Ludi E Ecke wn Pe Bum Thi LIED GF THE PLIES Peele Da PAN 1 dE mde 1 aprum 1 FENHEHT ESAS 1 ETT Fee T ewm Faha PE Fem here Ope mariae EHI Peers lee Pere pee ey Erie LIED THE PE Eee Ge 7 HEX Fan 1 Hatria 2 Lh oe PRADA e ae Lu n Printing Student Reports The Long Forms Annotations Special Window For the TEACHER b With ALL assignments With MISSING assignments For the CLASS For the STUDENTS From THIS CLASS only ors of learning must do everything we can to inform and please our customers Therefore Making the Grade pulls out all the stops when We re confident that you ll be pleased with the gradebook and other printouts de signed specifically for your private use but we also know that if the public reports the ones From MULTIPLE CLR
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67. make sure it s COMPLETELY correct understand however that something must be CA oa mese Correct ons Ele click the Save button entered in the first of these boxes if you wish to take advantage of the Invitation to Call op Your Professional Name MR JAY A KLEIN tion in student reports Teacher 1 0 Number 550 1072855 Your School s Name CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL By the way we also recommend that you in clude your area code when you enter the school school 1 0 Number 358 telephone number Student reports are often Your School Phone Number 719 520 2500 Ext 2558 dispatched to parents or guardians in distant YOUR Password lands and they greatly appreciate knowing your complete number Your HIDE 5 Password 6 BI Edit Display Hnnotations Special Window class a TETTE CLOSE this lage SAUE class data SAUE class as REVERT to saved class EXPORT student data Page setup PRINT a report SELECT a print macro MtG Preferences DUIT ab 0 Class Identification Now that you ve entered your personal information for the Making the Grade printouts it s time to set up your first class Each of the following screens is virtually self explanatory but the following tips may help get the most out of each program feature A Hot Tip STEP ONE IN RECORDING A CLASS Use our Import buttons when you set up Please enter the f
68. may now create five annotations foot noted remarks which may be appended to students scores in your gradebook and in take home reports sample Highest score in the class thirty characters maximum Remark 1 Sample WARNING Once you have re PEDIATR E Cance corded and appended these five an Remark 3 notations to your students scores be careful not to change the basic Remark 4 content of any of the messages Style and phrasing yes content Remark 5 most definitely no 13 B The Class Roster Last task before actual score entry in the gradebook The good news here is that setting up your electronic class roster is no different from what you ve done for years by hand so press on and note the special hints functions and options below By the way even though you must enter students LAST NAMES first you do not have to use commas to separate their other name parts a space alone will do especially if you re pressed for room See DICKERSON MICHAEL R below twenty characters maximum Last First Names Group Code is any combination of six key board characters which may be used later for sorting students in the reports section For example you may enter 10 for all sopho mores and J12 for your senior jocks FINALLY it s time set up your class roster Please enroll your students here LAST NAMES FIRST RETURN moves to a cell OPTION RETURN moves to a line
69. most annoying aphorisms in the field of education has always been You get what you pay for Indeed it is one of the great tragedies of our profession that all CPUs printers paper toner and ribbons are not created equal In many school districts it has been our lot as classroom teachers to receive the least expensive least sophisticated and consequently least efficient of all computer technology If this observation rings true for you too please consider these unfortunate truths 1 Processing and printing times can vary alarmingly among older Mac OS computers and printers A gradebook opened on a PowerPC 9600 and printed on a LaserWriter 8500 will take fifteen to twenty times longer to print on an LC II attached to an ImageWriter in Best mode Making the Grade documents are very graphically oriented so keep in mind that they will always take longer to print than simple unformatted ASCII based reports See MacUser Sept 1991 High Quality Low Cost Personal Printers p 150 for a more detailed analysis of this Macintosh phenomenon 20 2 For overall speed and quality of text graphic reproduction almost 63 nothing beats Apple s LaserWriter series If there is any way you can reserve one of these devices when progress reports are due by all means do A so It s impossible to calculate the time you ll save and the credibility you ll gain by printing student reports on these miracles of desktop publishing Yo
70. of your printouts nary a whit We kid you not PrintManitoar Laser Writer 7 1 2 8 6 1 Image wr iter 7 0 1 So what s the message behind the above icons A simple one We strongly encourage you to use the most recent versions of these and similar system components for some of the initial releases thereof were extremely unreliable The fact is that Apple has been frantically working on System 8 x and its economy line printers over the past couple of years to bring printing speeds up to par If you own a StyleWriter I or Personal LW you know how abysmally slow they can be with graphics based documents especially with Systems 6 x and 7 0x Thanks to recent efforts in Cupertino however printer speeds on all platforms from StyleWriter to LaserWriter have improved markedly especially with a LW driver 8 6 i Your first step to see if you have most recent versions of these files is to click once on their icons select Get Info from the File menu and then check the m version number found in the box If your editions are Tr HEC ee E RM not equal to or later than the ones shown above contact N your in house media specialist local Apple dealer or Fri act 16 19588 12 30 Gaps Comer d Mac Users Group as soon as possible a TA NOTE Ifall other sources fail you Jay Klein Ca
71. or continuing from the Class Set Up portion of the program reveals the following platform screen for your gradebook The class s full archival title We strongly urge you to in clude with the Archer Dennis E class name its period academic term and year when Garcia Eugene F you save each Glenn Helen of your class Gray Kathleen es to disk ASS gt Bowles Charles A Chancellor James L Dickerson Michael Soph Eng Per 81 5em 1 98 99 CURRENT ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES gt Sa 4 gt TOTALS FIND Student Finder for random grade entry and general score edit ing ASSIGNMENT TITLES POINTS ITEMS X FRHCTORS The Current Student To tals Points or For This Assignment toggle box Class Roster scroll bar Assignment Numbers amp Range scroll bar Assignment Setup Infor mation scroll bar 29 There are three ways to initiate the entry of an assignment in Making the Grade all virtually intuitive in operation Perhaps the most natural of the three methods is to click anywhere in an open assignment column or title line in the gradebook screen Or you can click on Edit in the menu bar slide down to Assignments and then select ADD an assignment The third option is the hot key choice Command Or E tinh Log Par 17
72. or incorrect icons and so on SOLUTION Close all open applications and then restart your Mac Hold down the Option and Command keys simultaneously and continuously until you see the message below Answer affirmatively for unless you re a true Mac OS power user you ve probably never entered a comment in an info window in your life The Norton Disk Doctor util ity can be most helpful here for it contains a Rebuild Desktop and Restore Comments in Info Windows option In truth it s difficult for us to imagine anyone using a Macintosh on a regular basis without this Disk First Aid or a comparable program Bad things can and do happen to one s hard drives and floppies Now once the rebuilding process 1s complete restart and double click the MtG once again The previous problem S Macintosh should have righted itself We recom mend that you rebuild your Desktop at least once a month by the way and more frequently if you have time Are you sure you want to rebuild the desktop file the disk Macintosh HD Hebuilding the desktop file 136 I just printed copies of a class s Gradebook and Daily Record and they re almost impossible to read Except for student roster position numbers which are nice and black the pages are completely grayed dimmed as if every score assignment title student etc had been dropped Did I do something wrong No This phenomenon is a gift from Apple Computer an
73. other software accompanying this License whether on disk in read only memory or any other media the Software and the related documentation are licensed to you by Jay Klein Productions Inc You own the media on which the Software is recorded but Jay Klein Productions Inc and or Jay Klein Productions Inc s Licensor s if any retain title to the Software and related documentation This license allows you to use each purchased copy of the Software on two Macintosh computers and make one copy of the Software in machine readable form for backup purposes only You must reproduce on such copy the Jay Klein Productions Inc copyright notice and any other proprietary legends that appear on the original copy of the Software You may also transfer all of your license rights in the Software the backup copy of the Software the related documentation and a copy of this License to another party provided the other party reads and agrees to accept the terms and conditions of this License 2 Restrictions The Software contains copyrighted materials trade secrets and other proprietary materials and in order to protect them you may not decompile reverse engineer disassemble or otherwise reduce the Software to a human perceivable form You may not modify network rent lease lend distribute or create derivative works based upon the Software in whole or in part You may not electronically transmit the Software from one device to another or over a networ
74. perform as a teacher but no more No longer must you wince at the sight of a counselor with schedule change in hand and child in tow for moving students and their often voluminous records between classes is now quick easy and smart with Making the Grade In fact those are the three choices available within the function You may copy a student into another class with only his or her 33 setup information QUICK with all Gradebook and Daily Record data but with no checking for compatibility EASY or with all Gradebook and Daily Record data carefully matched for compat ibility between classes SMART As you can tell we recommend this last option if you move a EASY Transfer The slam dunk of student information tudent lete data b int th 1 i 9 relocation Gradebook and Daily Record data are moved student 5 compiete data base Into another Class to a new class but WITHOUT checking for specifics rest assured we will alert you to any significant SMART Transfer The look before you leap option of differences between files To select a student to amp moving data We compare all class setup and assign be transferred click onone of his Or her scores ment information AND alert you to their differences or click on a name in the main gradebook roster and proceed at will QUICK Transfer copy this student s setup informa tion only inta the class of your choice Tran
75. placed into each assemblage By the wa esc d BC VOY PREFERENCES we define group as a minimum of two students whocan work together STUDENTS EXEMPTED FROM TODAY S SELECTION for areasonable length of time with 1 Rrcher Dennis out trying to strangle each other LJ Bowles Charles A Once this number has been en Chancellor James L tered we divide it into the number 4 Dickerson Michael of active participants in class and the number of groups is set Keep 6 Glenn Helen B in mind that some of your students may appear in groups smaller than The preferred number of students in the preferred number at right but each group 2 students minimum 5 15 unavoidable Whoever is left over must be re placed by hand I a UR GROUP d n E Fausell Jr derama Under 5 Bags Helen Siren Pant me meme SELECT A GROUP PRINTING DATE of Document OCTOBER 15 1998 Its TITLE PANEL DISCUSSION GROUPS amp Print as GRAPHIC Certificates Print as Lists Bg ha ap RR le Cg T E ALLE Ri heu mu a eu m IE EI mr CTONPEE DL DEB LEE SOPHO GE Toi IB NEM And here they are the official presentations of Making the Grade Select A Groups and their constitu ents You will note that we of
76. program for the Macintosh OS available today Even if you ve worked with such teacher productivity tools before especially if you have you ll soon find Grade Busters Making the Grade the fastest friendliest most completely reliable classroom management tool you ve ever worked with Written and designed by Jay A Klein and Herbert A Sweat of Coronado High School in Colorado Springs and programmed by Peter R Jahelka Making the Grade is the latest version of Grade Busters 1 2 5 2nd Place Winner Program of the Decade Classroom Computer Learning Technology and Learning It possesses every feature found in GB 1 2 3 and so much more 80 students per class 320 assignments each 10 assignment categories 5 mix and match grading scales graphic displays Spanish language reports and that s only the beginning If you liked GB 2 3 you ll love Making the Grade for both were created to solve two of the most pressing problems in a teacher s professional life fast fair accurate assessment of student academic and behavioral progress and clear effective communication of that information to students parents and administrators alike We think you ll soon agree that Making the Grade accomplishes these two objectives with more care more concern for your time and more true style than any other electronic gradebook So read on But be forewarned You just may find that you actually enjoy recording students grades and attendance information
77. response Jay Klein Productions Making the Grade Technical Support 2930 Austin Bluffs Parkway Executive Suite 104 Colorado Springs CO 80918 If you are connected to the Internet you can contact us at either of the following e mail addresses http www support gradebusters com http www gradebust1 aol com Either way be sure to include in your correspondence the version of MtG you re using the specific model of and OS on your Macintosh CPU the make and model of your printer and as much detail about the problem you re having as possible Copies of the class files in question are always welcome as well strict confiden tiality of student data is maintained at all times 30 Day Money Back Guarantee If within 30 days of purchase this product does not perform in accordance with our claims and if you purchased it directly from Jay Klein Productions you may return it for a refund of your purchase price less shipping and handling charges If the product was purchased from a dealer or other intermediary agency their policies for returns and refunds will apply PLEASE READ THIS LICENSE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SOFTWARE BY USING THE SOFTWARE YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE PROMPTLY RETURN THE PRODUCT TO THE COMPANY FROM WHICH YOU OBTAINED IT AND YOUR MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED 1 License The application demonstration files explanatory texts and
78. scales keep in mind that you may enter any three character combination in each of the boxes below including but not limited to the traditional A through F range As you can see I use a fairly standard grading system in all of my classes Scale 1 but a friend at university level converts her percentages to a 5 0 to 0 0 scale for GPA purposes Scale 2 Another colleague uses such acronyms as EX EXcellent VG Very Good AV AVerage BA Below Average and UN UNsatisfactory to indicate student achievement in her elementary school classes Scale 3 One particularly creative kindergarten teacher devised an apple chart to evaluate her students Scale 4 Be sure to investigate the Key Caps DA thoroughly And there just may be times when nothing at all is what you d like to see printed next to your students percentages Scale 5 No matter what marks you set up here keep in mind that you can and match among your students and even group them by grading scale if you wish in your gradebook printouts Sample Grading Scale 1 lela GeO SEALE 3 Tur m ej Hel deime Bee SERLE F Tur Ihin Clete Tou may record BWF combination nf B i 8 Clete Fou may record BWF combination nf To Sranie 97 lela BeOS TALE Tur ui Clete Tou may record BN combing tion nf T RS or for each T Making the and Li regerat Ino
79. scores shown above are those which resulted above below or between which student scores f th t dapi ll fall into a special area For instance if 60 is aaa a ENEO A mS car your lowest passing mark scores less than that having a value equal to orless than 5996 of an assignment s will be omtlined to stand out total points possible With this setup one s attention is drawn immediately to the failing scores within this class Keep in mind that the whole numbers entered in these boxes will also include any and all decimal values at tached thereto 59 99 Greater Than or Equal And Less Than or Equal To Showcasing the Up Side SHOWCASING SPECIAL SCORES With this feature you may set a percentage range bowe bela or eona student scores The screen at left reveals how easy it can be to highlight fall into a special area For instance if 60 is your students positive achievements as well as their your lowest passing mark scores less than that negative ones Entering 100 in the first box and leaving Sion DUE second empty will result in every perfect and extra Greater Than or Equal To 2 188 credit score s being outlined in your gradebook dis Rnd Less Than or Equal To play Highlighted outlined scores will appear in their regular font styles within student take home reports Once again this is a display feat
80. template 108 student pictures 130 Incomplete missing assignments 28 45 47 63 INC scores 28 38 Indicating changed scores 80 81 Info windows 71 135 Inits 136 137 Input devices 3 Internal Report Cards 64 65 Internet updating printer drivers 73 Introduction 4 Invitation to Call line 6 59 62 65 103 J Jahelka Peter R 4 JamCam M KidBoard 128 K Key Caps 16 Klein Jay A 4 L Lake Geauga Computer Association 42 LaserJet printer 51 LaserWriter printer 50 52 71 License software 1 Line graph display 46 60 Line Library 55 56 62 66 76 103 Locking the Screen option 81 M Machine scoring Scantron 117 124 Macros print 69 Marking period new 87 88 Master Class grading scale 65 66 Mavica M Sony 128 Mean score 46 60 Median score 46 60 Memory requirements 3 Method of data entry 27 96 Missing assignments report 56 57 63 Mode score 46 60 modem port 120 129 N Negative numbers 28 New grading period 87 88 No School days 92 94 95 Norton Disk Doctor 135 O Opening splash screen 5 Overhead projection 43 P Page up down 37 Parent Signature line 59 62 66 103 ParentLink 42 Parlant Technology 42 Pass code Password 5 6 35 81 Pentamation 23 Period starting a new grading 87 88 Personal LW printer 71 Picture file name 130 Placement Seating Chart automatic 109 manual 109 Poor Man s Printer Buffer 69 70 Pop up windows 36 47 Portrait Studio
81. tom of the room template the spot from which you or your aides usually take attendance NOTE Even though there Import Template are 100 choices in the seat ing chart template you may select only 80 at a time the maximum number of stu dents allowed in a class 107 TWO Step 1 The Template TIME SAVERS Please set up the TEMPLATE for this room by clicking on Once again the Making the squares approximating the Grade Import button leaps position of ALL useable stu to fore Use it to bring in aroom template from another class setup or from a spe cially exported template file icons below left Attention Department Chairs Save your col leagues valuable time by lay ing out and exporting tem plates for all the rooms they teach in Drag them onto the work room hard drive say so they can import them when ROOM 201 ROOM 204 ROOM 207 208 ROOM 211 STUDY OS setup time comes dent seats Template Flow The second step in setting up a seating chart may seem unusual at first blush for here we ask you to number every available seat in the room Why do we need to know your template flow Two screens from now you ll be able to seat some or all of your students automatically within the template according to the criteria of your choice alphabetically by rank in class and so forth With such an option we ll need to know your directional preferences when we reach the end
82. upon the information contained in this book or from omissions to this book The software described in this document is fur nished under a license agreement or nondisclosure agreement The software may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of that agreement It is against the law to copy the software on or onto any medium except as specifically allowed in the license or nondisclosure agreement No part of this manual may be repro duced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or information storage or retrieval systems for any purpose other than the purchaser s personal use without the written permission of Jay Klein Productions The listing of organizations products corporations and or services in this publica tion is provided for the convenience of users of this book and does not constitute an overt or implied endorsement by Jay Klein Productions its employees or its agents and should not be construed as such Jay Klein Productions is solely responsible for all information contained in this book A Semantycon Press Publication of Semantycon Inc a division of Jay Klein Productions Inc 2930 Austin Bluffs Parkway Suite 104 Colorado Springs CO 80918 Copyright 1991 99 by Jay Klein Productions Inc rights reserved For information address Jay Klein Productions Inc 2930 Austin Bluffs Parkway Suite 104 Colorado Springs CO 80918 ISBN 0 9
83. users of the Portrait Studio He proclaimed to anyone who would listen that he had never taken a decent school picture in his life but thanks to the many do overs avail able with MtG he finally did and he begged us for a copy for his personal records Who could say no to such an earnest enthusiastic and finally satisfied customer 130 533 Student Pictures Rrcher Dennis E Bowles Charles R Chancellor James L Dickerson Michael Desktop Garcia Eugene F Glenn Helen B Gray Kathleen R Howard Stacey E Cancel The Import button is active only when the Portrait Studio isin REVIEW Pictures mode Itis designed for teachers who either don t have access to an imaging device or who prefer to use pictures taken by someone else perhaps the official school photographer Remember Making the Grade will import any picture format recognized and supported by Apple s QuickTime 3 0 and that is virtually all of them Points To Remember Making the Grade stores student pictures out side each gradebook file in a separate but related document with the QuickCam icon and the appendange pict MTG Sample Gradebook pict We externalize student images to make back ing up your files as easy as possible so please do so regularly To keep your pictures prop erly attached however keep them in the same directory as their parent file and do not al
84. with the market in the years ahead in its speed and ability to communicate relevant information to students and their parents 91 Printing the Gradebook Annotations Special Window For the TEACHER d For the STUDENTS For the CLASS b Gradebooks Grading Scales Confidential Line Library Missing Assignments Report Card Summaries Daily Records Seating Charts Templates SCANTRONG Assignment The Making the Grade teacher s gradebook the report of which we are most proud sets us apart from all others in the field of electronic record keeping Patterned after the spiral bound handwritten records of the past it s the one we ve improved upon the most even over its Grade Busters 1 2 3 forebear be sure GB 1 2 3 for the Apple II broke new ground fifteen years ago but this document sets even higher standards today Printing Gradebooks Depending upon your choice of options on these three screens you may print any one of 100 different grade books give or take a couple You may print your class record with names or student numbers as is alphanu merically randomly or by rank with numerical scores letter grades percentages or check marks V DONE with extra blank lines for new students or without in regular format or supersized for easy hand entry Mix and match here to your heart s content but please observe
85. 03 Homewor 09 19 Lling Vocabulary Unit 03 Quiz 09 21 lling Vocab Unit 04 Homewor 09 23 Lling Vocabulary Unit 04 Quiz 09 27 lling Vocab Unit 05 Homewor 09 28 CATEGORY SUMMARY gt 15 0 of Cumulative Grade COMPOSITION 1 The Nature of Man 10 28 CATEGORY ORAL PRESENTATIONS 10 0 of Cumulative Grade 100 0 DISCUSS Essence of Leadership 10 24 100 0 100 0 CATEGORY SUMMARY gt 100 0 CATEGORY PARENT NOTIFICATIONS 5 0 of Cumulative Grade PARENT SIGNATURE Prog Report 1 09 27 PARENT SIGNATURE Prog Report 2 10 19 CATEGORY SUMMARY gt CATEGORY QUARTER FINAL TESTS 20 0 of Cumulative Grade QUARTER I Vocabulary Final Test 10 21 168 QUARTER I Spelling Final Test 10 28 164 This hardcopy manipulation of a student s data file empha sizes performance within each of your predefined categories The information displayed and the options available are iden tical to the report above but the look and feel are decidedly different This report can be come very paper intensive by the way if you ve recorded a large number of assignments and are using bunches of cat lling Vocabulary Unit 05 Quiz 09 30 TOTALS AND AVERAGES gt lling Vocab Unit 06 Homewor 10 03 7 2 Lling Vocabulary Unit 06 Quiz 10 07 egories lling Vocab Unit 07 Homewor 10 11 als Ecore reduced for laten sg 4 Highest score in this class lling Vocabulary Unit
86. 1 Be sure that the Ready Lamp is on before feeding your Answer Key and stu dents sheets through the ScanMark If at any point the machine falls off line we recommend that you exit Making the Grade and restart both machines Remember gremlins abound 2 Occasionally asheet will fail to pass cleanly through the ScanMark becoming locked out of the scanner If so you ll see the Ready Lamp blinking rapidly When this Occurs press the green End Button B once and insert that page again After your last answer sheet has been fed through the ScanMark press the green End of Batch Button again or press Command Period on the Mac keyboard to bring the scanning sequence to its conclusion NOTE If you suddenly discover an ungraded answer sheet or two lying around after pushing the End Button click Begin Scanning Sheets again and feed the errant sheet s through When you re completely finished with the batch please note the summary line at screen bottom indicating how many good bad and duplicate feeds occurred during the session 122 Scantron Machine Scoring Entry ARCHER DEN BOWLES CHA CHANCELLOR DICKERSON GARCIA EUGE GLENN HELE GRAY KATHLE HOWARD STR HUNTINGTON HUSTON STEP 1 2 43 4 3 6 T 8 9 0 1 11 INGRAM THO 12 JANSEN 15 JENKINS LY 14 KNIGHT REBE 15 KOSTERMAN 16 LEE TAMARA 17 LEWIS JEFFR 18 MC_CANN 19 MORGAN 00 20 NUSS TIMOTH 21 OGDEN KRIST
87. 1 from the master roster was chosen for its letter grade equivalents and because the six classes were not weighted a blank teacher comment line followed each set of data Invitation to call and parent signature options were included as were three sets of Line Library underscores for parent feedback This second external report card for Stacey E Howard also began with his English Semester 2 class but in this document the program preserved the unique grad ing scales set up within the other classes That is his grade in English Semester 2 was reported as a B while his other grades range from a 3 0 in Mathematics to inScience Each class was assigned a weight and using the weighted arithmetic mean formula an overall grade of B taken from master class Grade Scale 1 was determined The rest of the report card is identical to that for Kathleen Gray above Printing Class Reports Reports Annotations 23 Far the TEACHER Far The STUDER Ng Ai Bu NIE k Prom CLASS HOTYEHIERB I4 IFE LTO JAT A CEH DEE CHADS HIH AHEL REPORT CARE KATHLEFHHR GRAF PEN GATA CEF BERI ETE OEIL CORONALE CARD HOWARD HHA GAAPH From CLAS REE Hy TAALE CA
88. 125 132 Preferences calculating INC scores 36 77 displaying empty areas seating 132 gradebook 36 including date in assignments 36 positioning dropped students 36 printing in color black amp white 136 printing on scanner sheets 124 scanner 124 Select A Group 83 Select A Student 84 Printer buffers 69 drivers 71 73 129 font required 3 macros 69 port 120 ribbon 50 51 Printing class reports 66 104 color 51 confidential reports 54 55 Daily Record reports 101 104 Finder 70 Gradebook reports 50 69 grading scales 54 Line Library 55 56 report cards 64 66 Scantron records 121 Seating Charts 115 116 speed 50 51 71 72 student reports 57 66 102 103 teacher reports 52 55 101 102 Printers 3 50 51 71 73 Product support 2 Program registration 5 Program requirements 3 Q QuickCam LogiTech 127 129 130 QuickTime 128 129 settings 130 R Radio buttons 22 RAM requirements 3 Random entry Daily Record 96 Gradebook 25 ScanMark 2000 122 Rank in class 48 49 52 55 59 66 103 113 114 Ready lamp ScanMark 122 Rebuilding the desktop 135 Repeating a score 37 Report Cards 64 66 Reports printing 50 72 101 104 Repositioning assignments 30 31 Resetting display report range 81 82 Resize student pictures 129 Return key 5 Return policy 2 Reverting to previous entry 80 81 Reviewing pictures button 129 130 S S A M 137 Sample button annotations 13 assignment categories 12 class roster
89. 129 130 transfering 33 34 StyleWriter 51 71 Support 2 Sweat Herbert A 4 Symbols as percentage equivalents 11 generating from the keyboard 17 System requirements 3 137 System software 136 137 T Tabs exporting data 39 41 Daily Record Seating Chart 114 Teacher Aide Mode 85 Teacher reports confidential 54 55 Daily Record 101 102 Gradebook 52 53 grading scales 54 Line Library 55 Seating Chart 115 116 Teacher setup info 5 6 34 35 Technical assistance 2 Telephone numbers Jay Klein Productions 2 parent student 15 16 teacher 5 6 59 62 Template Seating Chart 107 108 116 student data export 40 Text files 39 41 141 The Works 57 63 Third party vendors 42 Ties Seating Chart categories 109 Titles assignment 26 Seating Chart 109 115 student data export file 40 Tips Tricks Trade Secrets and More Troubleshooting backing up data 20 check boxes 21 finder printing 70 key caps 17 printer speeds 71 72 radio buttons 22 student info pop up screen 36 weighted categories 18 20 Transfering a student 33 34 Transparencies 116 Trash emptying 138 Truant mark 29 47 98 102 U Undropping assignments 30 most damaging scores 78 79 scores 28 78 79 students 32 User skills 3 Virex amp 137 Virus definitions 137 W W A M Units 19 20 Websites 73 Weighted Arithmetic Means 18 20 Weighted categories 12 18 19 59 64 66 Weighting categories equally 24 Word processor
90. 14 Daily Record categories 93 internal report card 64 65 student report 20 Saving a class 37 108 ScanMark 2000 117 124 Schoolmaster 23 Score annotations 13 35 60 showcasing special 85 86 repeating 37 types 27 29 Screen savers 72 Seating Chart 107 116 automatic placement 109 classroom layout 107 Daily Record date 112 editing 111 112 manual placement 109 placement preferences 110 printing 115 116 template layout 107 108 ties in categories 109 titles 109 115 with student pictures 131 32 Select A Group 82 83 Select A Student 84 12 131 Select a print macro 69 Setting up assignments 25 26 Daily Record 91 93 Gradebook 9 15 Seating Chart 107 110 Set the Teacher Aide mode 85 Setup information 5 6 34 35 74 92 93 Short Forms 63 64 Showcase special scores 85 86 SIMS 23 Skyward 23 Social Security Numbers 10 Software license 1 Sorting the roster 14 15 Spanish language option 6 62 Special functions 75 86 Speed printing 50 51 71 72 Standard deviation 47 49 60 Starting a new grading period 37 87 88 Static electricity and floppies 138 Students adding to class roster 32 comments attaching 75 76 Daily Record reports 102 103 data display 45 47 98 99 data export 39 41 deleting 33 dropping 30 32 38 I D numbers 10 14 35 39 52 65 97 information 14 16 24 35 36 39 46 85 99 report printing 57 66 102 103 undropping 32 reports with assignments 57 62 reports without assignments 63 taking pictures
91. 22 O GRADY SHE 25 POWELL_JR 31 YODER JERE 24 RAYMOND CA 25 RUTLEDGE 55 26 SAMPSON EU 55 24 SMITH 28 ST JAMES L 29 TORRENCE 30 WINSTON Press Return to begin scanning students Step 5 Scanning Students Answer Sheets The Control Panel of the ScanMark 2000 ARCHER DEN BOWLES CHR CHANCELLOR DICKERSON GARCIA EUGE GLENN HELE GRAY KATHLE HOWARD STR HUNTINGTON HUSTON STEP 3 a E 4 Mio CU DU INGRAM THO 2 JANSEN 5 JENKINS LY 34 KNIGHT REBE 15 KOSTERMAN 5 LEE TAMARA 7 LEWIS JEFFR MC_CANN MORGAN 00 oi MUSS TIMOTH 23 OGDEN KRIST 2 O GRADY SHE PUIPELL JR 2 RAYMOND CA 45 RUTLEDGE 3 2 SAMPSON EU 55 SMITH UICKI 3 ST EL 2 TORRENCE JE 34 WINSTON Good Feeds 50 Bad Feeds 1 Duplicates 1 Total 33 Scoring the Next Assignment Here s some fantastic news Do you wish to scan additional students for The ScanMark 2000 segment of Mak Assignment 56 or enter a new assignment ing the Grade enables and encourages you to scan retake and makeup answer Assignment sheets for a previously entered assign ment In fact once you ve entered and saved a Scantron record within a class file you ll see the above message every time you access that program feature again Please understand that if you select Old Assignm
92. 23107 02 9 First Semantycon Press printing August 199 10 9 Printed in the United States of America Program Registration Your first official task upon launching Making the Grade is to register your copy of the program to prevent its unauthorized usage or duplication The information requested in this opening screen will not appear in hardcopy documents and only when you launch the application will you ever see it again Keep in mind however that these two entries are stored deep within the re sources of the application itself and cannot be corrected unless you return your Program Disk for updating So enter them carefully Congratulations on your pur chase of MAKING THE GRADE for the Macintosh the very finest gradekeeping program In education today Please personalize your copy of MAKING THE GRADE thirty characters maximum Your School thirty nine characters maximum A HOT TIP This button will not activate with the Return or Enter keys only a mouse click or Command Return works here In fact any screen having more than one info box will use the Return key only to enter data and move to the next field PLEASE NOTE The above information is for regis Cancel tration purposes only and WILL NOT be printed on teacher student or class reports la Program Customization Now that your program is officially yours it s time to record your personal setup information in
93. 7 Quiz 10 14 lling Vocab Unit 08 Homewor 10 17 Lling Vocabulary Unit 08 Quiz 10 21 JAMES L CHANCELLOR you have received 86 03 of the weighted grade and your grade is a B C tly you rank 6 in this class o E CATEGORY SUMMARY gt Pl ll me at 719 520 2500 Ext 2530 if I can be of further help If you ve selected the category with o Weights option for this class the specific weight for each category will appear here immediately beneath each category title PARENT SIGNATURE DATE CATEGORY LITERARY ACTIVITIES 15 0 of Cumulative Grade Author Identification Exercise LORD OF THE FLIES Reading Oz 1 LORD OF THE FLIES Reading Oz 2 LORD OF THE FLIES Reading Oz 3 LORD OF THE FLIES Reading Qz 4 LORD OF THE FLIES Reading Oz 5 LORD OF THE FLIES Final Test Student Report 4 With Assignments Categorical 29 Student Report 5 The Personalized Class Histogram MEO RATA TE BETES FH eS OE DURETEB Debs CLAS ETATISTICR HOH FE ILES h h h k I I i I i I me ms meg cag eg mag sg Reg weg mag eg nus mag mag rey eg meg cca meg cre meg mag ag cuu weg mag cus ag ey cag neg meg my ma ues seq rey cq neg wey CD 1 a This graphic representation of a class s overall performance 15 actua
94. 74 editing 35 setting up 13 Answer key Scantron 121 Appendix 133 138 Apple Computer QuickTime 128 website 73 AppleTalk 51 120 129 ASCII files exporting 39 41 importing 14 16 Assignments adding 26 27 121 average score option 62 categories 12 26 changing set up 29 30 date in 38 deleting 31 displaying 48 49 dropping 30 incomplete missing 28 45 47 63 maximum point value 27 missing 28 repositioning 30 31 setting up 25 26 undropping 30 Asterisk X Factor 37 B Backing up data 21 138 Bar chart display 46 47 printout 60 68 Beerbohm Sir Max 127 Beginning a new grading period 37 87 88 Blank empty printouts Daily Record 101 Gradebook 52 53 Blanking the gradebook 37 Buffer Poor Man s Print 69 C Calculating INC scores 38 Calendar setup 92 93 Campus America 23 Canon website 73 Capture images button 129 Carryover of grading periods 87 88 Carter Pertaine 23 Category codes Daily Record 93 Gradebook 12 26 Category descriptions Daily Record 93 Gradebook 12 Seating Chart 109 Changing annotations 13 assignments 29 class roster 32 35 36 Daily Record setup 94 95 display report range 81 82 Gradebook setup 34 35 seating Chart setup 111 112 Cheating mark 29 47 Check boxes 22 Check marks 29 52 79 Chooser 129 Citizenship Mark 15 35 36 37 59 103 104 Class Daily Record report 104 data display 47 48 100 deletion 138 Gradebook report 66 68 identification 9 roster 14 statist
95. A by rank and student number Sophomore 3 46 English QUARTER 1 1996 97 Period 1 Number of Active Students Enrolled Number of Assignments Recorded Number of Scores Number of Scores Number of TRU Scores Number nf Scores Number of INC Scores 34 Number of EXC Scores The Class Average Total MEAN The Most Frequently Occurring Total MODE The in the Middle of the Class MEDIAN The Class s STANDARD DEVIATION in 18 56 Additional CLASS DATA Analysis Displaying Assignment Data CLASS data Reports The GRADEBOOK STUDENT data ASSIGNMENT data b Student BIRTHDAYS P _ GRADING OPTIONS Annotations Special Window A b p For ALL students For those MISSING work only By POSITION in the roster RANK in the class With student NAMES With student NUMBERS This part of Making the Grade should seem very familiar because basically it is It functions exactly like 48 its CLASS data predecessor but for one assignment at a time Click in any assignment column to select it and then choose how to display its data For everyone for those missing work by Student Name or Number by Roster Position or Rank in Class Clicking the title bar reveals a list of all assignments ready for selection The Assignment data sample screen at right is so similar to its cousin for an enti
96. As usual the option is yours but to play it d safe we ll leave your information exactly as entered until instructed otherwise Student 1 0 Stu broup brd q 5RIpha sort Last Name First Name Number Sen Lnue Suys DON T alpha pennis 629 598 435 5 T1 001 801 Bowles Charles 659 703 903 M 5 116 1 Chancetfor James L 685 836 993 5 19 1 Dickerson Michael 937 865 627 5 19 1 Import Use this function when new grading period begins and you ll never have to retype a complete class roster again Garcia Eugene 353 077 561 M 3 184S 1 Glenn _ HelenB 1124 282 298 F S 18BE Gray Kathleen 374 851 489 S 18CE 1 McDowell Kevin 513 489 265 M 5 18 1 You may indicate any of your five optional grading scales here even if it s a blank one Keep in mind that everyone must have a scale however and that we automatically give new students Scale 1 Previous d C4 Theconnector space Use We ll accept any code entered within this theunderscore key to hold If you enter unique I D Codes for your category usuals being M or B for critical last name parts to students we ll make sure that each number males and F or G for those of the female gether in student reports truly is unshared and that everyone has a persuasion Be sure to e
97. BERS Scores as IN VF or OUT 44 The gradebook display defaults to these four settings displaying class data by student names roster order as is numerical val ues and cumulative grade totals for the term However the possibilities for manipulating each class s display are many and varied Care fully examine the four screen samples below to see the variety of displays you can generate NOTE Keep in mind that display settings are always temporary the gradebook window automatically reverts to the display formula at left each time a class 1s opened CLICK HERE FOR AN SHORT Each click cycles through Current Student Totals Points Earned and Grade For This Assignment FS ioe CA ST L TS iu 4 223 2 92 21 Eiu a DTJ 53 OD Tel D pao Ame E DITER ee Foi Teri EXE RANDOMLY for anonymity With students NUMBERS Scores as LETTER GRADES Tie FS eT CHIBLDE ER PST UR Le f T 8 4 nipkaraan A jk 22 H B rim F Klare Halen D TER Regii es E Tr Sloman Pes ieee DATER 1 meanbuluy Sid Ted AE Boda Lone of Lacderunsp DUI MI LEM OF THE FLIES Tari ALPHABETICALLY by last name Scores as NUMERICAL VALUES 96 z Grade for this ASSIGNMENT
98. DENT SET the Teacher Hide mode SHOWCASE special scores opening password screen 15 still in the way of unauthorized browsing Resetting the Display Report Range Special Window ATTACH individual student comments BUILD the Line Library CALCULATE INC S as COMPOSE score annotations CUSTOMIZE letter grades DROP UNDROP the lowest grade ENTER category effort grades EXPORT the student database This Making the Grade feature was designed for those who like to start a new grading period with a fresh gradebook but at the same time must keep student data close at hand for later computation Thatis when Quarter II arrives you may berequired to begin with a clean slate for everyone knowing fully well that Quarter I s scores will be factored into a final grade in another few weeks Although this may appear to be a complicated process starting over from ground zero when grading periods change is a simple two step process requiring the modification of a maximum of five fields INDICATE changed scores LOCK the screen temporarily RESET the display report range p REVERT to previous entry ROUND score percentages SELECT R GRU UP Step 1 Whenan official grading period changes so should its official title 1n all likelihood All you must do is click in the highlighted box below to update the name of the cur rent grading term keeping in mind that changing this entry he
99. G default entries only They can and will be replaced by the titles you enter in the setup or modify sections TEACHER REPORTS Date of this report NOVEMBER 24 1998 The following options are available for each chart With students NAMES ONLY no additional data With student s NAMES and NUMBERS Must be kept confidential With students NAMES and PICTURES With students GRADES in each seat corner gt For the ENTIRE GRADING TERM gt F r a SINGLE ASSIGNMENT With students RANK IN CLASS in each corner gt For the ENTIRE GRADING TERM gt F r a SINGLE ASSIGNMENT With a two week DAILY RECORD GRID for manual entry Cancel Previous 115 Seating Chart With Student Names Only LT USER SOPHOMORE XB ENGLISH DALY CHART zn THE LA THT aH E CHES EGT IESEEAH IEEEMD ICEIB CHAT TECEN A HINT Make a transparency of this chart place it on overhead and let students see what you re recording Seating Chart With Daily Record Grids LATA LLEF vH HORIS m EOS SOP BoMCOEE AB EH DAILY CHART ROOM 2124 1040 2 111 ALISAT Seating Chart With Grades For the Term ELEF mo ERE SOPHUNOE E ENGLISH DALY CHART EOGH LESH D EGTTESE AH REMEMBER of these charts are suitable for posting
100. H CONFIDENTIAL CLASS SIMI ARV Lats SUSMARY with STROENT MEMES and silia Teachers aniy tludes names are neHE lo PRIDE sTuden mam Giri 1 Mn ae TL HEHE F aT BSS UNELFT A Hy ARE in clave high n Bau vittis ETER IE Hu POSS in Ine Poe ier Teacher s Confidential Report Options 1 Eki Fishin I 7 i am L mg uh Dem eles 0 1 B limphsm 1 i bam Torre ree OE Erba l4 1 i1 TE s Fre T a a uw En ek at Tihs Fett per LE TE LE LE E mi al mi a You will notice that there is no Print by Student Number option here for this report will always contain Student Names and Numbers And therein lies the rub Your only choice at this point is whether to display such faga L information in the recorded roster order as is or by rank Zt Cimri high to low We use this report most often at official district level grade reporting time when 2 pencils and bubble sheets are the tools du jour Our fondest wish for your future by the way is to bury those good old days and enable you to report student progress to the powers that be LAN line or modem hookup It s possible NOW 18 12 E rp
101. ING SYSTEM Roster Position Numbers Your Own Creations or Making the Grade Numbers 3 CLASS GRADING SCALES 4 ROUNDING of students scores 5 GRADING SYSTEM Total Points Total Points Categories or Categories Weights 6 Student Score ANNOTATIONS Our only admonition here is that you appreciate your students delicate sensibilities when you edit this information That is changing 92 in your grading scale from an A to a B in midstream may prove to be a traumatic logical and emotional adjustment for your charges Once students have seen the above info it s best to keep changes as few as possible ticularly sensitive information we will always ask for YOUR private password one more time Should you ever forget your entry code to Making the Grade and be denied access to the program fret not for there are two remedies available to you Cancel 1 Return the Program Disk in ques tion with the usual 5 00 postage and handling fee and we ll remake and freshen your diskette with our most recent version 2 Call us at 719 599 8786 as soon as we hear your adult voice we ll pro vide you a back door to the program Si Display Reports Annotations Window Assignments d Students Setup Info Special TEACHER information CLASS information STUDENT information Empty Blank Clear Repeat Previous Score Repeat 5core Fill Column 3 Lut
102. Jim l H E Before we leave this display feature in Making the EN Chancellor s grades You ll note that he slipped Par NENNEN up again on Assignment 28 but of more interest NNNM he seems to have earned nothing at all on Assign ment 33 Here s the low down zero scores such as 0 Inc Tru and appear on a student s graph at the bottom of the chart as expected However all neutral scores such as Excused Dropped and not appear on the chart at all hence the break in Jim s line graph It was a y activity only and no points or percentages were available or earned Select the third option in this section By MISSING ASSIGNMENTS to display the two screens below The first reveals each student s Incomplete assignments listing them in order from your gradebook by number title category and point value This information is also available in hardcopy form within the Student Reports section but more about that in the chapter to come The second screen provides further analysis of each student s performance including his or her current percentage and letter grade Rebecca d Webexca J C SEP HOMORE 5 468 SUPHDPA TRE 5E EC BLESH SCORE Fiji REREH Bef TITLE anb raid Pate bee EF 19 LORD OF THE FLITS Reading Qz 1 VIT E Zera tak spring Vocabul
103. Jr Ki Grade Busters Mac Making the Grade System 7 x 8 x uU LN ig bles or Later cite Int Program Documentation A BUNCH OF TIMESAVING TIPS FOR TEACHERS WHO ALMOST NEVER HAVE THE TIME TO READ THIS KIND OF STUFF Copyright Jay Klein Productions Inc 2930 Austin Bluffs Parkway Colorado Springs Colorado 80918 PHONE 719 599 8786 FAX 719 599 8312 http www gradebusters com CONTENTS SoltWare LICENSE ood oec v access 1 2 Produc SUDDOLL oit oditaut indem nta ul eccl edem d cru SUE 2 3 Program Requirements a Rev e a e su riui SaaS 3 5 Mitis 4 5 2 5 THE GRADEBOOK 6 Setting Up A Class Glass 9 NUMPES 10 Class Grading Seals E 10 Assignment Categories and amp Weighting 12 Student Oradee ANNOLAI ONS 13 THE CIIS reri 14 TTICKS and Trade SCC CUS cct edt docta bun Educa actu dan nari aa 17 Weighted C aledgOrIBS edel ssi cd
104. L ALCUNU intu Almost finished In truth you ve already seen these reports in one form or another elsewhere so brevity shall rule CLASS REPORT BY TABLE Date of this report NOUEMBER 24 1998 For the GRADING PERIOD For a SINGLE ASSIGNMENT 9 For a CATEGORY or CATEGORIES With STUDENT NAMES LAST NAMES first FIRST NAMES first By CURRENT ROSTER ORDER ALPHA NUMERICALLY RANDOMLY 1 0 numbers only By RANK in class first to last Cancel With STUDENT NUMBERS for posting by roster posi tion or 1 0 codes Use Master Class s Grading Scale 66 The printing options at left should seem familiar for they re almost identical to those for printing your grade book The only difference is that you may print a class summary sheet for the entire grading period an 5 signment a grading category or multiple classes I ve found over the years that posting gradebook and this report by student number of course every Mon day morning has a positive impact on my students They invariably crowd around the bulletin board scoping it out and even high low fiving each other when they see the results Students want and need to be informed I believe even of bad news Class Report 1 For the Grading Period By Rank RB Du rmm TTA Be Wl 1 8 EE Halls b 5 PEPFAR 71 d FORERO nada Ms ae EP i ii
105. LY RECORD d STUDENT data d This display option is active and selectable only whenthe Daily Record is displayed with Student Names Remember as is the case with the gradebook this manipulation of data is only temporary and a click any where within the window will return the spreadsheet to its regular state Special Window With students NAMES With students NUMBERS In ROSTER order as is CLASS data p With other students HIDDEN ALPHABETICALLY by last name RANDOMLY for anonymity By RANK IN CLASS high to low This display option also 1s active and selectable only when the Daily Record is shown with Student Numbers When it 15 active the alphabetical option is not The MtG Daily Record defaults to these two display modes but as you can see a variety of other display for mats 15 available 97 Displaying Student Information for the Term USE Reports Special Window The DAILY RECORD P STUDENT data CLASS data a For the ENTIRE PERIOD For DAY S For WEEK S For M NTH S If we have yet to convince you that the MtG Daily Record is one of most powerful tools you ll ever use to extinguish change or reward student behavior this feature without question will As anecdotal evidence I initially tested the complete Daily Record during the first semester of the 1991 92 school year at Coronado High with a particularly disa
106. Literary Activities Parent Notifications 10 096 Writing Assignments Quarter Final Tests Oral Presentations 10 0 Contribution to Assignment Points Points E n Category _ Weighted Arithmetic Mean Categories Earned Possible Weight W A M smo an sreutincivocanpev wa mep smo at Guwwwerenass wuawrmenss SKILL UNIT PRETESTS Totals From ACTIVE Categories 6 882 8 Units Your overall grade in this class is determined by dividing your total W A M Units 6 882 8 by the total percentages of categories currently in use 80 0 Therefore your composite percentage at this time is 86 03 for a grade of B If your figures differ significantly from mine please see me privately as soon as possible ANOTHER TIP And probably the most important one you can ever take completely to heart The Macintosh First Law of Hardware Software Failure Probability I made that up states that the more important your class files become the more likely they are to crash burn and die Indeed those of us who operate entirely on hard drive platforms often dwell in the greatest of fools paradises A colleague once noted that keeping all of one s data on a single hard drive is like driving in a demolition derby sooner or later you re going to get it Sometimes it seems that computers know how long it has been since you backed u
107. NFIRMARY ABSENT UNEXCUSED BY SCHOOL No School Was Held These Days ABSENT SUSPENDED UNEXCUSED 09 26 94 ZEBULON PIKE DAY ABSENT TRUANT FROM SCHOOL l TARDY TO CLASS AND UNEXCUSED TARDY TO CLASS amp V E R Y LATE UNPREPARED FOR CLASS ACTIVITY SPARGERE BE FEE Daily Record Page 1 Daily Record Page 2 Only one suggestion must be made concerning this two page Daily Record printout especially if you use it to record attendance information Consider posting a copy of this document with student numbers of course in a conspicuous place at the beginning of every week so students can double check its accuracy The school board of District 11 1n Colorado Springs requires that teachers disallow credit for an activity if a truancy occurs in the interval between its assignment and completion It is of paramount importance therefore that my students know promptly and precisely when such an event has been attributed to them Hell hath no fury like a sophomore uninformed I ve learned Printing Student Reports Special Window For the TEACHER b For the STUDENTS From THIS CLASS only For the CLASS d With ALL assignments With MISSING assignments From MULTIPLE CLASSES With ALL assignments With MISSING assignments Hs a SUMMARY report As a REPORT CARD Merge Terms Classes As a DAILY RECORD summa
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109. NT ENCUSED BY PARENTIS RP RESENT PRE ARRANGED BY PARENT RI RBSENT ILL IN THE INFIRMARY RU RBSENT UNEHCUSED BY SCHOOL S ABSENT SUSPENDED UNEHCUSED UN UNPREPRRED FOR CLASS RCTIITHI Class Again our experience over the years at Coronado High School has shown that per centages for an entire class become signifi cant when they exceed 5 0 or thereabouts Remember the average per category figure for individual students becomes notable when it exceeds 2 0 or so Witness the additional sample at left As you can see in the above example my Period 1 sophomore class has quite a serious problem with absenteeism and tardiness excused and otherwise Printing Daily Recorc For the TEACHER For the STUDENTS For the CLASS b We have some great news for you dear colleague Not much remains to be said about the Making the Grade Daily Record If you can endure but a few minor observations about the DR s hardcopy reports a well deserved breather will be yours Besides anything really important has already been documented and explained in the gradebook printing section so cast a quick glance at the teacher student and class printouts available here and then put your feet up for a while Printing the Daily Record Reports For the TEACHER Gradebooks For the STUDENTS P Grading scales For the CLASS gt Confidential Line Library Missing Assignments Report Card
110. OST FINISHED you to enter the attendance or o You may now create up to 10 categories behavioral information you wish 14 VR attendance other behavioral data with toreportto parents and the pow c which to evaluate students performance ers that be In the process we En WEIL lol Each must possess its TWO character ask you to create a one or two ACRONYM Code for reporting purposes character acronym for each cat ABSENT EXCUSED BY PARENTS egory you set up and then de scribe that phenomenon in 30 characters or less Description Sampe Cancel NOTE You will enter each acronym from your keyboard or keypad by typing its number only 1 0 0 standing for 10 And at long last here it is the full Daily Record screen in all its glory If it looks somewhat familiar to you already then you have a keen eye indeed We patterned it after the main MtG gradebook screen as much as possible so you would feel right at home the first time you entered the option The class you see here is one of mine from the first quarter of Sample Gradebook Daily Record _ g the 1994 95 school year MONTH OF TERM EER names have been changed of eet e wenn Te NU NS hol s course to protect the innocent DAY OF WEEK and the guilty a pinrcher Dennis E aes d i 2iBewles Charles TUE Des s Sithaneellor James L iiL MEN NEN You ma
111. PAR PARENT NOTIFICATIONS 5 8 play and computation between classes QUARTER FINAL TESTS with the same lesson plan es Adding an Assignment SCREEN 1 Click here if you discover an error in your category information or if you wish to set up categories at this point ATTENTION If you wish to convert to a category based grading system in midstream we will support your decision However keep in mind that in the conversion process we automatically assign all previously recorded assignments the Code Description and Weight if applicable of the first category in your list That is in the above example we will temporarily affix MAT and MATERIALS CHECKS and its category weight to all of your old assignments Of course this means you must then append the correct category codes for all assignments by hand but such are the wages of changing one s mind 26 You decide where each assignment goes in your gradebook We default to the next open column but you may change this number to place a set of papers somewhere back in the pack Adding an Assignment SCREEN 2 ADDING AN ASSIGNMENT a CHANGE to insert an assignment points Enter 8 if Extra Credit H Assignment Number Assignment Value if Highest if only Cre Number of Items if different from points possible H Factor PREFERRED METHOD OF SCORE ENTRY SEQUENTIAL in order fro RANDOM from a separate roster screen This
112. PREPARED FOR CLASS ACTIVITY c J Ch Oe P EXCUSED BY PARENTS PRE ARRANGED BY PARENT C H 5 SCHOOL FUNCTION ILL IN THE INFIEIAET UNEXCUSED BY SCHOOL SUSPENDED UNEZXCUSED Oct 06 Oct 07 of this date vou hare received 83 06 of the weighted grade and your grade is B Currently you rank 6 in this class of j Oct 17 Oct 18 Please call me at 7195 520 2500 Ext 2530 if I can be of further help Oct 03 04 Oct 26 Oct 27 PARENT SIGNATURE DATE Oct 19 Oct 20 0ct 24 TRUANT 5 FROM SCHOOL TARDY TO CLASS AND UNEZCUSED TARDY CLASS amp Y E R Y LATE UNPEEPARED FOR CLASS ACTIVITY Coc N e P3 03 P3 C c0 c 6 B3 As of this date you have received 62 65 of the weighted grade and your grade is B Currently you rank 8 in this class of 32 Please call me at 719 520 2500 Ext 2530 if I can be of further help PARENT SIGNATURE DATE Student Daily Record Report by table Student Daily Record Report with calendars Almost all of the options found in the student reports section of the gradebook are available in the Daily Record as well including rank in class Citizenship Mark telephone call request parent signature line Line Library Comments and the like The individual student report also comes in two basic formats the paper saving get right down to it tabular vers
113. SSES which go home to parents aren t even more With ALL assignments With MISSING assignments impressive all is for naught Even in the field of education especially here we it comes to Student Reports Without ques tion you ll discover more customizing options here than in any other part of the program Generating student reports with or without assignments is a four step process Witness below 97 1 Choose the type of document you wish to print for each student selected f 2 Choose the students for whom you wish to print each document selected 3 Choose the report options you wish to include in each document selected 4 Choose the comments from your 100 Line Library you wish to include in each document selected Our proudest new feature STUDENT REPORTS WITH ALL ASSIGNMENTS THE WORKS Date of this report 24 1998 This exciting concept in student progress ports was born in a moment of panic actually when Please select the TYPES of reports you wish to print a concerned parent appeared unannounced one day THE WORKS ALL of the report options shown below for a conference I needed EVELY bit of information A personalized COVER SHEET with class school teacher info I could lay my hands on immediately and had to amp WITH student s picture from the QuickCam module beg a colleague to print the reports at righ
114. Special Window Empty Blank Clear 12 Repeat Previous Score Repeat 5core Fill Column ADD an assignment CHANGE an assignment T DROFP UNDROF an assignment p3 DELETE an assignment REPOSITION an assignment aei Here s a wonderful new Mac Improvement over our flagship program Grade Busters 1 2 3 With Making the Grade you now have the ability to drop temporarily or for as long as you wish assignments from your gradebook The process is virtually identical to Dropping Students more about that later but it gives you the ability to recompute and then display print a class s performance with say that really hard exam you gave DROPPING AN ASSIGNMENT Please select the ASSIGNMENT S you wish to DROP for now They will be removed from all computations until they are UNDROPPED reactivated i futher Ident fteation Exeretse 00 071 Sselling tocob Unit OI Homework 09 08 Unit Quiz 09 12 ring tocob Unit 02 Howesork 09 13 s Materials Check 1 Lord of Flies 1097141 7 Spelling lacabulary Unit 2 Quiz 09 16 B Spelling Uecab Unit 03 Homework 09 19 tance Drop RII Undrop RII LJ LJ LJ LJ LJ 3e last week temporarily disabled Here s how the what if feature works 1 Click the check box or anywhere else on the line of any assignment s you wish to disable for the time being We display
115. Summaries Daily Records Seating Charts Templates SCANTRONG Assignment We offer the teacher only one printout within the Daily Record but like its gradebook equivalent an impressive one it is It too may be published in a variety of formats and layouts with student names or numbers is or by rank blank or with recorded data Truly almost every feature found in the gradebook printouts is available here also so refer to that section of this manual if you require a refresher 101 MR JAY A KLEIN NOVEMBER 24 1998 MR JAY A KLEIN NOVEMBER 24 1998 CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL QUARTER 1 1998 99 CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL QUARTER 1 1998 99 PERIOD 1 PERIOD 1 SOPHOMORE 3 4B ENGLISH SOPHOMORE 3 4B ENGLISH BY THE ROSTER ATTENDANCE PERIOD MONTH _ 9 999999 99 99 9 99 9 9 0 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 DAY OF MONTH _ 6 8 9 12 13 14 15 1619 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 45 6 7 10 11 12 13 1417 18 19 20 21 24 25 26 27 28 SUMMARY INFORMATION WEEK OF TERM 1 1 122 22 2 3 3 3 3 3 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 77 7 78 8 8 8 AE AP AF AS AT TU TL UN 1 Archer Dennis E AT AT TU TU TU TU AE TU TL 2 Bowles Charles A TL TU TU TU 3 Chancellor James L AE 4 Dickerson Michael R TL TL TL AT 5 Garcia Eugene F 6 Glenn Helen B AU 7 Gray Kathleen R AE 8 Howard Stacey E 9 Huntington Susan L 10 Huston Stephen B 11 Ingram Thomas L 12 Janse
116. T You know how most students PREFERENCES are choose em once in a class discussion and they think they re The number of times students may be invisible for the rest of the period selected before becoming immune Should they be You decide here how many times SAS can elect STUDENTS EXEMPTED FROM SELECTION your charges for participation be Dennis E fore they become immunized O L3 chancellor dames Likewise you may exempt any one from the SAS process by click _4 Dickerson Michael ing on his or her name here Be S Garcia Eugene sure to remove anyone who is ab 6 Glenn Helen B sent or otherwise should not be chosen for personal emotional Edit Messages physical or financial reasons Once you return to the main SAS screen and click Select or press Return you ll hear a series of short musical tones as the computer moves the selection box around the grid The chooser dramatically slows as it moves among still active roster position numbers until the winner s name finally appears The sample screen at right is identical for all selectees zi except for the message field below the student s name There you ll see a series of customizable remarks which will no doubt raise your students to unheard of levels of excitement and commitment to academic H 557 WNS excellence Two such comments 2 Wington You don t have to You are
117. T3 is only a modem connection away on the Apple Computer website at http www apple com Download QuickTime 3 QuickTime 3 for Mac OS a E E z z enm E z 5 amp e 5 5 1 B 5 fe T 8 e 5 2 c 6 gt f 3 1 WEE i kd Fe um mE min cH EI ii T I cm E roe i mE Em 0 bm S EHH Er HE m os Bla p a ae ih mri ui TT I Emp nr i rap Pae jEr i emp Jail e ex Inm ae IxmLmo Dl LL 1 ee LI p tup pom mui goes agp Seep m cum 128 Capturing Student Images Capturing student pictures with camera or camcorder attached directly to the Macintosh CPU is the way we prefer to work with the Portrait Studio as it is for most students It s almost impossible to match the in stantaneous feedback they receive examining pictures freshly snapped of themselves Your only major responsibility at this point is to attach your video instrument to the printer or modem port and then make sure that port is unencumbered by any other software or internal device It is crucial for instance that AppleTalk and HP printer drivers be completely inactive in the Chooser if you connect through the printer port Likewise you mus
118. You may Weight these categories into a single grade OR use the TOTAL POINT system Description 5b 575 Total MRTERIRLS CHECKS 5 8 This running total of all category percentage Total Points Tpts SPELLING UDCRB DEV SEHE weights must be 100 0 before you may leave this NO Categories p LITERARY ACTIVITIES 15 8 section of the program Total Points WRITING ASSIGNMENTS 15 8 WITH Categories ORAL PRESENTATIONS TM n GRM GRAMMAR EXERCISES 18 8 weights must be whole numbers and or deci Composite Grade cz Weighting is COMPUTER LITERACY mals to the tenths place only By the by 0 0 isa used to calculate PAR NOTIFICATIONS 5 6 valid category weight if you wish to record infor QUARTER FINAL TESTS mation that has no computational value whatso ever in your gradebook such as pretests TOTAL POINT SYSTEM with categories 12 OK a little test before moving on 5 You now have the option of creating up to What gt 18 ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES into which you Wrong can enter your students scores You may Weight these categories into a single grade OR use the TOTAL POINT system With Description Total This grand Picture NU Categories A P WRITING SAMPLES 15 8 c Total Points Tpts VOCAB DEVELOPMENT 15 8 WITH Categories ORAL PARTICIPATION Composite Grade lt weighting is
119. abors In this final screen student roster position numbers have been replaced with students names often shortened for display purposes so you can see who is sitting next to whom In the inevitable event that a Butch Cassidy has been accidentally placed next to a B step Sundance Kid EEK you may click and drag Here aem chart one or both of them to any other seat in the e template including a currently occupied STUGENnTS other seats One Of course when you place a student on top OR set up of another you ll see the screen shown below your next chart NOTE Once you ve set up your first chart you may set up others using the same template You may create up to 5 such configurations per class ones like Daily Chart Exam Chart Sub Chart and Reading Group We present four options for reseating stu dents who ve been sat upon by another The first of these the default simply exchanges the Two students probably shouldn t occupy locations of the two students in question The the same seat in a class so second and third move the uprooted student to the next or last open seat The final option inserts a student before the other and then moves tL Move the DS to the END of the template everyone else one number back in the template INSERT this student then move the 05 and everyone flow This choice is perfect for those times D else ONE SERT BACK when a
120. academic leaders in her class as she sits in a sea of relative mediocrity Of course it s just possible that is where she prefers to reside or perhaps it s your hope to infect those seated around her with her strong sense of dedication and enthusiasm Either way the more information and analytical insight available the better for you for your students and for the class as a whole Keep in mind that you can still drag and drop students to new locations within the chart in either or both of these display modes Just be sure not to broadcast either screen publicly A seating chart with student numbers is a grand non sequi tur to say the least 114 C a Eugene F Garcia Sample Gradebook Seating Chart 1 18 26 98 Jazon D Donald T Jeffrey P Kosterman Horgan Lewis Thomas L Ingram Dennis E Archer OCTOBER 26 1998 AE ABSENT EXCUSED BY PRRENTIS HP ABSENT PRE ARRANGED BY PARENT AF ABSENT 5 SCHOOL FUNCTION Al ABSENT ILL IN THE INFIRMARY AU ABSENT UNEXCUSED BY SCHOOL AS ABSENT SUSPENDED UNEXCUSED AT ABSENT TRUANT FROM SCHOOL TU TARDY TO CLASS AND UNEXCUSED TL TARDY CLASS tr U E K LATE UN UNPREPARED FOR CLASS ACTIVITY REMOVE the Daily Record Code Carie 5 Ray mand Sample Gradebook S Chart 1 18 58 98 Dennis Archer E Inqr arn Carie
121. aite a N 114 Printing Seating Charts and 115 THE MACHINE SCORER The ScanTron OMR Setting Up the Machine NM EE LIT 120 Seting Up an ASSIONINGNE A 121 SCOPING anm ASSIC MIN 5411 ides 122 SCONE Te T Du lei t bc et Der tute paie deem 123 124 THE PORTRAIT STUDIO Taking Student Pictures Portail St dio HaSrdWale NEUE 127 otido On LWW NO ected esse UTER 128 Captu ring Student lei e Ubera ti 129 StUGIO SONGOV DD cH c 131 Studio Hardcopy LT 131 THE APPENDIX Troubleshooting Eusv NisSiidpplICalloFiS dese Lau 135 Diimimed Hardcopy oc Fides E X EMI IR 136 WISSING Glass FIOS es o eases hau tute tel e 136 Grashirig GP Ue ia anota casera sni DO breui 136 Damaged FODD DISKS daa aote bp MM Ropa E anneal 138 Del tng eld Glasses meanest crane ills octo enint lune 138 MACK arm 139 Congratulations colleague on your purchase of the finest electronic gradebook
122. aly feature are mercifully simple and few RESET the display report range REVERT to previous entry ROUND score percentages 1 You may attach as many of the 100 comments in the Line SELECT A GROUP SELECT A STUDENT Library to each student s take home reports as you wish in SCC you wish SHOWCASE special scores 2 You must separate each student comment from the next with a comma or comma and a space Ti sel bn gosar rosDEEI PH rig BPH iar Peden 1899 3 You may group consecutive comments thus DUM EE C erem i racemos pandit cc J thon 2 ings Ing Sg Bir saving keystrokes with a hyphen connecting Line Libren ES the first and last items in the series Thatis in the Ree ETE E pal e Denan E 1878 28 database sample at right Dennis Archer will 7 Chartes n 1 14 69 find comments 6 7 8 9 and 28 at the bottom of eee LE i k Ackers A 23 95 Lene his next progress report If you forget this 5 banin Eugene special feature and manually enter the numbers 6 7 8 and 9 they ll be automatically replaced with 6 9 as soon as you press Return Enter 1 57 F 8 13 38 323 4 Youmustremember to replace existing student comments with n
123. and Points Please select the option s you wish this report to include Possible columns for each student 1 The class s AVERAGE SCORE on each assignment The PERCENTAGE EQUIVALENT for each assignment The screen which follows this one contains four additional options Your TELEPHONE with The LETTER GRADE EQUIVALENT for each assignment an INVITATION TO CALL A PARENT SIG Percentage and grade equivalent FOR THE ENTIRE TERM NATURE line with DATE of notification Each student s CURRENT RANK IN CLASS MULTIPLE reports per page WHOLE only and NO report for students with NO missing assignments LJ or CURRENT CITIZENSHIP MARK Please note that you may include one of these two items in your students reports but not both Very little needs to be said about appending com STUDENT REPORTS WITH ALL ASSIGNMENTS ments to student reports for all you have to do here Please click the LINE LIBRARY COMMENTS you wish 1S point and click Keep in mind the following to attach to this report A second click de selects EM insider tips however a camment 1 Should you need to correct or add a comment to your Library you need not return to the Special menu to do so just click this shortcut button 2 Comments will be printed on student reports in the order chosen You may skip all over your Library as you select comments and we will indicate the order in which they will be stacked in the footer Don t worry if you make a mistake o
124. ary nil 9 Gee 00721 Dipi tieg VGH Prog 1 09 27 Iruina Veta Umit 865 H mewark 18 531 LORS Ol IME PLIES Beading Qe 3 1182783 hatereais Check 3 LOAD BF PLES Dieci peng Unit sz 118787 LORD OF THE FLIES Reading 024 arial m Paints Poiste Letter PARENT SIGNATURE Frog Report 2 118 19 PR 57 Posie d Grade Pts Ef BEES EREN Puis ERESUE FER TMS TRA Displaying Class Data IESE Reports Annotations Special Window The GRADEBROOK k STUDENT data gt SAGEN By POSITION in the roster ASSIGNMENT data p Student BIRTHDAYS P with student NHMES With student NUMBERS GRADING OPTIONS 7 47 What the STUDENT data displays do for individual members of a class the CLASS data displays do for everyone enrolled That is this part of the Making the Grade display package summarizes the most essential elements of all students academic performance Points Earned out of Points Possible Number of 0 Assignments Current Percentage and overall Letter Grade and exhibits them by Student Name or Number Roster Position or Rank in Class 340 DHARE 130 47 Farad Ferrier Feror a mz 177 Qeanis T archer 2 Eharirs B Bowles 11835
125. at this is the only active menu option until you open a class s gradebook or initiate setting up a new class However if it ever becomes necessary to change the information you previously entered for yourself your professional name your current school assignment your telephone number and or extension or pass code this is the path to do so You will be re presented with every screen you have seen before with one notable addition 34 Before we will permit you or any Macintosh one else to examine and edit this par l ersion 7 6 Jay Klein Productions Inc 21991 99 All rights reserved Please enter your password The setup info you wish to edit is very sensitive Please enter the PASSWORD now to confirm your authority to make such changes NOTE The above redundancy in password entry is for your protection so please pardon the extra work Also keep in mind that we treat upper and lower case characters the same here so you can ignore the SHIFT key completely Window Ti Display Reports Undo Assignments Students Setup Info Annotations Special Empty Blank Clear Repeat Previous Score Repeat 5core Fill Column Lut Paste You ve seen all of these setup screens before of course so just as a quick reminder you may edit any or all of the following information and choices 1 The class TITLE DAILY MEETING TIME and ACADEMIC TERM 2 STUDENT NUMBER
126. ateness 29 Spelling Vocabulary Unit 08 Quiz 10 21 39 Highest score in this class 30 QUARTER I Vocabulary Final Test 10 21 40 Shows re Cheating and computed as a Excused Scores not computed Dropped Scores not computed 6 Materials Check 1 Lord of Flies 09 14 16 Materials Check 2 LORD OF FLIES 7 Spelling Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz 09 16 17 Spelling Vocabulary Unit 05 Quiz 8 Spelling Vocab Unit 03 H 09 19 18 Spelling Vocab Unit 06 Homework 8 PAR PARENT NOTIFICATIONS 9 LORD OF THE FLIES Reading Oz 1 09 20 19 LORD OF THE FLIES Reading Qz 3 9 QUARTER FINAL TESTS 10 Spelling Vocabulary Unit 03 Quiz 09 21 20 Materials Check 3 LORD OF FLIES 10 Incomplete due to absence s 2 Incomplete due to field trips markable improvement Gradebook Page 1 Left Gradebook Page 2 Right This genuine gradebook printout the names have been changed to protect the innocent speaks for itself we think Nevertheless we do have a few good tips to help you use and maintain these invaluable Making the Grade documents 1 Besuretoprintoutablank gradebook as soon as possible and use it as your worksheet for recording scores away from your computer Be as wild and carefree as you wish with these printouts for you can always replace them with new unsoiled editions the only source available for rebuilding your destroyed computer files 3 Make sure that when you enter a score or make a
127. ber in the box provided and then press Return or Enter click OK If a number is already present in the box when the screen is displayed that s because the cursor was in that column when you selected the option 2 Once you ve chosen the assignment you wish to obliterate we ll display its full title to confirm its identity and then ask you one more time if you really wish to take this most drastic and irreparable of actions If your answer is in the affirmative we ll return you to the gradebook screen whereupon you ll see that the errant set of scores has disappeared and that DELETING AN ASSIGNMENT Change this number to select a different assignment Delete Assignment Spelling Uocabulary Unit 85 Quiz 89 38 Are you absolutely SURE you wish to delete the above assignment There s no UNDO available here Cx all of your other assignments have moved one column to the left to fill the gap WARNING This is one of the very few operations that cannot be undone if the class is saved to your data disk If you have any doubts whatsoever about destroying an assignment please procrastinate Repositioning an Assignment ietup beta Mask Clear Bepral Presiaus 5care Cut Copy REPOSITIONING AN ASSIGNMENT Assignment Number LORD OF THE FLIES Reading z 5 18 18 TO Assignment Position tome Coen AOD an assiqnmen CHANGE
128. c QWERTYUIOP typewriters may not realize that the Macintosh keyboard can generate many more characters than ordinarily meet the eye These hidden non alphanumeric symbols and pictographs are powerful tools for setting up your MtG grading scales and entering text fields like assignment titles and Line Library comments Just select the Key Caps desk accessory under the Apple in the left corner of the Finder menu to see what goodies lie beneath the surface of your keyboard when Option Control Shift and various combinations thereof are pressed As you can see from the examples below in our usual screen font of Chicago a great many intriguing and useful symbols await your command solet your imagination be your guide as your set up your grading systems annotations Line Library and assignment descriptors Your Mac should be able to handle almost any notation or foreign language character you require The Option Keyboard You must press Option the key underlying these character positions at right The Control Option Keyboard The boxes indicate characters which are inactive in this mode The Shift Option Keyboard 17 18 A TRADE SECRET Weighted Categories And a very serious caveat educator Four years of working with teachers nationwide has shown us that the Categories With Weights system of grading is all too often a public relations disaster just waiting to happen Frankly most students and parents do
129. cally print even more of your reports in a mixed and matched potpourri while you take care of more important tasks like grading papers Here s all you have to do to utilize this second little known phenomenon Step One Step Two Step Three Step Four Step Five Open each of your gradebooks one at a time and select the kind of report s you wish your Mac to print for you later Close the class and then answer Yes when asked if you wish to Save this new configuration to disk Without this final Save you ll receive but another copy of the document s you chose the previous time you printed Quit MtG now and return to your desktop and the Finder menu Once there select all of the classes for which you wish to print reports Use the mouse Click Shift or Command A to select more than one class or all classes Now go up to the Finder menu and click on File There you ll see an item called Print ever wonder what you could print from the desktop We did too until we found the answer in the Macintosh Bible acouple of years ago Slide down to Print and let go Be careful not to deselect any of your classes in the process Now behold the miracle The Macintosh operating system will open Making the Grade at which point all you must do is enter your Password and configure the printer you selected previously in the Chooser Once these two simple tasks have been completed put your feet up and take a well de
130. class has been seated by rank or by name and a new student transfers in Just stick em in we ll move em back Move the Displaced Student 05 to the OTHER SEAT Move the 05 to the OPEN SEAT in the template Sample Gradebook THAT S ALL THERE IS TO IT Once you ve set up all of your MONTH DF TERM 107107107 charts we ll return you to the three sided ied Making the Grade editing screens three if you ve set up the Daily Record seg eae ment as well Each program element Donald T Jett Lewis can be activated and brought forward by clicking once on its screen or by Thomas L Ingram accessing itunder Window in the main Helen B Beverly H menu bar Glenn Jansen Carie 5 Fav mand The The DAILY RECORD The SEATING CHART The SCM S FABR Ihe SCS READERS FRRERTIL amp Kathleen Gray The STUDI The POR OGM SECT EOS 110 File Sie Display Reports Special Window Undo SEATING CHARTS The TEMPLATE Daily Record DATE Empty Blank Clear Cut aen Copy aep New and Existing Seating Charts Edit Undo SEATING CHARTS Paste ADDING A NEW CHART Little virtue lies in belaboring the obvious so we shall not Suffice it to say that this is the menu option one chooses whe
131. ctively No matter which of these fine tools you choose all you really have to do is bring students pictures to your modem port printer port floppy or hard drive and attach them to the MtG student database via the Portrait Studio module We ll handle the rest as you will see in the sections to follow Portrait Studio Software If you elect to generate student pictures on line be advised there is one additional piece of software your computer must possess Worry not however for it s free of any charge and comes pre installed on almost every Macintosh ever sold Apple Computer s Q QuickTime 3 or later miraculous multimedia package adopted by the Wintel world as well This software component enables Portrait Studio to accept virtually every picture format ever devised for personal computers including bmp gif jpeg jfif macpaint pict tiff and more too numerous to mention Check your System folder first to see if you have QuickTime 3 already installed within the Extensions folder If so you should find most or all of the icons below only the first of which is absolutely essential QuickT ime e s MPEG Extension QuickT ine PowerPFlug Quick Tine Musical Instruments Quick T ime If these elements are not present anywhere within your System folder you must obtain the QuickTime 3 package from Apple Computer before proceeding with on line capture of student pictures Fortunately Q
132. d other printer manufacturers who in their infinite wisdom make color their default printer setting rather than black and white of our iiri iei oa Laserwriter Jay Klein Productions Laser as the HP DeskJet 850 Copies Pages 89 All From To md and the printer driver in Cover Page amp No 2 First Page 2 Last Page your system folder is sim Paper Source amp Paper Cassette Manual Feed ply trying to cooperate Print amp Color Grayscale Black amp White SOLUTION You must hand select Black amp White instead of Color Grayscale when printing a Making the Grade document Our color black white option under MtG Preferences in the File menu will effect the same result if your printer driver lacks the flexibility shown above I just set up my first class with MtG and saved it to my hard drive Now I can t find it anywhere What did you guys do with my class What did we do withit Nothing atall It s Macintosh HD still sitting right where you told your Mac to 3B RP ENGLISH PER 7 98 99 Hec putit Atleftis the Macintosh Save screen 3B RP ENGLISH PER 8 98 99 which shows that the class just created will be saved in a folder called Coronado Class Data one which already contains three class files If you wish to change the desti nation for your data to another folder or hard this class as Sample Gradebook drive click on the header bar Coronado Class Data in this exampl
133. dent is absent for an assignment s instruction or on its due date It is entered from the keyboard with an I or better yet by doing nothing at all We automatically enter an Incomplete for any student who does not otherwise receive a score an open cell being left on screen and in your hardcopy gradebook By the way you must use this score if you ever wish to printa MISSING ASSIGNMENTS report for your students Itis this empty entry for which we will search your gradebook A mark of for Incomplete will appear in all other student take home reports EXCUSED EXC Used to exonerate a student from an assign ment this score E on the keyboard has no effect upon a student s overall grade unless of course it is used to replace an existing score Keep in mind that a student possessing one or more of these marks will usually have a different Total Points Possible in a TPTS system from those who do not When anew student comes into your class EXC will be recorded automatically for all prior assignments likewise EXC will be recorded for all remaining assignments up to the maximum of 320 when a student is dropped from the class DROPPED DRP This particular mark cannot be entered from the keyboard for it indicates that a score was excused within the DROP the lowest grade section of the Special menu It 1s identical to EXC in all other respects and we retain the original score behind the scenes just in case you ever wi
134. e 10 26 27 QUARTER I Spelling Final Test 4 CURREHT STUDENT P TOTALS OK so how do you append a comment to a student s score Choose the appropriate score by clicking it select Annotations in the main menu slide down to the correct comment and let go Or just type the appropriate hot key equivalent Com mand 0 5 it s much faster You ll then see a small black box in the upper left corner of the cell indicating that a com ment has been attached thereto The 72 dots per inch screen resolution of today s monitors won t permit us to display the actual footnote number itself so if you can t remember which remark you ap pended to a score select the pull down menu again and a check mark will reveal the answer File Edit Display Reports Annotations 85779718 Window ATTACH student comments BUILD the Line Library CALCULATE INC S as COMPOSE score annotations CUSTOMIZE letter grades DROP UNDROP the lowest grade ENTER category effort grades EXPORT the student database INDICATE changed scores LOCK the screen temporarily RESET the display report range REVERT to previous entry ROUND score percentages SELECT A GROUF SELECT R STUDENT SET the Teacher Hide made SHOWCASE special scores Last but certainly not the least of Making the Grade s powerful gradebook options is the Special menu shown abov
135. e Many of these easy to use features have been introduced in other guises elsewhere in the documentation and even the brand new segments are virtually self explanatory However I d bet 1f I were the wagering type that the fourteenth and fifteenth items on the list the cryptically titled SELECT A GROUP and SELECT A STUDENT may have stirred your curiosity a bit And well they should A HINT If you ve ever been forced to volunteer students for a class discussion or other such activity and were gently accused of favoritism or prejudice in the process you will adore these features You may even wear them out Attaching Individual Student Comments The first of our seventeen Special functions is one we alluded to very ETEA ATTACH individual student comments briefly in the Setting Up A Class section See page 15 and the 18th item in ETET e Line Library the catalog of MtG Database Fields Before you may utilize this function CALCULATE INC s _ however you must have already set up your collection of personalized Customize letter grades student comments in the BUILD the Line Library component Once you UNDRUN lew t ENTER category effort grades have comments composed and recorded there you re all set to append them EXPORT the student database TL INDICRTE changed scores to individual student progress reports The Rules and Regulations for this P CK tharecceenenmora
136. e SHOWCASE special scores SLIT Le TERES Your i sel lo dipli afd cesare ASSIGRMERTS 1 Throegh 528 the mesimurm numser nef 1ruret alluused yeu mag change This range in order te grading epsiqate then perfermaszce Inr a unil ad s1udg and ihe bee nsanrrH 1 Fnr Aesiqrements 56 Far Assignments 56 trag EE Cancel The Lurrei Term The truth is however that it s the same old class but cleverly repackaged Your first step here of course is to give the Current Grading Term a new name Then you must change the number of the first assignment in the new term to one more than that recorded in the previous That is since 35 assignments were recorded in Quarter of our Sample Gradebook we reset the Quarter 2 marking period to evaluate assignments 36 and beyond You ll note that you also have the option to display and report only assignments 36 320 but calculate students overall grades for the entire marking period assignments 1 320 Either way gradebook screen above left seems to have been emptied and begun anew but you ll note that the first available assignment column is 36 not 1 Keep in mind that hardcopy take home reports will include only active assignments the
137. e and select a new location for your files SOLUTION Do not just type in a class name and click blindly on the Save button trusting the Macintosh to place your file in a safe logical place It won t Instead click on the header bar first to see what directory and pathway 15 active at the time and then maneuver carefully from there I wish I could put my finger on what s happening with my Mac but I can t It crashes all the time refuses to save MtG files every once in a while and even displays error messages in another language My Mac has gone bonkers Any suggestions Actually we have a host of user effected solutions for dealing with such irritating phenomena Try all of the steps below first but 1f they fail to alleviate the problem you may have to take your computer to a qualified service representative for a professional diagnosis SOLUTIONS a Check tosee if the difficulty lies within an INIT conflict This is especially easy for System 7 and 8 users for all you must do is hold down the shift key upon start up That disables all system extensions INITS and allows you to retest your Mac clean System 6 x users must drag all INITS and cdevs from the System folder by hand not an easy task to be sure If the problem disappears with extensions off or out then move half of them at a time from or back into the System Folder and restart to see when the problem returns The moment it does the culprit lies within that g
138. e in the screen below that each time you select TYPE of report to print that we encourage you to select as many as 14 other classes from which to print the same document Click the Add button to locate the other gradebook files from which you wish to print and stand back while your Mac and printer do their thing Time Saver Part I Time Saver Part II mum THE POOR MAN S PRINT BUFFER you ve just selected the TYPE of docu Page setup PRINT a report SELECT a print macro p MiG Preferences Once you ve set up your first a ment you wish to generate You may print MtG document and printed it for a this report for other classes too by adding all applicable classes permit us to them to the list below file that hardcopy recipe deep External Internal within our print storeroom All File Class Title you must do to record the specific SOPHOMORE 3748 ENGLISH setup details for each of your fa vorite reports 15 to click the Save Macro button on the right of this screen and then enter a title 1n the space provided You have 47 char acters with which to label each macro here so why not record something really descriptive like Monday Morning Gradebook with Y Marks Keep in mind that you may save as many as 15 of these jewels for future use once you come up with a 16th however you must enter its title on top of the least used of the previous 15 Sorry but there s a l
139. e od report 24 rwn Thi claus s curred AARDE 12 be 57 pagerti MME RID VOR X palmis permei gt CETTE AARDE eguipalests PERCESNTRBE eguiu gt uuth CHEDE MARES Term complieTied uer 1s DEREI F sg SEHE emily record WHITH fined for new EHE pr rPOUH THEHT bjank Get faster printing tance Freviowt FERUHER Dale ef this report 24 Fao his Cerrent GSHBSULBEUK lug 57 SF 4 single gage 5 erores er Feuer 2 Bea superzized dnrumrn lan Sry REID 4A Ba mullipie page Lush sIudent LAY SAMS i She Fgh page Gr iludehnk FIBST RS eh Ine rige gage xudent MUSES en mie right page foo That s about all there is for three R s Rules Regulations and Restrictions here for unlike Grade Busters 1 2 3 you can even print selected pages or a single page of aclass s gradebook instead of the entire document Be forewarned that a complete gradebook printout can be as long as 32 pages if you re lucky enough to have 60 students in a class and have recorded 320 assignments for each If this is the case of course run don t walk to your nearest Class Size Committee Shown immediately below is a sample gradebook printed with student names as is with points earned and blank lines
140. eating charts Printing on scanner answer sheets Shading Gradebook and Daily Records Few Making the Grade features have been more teacher driven than the seven preference options shown above The first three of these proffer customizing choices for the Gradebook only the remaining four focus exclusively upon printing options and will be examined later Calculating INC Scores This option also appears as the third item under the gradebook s Special menu and the function is identical from both access points A teacher of Drivers Education begged us for this prefer amp Calculate INC as Incomplete INC 6 ence for it was his practice to set up an entire semester s Calculate INC as Excused INC EHC bank of assignments and let students complete them at Select this option if you wish to evaluate ONLY those assignments which have been completed at any given time Please indicate below how you wish to calculate INC Incomplete assignments their own pace Without the option at right everyone was failing his classes until well within the grading term With Incompletes counted as Excused scores however grades reflected only the work completed to date Including date in assignments The first time you add a new set of scores to a class s gradebook you will f MN Do you wish to include automatically the system discover that a bracketed date already appears within the clock s DRTE 9 89 97
141. ebook 37 End button ScanMark 122 Enter button 5 Entry modes 27 96 Epson website 73 Equalize button 24 Excused scores 28 32 38 45 47 Exporting print macros 69 Seating Chart templates 108 student data 39 41 student pictures 130 Extensions Manager 129 External Report Cards 64 66 Extra credit 13 27 85 86 F F E R P A 55 85 116 Field trip notices 39 Filtering system 41 61 FIND box 27 Finder printing 70 system requirements 3 Floppies backing up on 138 Flow Seating Chart template 108 116 Fonts outline 86 required 3 Forms Scantron 121 G Get Info boxes 71 Gradebook blank 37 52 53 clearing 37 displaying 42 44 81 82 editing 25 36 140 emptying 37 printing 52 53 Grade Busters 1 2 31M 4 53 119 Grading options 28 29 period 9 81 82 87 88 scales 10 11 35 39 54 58 65 66 system selection 12 term 9 81 82 92 93 Graphic display 46 47 Grayed reports 136 Grid Seating Chart 107 116 Group Code 14 35 39 104 H Handycam Sony 127 Hardware requirements 3 50 51 Hewlett Packard printer drivers 129 website 73 Hiding student info 24 Highest Score assignment value 27 Histogram 67 68 Hot Boxes 22 Hot Keys 26 I ImageWriter printer 50 51 71 Importing annotations 13 assignment categories 12 assignment set up info 26 class roster 14 class setups 23 Daily Record set up 92 93 Gradebook set up 9 grading scales 10 Line Library 76 print macros 69 Seating Chart
142. ecting the Teacher n TM Aide Mode from the Special menu automatically transforms the regular gradebook screen below left into the empty spreadsheet seen on the right I XN lett E ERI DS E fa lt LL a d erdum d zs Mai Meel A Sibi Helen d c EX m appe J Il E I xd Th Saf Il E js CORIO 1 Tha anas s re dibini TU GRATER 1 1 irg Fire Tam Lint sal In the second sample screen above you ll notice that all student scores have momentarily disappeared and that the first available assignment column is now 36 And therein lies the beauty of this special function Your aide will be completely free to enter new assignment information Macinteshi only and he or she may not change access peruse i T i em browse around in print out or otherwise examine any Jay Frehr tions Inc other data Should your helper accidentally attempt to 1991 99 All rights reterved es enter a restricted area the familiar screen at left will appear asking for your password as authority to see such Piesse enter your password information nur program is curreatty Incked in tbe TEACHER dine Cances Keep in mind that selecting the Teacher Aide mode opis hes acd Pc mi Enter sets the MtG application itself to that conf
143. ed the same data in line graph form anyone who earned a zero or other such low score had cow every time lLLLLLILELILILIJZJ I lI Apologies to Bart Simpson Now that was the reaction I was looking for Without exception each of my students wanted to know immediately what that assignment was why he or she dipped so severely on it and what could be done to ameliorate such an egregiously odious predicament not their words of course Of course bar chart displays do have a place in Making the Grade for there is no better way to correlate an individual student s performance with that of an entire eee class As the Prefs box at right reveals you may choose Show student performance with to compare student scores to the class MEAN MODE or MEDIAN each of which will appear as vertical bars on each assignment line below right May I suggest that No other data student performance only 9 The MEAN average for each assignment 9 The MODE most frequently occurring score pieces of information for us when analyzing an The MEDIAN score in middle of class for assignment s overall efficacy they don t play very well each assignment with students The MEAN they understand virtually every time the other two are usually teacher trivia NOW as an experienced educator of America s youth you know that Jim Chancellor and his peers in your own classroom will be more than
144. ed to show that I modified the setup information for the assignment and yet wished to maintain the original Points to Items ratio instead of 1 88 Dickerson Michael 37 Emptying the Gradebook At the very end of the Gradebook portion of Making the Grade s documentation you ll find the section titled Starting A New Grading Period This segment details three of the most common and least dangerous methods for beginning a new grading term We heartily endorse all three of those protocols for none involves the eradication of existing class data However the fourth begin anew sequence at right does and for that reason we urge extreme caution using it If it S your preference to purge an existing class of all assignment data and start afresh with that same file this 15 the feature for you However as the warning screen at right explains emptying a class file of its records and then forgetting to save the file under a different name Assignments Students Setup Info Empty Blank Clear Repeat Previous Score Repeat Score Fill Column Cut Copy Paste 1 means loss of that information forever with no hope WARNING You Will lose ALL assignment setups and scores for of its recovery For this reason we long held serious this class if you continue here You MUST save this reservations about implementing such a feature despite class as a file to preserve your previous data man
145. ed to the roster area by 4 Dickerson Michael R dragging their numbers back into the roster box Clear RII Once placed students may be repositioned by clicking on their numbers and dragging to a new location Automatic Placement And now for the real time saver Assuming that you haven t manually placed all of your students you ll be able to seat all remaining persons automatically according to any of 25 placement criteria at left and below Keep in mind the following rules and regs for automatic seating PERIOD 1 1 place the rest of e your class from the criteria Once Randomly is selected all other selected below In the case categories become inactive dimmed of a tie we ll ask for addi Monal SEIRCHONS e Sinceit spossible for ties to exist within i t1 Randoomy a chosen category several students hav pBuNeme P ing the same Zip Code for instance we ll puBesk 000 ask for additional selections until all ties Riernating Ses are broken or until Randomly is picked m Piace ee the ultimate tie breaker e Seating is usually done in an A Z 0 9 order click here to invert that pattern By Counselor By Phone Number By Group Code By Zip Code By Birthdate Custom Fields 1 10 E By Grading System By Book Number a By Citizenship Mark By Locker Number 109 Final Adjustment At last you re able to see the fruits of your l
146. eft indicating the First Question and Last Question of the activity These two items constitute the MtG Money Saver for depend ing upon the range of scores you wish to scan at any given time you can use ALL of a student s answer sheet during the course of a year For the activity at left we reevaluating Items 1 35 The next time we can focus upon Items 36 70 if we wish thereby saving valuable paper Step 4 Scanning the Answer Key Form Ferm T 252 tide 1 Only Hssignament Tibe Grommer Mechanics Pxagp Final 18 22 amber Firs Dup siin Lasi Dmie ai imn Humber ef lbrms Cancel Prewiow scan Chee ment enter terns 121 Scoring an Assignment The final window in the ScanMark 2000 OMR process is a familiar old friend the Ran dom Entry Screen at least we hope you ve seen this layout before All you must do at this point is press Return run your students answer sheets through the machine and check the screen to see whateach person received Worry not we can print the number of correct items on each page but read your ScanMark User Manual to see exactly how that process works It is uncommon but distinctly possible that a sheet may jam going into the ScanMark or simply be misread in the scanning process In that case take a look at the suggestions below SCANNING TIPS
147. emic performance You may display information for the current grading period for a single assignment or for anassignment category orcat egories Each bar graph document EFH Oe Yenme ml EH CENE es i e reveals the number of students mis he Ba EE tE afl E falling into any of ten percent ageranges of yourdesign Click the Change Bar Graph Dis play Values button above left to reveal the program s default values the usual 10 columns of 10 each above right Feel free to edit any or all of these ranges right away toreflect your personal grading system and then let your imagination run wild Whatever your needs may be here from cumulative grade groupings to those for a single assignment they re all yours B Print Buffers and Macros Mei class OPEN class We ve saved the best news for last in this part of the documentation for if saving your precious time is worth its weight in gold this feature is 24 CLOSE this class carat bullion In the early days of Grade Busters 1 2 3 we termed this SAVE class data 5 function The Poor Man s Print Buffer primarily because it was our SADE class as economical software substitute for a lot of expensive hardware RAM And REVERT to saved class now the tradition continues into the Macintosh generation EXPORT student data P You ll not
148. ent here you will not be able to rescan your Answer Sheet for that activity only student response sheets If you had to alter the original key for that assignment you must delete it completely from your gradebook and rescan the entire batch of sheets as a New Assignment Multiple Answer Keys per assignment is just too much data for us to handle right now given the memory constraints of most Macintoshes in the classroom today Perhaps in a future version Printing A ScanMark Record We know you ve seen the ScanMark print options throughout the Student and Class Reports section of Making the Grade so we ve included a few examples thereof for your examination below of the information contained in these reports is stored within each class file And it will remain there with other student data to be printed whenever you wish that is until you enter and save your next Scantron assignment At that time the next activity s data will be written on top of that in the previous record and the latter will be lost forever So if you have plans to obtain hardcopy records of student performance for any scanned in assignment be sure to do so before you record the next FUE PERIOD 1 SOPHOMORE ENGLISH au n ma ME MAR LGRD OP TIE FLIE Tun 11 ex FERES Lobo TEE Pansa hing THE ST oe BD eS SE ahr
149. ent names with student numbers in the second and third columns But what a useful document it can be at dreaded report card time Almost every thing a teacher could possibly need at quarter s or semester s end from group codes to percent ages to letter grades to citizenship marks to attendance behavioral information is summa rized in one relatively small space ready and waiting for bubble sheeting my favorite task as a teacher Ornot Options for the report layout are similar to those found in the gradebook of course anditis this combination of settings above which produced the sample report at left The GRADEBOOK The DAILY RECORD The SEATING CHART The SCANMAREE 2006 The NCS READERS PHRENTLIMKE E Mti WINDOWS The PORTRAIT STUDIO The PDA CONNECTION la Classroom Layout Nothing could be simpler than setting up a seating chart in Making the Grade and we ve made room for five different ones in each class The first step in creating a chart is to identify the relative position of all available seats in a classroom The only restriction here is that all student seats must fall within a 10 x 10 grid Other than that you may be as imagi native as you wish in ar step 1 The Template ranging your chairs Please set up the TEMPLATE tables and desks for this room by clicking on squares approximating the NOTE For our purposes position of ALL useable stu please consider the bot Ben Sea
150. enter three characters for each percentage instead of two and the addition of FOUR MORE GRADING SCALES per class for a total of FIVE separate systems with which to evaluate student performance In an age of shrinking school budgets across the country we teachers must often accommodate even greater numbers of students of wider ability ranges within the same classroom and this is Jay Klein Productions partial solution to the challenge of fair and individualized grading for all In Making the Grade you may assign any one of five different grading scales to students of different abilities within the same class so that an 85 for one may be a B with the Now let s define GRADING SCALE 1 for this same percentage beingan A or foranother Class You may record ANY combination of LETTERS NUMBERS or SYMBOLS for each and RETURN will repeat the previous entry 166 TU gu Scale 2 98 97 Use Import to copy the grading scales from 96 another class and save even more time g5 94 Click this button once you ve entered the 93 Click lowest mark anyone can receive That is if F 32 unt is your lowest letter grade enter it only once score is click Next and all open percentage boxes will be filled automatically with F Click here once you have set up Scale 1 to set up Scales 2 3 4 and 5 g1 g entered 10 As you set up your grading
151. er Bs yiga Fan Fade Hixignment Category gr of Assignment items ef DU ion Number of INT Scenes Number af EXC erat Sonre Tar Thh Bssignment PAEAN ipri cerry Sowe MODE scare in Middle of the Class MAE DIAH NARAN Sumber af Stores Number of TRI Stores Number of CHI Stores student in the class The summary screen at left is also reminiscent of its Class data forerunner for it also analyzes the class s performance on the selected assignment By the way and for those of us who have atough time remembering whata STANDARD DEVIATION is a quick refresher STANDARD DEVIATION is a number which shows the range of deviations from the current MEAN Nor mally one SD above and below the MEAN will en close two thirds of the scores in aclass having a normal bell curve distribution It is also true that two SD s above and below the MEAN will enclose approxi mately 9590 of the scores within a class What this means is that the SD in the sample above reveals a large diversity of skills and commitment levels in a required class one very few average sophomores at Coronado High really wanted to take The Assignment data screen at right focuses specifically and exclusively upon those students who have yet to com plete a class activity If you need a quick display of everyone who currently possesses an Incomplete for any recorded assignment thi
152. er along those criteria as well and you can always choose to re sort your gradebook by a different cat egory whenever you wish 1 2 3 4 Sia b 8 Alpha Sort RULES AND REGULATIONS If you select Roster Position or Making the Grade Student I D Numbers you ll find that column already filled with 80 numbers when you set up a roster Of course if you elect to enter your own student numbers the column will be empty awaiting your input Alpha sorting the class roster can be done as many times as you wish using any of 26 criteria That is you may configure and print out your gradebook and Daily Record by Student Names initially and then rearrange by Group Codes or Grading Systems later Keep in mind that Alpha Sorting is a real data moving prioritizing of your gradebook and Daily Record the display function in both modules is but a temporary realignment of data New students will be automatically placed at the end of your class roster you may then decide whether you wish to restructure rearrange the list Dropped students placed at the end of a class roster will not move with their peers when the class list is sorted unless you elect to change this feature in the Preferences section under the File menu Entering a large class roster 1s at best akin to having a root canal so we offer two methods of importing r ue A QUESTION such information You may select E e What Is the source of the ro
153. ew ones or completely erase the old each time you print your next series of progress reports Once recorded in MtG student database these remarks remain active and appendable until edited or deleted from the above field Building the Line Library If you ve been looking for a place to compose personalized academic or behavioral remarks about your charges you have definitely arrived This is where you will compose group and record the remarks which may be CALCULATE INE s as appended to individual student take home reports You will note that your window ATTACH individual student comments BUILD the Line Library COMPOSE score annotations CUSTOMIZE letter grades LINE LIBRARY comes to you completely empty without even so much as DROP UNDROP the lowest grade S leb 1 h li This i b ENTER category effort grades a sample button to stir your imagination along these lines 1 018 15 so because FUPORT the student database _ we refuse to insult your intelligence sense of style and educational INDICATE changed scores LOCK the screen temporarily philosophy with a group of canned remarks like those found in most other RESET the display report range gradebook programs Such generic observations as those more often than BUNC not offend us with their poor wording lack of applicability and simplistic SELECT A GROUP SELECT A STUDEMT anal
154. f the types of student scores available to you in Making the Grade that s what As you can see a brief precis of the following information and rationales can be found as on line help in the Display menu but please examine this part of the documentation with great care just the same We offer a wide range of preset evaluative possibilities in our program eight different score en tries but each option must be thoroughly understood to be used with the utmost impact Of course while you are free to define these scores as you wish within your own classroom keep in mind that their computational values are permanently fixed and often extremely powerful in their effect on students grades Enough said Then read on Macduff B Any positive WHOLE NUMBER 999 maximum We re sorry but for ethical reasons we do not nor will we ever permit the entry of negative numbers It has been our experience nationally and internation ally that such scores pose serious legal problems and we cannot philo sophically or ethically support their usage ZERO 0 We recommend that you use this score to indicate that a student was present in class for an activity but earned no points for it These circumstances are relatively rare of course so this score s appear ance should be a relatively unusual one in your gradebook INCOMPLETE INC This score has the same computational value as O but we strongly recommend that it be utilized only when a stu
155. fer two very different configurations of these lists the certificate like version above Print as GRAPHIC Certificates one grouping Bo Po dea per page and the text based catalog at left Print as L Diae TEXT Lists all groups on a page karmy 8 Jee rhe L zh iB bo Pes B Eli aphan krim An Insider s Tip If you d like to print all of your groups on a single page but in certificate form the Mac OS will come to your aid When each of the above graphics is displayed on your screen press Shift Command 4 in that order and holding down each key A set of cross hairs will replace your cursor with which you can click and drag a constrained snapshot of the window at hand captures will appear in your Mac s main window as Picture 1 Picture 2 and so on and all can be imported into the graphics program of your choice trimmed and rearranged and then printed for posting on your classroom bulletin board 83 SELECT H STUDENT SELECT A STUDENT You will notice on the first screen of this feature that only those roster position numbers representing active students are black and selectable all absent or dropped students and empty roster slots are automatically dimmed and out of play Before you click Select and commence SAS process however take a look at the Prefs Preferences box below SELECT R STUDEN
156. ffected group of sophomores These students attendance and punctuality were atrocious to say the most even though their demeanor was generally pleasant within the classroom One day in late November did I ever need the Thanksgiving break I summoned one of my underachievers asking if she were aware of how many truancies she had accumulated in my class We scrolled lazily through the Daily Record spreadsheet as I asked her to count the number of AT s Absent Truant she saw Even with the damning evidence before her the very size and breadth of its presentation had no noticeable effect When I called upon the above option however and showed her the two screens below her eyes bulged as I saw total bewilderment on her face The concentration of such massive amounts of data in such an easy to read layout was devastating and we then had one of the most frank and open discussions about personal responsibility and self worth I ve ever had with a student And atthat time I didn t even have a hardcopy printout to send home Because of that singularly memorable encounter this young lady knew immediately that I not only had more information at my fingertips than did the office downstairs but that I was perfectly willing and able to report it to her parents without so much as raising a sweat Needless to say her private revelation spread like wildfire throughout the rest of the class True no one became eligible for a Rhodes Scholarship or sainthood for
157. for yourself or your aide This code will also protect your class files from RETURN will then be your password intrusion by others who have a copy of Making the Grade but more about that later At this time you may also enter a password for a student parent or paraprofessional aide one which will give him or her restricted access to the proprietary data in your files With this code your helper may open your program and classes and then key in new assignment data but he or she may not peruse or print out old The restrictions The aide s password may not be the same as yours nor may you enter an aide s password without recording one for yourself The final screen in this section of MtG below summarizes the info you ve entered and enables correction of errors made to this point This summary screen was taken from my personal copy of the program My PASSWORD not only honors one of my favorite writers it s the way I felt most Mondays at Coronado High School The aide s password is a favorite Sean Connery movie By the way don t worry if you discover a mistake here in the coming days or weeks you can always access this information again under the EDIT menu in the Setup Info gt Teacher information subsection Be prepared to reenter your PASSWORD again however as an additional security measure NOTE Your school telephone and extension modi Aou nid EE sd numbers are wholly optional entries Please 4 gt to
158. from which we analyze student data Hae BETTE OF Keep in mind that if we don t find someone in a class we ll skip eee just that file and print all other relevant information anyway per and ge Ltasce Preskaws Met RE DRT BEPULE CER OMI af This repari i pea In addition to the options above we offer two features to make your Report Cards easier to build and customize than ever First we let you choose which Grading Scale we use to Ir I Lar mes EDIKE SCALE 1E Exe used Zar his eger Card d Cah anat sci ed compute scores in each class and second we let you choose the Q We Class grading wales criteria used to locate students in those classes We suggest Ine SEBHCH PETRUS To b ases im tiny that you elect the Student Number option here unless you UR Np ar edited employed the Import button when setting up your rosters If S not an innocent typing mistake can easily exempt someone from the selection process 65 This sample external report card for Kathleen R Gray began with her English Semester 2 class as the master roster for MtG search and identify routines The program found her student number in five other classes and her achievement in each was included Grading Scale
159. g displaying seating charts Printing on scanner answer sheets p Shading Gradebook and Daily Records Careful readers of this portion of the documenta tion may have noted on page 122 that Making the Grade can print the number of correct items on each page but read your ScanMark User Manual to see exactly how that process works Unfortunately we know all too well how difficult locating such a document can be Hey has anyone seen the Scan Mark User Guides They were here in this drawer last year I think Therefore the feature in question can be found within Making the Grade itself in the File menu under MtG Preferences and in Printing on scanner answer sheets As seen in the screen above the program defaults to No when asked if you wish to print raw scores on student answer sheets We chose this position for two reasons The scoring process is much quieter and less disruptive if your machine is in the classroom and you will more than likely wish to use the same answer sheet again in the future Because the ScanMark usually prints raw score in the same position on each answer sheet these numbers quickly become unreadable anyway 124 File Edit Display Reports Special Bii UN The The DAILY RECORD The SEATING CHART The 2668 The NCS READERS PHRENTLIMNK amp MiG WINDOWS The PORTRAIT STUDIO The PDA CONNECTION Sir Max Beerbohm once observed
160. gradebook remains unaffected Points Grade for this TERM by any and all display options 43 Displaying the Gradebook Display ith students NAMES STUDENT data gt With students NUMBERS CLASS data With other students HIDDEN ASSIGNMENT data k In ROSTER order as is RANDOMLY for anonymity GRADING OPTIONS By RANK IN CLASS high to low Scores as NUMERICAL VALUES Scores as LETTER GRADES Scores as PERCENTAGES Scores as IN v or OUT __ 5 Grade for this TERM Grade for this ASSIGNMENT Points Grade for this TERM eT CA ae HEZICHHMENT URINE fictam Dennis E pom iua dag 8 mas ich Micra T heer iu Enpi F Gies Halen E Tit 18 D Klemen MIC Sos E 1 Basi dire Posi Teri a ALPHABETICALLY by last name With students NAMES Scores as NUMERICAL VALUES Tins PrP ioe CHEST Un FE tie ns Le SS Se 793 7 22 009 E xiu B1J NV DKT ES X p 5189 24 58 hu E13 At RIT qe gfe ala ala stale sis cassia aise n aed Cte aie amp i l 5 aie x i nals nnnnmmnn 34 15 fhe Heksa of Dee Cel i CSTE 1 Boeliing Fo Tri EXE By RANK IN CLASS high to low With students NUM
161. group and then click the Spanish language button for their reports Student Report 7 With Missing Assignments in English Student Report 8 With Missing Assignments in Spanish LAT CEF TEET Base BH DEM BEN DENN NEMINTEE Ml OMS Bases EH HATENE BM VORAEIEE PEERS REBECCA 1 DT I8 INT UM ba Bebe a comets of be score and arose Fame ret ecclesi deg prisp E Tor mexxh Er E Une oi dg mrpsct plunge nes ms ee mong po etna 1 Ki aor ue Fia Debra a comets zo ee coger and caves Eae coppie dana prisp parma Be mrpsct plunge mm pe ee 1 CT T I Se ET SST TITLICS RESUME Free Less verbes sectesiac Dee E IE Hi Ses Jerbape EDUTERST 1 T LX Tiree de pedrrems BL s 9v 18 m rH EET EET oE LT TITLICS FOET WED DF TEE MIES Peli te D OD T n Ling Ball CC oP VT x B qam EESTI Fraj p CUIT 14 rine mum 1 Re Ling needs B5 Aer IUE 1 TI LOND DF TEL FLIEX Nri Iur 5 a4 ief 1 ELSES DF FLZEB IAES 171 TF WRp lling an bBRulmb5 a De Pee iF TF LOND CF TEE L3 IE Eh ZH T
162. he Scan Answer Key button and feed it through the machine Please note that you may leave items blank between the First and Last Questions but we will ask you to confirm the anomaly if we find such gaps in your key The sample activity at right had five empty items 26 30 as a matter of fact therefore the screen confirms only 30 active items between Ques tions 1 and 35 The assignment was assigned a value of 120 points so each item will have an X Factor of 4 000 Tie Grammer Mechanica Frage Final 18 3 Lalequrg Code PII ade escriptian CHLERS SPELLOSG VOCAB MEN 5 LETS AS GSM RTS DEAL PASE STATOR GEM MA EHERCTSES OAP ELIEESL Y PRAEENT NDTIF ICRTI BR pmangrn rasni TEXTE Click CATEGORIES if gau Lh ba modif 8 aed up lhat 6 nou Categories Cinar tui Step 2 Setting Up the Assignment You ve probably noticed the Scantron button on the assignment setup screen before and at last it comes into play Keep in mind that if you access the machine scoring option from this screen you should click that button before entering setup info in the boxes Mac protocols necessitate finding and initializing the ScanMark without baggage so nothing entered here before the click will be retained This Scantron summary screen is similar to those you ve seen before with a couple of significant exceptions No tice the two numbers in the rectangles at l
163. hese WAM Units in our workshops Then we multiply his 87 00 in Spelling Vocab Dev x 10 0 to get 870 0 Units his 85 97 in Literary Activities x 15 0 to get 1289 6 Units his 79 00 in Writing Assignments x 15 0 to get 1185 0 Units his 80 0 in Oral Presentations x 10 0 to get 800 0 Units his 100 0 in Parent Notifications x 5 0 to get 500 0 Units and his 60 91 in Quarter Final Tests by 20 0 to get 1738 2 Units We combine Jim s seven individual WAM Units to get his WAM TOTAL 500 870 1289 6 1185 800 500 1738 2 2 6882 8 WAM Units We then divide his WAM TOTAL by the total percentages in those categories which contain recorded scores 1 the active ones That is we divide 6882 8 by the total of the seven categories which have scores in them 80 0 The resultant figure of 86 03 is Jim s cumulative grade using weights set up V Sophomore 3 4B English The problems SCORE ANALYSIS inherent in such conei asystem 8 fact that Jim s Cheating Truancy simple point to burgos tal 1515 out of Dropped 1751 points pos CUMULATIVE GRADE FOR THIS TERM sible does not Points Points Current Letter seem to equal Possible 86 03 Inthis Nm NR 8605 B case the figure 15 higher but it can be much lower Most students and parents who audit the Progress Reports you send home will grab a calculator add up the points earned on each assignment
164. ibrary xn class with skill areas as category setups you ll recognize right away the CALCULATE INC s as purpose of this feature Most school systems around the country require a COMPOSE score annotations CUSTOMIZE letter grades separate effort grade DR P UNDRUP the lowest draue A for each discipline PSBERT il ime to ced up yaur class raster 7 hi 1 parpi yaur xiudenis here MERTE the withinane ementary ENT ELM eint ee Uf NC TTA INDICRTE changed scores class Consequently dil ELTE LOCK the screen temporarily aden Lote gery amp redes j sort RESET the display raport range Making the Grade Last Mame firai amie MAT SPL LIT DUI REUERT to previous entry provides ten fields Jar eain aotizevert ROUND score percentages vps 7 frules Cheries amp within the database SELECT A GROUP 4 Lame E SELECT A STUDENT for recording these 4 Oickersom tiches B SET the Teacher Aide mode Eu Ir marks and placing jugera them in students m 2 ira A progress reports later The only restriction here is the amp imi p trn RE character limit placed on each mark L rd SHOWCASE special scares Exporting the Student Database
165. ical analysis 60 Clearing the gradebook 37 Codes assignment category 12 Daily Record category 93 Color printouts 51 Commas exporting data 39 41 importing data 16 Confidential reports 54 55 Conflict Catcher 129 135 Connector sticky space 14 Contemporaneous records 53 Control panels 112 Coronado High School 4 Cover sheet Works 58 131 CRC Handbook of Mathematical Formulas and Tables 18 Credit check mark 29 52 79 Cumulative grades 18 20 44 48 Customized letter grades 77 D Daily Record 89 104 class summary 100 104 codes 93 95 data display 97 100 date 112 editing 94 96 grid 115 116 printing 101 104 setup 91 93 student reports 102 103 term 92 93 94 Date in assignment title 38 Delete key with X Factor 27 Deleting assignments 31 classes 138 seating charts 112 student pictures 129 students 33 Delimiters commas tabs 39 Desktop file 135 Dimmed grayed reports 136 Display modes student pictures landscape 129 portrait 129 Displaying assignment data 48 49 class data 47 48 100 Daily Record 97 Gradebook 43 45 81 82 Seating Chart 113 114 student data 45 47 98 99 student pictures 129 139 Ditto function 37 Drag and drop 113 114 Dropped students positioning 38 Dropping assignments 30 most damaging scores 78 79 students 32 Duplicating a score 37 E E mail support 2 Editing Daily Record 94 96 Gradebook 25 36 print macros 69 Seating Chart 111 112 Emptying the grad
166. iduals chosen by percentage range group code grading scale and or citizenship mark This filtering feature will be explained in detail in the Reports section which follows so kindly suspend your skepticism for a few more moments One last step before launching your favorite word processor or data base program and tailoring this information to the task at hand You may now export Making the Grade data for as many as 29 additional classes in one fell timesaving swoop Remember Making the Grade ex port documents are TEXT or ASCII files ending with the suffix mtg so be sure to select that resource type if necessary when looking for them on your desktop or in folders irimi bai of this report 20 1998 pelecd the STUDENT GREP Por ues wish be pil These reports DFEET ilude in Ihis tld chasan hy nre IPROVO STUDER chan bg grade percenlage range Groep Cove brad ing Scale andor Citizenship ark Prewinus You may now select many 29 additional classes from which to export student data External File Name Internal Class Title Course Number Sample Gradebook Sophomore 3 46 Englis 558 18275 Remove Add All Classes in Folder The MtG export document in Word 6 0 by Microsoft Corp file Coil Insert Frema l Took Pele Bindew Help a _ Seen
167. iguration and i m not just the class file that 15 currently open That is if your aide closes Period 1 and then opens say Period 3 it too will be set to the restricted entry mode Closing the program relaunching it and then opening another class effects the same result There is simply no way to circumvent this security measure without your password so guard your code carefully la Showcasing Special Scores Last but certainly not the least of the Making the Grade Special functions is the ability to highlight scores or ranges of scores in a special font within the gradebook screen Entirely a display function the SHOW CASE special 85 scores feature is intended to emphasize at a glance those student assignments GALE Wind you determine to be of a particularly noteworthy nature good or bad No BUILD the Line Library doubt you ve noticed outlined scores sprinkled throughout many of CALCULATE as ES gt COMPOSE score annotations sample gradebook screens earlier in the documentation Finally you know why CUSTOMIZE letter grades they re displayed that way DROP UNDROP the lowest grade ENTER category effort grades EXPORT the student database Sample Gradebook fP Ei ASSIGNMENT MUMBERS 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 se CURRENT ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES gt LIT PAR SPL ORL LIT LIT MRT 4
168. ike this Daily Record You mean Attendance Record don t you and who needs that I already take attendance once for those guys in the office so I m certainly not going to do it twice If this is even close to your initial reaction to MtG Daily Record you have our most sincere sympathies We ve been there too But bear with us a moment longer as we endeavor to change your first impression into a second more exciting one that the Daily Record may be more powerful than your gradebook when it comes to rewarding modifying and documenting student performance in your classroom Temporarily set aside the obligatory attendance categories of absent tardy excused unexcused and the like in your mind and conjure up afew other daily classroom behaviors you always wanted to report to parents and administrators Really haven t you always secretly longed to document those specific days when a student POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY cooperated in group activities came to class unprepared helped others in class fell asleep during lesson made your day week year exhibited disruptive behavior improved classroom attitude did not bring materials was well prepared for class forgot lunch money dressed out for gym used inappropriate language completed lab worksheets abused others property volunteered for extra work talked too much in class 91 If so this is your golden opportunity And now you know one of the primary reasons we renamed the original G
169. imit to all good things When the time comes to print your next set of MtG reports all you must do is Time Saver Part III click the File menu above slide down to Select a print macro and have a go We trustthat all option buttons are self explanatory so be bold and investigate RECORDING PRINT MACROS PRINTING REPORT MACHI nu may peint lar nf your pre DBipzilgruer rdegz reper sg Wie isb e below Select Edit Macros in or change billes ad egirips report formulae in the table below 3 and then print them in a batch with KM kin tur Dads the Select a print macro option in the File menu impart war raa FKEpar arrat You may save as many as 15 of your d Title E Print Marre d CTE MATE Clear Uni Macro Dd z riat kiiri 1 Pairi Print Macro H1 nit marmi E pripi Bal This regar t 4 bini Macrn BP 1 i ERE E 69 TRADE SECRETS and more TROUBLESHOOTING A TRADE SECRET As you know the Grade Busters 1 2 3 Poor Man s Printer Buffer is part of the Making the Grade package too and it s even more sophisticated This second major part of this feature is properly called Finder Printing and it s still a resident part of your Macintosh operating system With this built in marvel your Mac will automati
170. imple steps which must be followed to score a Scantron assignment and enter it into your gradebook First you must indicate the type of form used for the activity Second you must enter pertinent setup information for the assignment just as you normally would Third you must tell us precisely which portion of the Scantron Form you wish us to grade Fourth you must scan the Answer Key And fifth you must score all of your students sheets That s all there 15 to it Please select a Scantron form Form F 158 Form F 166 5ides 1 2 Form F 166 5ide 1 Only Form F 166 5ide 2 Only Form F 262 5ides 1 2 Form F 262 5ide 1 Only Form 2020 Step 1 Selecting the Form The list of forms above will grow over the years no doubt as new sheets are designed and as we receive feedback from teachers across the country Do be careful to differentiate among layout definitions for Side 1 Only forms Side 2 Only forms and Sides 1 and 2 forms Check the range position of items on your Answer Key before your make the above selection and all should be well Step 3 Indicating Activity Range Sramiren Form Farm F 262 5ire 1 Ory Rrsignreeni Tile Grammar ei hani Usage Tant 15 38 Ecciqnngaz Basigrment Hair fied Durst Laat Duectiar 35 hummer ot Fera 90 H Facim to 3 Cine Sees la enber zlurenlk Tiris Once you ve denoted the specific items to be scanned for this activity click t
171. in can be a great source of comfort Apple Canon http www swupdates info apple com cgi bin http www usa canon com support files index html http_lister pl Apple Support Area Apple Software Updates US Macintosh Printing I SS Se Me eee ee Ge ee A EIL ss II mom p mp opes trop moo opum n Support Files Online di LC TACTO E ee ee ne EE mer Dagger ume Soke oe eee ee mm Loe eee ee or mri mcm b Pore mp Uu Le Pee 0 epu mir oe fee coe bee be h Ge ot rk ws HI E ELIT Pr PEH Feb Errema mE merum Gene Beer mm irh jer Urge Wi lenem P Phan mmu nml eam imo omm ee oe Ha han Nom llus Lx T n nam scu ET mo ma cane meom c Ne GEO o PET TE Gr ee sce ce me Rd EPSON http www epson dits http www hp com cposupport eschome html TTF s Lr fa ls reme eem Fo eS ee Wem A me i Tp rn emn mmm rm 0 File downloads FTP nit M Printer Uriar omn 5 r oe La et mn ac E IER
172. in each assignment TITLE assignment title box That time stamp is taken directly from your Macintosh s system clock if itis incorrect you Do NOT include the DATE in each title must access the Date amp Time control panel to reset it As amp Yes 00 include the DATE in each title you can see in the window at right Making the Grade comes from Jay Klein Productions with the date already displayed within the title field but it remains your option to do away with it forever Positioning dropped students Early in any grading period students come and go from official class rosters OR 10 do with DROPPED STUDENTS when you sort with alarming regularity Adding dropping and then your class rosters deleting their names from one s gradebook can make that document look like a battlefield without this feature If it was your original preference to move dropped stu dents to the bottom of a class roster this option will keep them there if you alphabetize or restructure it in the future amp Always move DROPS to bottom of roster 9 Alphabetize DROPS with rest of class 36 Miscellaneous Features and Tips There is usually more than one way to skin a cat and 1n Making the Grade there is a second behind the scenes way to edit individual student setup information Click here on the student whose Name Stu Sample Gradebook dent Nu
173. ion above left and the more graphic paper intensive pattern revealing calendared version above right The former can be printed with one or more students per page but because of obvious space requirements the latter 15 limited to one person per sheet Both documents contain virtually identical information of course but the additional inferences parents make when they see entries 1n a calendar setting are sometimes amazing Regardless of which format you prefer we cannot urge you too strongly to send home at least one Daily Record report per quarter semester or trimester Whether your categories are basically positive negative or a mixture of both we know you ll be glad you did 103 Printing Class Reports Reports For the TEACHER 4 For the STUDENTS For the CLASS p Special Window From THIS CLASS only By TABLE By HISTOGRAM By BAR GRAPH Again don t forget that once you ve made your selection among the options in the window at right that you can save this formula as a Making the Grade Print Macro Once it s properly titled and saved within the print macro resource you ll never again have to navigate through a myriad of menus and screens in order to obtain the document below Class Daily Record Report Confidential MR JAY CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL HOVEPMBER 24 1998 QUARTER 1 1993 99 PERIOD 1 SOPHOMORE 3 4B ENGLISH CONFIDENTIAL CLASS SUMMARY HUMBER
174. ions will appear on a student s report only if one or more of MtG acronyms appears there That is INC DRP V EXC TRU CHT score annotations and customized letter grades will be defined only if they have been used within a student s record If not they will never be mentioned and no harm will be done Another optional item Rank in Class may be replaced by a student s current Citizenship Mark or nothing at all The Invitation to Call line is optional too but keep in mind that you won t be able to access this option if you haven t recorded a telephone number in your Setup Info 10 26 27 CATEGORY WRITING ASSIGNMENTS Below is a listing of the assignments you have received thus far in this grading period and the scores you earned for each If your records differ in any respect please see me privately as soon as possible CATEGORY MATERIALS CHECKS 5 0 of Cumulative Grade YOUR AVERAGE POINTS LETTER SCORES POSSIBLE GRADES ASSIGNMENT TITLES SCORES Materials Check 1 Lord of Flies 09 14 Materials Check 2 LORD OF FLIES Materials Check 3 LORD OF FLIES Materials Check 4 LORD OF FLIES 10 13 CATEGORY SUMMARY gt CATEGORY SPELLING VOCAB DEV 10 0 of Cumulative Grade PRETEST Spelling Vocabulary Dev 09 07 Lling Vocab Unit 01 Homewor 09 08 Lling Vocabulary Unit 01 Quiz 09 12 Lling Vocab Unit 02 Homewor 09 13 lling Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz 09 16 Lling Vocab Unit
175. ish Seating Chart 1 The rough flowchart sequence above shows the pathway from the Seating Chart menu bar to the docu ment at right You ve seen most of these screens before in the Printing Seating Charts section of the docu mentation However anew elementis introduced here Mein the choose picture size window shown above right 5 e Depending upon the exact placement of the chairs in US m ee Es your classroom this window s options can change E markedly The five shown here match the 10 x 10 SE seating grid used for Room 101 at Coronado High You c C may print this seating chart as large 4 pages or as small 1 page as you wish but don t forget to turn bo OFF the printing of empty spaces in Preferenc es below if you want the open look at right O Grady EUN P Stephen B Thomas L Stacey E Jeremy D Huston Ingram Howard Yoder Please indicate whether you wish EMPTY areas in your seating charts be printed screen and on paper Choosing the first option below will save tons of toner over the years Charles A Bowles A u Carie S Michael S Raymond Rutledge NN al i Kathleen R Michael R Gray Dickerson NOT display and print EMPTY areas 9 Yes 00 display or print EMPTY areas puru 1 132 APPENDIX A TROUBLESHOOTING Try as we might to make Grade Busters Mac Making the Grade as user friendly
176. ix classes containing 35 assignments and 35 students each about 15 seconds total That s it FYI A great many Macintosh gradebooks tout the ability to drop a student s lowest score In truth such programs usually excuse the assign ment with the lowest percentage regardless of its relative influence within a students s possibly weighted cumulative grade Making the Grade however employs a true bubble sorting routine which drops each one of a student s grades recomputes the new overall score each time and then decides which one was in fact the most damaging And it does in under fifteen seconds what it would take an accountant several hours to do by hand Imagine what you can do with the time you ll save The process for excusing the most damaging scores 1s quite simple involving only three decisions on your part As shown in Screen 1 below you must decide 1 whether everyone should receive the benefit of this process 2 whether any categories should be protected from the dropping process and 3 whether any specific assignments should be exempted PAUPPORG IHE LULES SORE Dropping mes danagin scores is one MADE features All gou must da iz seleri fhe heaeficiarier arnlsri Eb ap amid fog meg umio dripped scores i quu mish EHUFPFINLD IHE LOLS SOBRE elie i pr mios ued tem 16 deor
177. k 3 Termination This License is effective until terminated You may terminate this License at any time by destroying the Software and related documentation The License will terminate immediately without notice from Jay Klein Productions Inc if you fail to comply with any provision of this License Upon termination you must destroy the Software and related documentation 4 Export Law Assurances You agree and certify that neither the Software nor any other technical data received from Jay Klein Productions Inc nor a direct product thereof will be exported outside the United States except as authorized and permitted by the laws and regulations of the United States 5 Disclaimer of Warranty on Software You expressly acknowledge and agree that use of the Software and documentation is at your sole risk The Software and related documentation are provided AS IS without warranty of any kind and Jay Klein Productions Inc and Jay Klein Productions Inc s Licensor s if any EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE JAY KLEIN PRODUC TIONS INC DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION WILL BE CORRECTED FURTHERMORE JAY KLEIN PRODUCTIONS INC DOES
178. ke home reports and compute the mark Eur Netana ____ pc cqui 69 behind the scenes as a 7696 of the assignment s total Import value Is that flexibility or what 77 Dropping Undropping the Lowest Grade And now for your students favorite feature of Making the Grade We all know that one of the most generous acts we can perform for our charges is to allow them to toss out one or more of their least productive scores within a grading period Everyone has of those days in a quarter or semester so Special ATTACH individual student comments BUILD the Line Library CALCULATE INC s as COMPOSE score annotations CUSTOMIZE letter grades DROP UNDROP the lowest grade ENTER category effort grades EXPORT the student database INDICATE changed scores LOCK the screen temporarily RESET the display report range REVERT to previous entry ROUND score percentages SELECT A GROUP SELECT R STUDENT SET the Teacher Aide mode SHOWCASE special scores wouldn t it be nice if we could quickly easily and with certainty forgive the most damaging score recorded for everyone Of course Buta host of nagging questions immediately arises here Exactly which score is the most damaging Shouldn t some assignments be protected from the dropping process Shouldn t some categories And just how much time and effort will all of this take The truth is that even with five or s
179. king the Grade and it s here that you obtain the hardcopy layouts thereof MEADER of thie report ML EPIBEH 24 1 008 Grading Scale Sheet for posting SPS GRAD TRG SAL FOR SOPHOMCOKE 3468 ENGLISH PER ICD i CHARTER 1 1908 70 meg celeri ang ar ad your 5 grading Grading Scale 1 treading Scale 2 reding Scale X Greding scale 4 Greding Scale Grade Scale Printing Options P3888 m u m ES EG T You may select and print any or all of the five MtG Grading Scales even those which have not been set up officially Blank grading scales will print with empty boxes for all equivalent percentages of course Experimenting in educational reform recently with a few of my more responsible students I handed out ablank grading scale sheet and asked them to design a new more equitable system than the traditional A through F one The resultant recipes were intriguing clever amusing and often quite usable I found Without going into further detail I heartily recommend this activity to you as a way to find out what is really on your students minds when it comes to their report cards You will be enlightened aul 1 anf 1 E gt M be a5 p 1 nl gt Em EN E hmm Hk ma
180. lass Information amp Use TABS as separators Use Daily Record 3 Use Daily Record Info TOTALS radio buttons on this screen will remain dimmed until one or more attendance be havior fields are selected NOTE The date displayed on this screen is taken from your Mac s system clock If it is incorrect open the Date amp Time Con trol Panel and reset it Meeting Time i SAVE This Setup Academic Term 5 Each of the fields selected will be laid out in columns from left to right on the page If an exported field contains no in formation for a student or students such as the Citizenship Mark category it will print as an underscore a place holder for entries at a future date RII Setups 8 student Last Name 9 Student First Name Clear Choices Select RII Fields Student Number SAUE This Setup SELECT A Setup With over a hundred data fields to choose from creating an export document could be come a tedious time consuming task However such is not the case with MtG for you may set up save and export ten export templates like those at right That is if you ll invest the time to set up an export ASCII document we ll help you save that configuration for later use by yourself or by others That is once you ve selected the fields you wish to export separated them by tabs or commas and included appropriate header information or not c
181. lating not only the current active score but also the the student database one which preceded it Every time you edit a score we store the previous entry INDICATE changed LOCK the screen temporarily behind the scenes just in case you ever wish to peek at it or even revert to RESET the display report range it Sounds great but how can you tell exactly which of your scores have been DEDE DUE MIOUSZCIMEUS ROUND score percentages changed Just select the INDICATE changed scores function at right and a SELECT A GROUP SELECT A STUDENT small black box will appear in the lower left corner of any cell that has been E e MEUM edited See assignments 29 and 34 below SHOWCASE special scores But then you may ask how do you know what the previous score for that assignment was There are two ways actually First click upon any edited score and then select the REVERT to previous entry option shown above Immediately following the word entry you will find Sample Gradebook a colon and previous score for that assignment ASSIGNMENT NUMBERS gt 27 28 29 30 33 ss se CURRENT ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES gt m E OFT ORL LITE LIT OFT 4 P A second option is to type the hot key Command ASSIGNMENT VALUES oo 100200 roms R for REVERT and see what score appears in 1 Dennis E 76 v B
182. leTalk was on Then we had to go to the Chooser turn AppleTalk off and reboot both machines to make a fresh run at the process Too much trouble in this so use the modem port Once you select the ScanMark 2000 option under Window in the MtG main menu you ll see the screen at right asking where we should look for the device Notice the default radio button set to the recom mended modem port Now before you click the Next button to initialize the unit make sure that the ma chine is plugged in A thatit is turned on B and that the cable is firmly seated and connected C to the port indicated Please select the part to which your Scantron is attached Choose Next to initialize the unit The Scanmark 2000 is not responding Do you wish to continue waiting The above message is what you ll see if you don t really have aScanMark 2000 attached and just wanted to see what would happen if you selected the option However if you actually do have one connected and still see this message check the following items first 1 the ScanMark power switch 2 its power cord 3 the serial cable connection on the ScanMark and 4 the serial cable connection on the Mac If everything seems to be set correctly power down both machines for a few seconds and launch afresh Static electricity and gremlins have been known to stifle our best intentions before right 120 Setting Up an Assignment There are five s
183. lick SAVE This Setup and enter the title of the template you wish to record PLEASE NOTE We will save no export template without an official title By the same token all you must do to delete a template 1s erase its title and click Done EXPORT All Setups ATTENTION ADMINISTRATORS EXPORTING Class Information EXPORT SETUP TITLES Other Predefined Setups IMPORT Setups Locked Setup Lancel Coronado High Data i Art Department 3 Business Department English Department CL Foreign Language Department Macintosh HD a Please consider using this MtG option to save your teachers considerable amounts oftheir precious time Using your personal expertise and the skills of those down town customize a block of data templates for your staff Export this file to disk so they can import it into their own copies of MtG Once that is done all they must do is select the appropriate template title identify the students whose info is to be exported and send the softcopy document to your office Down with bubble sheets d Industrial Arts Department Export Setups 40 Once you ve selected the fields you wish to export from aclass s Gradebook and Daily Record you must select the students whose data you wish to include in the document You may include everyone in the class individuals chosen by name or indiv
184. ll the state of the art dot matrix printer In fact even today the ImageWriter is capable of printing fantastic looking text and graphics based documents even in color but only with a considerable investment in time A single hardcopy gradebook which takes less than a minute to print on a LaserWriter can take almost 10 minutes to effect on an ImageWriter II in Best quality mode The printouts look great make no mistake about that But Apple hasn t significantly updated the ImageWriter driver in several years so be prepared for a serious delay of gratification here ONE MORE Please make sure that your ImageWriter possesses a well inked ribbon when you publish student take home reports Most of these documents are finely detailed and will be quite difficult to read if a shabby old raggedy shard of moth eaten nylon is used Also don t forget that we support a color ribbon on the ImageWriter II and our reports are even more gorgeous in living breathing reds blues greens blacks and purples Try getting a laser printer to do that without shelling out many more thousands of dollars That just about covers the good news and the bad in the world of printing Making the Grade documents We support all of the devices discussed above and the old ImageWriter I of course and a host of other printers that work with your Macintosh through divine or mortal intervention You may rest assured that Grade Busters Mac will continue to grow apace
185. lleagues might say at this point Then shouldn t the X FACTOR for this assignment be 1 88 instead of 2 000 Our response to this well put interrogative is Yes and How about that for first class vacillation If you will but follow this simple and true tale from the classroom you ll see why the asterisk appears next to some X FACTORS and not others Sample Gradebook ie ES THE SCENARIO ASSIGNMENT MLUMBERS 28 20 32 33 36 CURRENT ASSIGHNENT CRTEGORIES gt LIT PAR SPL Lit cit unt 14 P When I recorded this assignment for my Sopho ASSIGNMENT VALUES 25 30 wo 100 188 more English class I entered students raw Rrcher Dennis E 25 23 scores from a multiple choice answer sheet of UE HE 100 items Because we had worked so long RN and hard on this material I wanted the test to carry a weight of 200 points therefore the original X FACTOR for the assignment was determined by dividing 200 by 100 and 2 000 resulted I later found that the test contained a few flawed items six to be exact and I threw them out changing the POINT VALUE of the test to 188 At that point the program asked if I wished all students scores to be adjusted commensurately Because a few stu dents had yet to take the test I wanted their raw scores also to be multiplied by the original 2 000 factor so I responded No The star was then add
186. lly intended to feature an individual student Look carefully on 86 line and you ll see Jim Chancellor s name prominently displayed in bold type among the other Student I D Codes This unique presentation of class and individual academic standing has a sister printout in the Class Reports section but those histograms appear only with names or numbers never a mixture of the two The report reveals the current class mean mode s median and standard deviations and provides a simple definition of each of these terms for the uninitiated For curiosity s sake I often tape these two pages together top to bottom and turn the resulting document on its side If a class is truly and completely normal whatever that means and if you blur your eyes a little you should be able to see a bell curve here something like the one above The final report in Works series is the hardcopy version of the student performance graph also found in Dis play It can be printed as a single line graph or with accompa nying class mean mode or median I amp HFZI KDRLO GNU CU YER SALEEN I p F m 3 E r F1 1 If you ve recorded 20 or fewer assignments for a student only the top graph will be printed there after whole boxes of 20 will appear until the maximum of 320 scores is covered We at Jay Klein P
187. ly by mouse clicking on the pictures in the chart We imported 32 celebrity sketches here rather than using real students pictures Aren t you glad these folks won t be in your class Portrait Studio Hardcopy We examined the Cover Sheet option in detail on page 58 of Printing Gradebook Reports solittle more needs to be said here The only practical tip we have at this point is to print these cover sheets in color on a laser or ink jet printer in best mode ifthe pictures were taken ACADEMIC ESS in color of course The extra time and effort are well worth it hig STUDENT REPORTS WITH ALL ASSIGNMENTS Date of this report 24 1998 Please select the TYPES of reports you wish to print PEEICHT 1 THE WORKS ALL of the report options shown below SWF CHC E WAR EMGLISH LAHTEHR I TAEVI A personalized COVER SHEET with class school amp teacher info Y amp WITH student s picture from the Portrait Studio module WITHOUT student s picture PREPARED Each student s individualized GRADING SCALE VIR JAY A KLEIN AN ANAL Tals GE JAMES L CHANCELLOR A CHRONOLOGICAL listing of all assignments thus far A CATEGORICAL listing of all assignments if applicable Dou H HALHAL ey fe BOR A 131 Reports For the TEACHER For the STUDENTS For the CLASS Lonfidential Gradebooks
188. mber Group Code Citizenship Mark Grading System etc you wish to change and behold A pop up window appears in the student score area ready for Student Name al any changes you wish to make Student D 685 836 983 Of course if you wish to change setup infor broup mation foronly one ortwo students this is the Lit Mark perfect vehicle with which to do so How Grading Scale ever if you have a massive amount of editing to do thanks to the latest administrative fiat changing everyone s student numbers for instance you may wish to choose the Edit 34 COMPOSITION 1 The Hat f 10 25 100 Setup Info STUDENT information option ee dme NECI 35 Spelling Final Test 10 281 200 100 in the menu bar It presents these data in 7 n d M aS pond Bol a pins tabular format for more students at a time and is specifically designed for bulk editing What IS That Little Thing Carefully examine the sample gradebook screen below specifically the lower right corner in the X FACTOR column You ll note that Assignment 35 has a stored multiplicative factor of 2 000 but what is that asterisk doing there An excellent question we think followed by an excellent answer we hope You will note that Assignment 35 s POINT VALUE is 188 and that the number of items on the testis 100 Now our more mathematically astute co
189. me haw ora with 1 evaluated only on the work they have completed and handed in calculate INC incomplete acsignments What this means is that a student who has completed only three activities out of 30 that are required could still have an A What Dsruladis INE Incomplete s E EHE a marvelous option for self paced and individualized learning T EGER EE xps sg aad programs A CAVEAT You will probably want to reset each ONLY Ehose assignment uxhich haus Dira of your gradebook files to the original format INC 0 when the ea ee te OE marking period comes to a close Forgetting to do so will let a cance great many students off the hook so to speak Customizing Letter Grades Window Have you ever had one of those assignments that seemed to defy objective ATTACH individual student comments A e 9 BUILD the Line Library m quantification You know points earned out of points possible If you CALCULATE INC s haven t yet you probably will and when that situation arises Making the Grade COMPOSE score annotations CUSTOMIZE letter grades will be there for you With this feature you can create any kind of custom letter DROP UNDROP the lowest grade grade or symbol or mixture of the two you need to help assess your students ENTER category effort grades PD TES academic progress and to moti
190. me reports KS Minking the Coulin Tii can appear in either English or Spanish formats and for that reason all text entry fields can accept informa tion in both languages If you wish to take advantage of this bilingual Spanish language option throughout PLEASE METE Recording MOTHER bere ail tances the program all you must do is enter anything in either Temporarily bere err language features ss indicated by thee Teg ef spain Previous Net or both of the boxes at left From then on you ll see the flag of Spain on any screen permitting bilingual en tries If you leave these fields completely blank you ll never be burdened with the option again Of course should you become blessed with the gift of tongues in the future return to this screen through the Edit gt Setup Info gt Teacher menus and enter the appropriate information Ta Tie our Almost finished but first a quick word about pro ETER RA gram and data security We strongly recommend that keep your you protect your application with a PASSWORD up to 10 characters in length You may enter upper case letters spaces numbers and symbols here or just the Password Passwor RETURN key the most devious of all PASSWORDS Click NEXT if you don t want a password
191. method of score entry is perfect for those times when you ve already written scores in your grade book printout and can go straight down the column RANDOM ENTRY from the Gradebook In the second method of score entry the FIND box is highlighted first Enter any unique portion of a student s name press Return or Enter and we ll immediately move the cursor to the current assignment cell for that student Then enter the student s score press Return or Enter and we ll jump back to the FIND box awaiting another student name You ll move back and forth back and forth until everyone has score or you click anywhere else in the gradebook screen at which time the cycle will be broken Archer Denn 11 Bowles Char 12 Chancellor J 13 Ingram Tha 21 Oqden Kristi 51 Jansen 22 O Grady Shel Jenkins Lyn 23 dJr d 4 000 stored with each score entry RANDOM also from the gradebook screen mh IM Cn LR OW Huntington Huston Step 28 Dickerson Mi 14 Garcia Euge Glenn Helen Gray 15 16 Howard Stac 18 19 Knight Rebe Kosterman Lee Tamara Lewis Jeffr Mc Cann M Morgan Don Muss Timoth 24 2 26 28 29 3B Raymond Rutledge Mi Sampson Eu 5t James L Winston EEF EEF A8 Torrence Jer 55 999 points the maximum value allowed Select H for an assignment s point value a
192. mpletely ignore the File portion of the Daily Record menu bar above for every element thereof has been addressed previously in the gradebook division Changing Term Starting Finishing and NS Dates Site Display Reports Window Undo dbz Setup Info Calendar DATES Daily Record CODES R ABSENT TARDY Categories Special Emptuy Blank Clear Lut FEH Copy Paste a LI The best laid plans of mice men and teachers often go astray as do first and last days of school terms and official No School days Thank heaven for the occasional unscheduled Snow Day here in Colorado Springs or never catch up with grading At any rate when setup dates require modification for any 94 reason we provide two avenues for you to do so Of course selecting the Edit menu option on the previous page will take you directly to the Calendar DATES portion of the program left But if you prefer you may move the bottommost slide bar of the Daily Record to the far right and click any where within the NO SCHOOL DAYS box Sample Gradebook Daily Record MONTH OF TERM DAY OF TERM DAY OF HEEK 1 Archer Dennis E BE IS LETS TOSS Poe Gate thee add LFFIS Hg eT pradiag lira ae ae x a ni Garcia Eugene F bar af actire merki mag aat prese 10 1 g B Glenn Helen B zi Bow les Charles A
193. n 1452 2 82 9 B Morgan 1301 77 0 C Nuss 1188 67 2 D Ogden 1375 79 6 B O Grady 1337 79 0 C Powell Jr 1201 69 7 Raymond 1337 2 78 8 Rutledge 1289 73 6 C Sampson 1595 90 3 A Smith 1211 71 7 C St James 528 82 8 B Torrence 1409 80 4 B Winston 1215 71 9 C Yoder lt lt lt OPN OAR ONS Huntington Susan L 49 41 168 50 Huston Stephen B 48 48 182 40 Ingram Thomas L 40 119 35 Jansen Beverly H 48 48 177 40 Jenkins Lynn T 34 40 112 30 Knight Rebecca J 33 72 DR Kosterman Jason D 42 117 40 Lee Tamara C 30 112 35 Lewis Jeffrey P 29 84 30 Mc Cann Molly M 39 158 40 Morgan Donald T 49 152 Nuss Timothy A 47 124 Ogden Kristi A 25 105 O Grady Shelli N DR Powell Jr John C Raymond Carie S 27 Rutledge Michael S DR Sampson Eugene J 41 Smith Vickie R St James Lester L Torrence Jeremy D EX Winston Kristin R 35 Yoder Jeremy D 39 4 j ANIKI SRE IRS SSSR SIRI 0191019129 01019 solo olwoS9 v o
194. n Beverly H 13 Jenkins Lynn T 14 Knight Rebecca J 15 Kosterman Jason D 16 Lee Tamara C 17 Lewis Jeffrey P 18 Mc Cann Molly M 19 Morgan Donald T 20 Nuss Timothy A 21 Ogden Kristi A 22 O Grady Shelli 23 Powell Jr John C 24 Raymond Carie S 25 Rutledge Michael S 26 Sampson Eugene J 27 Smith Vickie R 28 St James Lester L N o 0 21 0 4 o Archer Bowles Chancellor Dickerson Garcia Glenn Gray Howard Huntington Huston Ingram Jansen Jenkins Knight Kosterman Lee Lewis Mc Cann Morgan Nuss Ogden O Grady Powell Jr BIO COC NOH PHN OID HRW HR j OH OC Ol NOWOIONNOS Raymond Rutledge Sampson Smith St James Torrence Winston Yoder 29 Torrence Jeremy D 30 Winston Kristin R 31 Yoder Jeremy D 32 Murdock a 33 34 35 36 37 ocoloomoocojooocoolooocooloocoococooooocor 5oocoooo 0 oj
195. n additional socio positional engineer ing becomes necessary during the year The option will be available as long as one or more charts remain to be set up out of a maximum of five Display Reports Special The TEMPLATE Daily Record DATE EmptyBlank Clear Cut aen Copy 1 Window ADD a new chart MODIFY a chart Seating Chart 1 Seating Chart 2 Seating Chart 3 Seating Chart 4 seating Chart 5 MODIFYING AN EXISTING CHART The steps in this simple process have been described in detail in the previous section so we shall be merciful again It must be noted however that you may not modify the room template within this op tion for that may involve the destruction of other existing charts More about thaton following pages 111 Modifying the Template Site Display Reports Special Window SEATING CHARTS d The TEMPLATE If you permanently edit this tem plate we must delete ALL existing charts Shall we continue Daily Record DATE Emptuy Blank Clear Lut Copy Paste aL cancer As you can tell from the warning message at right above editing a room template by adding removing or repositioning students seats may necessitate the reconstruction of all existing charts We permit such modification of course and we even attempt to keep as much of your original template flow as possible Nevertheless once you commit to the reloca
196. nd we ll assign it the highest score en tered in that column Score and 7 dit is desired Choose y entered with the key for those activities which have a pass fail done not done value only This score and those under it have no computational effect whatsoever upon students grades The X Factor is the multiplier ob tained by dividing the original number of points possible by the number of items graded on an assignment In this ex m the ample 100 points possible 25 assign ment items 2 4 000 NOTE If you need to enter a student s score with an odd value that 1s one not a factor of four press the delete key first in the score cell removing the X Factor and then enter the number you wish Important Sample Gradebook ASSIGNMENT MUMBERS 1 zi 3i 4i 5 e aj 9 10 CURRENT ASSIGNMENT WALUES TOTALS l Hrcher Dennis E EET ID IL T LT ieeeee denim ementi E Z Boules Charles A 3 Chancel lor James L RANDOM ENTRY from the Roster The third method of score entry is perfect for those times when you ve graded a set of papers and don t have time or strength to alphabetize them The entire class roster is displayed in groups of 40 accessed with the scroll bar and students roster position numbers bring them down for score entry A raw score is accepted with Return or Enter at which time the student s name goes back up int
197. nine important fields Your entries for many of these will appear in your printouts both private and public but all may be changed whenever you wish The last of these your PRIVATE PASS CODE may also be changed at your discretion but choose it very carefully just the same Should you forget this critical piece of information you may not be able to enter your program you may even have to make a personal telephone call to our offices to gain access again A back door pass Before you create the first class in your word to the program does exist you gradebook please enter the follow see but we must hear a grown up Ing setup information as you would like PEE ble ace He ii ca Te to have it in your TEACHER STUDENT and CLASS printouts RII of this information veal what it 1s may be changed later of course Your Professional Name thirty characters maximum Teacher 1 0 Number fifteen characters maximum Your School s Name thirty nine characters maximum School 1 0 Number fifteen characters maximum nur School Phone Number fourteen characters maximum including parentheses 719 599 8786 Your Extension if any four characters maximum 5 A NEW FEATURE A BRIEF amp SIBESTEP eru md and one with which you ll be bothered only once if in this age OT epee 2 ir may wish bs bare prer setup inf rmatinn it s not welcome MtG student take ho
198. not understand the complex calculations at work in such a system consequently we usually discourage its use unless you possess a thorough understanding of its pitfalls Nevertheless if Categories With Weights is your cup of tea please permit a brief explanation of how we compute such composite grades The primary formulae we employ have been taken from the CRC Handbook of Mathematical Formulas and Tables Chapter 12 Probability and Statistics for Weighted Mean Calculation We have simplified these algorithms and present them one step at a time for you below Please study this information carefully now but if you use this grading system regularly you ll probably have to review it later to answer the myriad questions posed by your charges And make mistake they will have questions THE SAMPLE CLASS For the purposes of this ex planation we will use the class setup shown at right Note the ten categories in use only nine of which have weighted values however Pretest scores have been recorded in the gradebook but they do not count for or against the students THE SAMPLE STUDENT Once again we shall focus on Jim Chancellor s data right to show how his scores in each category fect his composite grade Please note before we pro ceed however that only seven of the ten available categories are active at this time Total Points Tpts NO Categories Total Points Tpts WITH Categories Composite Grade
199. nt menu left and involves the option screen shown below IE HS BS Ne NE Pasake pieri mie Basi mE ip iic de rar pii They ual rere Peer ell they are DITS DIE E BLU PF E i EI You ll notice that once you return to the grade book that all assignment data have been dimmed and that the Current Student Totals column 15 filled with the N A acronym And there you have it the Phantom carryover of the last period s assignments are still there ghostlike for your students to see But they re not being computed for a new term has begun Neither will they be included in any take home printouts 87 CLASS CARRYOVER METHOD II spec iml ATTACH emdiuidual slgdeni comavenit BUILD fhe Line 1 CALCULETTE INE E8 COP scare annolabicns CUSTOMIZE grades DADP UMP ihe lamest grade ENTER category grades EHPURT fhe student database ISDICRTE changed scares The second of our three carryover options the Faux Fresh Start method begins under the Special Reset the display report range menus Students often per ceive this method as forgive and forget for within it all of last term s assignments seem to have disappeared LOCKE thee screen iemporarily 1 MOUNU wore SELECT H GRUUP SELELT H STUDENT SET the Teacher Pile mad
200. ntation 7 Controlling Law and Severability This license shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States and the State of Colorado as applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within Colorado between Colorado residents If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of the License or portion thereof to be unenforceable that provision of the License shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to effect the intent of the parties and the remainder of this License shall continue in full force 8 Complete Agreement This License constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the use of the Software and related documentation and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements written or oral regarding such subject matter No amendment to or modification of this License will be binding unless in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of Jay Klein Productions Inc The information in this document compiled in the second quarter of 1999 is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Jay Klein Productions Inc While every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the work is accurate as of its publication date Jay Klein Productions and its employees agents clients and distributors shall not be liable for any dam ages arising from the use of or reliance
201. nter something here number before you move on if you wish to sort on the category Roster Entry pres 7 ane 8 BP Gur Cleats rester Plewur E nim apre ere SARS RETURN Fires B maiii cem OPTEN Making the RETURN maoue n a nei kindani 1 o Rina vari Paine Fira p Fame alpha eri ite mir Peery archer E elitaj Sarees Roster Field 9 Please ngu m LI NIIT S FURST RETURN mauca 1o e neu cett 5 n the D muauss En a ling l TUS Counselor g Riha as Part WAT alpha Carter E belize Larler Larler A Hickeruom irhanl E Carlar Cancel Carter Larter Ms LLL H Carter arlar Chane Brides L h mar diii L Mir E E j llirksrrznmn Mirchael E Carol Smith Cancel Willen Garcia Dougie T Dienn Linde H bra Thomas amp Homar us l pi 1 i T 1 Citizenship Mark 3 characters maximum Parent Name 20 characters maximum Counselor Name 20 characters maximum You ll probably leave the Cit Mark field blank setting You will note that we ve provided room for only one up a class but this is the place to record such information Paren
202. o be compiled accurately by even the most conscientious of educators but with the help of Making the Grade itis now child s play The first screen on the following page 26 shows the four options available within this hardcopy feature grouping missing assignments by student or by assignment CELEI printout below focuses on individual students by name and samaa enumerates the activities each has yet to complete The right printout centers upon those assignments which have not been completed by at least one person in the class If a student s name or assignment title does not appear in each of these with student names or with student numbers PEFDITIS Gale cd Gin reaari By UMET Pho aire lis sey for 2 Wi ei And ilie Pact Prive acu RASTA der EE gt Paden Wer pubie documents respectively no unfinished work remains there I D numbers replace names when public posting is desired eit DS WETTE i rau MERSIHZSASSICHMOEHTT PIMAN ZIFECHOPE X47 EHGLOE 1 MEET SPL Prog 1 ZIGALTEEI Frog Pwsert LE Soke E ii Emprma F E sikap Take FD HiFi PARENT SEE eer Nik KH ATE Pied 1 RAEENT Thomas Firmi E dee T KaT NH
203. o the roster and is dimmed Yoder Jere be For which STUDENT do you wish to record a score 27 Smith What is his her SCORE for Assignment 22 Vickie Smith s score SUMMARY 132 156 Points 88 8 B out of 158 Items to show that a score has been recorded A summary of each previous student s assignment info is displayed at the bottom of the screen just in case you wish to record it in detail some where on the student s paper 27 Entering Students Scores The GRADEBOOK STUDENT data CLASS data ASSIGNMENT data Today s BIRTHDAYS GRADING OPTIONS d d d d ASSIGNMENT NUMBERS gt 1 ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES LIT ASSIGNMENT URLUES ARCHER DENNIS E 2 CHARLES 3 CHANCELLOR JAMES DICKERSON MICHAEL L c 20 20 33 2 GLASER EUGENE GRAY KATHLEEN F HUHRHED STACEY E HUNTINGTON SUSAN HUSTON STEPHEN B INGRAM THOMAS L 12 JENKINS LYNN T 3 KMIGHT REBECCA J KOSTERMAN JASON 0 LEE TAMARA C MOLLY MORGAN DONALDO T MURDOCK GERALDO J HOSS TIMOTHY A 1 KRISTI A 22 0 GRADY SHELL 23 POHELL JA JOHN C 24 CARIE 8 25 RUTLEDGE MICHAEL 8 28 d 3 3 T 1 1 1 1 2 2 3b zn 3 45 EE i EXL 30 3b 27 3b zn So now that you know how to set up an assignment what s next A brief explanation o
204. occur File Edit Special Help Tet 4 11 16 EJ If you re working with class files on two computers one at home and one at school please keep in mind that floppy diskettess are effective media for backing pope up and transporting data between loca tions only That 15 you must always read class data from and write new information back to hard drives including Zip disks of course Floppies wear and fail Regardless of how you back up your data and how many copies you make we keep four at all times make sure you do so frequently repeatedly often and regularly 21 22 A TRICK Radio Buttons Check Boxes Before we leave this section of the documentation here s a real eye saving trick for those whose peepers ain t what they used to be Very few novice or experienced Mac users are aware of this but one doesn t have to click inside those little circles radio buttons and squares check boxes accompanying program options to select them As we who are over forty can attest these targets can be difficult to hit especially when one s mouse or track ball isn t cooperating and Visine is the order of the day So just click anywhere on the text immediately following a radio button to activate it or anywhere on the text line following a check box and voila They re on Behold two MtG screens below which illustrate this interesting Macintosh phenomenon STEP Please indica
205. of a column or row You may use the mouse or arrow keys to step 2 Seating Order move around Po 3 Please assign a NUMBER to within the tem f L j each of the available seats plate RETURN B EE in this template Click enters a flow 1 seat around and number and DE 92 i19 then enter with RETURN LETE removes ae thatentry You ll notice that we re member the last direction entered by an arrow key so leaning on RE TURN will send you quickly and automatically along the same path as before 108 B Manual Placement Finally it s time to place student bodies within your seating chart this time by hand That is you may click and drag from the roster box below students who need special placement within your classroom Normally such attention is required for only a few persons especially early in the school year so this function should take precious little time You may give your first seat ing chart a title here We de You may now seat as many fault to PERIOD 1 1 PE special students as you RIOD 1 2 and soon but you wish by hand Click a name may enter anything you wish j or roster number and drag 30 characters maximum it to the desired position Special Seating Features 1 Rrcher Dennis E Bowles Charles A Hand placed students may Chancellor James L be return
206. ollawing setup informa tion for this class s gradebook Each of these entries is OPTIONAL and all may be edited later a new class or begin a new grading pe riod and save huge amounts of time U y forty characiers maximum Course Number if applicable ten characters maximum Course Section if applicable five characters maximum Meeting Time Po if applicable twenty characters maximum Academic Term DS twenty characters maximum This Screen Only Making the Grade Class We recommend that you always include the yearinthe Experience has shown that the above information Academic Term field to differentiate this particular usually looks best in CAPITAL LETTERS on your class Title and Meeting Time from all others in your reports but as always the choice is yours to use upper professional archives Quarter I 1998 99 and or lower case characters in such entries B Student Number Selection Every student in your gradebook must have an I D Code to protect his or her anonymity just in case you wish to post students progress report That s the bad news The good news is that you have your choice of three types of student numbers two of which we will create for you automatically These I D codes require no deci sion at all for they re assigned automatically to students as they STEP Please indicate which type of STUDENT NUMBERS you wish to use in this class when and if
207. on Keep in mind however that the most useful of these documents may be a blank one that is one kept in your gradebook binder for recording remarks whenever they occurto you As youcan see in the sample below arelatively empty one the Line Library always appears in two page format containing room for 100 teacher generated comments of 70 characters each A GREAT IDEA FROM AN ESTEEMED COLLEAGUE Consider keeping three or four lines of just underscores in your Line Library When publishing student take home documents append a question asking parents for feedback on their children or your class and then attach the lines of underscores for their response What a revolutionary concept two way progress reports SORT I LE I r Lu Lis dl D Y e rms m LLL mag um m mms gu 11 ovem m a a i E 1 a J a R E E Pr p Printing Missing Assignments Annotations Special Window For the TEACHER For the STUDENTS For the CLASS Gradebooks Grading Scales Confidential Line Library Missing Assignments Report Card Summaries Daily Records Seating Charts Templates SCANTRONE Assignment Notifying students of incomplete or missing work has to be one of the most difficult tasks teachers must perform today Such data rarely hold still long enough t
208. oocoococoooocoococooomeooo czcc ee 0 a ee A C C CO C3 C3 C C C C QC C C c c c D OD OD oO oc oc oO oc O0 cocco 2 0 2 2 0 0 8 7 1 1 0 1 1 4 3 4 3 2 1 4 4 1 0 3 3 3 3 x e e e 63 0 occ b Oe 1 t zv CLASS SCORE CEXCLUDING DROPPED STUDENTS AZSIGNHHENTZ CREDIT CREDIT ONLY AZZIGNUIEHTZ HUHEEE of CHT 0 of EXCUSED HUMBER of DROPPED 104 From MULTIPLE CLASSES By TABLE By HISTOGRAM By BAR GRAPH With DAILY RECORD info p As a SCANTRON Summary CLAY GAILY HEL DRE HIA Dale of report DIM Bg the CONNER MOSELA HL ihe s is 111 abedent Eg AASE in class lasti ar Mart P W ihnul CiEirenship ark Cancel As you can see at left this final Daily Record report is For Teachers Eyes Only its need for confidentiality stemming from the pairing of stu d
209. or bamboozling and often answers questions parents always wanted to ask but were afraid to raise their hands ME JAY KLEIN 24 1998 ME JAY ELEH HOWVEMEBER 24 1998 CORONADO HIGH CHOOL QUARTER 1 1992 30 CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL QUARTER 1 1998 99 DAILY RECORD REPORT SOPHOMORE ENGLISH RA EL JAMES L CHANCELLOR SOPHOMORE 3 48 ENGLISH PERIOD 1 September 1998 October 1998 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat EXCUSED BY PARENT 3 PRE ARRANGED PARENT C H 5 SCHOOL FUNCTION ILL IN THE INFIRHAETY UNESCUSED SCHOOL SUSPENDED UNEXCUSED TRUANT 1 FROM SCHOOL TARDY TO CLASS AND UNEZCUSED UNPREPARED FOR CLASS ACTIVITY 0 afe is a se pe As of this date you have received 86 03 of the weighted grade se 19 28 21 221 23 3j Please call me at 719 620 2600 Ext 2630 if I can be of further help PARENT SIGNATURE Sep zi Sep 23 C x co 2g co p JAY A KLEIN HOVEMBER 24 1998 CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL QUARTER 1 1998 98 DAILY RECORD REPORT MICHAEL DICKERSON SOPHOMORE 3456 ENGLISH PERIOD 1 EXCUSED BY PARENTS Sep 21 Sep 23 PRE ARRANGED BY PARENT C H 8 SCHOOL FUNCTION ILL IN THE INFIRMARY UNEXCUSED SCHOOL SUSPENDED UNEXCUSED TRUANT 13 FROM SCHOOL TARDY TO CLASS AND UNEXCUSED TARDY TO CLASS amp V E R Y LATE UN
210. or teachers fortunate enough to possess a Macintosh for use within the classroom and a connected overhead projection device Blessed be your school board for yours is the kingdom of productivity Of course those who don t have access to such tools will still find these features invaluable at home in the lab or work room for the information displayed here offers teacher and student a greater depth of performance analysis than ever before PLEASE NOTE The data displays within these features and options are but temporary manipulations of the look feel and structure of the grade Reports Annotations Special Window US 99 With students NAMES STUDENT data gt With students NUMBERS CLASS data P With other students HIDDEN book itself That is displaying the ASSIGNMENT data In ROSTER order as is gradebook ALPHABETICALLY by Student BIRTHDAYS P ALPHABETICALLY by last name last name does not actually alpha RANDOMLY for anonymity betize the class roster for saving to By RANK IN CLASS high to low floppy disk or hard drive That Scores as NUMERICAL VALUES function is performed in the Edit gt Scores as LETTER GRADES Setup Info gt Student information scores as PERCENTAGES section of the program This is only Scores as IN J or OUT _ momentary visual manipulation of 5 Grade for this TERM the raw data recorded for aclass and Grade for this ASSIGNMENT your
211. ous scores in the process However you can always hide the telltale little boxes again with the Command I hot key and no one will be the wiser Locking the Screen Temporarily Very little needs to be said about this special feature of course but its importance to the security of your gradebook cannot be overestimated especially if you re fortunate enough to have a desktop or portable Macintosh in your classroom Every time you re called away from your workstation the opportunity exists for a student or students to prowl around without supervision in confidential data and that we cannot permit So a quick stroke of the Command L keys will temporarily blank the screen disable the program and bring up the PASSWORD entry window At this point all the usual rules and regulations for regaining full access to your program will apply AS EXTRA SECURITY Even if a student hacker does a hard reset of Making the Grade or of the CPU itself fear not for in that scenario ATTACH individual student comments BUILD the Line Library CALCULATE 5 as COMPOSE scare annotations CUSTOMIZE letter grades DROP UNDROP the lowest grade ENTER category effort grades EXPORT the student database INDICATE changed scores LOCK the screen temporarily RESET the display report range REVERT to previous entry ROUND score percentages SELECT A GROUP SELECT A STU
212. p information gt Other Predefined Setups Campus America MRICR Campus Data Depot sheet again Carter Pertaine Lake Geauga Computer Ass n Mtb Flat File This particular component of the Making the Grade export package lies at the heart of our never ending Down With Bubble Sheets movement If your campus or district has selected one of the fine data management products listed here dispatching student grades attendance citizenship marks and the like from gradebook to main frame is a breeze Because Making the Grade connects seamlessly with such powerful data systems as these you ll never have to type in aclass roster or fill in a progress report bubble Now you may have noticed the inclusion of a few ParentLink additional products in the Other Predefined Setups Pentamation amp submenu beyond those revealed in the Class Setup Schoolmaster SIMS section The Lake Geauga Computer Association Skyward and WSIPC exports are statewide consortiums in Washington State WSIPC Ohio and Washington to which we export MtG progress and report card data The MtG File setup is used almost exclusively by district MIS departments for it contains all of the teacher student and class information in the MtG database in ASCII form of course road map laying out the exact scope and sequence of this file is available from Jay Klein Productions upon request
213. p your data so they decide to lose your most crucial document at the most critical time out of sheer spite Don t they Yes they do But a simple solution to the problem does exist the only one we can recommend with a clear conscience and without reservation It s the Jay Klein Productions First Commandment of Computer Technology Thou shalt back up thy gradebook files each and every time thou dost edit even the smallest bit of information enscrolled therein Nay not once a week nor once a month nor once a semester nor once a lifetime but every time thou makest a change in class data Yea verily EVERY TIME And not onto the same hard drive or floppy diskette but upon two alternating ones far from harm and mischief But isn t this a royal pain in expletive deleted to do you re probably asking Not at all If you re a single partition hard drive enthusiast keep all of your classes in one folder perhaps on the desktop as I do below and insert a back up floppy whenever you work on erades Then at the end of each session quit the program and drag your class folder onto the floppy disk icon You ll probably be asked if you wish to replace older data with new at which point just click Yes and then fuhgeddaboudit It s that easy and carefree a process and if you back up on alternate diskettes every time you open your class folder you ll never be more than a few entries away from being whole again should the worst inevitable
214. port Well with the MtG Internal and External Report Cards these images are now a reality 64 STUDENT REPORT CARDS Date of this report NOVEMBER 24 1998 amp The INTERNAL Report Card This feature enables you to parse this class s grade book into as many as 15 separate reporting periods and then lt weight them into a composite grade if you wish 9 The EXTERNAL Report Card This feature enables you to merge THIS class with as many as 14 others You may search rosters by student names OR numbers and then weight them if you wish Cancel THE INTERNAL REPORT CARD Of the two MtG Report Card formats Grading Period Assignment a the self contained option is easily the me QUARTER 1 1998 1999 through more elegant and simple to use in our QURRTER 2 1998 1999 SEM I FINRL PRRT opinion That is so because the opera and logical restrictions placed on SOM TPINRECBHBPE its use are almost nil If you can imagine SEM FINAL PARTE an interesting and informative way to TOTAL SEM FINAL divide up your gradebook into micro or SEMESTER COMPLETE macro subsections you can publish it even if such parts overlap even if they contain no points even if they are weighted or are for credit only The only minor requirement for the MtG Internal Report Card is that you identify at least ONE active grading period within your gradebook This grouping doesn
215. prenis entry Ies define SCALE 4 Tur er lela ANNE SEALE SS fur a Hes Tau may record BNF combination of Hes FOU may record BNF combination of Bh o LETTERS nr amp VPAUDIS each E a nr SAUDI S for each 7 he and BETHA udi repeat tho preuipas entr M F tn and BETUH us repeat Ino prepipas an irg Assignment Categories and Weighting One of the many improvements in Making the Grade over Grade Busters 1 2 3 15 this important feature the ability to group up to 320 assignments into as many as 10 categories and 15 reporting periods and then weight them into a single composite grade Your grading options here are threefold You may use a simple frills total points system without categories a total points system with categories or the aforementioned categories and weighting system The choice is yours of course but do keep in mind that the second and third options usually require a significantly larger investment in paper for student take home reports You now have the option of creating up to 18 ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES into which you can enter your students scores You may Weight these categories into a single grade OR use the TOTAL POINT system See GEERT ve ipis TOTAL POINT SYSTEM without categories three of
216. program first and then access your classes from within using Open a class under the File menu It s that simple Yesterday afternoon I saved several classes to my trusty data diskette High Density and today one of them won t open Something about an input output error came up on the screen and nothing I do will open that class What happened You ve just become an unwitting and unwilling victim of fragile computer storage media so welcome to the club Membership is up to about a zillion or so computer users now so don t feel as if you ve been singled out for the honor The truth is that if you save your class files exclusively to a floppy diskette and never to a more reliable and stable hard drive the above scenario will inevitably be yours SOLUTION possible always save your class files to and read them from a hard disk Use your floppy diskettes for backup or transport purposes only The surfaces of these media on the whole are much less reliable than they should be and frankly we just don t trust them in these parts The High Density variety of floppies 15 especially suspect here in Colorado where we have an average relative humidity factor of 1 perhaps I exaggerate a tad Static electricity is less popular in Colorado Springs than bubonic plague and most of us are accustomed to losing at least one HD diskette every week Once again our recommendation is that you always save your class files to your hard di
217. r Macey Z011 SE 9 Homard i i Archer Desais E ZEAN Nest Pikes Paak p Rrrhes Demais Jph z3 peque The MtG Student Data Base possesses 38 fields 1 StuLast 5 Group Code 9 Parent Name 13 Zip Code 17 Home or Work Phone 2 StuFirst Name 6 Grading System 10 Street Address 14 Book Number 18 Line Library Comments 3 Number 7 Citizenship 11 City 15 Locker Number 19 28 Custom Fields 1 10 4 Student Sex 8 Counselor Name 12 State 16 Birth Date 29 38 Category Effort Marks Roster Entry Fields 15 16 17 Click here to give these fields their official titles ET THESE TD class roster NNE LLY Tie UD rose Plea year sludrntis here LAST SARS 5 uam s your sludeois here LAST r d FIRST RETURN minoes e neg cell A a FIRST manes br coll GP Tb bin is ARTUR maurs Ez a neus lime k M lt AMUN mares bz ag mrw Hrs Locker Hirih Bamr ar r 3rgsjeni M MM P j 2 Alpia tori 3 Alpia sri Lasi ame Firei Name Mum Gate P me H Archer Demais E S 18 9 78 634 75 A etica iar 2 Mewes Chemes H ani aiara 693 41 1 james i 907 INT HOT TIP 079 6 s In
218. r problems persist Make sure that only one System Folder is present on your primary hard drive and connected peripherals As you know publishers sometimes place a System Folder on floppy diskettes containing their application software If you accidentally move this folder to your hard drive along with the application and if it s not exactly the same System version a hard rain is definitely gonna fall SOLUTION Using the Find function under the File menu in System 7 and OS 8 and Find File under the Apple menu in System 6 search all attached drives for System If you find more than one such file you ve solved part of the problem Delete it and all of its accompanying extensions without delay and you ll be on your way back to happy computing Only One Per Macintosh Every once in a while I click on one of my Making the Grade class files and the opening screen of my team teaching partner s program appears How come The Macintosh Finder has no way of knowing how many different copies of an application exist on a hard drive nor which of those copies may have created an individual document So when one clicks on a document the Finder locates the first copy of the creator application contained in its directories which may be your copy of MtG or that of your partner SOLUTION If more than one copy of Making the Grade exists on a hard drive a frequent 137 138 occurrence at school you must open your copy of the
219. r wish to reorder you selections just click Clear Selections and start over BILINGUALISM LIVES SUCH AN OPTION 2 If you wish we will translate all headers footers and This final option in printing student fixed tent fields into SPANISH on students take home reports is potentially a public relations tour reports 07 course all annotations Line Library com de force Oops wrong tongue If ments assignment titles etc will stay in the tongues you ve entered your class setup information in which they were entered and assignment titles in Spanish in fact even if you haven t you can now send home studentreports fully or partially trans lated into America s second favorite lan guage Evenif you re not remotely versed en Espa ol a click of the button at right will automatically translate all MtG fixed text 02 Keep in mind that missing assignment reports like the one below right are not the exclusive property of foreign language specialists Unless one teaches in the West and Southwest it can be surprising how many parents aunts uncles and grandparents speak Spanish exclusively at home Therefore we recommend that among the myriad other tasks you perform at the beginning of each term that you ask students if anyone at home or abroad would benefit from your new bilingual tool Assign these children a Group Code letter of S for example filter the roster for everyone in that
220. rade Busters 1 2 3 Attendance Record the new Making the Grade Daily Record there is much more in heaven earth and the American classroom than 15 dreamt of in most data processing offices So let your imagination be your guide once again and start thinking about those interesting phenomena you observe every day that parents and supervisors might want to know more about Establishing the Daily Record Term STEP IN SETTING UP YOUR DAILY RECORD Setting up the MtG Daily Record is so elegantly simple Please enter the full date of the FIRST and LAST days of this grading term The num and self explanatory Me ber of active weeks may not exceed 58 somewhat reticent explaining it to you at all Step One at left asks you to enter the first and The FIRST day of the term Example 89 01 98 last days of the school term in question the only restrictions being that these two dates may LAST day of the term Example 18 38 98 not fall on a Saturday or Sun day and that the entire term may exceed 50 active weeks Import Import ENTIRE Daily Record Setup You ll be happy to know that once you have set up the Daily Record for one of your classes you can import any or all of that information into others enean graphic calendared layout ofthe Daily Record term you set STEP TWO Click an those days on which ND SCHOOL will be was held during this term You m
221. ram st Janu en 727 ign 25 Enan Hi Kn sEsrman 29 Ler l na 0 Legis 27 Coin 2H kargan Onse 79 Ogden Kristi SP el dire 5hel 47 urda k bi dr d X3 Head L H T3 Tampan Gm T 33 tlds E T Torpa der 3 Eri 28 For SDENT d yeu mish ba eater Recard Coder Daily Hereed Code toe Janes L Comcal code and the task 1s done mie torn aec reete deere A QUICK TIP Here s how to have the best of both worlds randomentry from the sequential entry screen l Click in the specific day s column for which you wish to record data 2 Then click in the FIND box making sure you leave the pointer arrow resting within the box 3 Type any unique portion of a student s name and press Return Enter tdm m PHERET EGE EM LI FPS eee FEI mL LL cH PE info bey oe WERE a TIMT Poe Pe cH jn Ee ee ur Umm TG d UE LATET 4 BERE button Voila You re back in the FIND box Reports Special Window Displaying the Daily Record Reports The DAI
222. re changes it internally everywhere else including the first class setup screen SELECT R STUDENT SET the Teacher Hide made SHOWCASE special scares SEPN E MELAT AP Faur H iniiai cet do ed aae RARIK 1 Tbe mimm sumber a sCOPPS HLL ipo Gey Cea fee Theog pens l geom perm elus perTarmience Tor 0 gin 6l eng Tis FER Step 2 You may modify any or all of these four values to reflect the parameters of the new grading period Most likely you ll change only the first sets of numbers to indicate the new starting point of your gradebook That is if Quarter I contains 40 assignments then Quarter II must begin with assignment 41 Ine C erren bracing bern race ji L r w LuLAAEL G LORLLLLAALLALALLGELLANEOSSC AGAB4 R RbQAeOe CEOU H aic ulated i hir hs 128 Lancet Dane 81 Setting the display report range RULES AND REGULATIONS new Making the Grade classes automatically default to the maximum display report range of 1 through 320 assignments The number of the first assignment in the display report range must be less than but not 0 equal to or only one greater than the number of assignments recorded thus far That is if you have recorded 40 assignments for Quarter I and wish to change the display report range
223. re class that it requires little commentary ex cept You will note in the screen at right that Helen Glenn and Susan Huntington seem to have the same rank in class for this particular assignment that is they share the number 4 posi tion from the top This is a fea ture of Making the Grade we haven t mentioned thus far in the documentation but it s present wherever ties exist between two or more ranked students You will note that when a tie occurs the next student in line will be ranked as if the tie did not exist Cancel NAMES STUDENT Sophomore 3 4B English QUARTER 1 Spelling Final Test 18 28 W Period 1 Points Points For This Grade For Earned Possible Assignment Assignment t Stephen B Huston 196 280 988 n 2 Uickie R Smith 192 200 968 n 3 Susan L Huntington 186 280 958 n p 4 HelenB Glenn 172 208 860 B p4 Beverly H Jansen 172 288 866 6 Jamesl Chancellor 164 280 828 B Eugene F Garcia 168 8 Stacey E Howard 156 200 9 Donald T Morgan 154 200 8808 __ ASSIGNMENT DATA by rank and student name In other words in this screen Jim Chancellor will be ranked sixth on this quarter final vocabulary test even though there 15 technically no fifth ranked Sophomore 3 48 English Heri Final Text 10 22 QUAATES 1 19996 97 Sc sigma Humb
224. reby saving tons of paper but a message will be included in the header reminding students and parents that other assignments are being calculated as well if such is your decision CLASS CARRYOVER METHOD III Thelastofourthree carryover options is Chuck Every thing and Just Start Over aut methodoftermrenewal Thatis yousimply mein n archive the class you used during the last Mith missim grading period and create a brand new for this using the Import buttons to bring Rt DAIRY RECORD in all duplicate data and to save time Then use the External Report Card function to combine all related classes up to 15 later Far fe MACHA b SPESE F jar mre LUANA _ chews _ LOSE ihis class Prete THIS CLAYS iib ms Seem Ans ith MIRE Pag setup Tell HII a regnri mi 1 FIEL 5 a File Edit Display Reports Special The GRADEBOOK Ihe DAILY RECORD The SEATING CHART The SCANMARK 2888 The NCS READERS PHRENTLINE amp MiG WINDOWS The PORTRAIT STUDIO The CONNECTION Okay we know what you re thinking and it probably goes something l
225. ree either of the two main buttons above Portrait 122x162 pixels Three buttons from the main Portrait Studio screen remain to be investigated Settings Import and Export Legitech Input isdem Fort Torrisi fferins F rrar antate hate m in dd jm A rae Hus Red i Blur Leal Lei haluratian hbarpnersk Ligh te ber Frarter EB Lowi Ligh linee Comer rein Dedealts The first of these buttons is available only when QuickTime is active and an imaging device is attached to your Mac Clicking Settings reveals a series of control panels in this case for the Logitech QuickCam which modify the image displayed in the portrait rectangle These controls include Compression Image and Source for the QuickCam but we recommend that you consult your camera s documentation for additional information Export Cy tb Picture Exports Archer Dennis E Bowles Charles A Chancellor James L Dickerson Michael R Barcia Eugene F Sape this class as It s clear that the primary purpose of the MtG Portrait Studio is to get student pictures into the program s database so why the export function here The answer originated with a young man in a midwest high school who was among the earliest
226. roductions take great pride in making all of our printouts understandable at a glance Hence we ve provided a legend of sorts at the bottom of the page explaining why there may be gaps in a student s graph and which parts of the display belong to whom the student or the class Still you may find it worthwhile to look over this document with your students be fore they take it home Student Report 6 Line Graph with MEAN LEGS ENSE L0 F FLR E nra Pup mn t 60 2 4 each document selected Now that you ve selected the type of reports you wish to print it s time to choose those who are going to receive them We default to the EVERY student option but you may narrow your selection by picking INDIVIDUAL STU DENTS or entire groups of students You ll soon discover that this latter option can be used beyond the printing feature as a filtering tool to identify say which third graders in the Robin Group on Grade Scale 1 are doing poorly aca demically and earning low behavior marks STUDENT REPORTS WITH ALL ASSIGNMENTS Select students for whom you wish to print a report by clicking on their names below A second click de selects the student 1 Archer 31 oder 2 Bowles 3 Chancellor 4 Dickerson 5 barcia 6 Glenn 8 g Huntinqton 18 Huston Lancel 1 i1 Ingram 1 2 Jansen 135 Jenkins 14 Knight 15 Kosterman 16 Lee 17 Lewis 18 Mc Cann 19
227. roup Once it has been discovered remove it from your System Folder and call the publisher to see if a more recent version is available Please permit us to recommend Casady and Greene s Conflict Catcher M as a software aide in this odious process it has bailed us out of a serious system conflict on more than one occasion Rescan your hard drive s and often used floppies with the latest set of definitions from your virus protection utility We cannot overemphasize the importance of keeping current with the most recent virus detection efforts of Virex S A M G et al It never ceases to amaze us in workshops around the country when teachers admit they haven t updated their virus definition file since the day it was bought often years ago The fact is that at least three new viruses are distributed by malcontents worldwide each and every day of the year So if you haven t updated your virus definition file within the last couple of months you re begging to become a victim of someone s electronic terrorism Reinstall your Systemsoftwarefrom a CD or locked set of floppies This step often resolves a plethora of PrintMonitor problems font conflicts and the like The only problem is that Apple s Installer program merely updates the current System rather than replacing it unless you move the Finder completely out of the folder first Do so reinstall the System preferably with the latest version of 6 x 7 x or 8 x as you prefer and see if you
228. ry As a SCANTRON Analysis Have you ever had one of those days when the darker side of a perfectly sweet disposition overwhelms you with a desire for revenge Well I have Every once in a great while I am deluged with an insatiable urge to turn the tables if only for a brief moment and let the home front know exactly what terrors 102 have occurred recently in the trenches and front lines of the classroom Please forgive the melodrama but after 23 years in the classroom it s unavoidable sometimes At any rate when such an urge does present itself it is this uniquely informative and powerful report I send home the dreaded Student Daily Record Report The horror the horror This single piece of paper is the one that all of my students from sophomores to seniors dread the most for it not only reveals their academic achievement for the term but their behavioral history as well It is my district s policy to notify parents every three weeks of their students progress At the end of the first three weeks I send home chronological and categorical reports with assignments at the end of the second the shorter student categorical summaries without assignments and at the end ofthe third the Daily Record report shown below Over fifteen years of working with Grade Busters 1 2 3 and now Making the Grade has taught me that students desperately wish we had never designed this particular document tt leaves little room f
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230. s is the option for you Please keep in mind that only Inc s and those Customized Letter Grades scores predefined as incomplete scores will show up in the table at right no other 0 score will appear there NOTE 1 Click on the assignment title bar to move between and among activities in your gradebook NOTE 2 Ahardcopy version of this screen 15 also avail able in the MtG Reports section 1 48 ENGLISH FHHLNT S3LBIURLE Prog Report 1 E3 27 wr PERIUD 3TSUENI 2 t hurhes 2 H B 15 d Emight 1 E rii H idea File Edit Display 1114 Annotations Special Window For the TEACHER For the STUDENTS For the CLASS And now for the piece de resistance of the Making the Grade package the printouts We hope you ll agree that for aesthetic appeal readability of format and completeness of information MtG reports are unparalleled in the field of electronic record keeping Far from being mere data dumps starting in the upper left corner of a page Grade Busters Mac documents are easy to look at understandable at a glance works of art No one can accuse us of excessive humility At any rate the proof of such pudding always lies in the eating so let us proceed with an in depth investigation of the MtG Publication Department But first A Few Hard Facts of Life One of the
231. sa persa Productions will come to your rescue Send us a note indicating which of the above drivers extensions you need a couple of blank diskettes and 5 00 for postage C tacitus and handling and we ll take care of you personally 71 Hint Three you use Apple s ImageWriter or StyleWriter printer to generate your reports be sure to select the Faster mode below when pressed for time and not Best the worst time consumer ever Do not click Draft mode unless you re curious what a pure data dump looks like it does not create normal finished documents ImageWriter n Print Quality Best Faster Draft Page Range All i From To LE Copies Paper Feed amp Automatic Hand Feed Color 4tyleWriter 4888 Copies Quality amp Best Faster Pages All From To Paper amp Sheet Feeder Manual Cancel Hint Four and one that s often a shock to novice computer users One of the prime culprits in reducing printer efficiency on the Macintosh is a screen saver that activates during the printing process To put it mildly your Mac has its hands full printing a relatively simple document like a blank gradebook Asking it to display a full tank of multicolored fish or flying toasters at the same time is more than most older CPUs can bear without a marked decrease in efficiency So what s the solution here Just increase the delay before your screen sa
232. served rest The Mac will open each of the classes you selected print the document s indicated there close the class and then move on to the next task And there itis the Mac Poor Man s Printer Buffer in all its glory By the way don t be embarrassed if you ve never heard of or seen Finder Printing in action Not all programs support this feature within the Macintosh operating system but they most certainly should 70 FOUR TIPS If you re the proud owner of a G3 PowerMac connected to a LaserWriter 8500 you should probably skip this part of the documentation for it doesn t apply to you But if you re computing with anything less than these speedy devices you might want to peruse the following suggestions with care Few phenomena irritate Macintosh users more than a printer lapsing into catatonia while publishing a complex document but the good news 1s that there are ways to minimize such down time and maximize printing efficiency tregardless of the cost or power of your computer Hint Two Adobe Type Manager As marvelous as this famous system enhancer can be in beautifying screen and printer fonts it can consume volumes of time on older Macs Hint One Making the Grade uses the standard font sizes of Courier Helvetica Monaco and Times Ro man in all teacher and student documents so turning this INIT off through the Control Panel should speed up the printing process while re ducing the aesthetics
233. sfer RULES AND REGULATIONS Transferring students does not delete their data from the original class That function remains separate and is much too dangerous to be performed without additional confirmation Students cannot be transferred into another class if their names or student numbers already appear there In the case of duplicate roster position numbers Student Number 1 students will be given the next available number and placed at the bottom of the roster Students cannot be transferred into another class 1f the roster is already full containing 80 active and or dropped students Students cannot be transferred into another class in Easy and Smart if the Gradebook s assignment categories annotations or Daily Record categories do not match Categories do not have to be in the same order but they must be there somewhere Alert messages will appear in Smart when minor differences exist between classes variances in grading scales assignment setup info and the like These may be overridden if you wish and the transfer process may be continued to its conclusion Changing Setup Information Display Reports Annotations Special Window Assignments Students Setup Info TEACHER information CLASS information STUDENT information Empty Blank Clear Repeat Previous Score Repeat 5core Fill Column Lut Paste You will find th
234. sh to UNDROP it with REVERT to previous entry again in the Special menu ASSIGHMENT HLUMBERS TRUANT TRU We hope you re one of those fortunate teachers RESIBHMENT CATEGORIES gt 1 LIT who never have to use this mark but if you relike most of us it will come in handy when you require specific documentation of negligent atten HSSIGHHENT VALUES i dance academic performance Entered with a T from the keyboard the 2B TRU option should be utilized only when a confirmed truancy has occurred and an activity cannot by state local or private regulation be made zn up It is computed as a 0 in the student s point total but 1t will NOT be 20 48 counted against class average that assignment CHEATING CHT This mark unfortunately is needed in those 3 3d rare instances in which a student does not complete an assignment 1 unaided shall we say Entered with a C from the keyboard it too is computed as a 0 in the student s point total but it will NOT be counted 4 against the class average for that assignment B V V V CREDIT Entered with a or from the keyboard or Keypad these unusual marks are best used to indicate that an exercise was completed handed in experienced etc but no points were awarded Itis an ideal entry for participation in field trips and other such activities which are valuable in and of themselves but which are difficult to evaluate objectively or subjec
235. sk and then drag those files to a floppy for backup or carrying home purposes only The Macintosh Finder does an excellent job of reading writing and verifying data during the copying process so your chances of being stuck with a bad class here are immeasurably reduced Forewarned is forearmed It s time to start a brand new year and I want to get rid of my old classes from last year How do I do this Before we answer this common question a quick word of advice NEVER delete old gradebook files from your hard drive or gradebook folder without archiving at least one copy of them first If the information in those class files was important to you once it may no most likely wi i become important to you again when you least expect it Now to answer your question Making the Grade creates and reads data files which are completely separate from the application itself you must do to delete them from your hard drive is drag them into the Trash Can on your Macintosh desktop and then empty the trash It s that simple Trash INDEX A Abbreviations student reports 59 types of scores 28 29 47 Academic term changing 81 82 setting up 9 92 93 Acronyms assignment category codes 12 Daily Record codes 93 grading scales 11 types of scores 28 29 Adding assignments 25 27 seating charts 109 students 32 Adobe Type Manager 71 Alphabetizing sorting class roster 14 16 Gradebook display only 43 Annotations score attaching
236. son Tes Import File ASCII hha Ti p 3S5 Fila ASC Text 8 import File Teu Buihingtan tabe dis iPLE ASCII Test STEP DSE I SG A CERES Fiesse enter the Tallauring informa Linn fnr Ehis class s qradebaagk Esch of these enines is OPTIONAL andi alf maa bs Courte Sumber tit applicanis applic abiri Acer Term Screen Only Making ihe Grade Class Em ESI The Eesipr Making ihe Grade Class The Bisio Making ihe Grade Class Importing Class Setups Nothing pleases us more than saving your precious time especially when it comes to entering class setup data Our thinking is this If information fora class has already been recorded once why should anyone have to enter it again The long Import bar at the bottom of the first MtG setup screen is our solution to the double entry conundrum plaguing most educators today for it enables ev eryone to profit handsomely from the data entry efforts of others Clicking here reveals a catalog of data sources from which you may obtain class setup information As seen at left Making the Grade imports previously recorded data not only from its own classes the first three options but from many third party vendors as well The companies below are fully integrated into MtG import export componen
237. ster another MtG file of course or you A C x you wish to import It can be may connect with a simple TEXT or ip a MTG or RSCII TERT file ASCII document prepared by a word processor data base program or data management service The former option requires no instruction whatsoever The latter however requires that data fields be laid out in the same order left to right as that seen on the roster screen 1 2 3 7 8 Stu Last Name Stu First I D Number Cit Mark Counselor 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Parent Name Street Address City State 71 Code BookNum Locker Num Birth Date 17 18 27 Telephone Fields 1 10 4 5 6 Student Sex Group Code Grading Sys Sample ASCII File Icons Each field must be delimited by a comma or and the end of each record must be indicated by a FRETURN L Each ASCII file must be completely nude from start to finish with no extraneous header footer or formatting ClarisWorks Text File SimpleText File information appended to the record If afield is to be left empty in a record a comma or tab must zh replace it That is 1f Grading System 15 to be left empty AT above there must be two delimiters commas or tabs MS word Text File MS works Text File placed between Group Code and Citizenship Mark 16 TRADE SECRETS and more TROUBLESHOOTING TIP Those of us antiquarians raised on manual or electri
238. sy and intuitive that it really needs no introduction However and for the record We define Dropping undropping students is easy Just check uncheck the box next to each applicable name and EX will be recorded removed for any remaining assignments Student 1 0 Group Move DROPPED Undrop Name Number Code student s to 2 Charles a 659 703 905 5 11E NOT move James 685 836 983 510 DROPPED stu dent s 2 Dickerson Michael R 937 865 627 S T0BE 2 Eugene F 353 077 561 3 1005 _ 2 Heien B 124 282 298 5 1 El GrayKatheenR 374 851 489 5 0 ElHeward Stacey t 313 489 265 5 10E E Huntington Susan L 858 438 934 5 18 32 DROPPING A STUDENT as retaining all of his or her records in the gradebook but dimming graying them and excusing all remaining assignments up to the maximum of 320 The student s grade will stay the same for remainder of the grading period of course for EXC will be recorded automatically on that line for all unused cells Should you ever wish to UNDROP a student we ll remove the additional EXC scores and you can then decide what if any work he or she should make up Notice the option If you reatrue neatnik and proud of it you ll appreciate this feature Click here and we ll take all dropped students out of their original positions in the roster alphabeti
239. t Guardian Name at this point in the student data en masse once opinions are formed If your students don t base Keep in mind however that 10 Custom Fields of have school advisors you may wish to use the Counselor 20 characters each await your personal touch They re Name field for additional group information perfect for an additional parent name and phone number 14 1 Roster Entry Fields 12 13 14 Roster Entry Field 10 DT Derupyeur cass roster 2 cem 29 ILE wg oer chass raster Pirae Spral your Wudents here LAST SEATS i your xludpnix bere LEST HIANS 4 B 7m FIRST RETURN moves te a cell GPT bie WE 7 FIRST IRETUHS maues a neus oi d rn thee Chai AUR mones Ez a ngu lime Ww daring nrmuns maurs linei 3 Alpe seri 7 Arak t Biphe sort Last ame First Sane Adored Last Fus Cade umor pa DON T adpha gs sort Charter n 24 2 Domes jtharesH tu e team ples Chancellor Hama i 2858 iat Ermita i 3 L 3 LA Eugene 41879 Armstrong Aue ___ bena EwgeneF 1969984 a Bray 296 Bueno 7 Gras kathheen a gs Previous Hran ar
240. t one at a WITHOUT student s picture time while I conferred with the visitor Atthat time I envisioned the day when I could press a single button and instantaneously receive a packet of stu Each student s individualized GRADING SCALE 4 A CHRONOLOGICAL listing of all assignments thus far dent information which looked as if it had been A CATEGORICAL listing of all assignments if applicable published by the district print shop The screen at Cancel Next right and the sample printouts below are the fulfill acm ment of that dream Step One Selecting the Type of Report Of course you don t have to print the big picture You ve seen a version of this page in the Teacher every time you can select any or all of the eight Reports section but these documents are properly report options which comprise The Works customized with each selected student s name Student Report 1 The Cover Sheet Student Report 2 The Grading Scale MR JAY A KLEIN CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL GRADING SCALE 1 FOR JAMES L CHANCELLOR SOPHOMORE 3 4B ENGLISH PERIOD 1 QUARTER 1 1998 99 AN ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC PECHIR ERS FOR JAMES L CHANCELLOR O Bo e o c Nahas PEE SOPHONMCOR B ENGLISH QUARTER 1 1555 59 l 1 PREPARED MR JAY A RI ETS CORRS OI ROLL iE
241. t comments persistence of one of our favorite Driver s Education teachers Because the BUILD the Line Library scope and sequence of his curriculum was predetermined by state fiat he could CALCULATE INC s as lay out his gradebook files with an entire semester s worth of work at a time Se cee SIE etter grades You should see this gentleman use the MtG Import button In the process he DROP UNDROP the lowest grade ENTER category effort grades also entered point values for each required assignment totaling about 4500 oM E EU points for the semester thereby assuring students that they would enter each INDICRTE changed scores LOCK the screen temporarily marking period with 0 points and a cumulative grade of F The mathematics and ESET ihe display report range negative public relations value of this scenario were intolerable for the teacher REVERT to previous entry JE ROUND score percentages his students and their parents and something definitely had to give Sa Eee a Nitin SELECT A STUDENT The solution appeared in MtG when we developed the feature at right SET the Teacher Aide mode Even though the program defaults to calculating Incompletes as zeroes you special scores have the right and power to override the practice Selecting Calculate INC as Excused ensures that your students will be Fins bel
242. t make sure that no modem or fax software has seized the external modem port disallowing other connections there Global Village fax extensions and control panels are infamous for locking up modem ports even when their major applications are not being used The Mac OS Extensions Manager and Casady amp Greene s Conflict Catcher can be of invaluable assistance in freeing up your port of choice Once your imaging device 15 properly attached capturing students pictures is a simple matter of utilizing the dozen or so active buttons below Click this bar to display the class roster and select a student for portraiture Click these arrows to move Capturing Student Image Click here to delete one Sba ent Donnis E Arete throughthe class roster one student s picture in this student at a time case Dennis E Archer s tar oe Take Pit ture Click this button when the back ne _ IE picture in the rectangle is ing everything unchanged Ei a just right mJ uL Clickhereto accept all pic CAPTURE Images tures taken or modified 3 Pictures Resiza Making the Grade supports two modes of takine and piures students pictures with the Logitech Duirki am or any 5 Click these two buttons to other digital rameral Vou can Then pertonalize Progress Reports displaying student pictures 1 open the connection to and print Seating Charts with familiar
243. te which type of STUDENT NUMBERS you wish to use in this class when and if you post student scores SUE Invisible Hot Boxes each and every one Roster Position numerical positions in the roster appear Numbers ing as STUDENT NUMBER 1 and so on Click the mouse arrow any Fo our Own where within the dotted lines 2 Numbers 11 characters max LETTERS or NUMBERS in this sample screen and that item is selected MAKING THE GRADE 11 numerical characters similar to 55N s umbers 55n62 937 481 TERES Author Identification Exercise p 09 07 Hot Box 45 __5 Spelling Uocab Unit 02 Homework 09 13 59 6 Again clicking anywhere along the horizontal line fol lowing each check box will select that item Materials Check 1 Lord of Flies 09 14 7 Spelling Wocabulary Unit 2 Quiz 09 16 B Spelling Uocab Unit 03 Homework 09 19 000000 ANOTHER INSIDER TIDBIT It is standard M O P Macintosh Operating Procedure but I made that up too for only one radio button to be selectable within a program option Check boxes however are often available in bunches so you may wish to experiment here and there to see which features permit multiple selections 3 NEW FEATURES edited later Ine Class Title Time MAUCA LCarler Portaine amp import File Tes Lake Geauga Computer Bi
244. ter their title NOTE If it is your wont to create a new Class file when grading periods change amend the name of the old picture file to reflect the new title pict of course and voila Student pictures appear in the new class s Portrait Studio as well All MtG class files can be read on Mac and Windows platforms regardless of where they were created The same can be said of the student picture file for it too is independent of these two operating systems Just keep it in the same directory as the original class file and all will be well Portrait Studio Softcopy Once you ve collected all of your students pictures you ll find they play a variety of roles within Making the Grade both on screen and on paper On screen portraits are displayed most prominently in the Seating Chart apowerful vehicle for learning new students names quickly and for arming stubstitutes with the information they most urgently need 7 E AMT i Tou arr the x dug LT ad Abedenl contest P Vorne d LOIRE FE Db DL ed R Select A Student windows display students likenesses in stead of their names if a picture is available within the pict file On screen seating charts like the one at right are also displayed by selecting Display With Student PICTURES from the main menu bar A TIP Student names for each of the faces in the chart may be revealed and daily attendance taken simp
245. teven have to include the full range of assignments recorded thus far Thatis if your gradebook currently contains 75 scores above and you wish to report only Assignments 1 35 we ll support that decision Likewise if you wish to analyze student performance by skill unit by week by quarter by semester or any other combination please do so You don t even have to change the display report range of your gradebook to effect a completely new analysis of achievement in your class THE EXTERNAL REPORT CARD Therules governing the external report card are more restrictive Ae sERD NT eee Clave Files 08 09 Ul ne than its internal counterpart but the power to combine student trads naain data from as many as 15 classes makes it worthwhile What are amicam theserestrictions Actually there sbutone Student NAMES Bs frase icira TIE Grade nci Studies or NUMBERS must be IDENTICAL in all classes if we are to find and include them in the report Thes JETE of lhis mpari 24 1298 CARD The first class shown in each Report Card is the gradebook currently in use but you may include as many as 14 additional carri 2 classes in any order you wish Just click Add then Include Tur TELEFEONE NATATION to build the list of classes
246. tform and OS That is you must know how to B Set up and use your Macintosh including basic mouse techniques such as pointing clicking and dragging B Select commands from pull down and pop up windows B Work with Macintosh windows Open Close Save and Select B Set up new folders for class data and back up those folders on archivable floppy diskettes or other external back up media If you are not completely familiar with each of these operations please refer to your Macintosh User Manuals for additional instruc tion and review them now Technical Assistance Jay Klein Productions and Grade Busters products are extensively tested and come with comprehensive documentation and user support However should you encounter problems using Grade Busters Mac Mak ing the Grade we recommend the following steps 1 Review our documentation thoroughly It should answer most of the common questions and problems encountered by first time users of the program Also check your computer to make sure it possesses the minimum hard drive storage space free RAM and system software 2 Rebuild your computer s desktop Restart your Mac and hold down the option and command keys simultaneously and continuously until you see the Are you sure you want to rebuild the desktop file message Click OK 3 Restart your Mac with allextensions off Reboot and hold down the shift key until you see the words Extensions Off Then la
247. the first wait a moment longer lucky winner of the the spotlight is all yours Select A Student contest You have our permission to sit this one out NOT 34 Setting the Teacher Aide Mode Call it paranoia or a heightened awareness of FERPA regulations but window it s difficult for many of us to permit students paraprofessionals secretaries UTD RE DNE us or other helpful souls to enter data unsupervised into our gradebooks and CALCULATE INC s attendance records First among many concerns of course is the issue of SECIS GU ET 0005 CUSTOMIZE letter grades accuracy We know we re not perfect and we have a personal firsthand DROP UNDROP the lowest grade involvement with such data So how can we be comfortable with others more ENTER category effort grades li 1 th d ds Oth Deci EXPORT the student database casual involvement with our students records Other concerns lie in the areas INDICRTE changed scores of privacy and security Should a third party be privy to sensitive and LOCK the screen temporarily lat inh ti d h h irtuall tricted editorial RESET the display report range proprietary information and hence have virtually unrestricted editoria STRE ROTER enii control over it For all these reasons and more most of us could never ROUND score percentages l SELECT A GROUP entertain the thought of a teacher aide until now Sel
248. the remainder of the semester but things did change A class which possessed the potential to send me toan early grave or certainly into early retirement became a normal enjoyable bunch of students May such wonders never cease ussskL Hunlingbsn Wea F uan PERIOD XEPHIPAHBHE SAER ESBLESH PRIMERE 4 48 FL 198 nem Hr ARIEN EHELUSEI EF PHES STIS E Tep 27 p Hrerage PHE AHBESSEE OY HEX ERLUSED FARENS C H 5 Fus BBSENT dp ABSENT UNENCUSED SCHOL Sep R ABSENT AREMT FRO SE 29 Xepi Sep 1 BEVWERT AUSPERDED HUNEXE USED tance 1D CLES SO DANO jap i7 oe FOR T1855 Screen 1 Student data for the term by dates Screen 2 Student data for the term by totals An active slide bar indicates that at least one additional date We discovered at CHS that a class average higher than 2 0 remains to be seen to the right in any category was truly a significant figure good or bad 98 Displaying Student Information for a Day Week Month Reports Special Window The DAILY RECORD gt STUDENT data p For the ENTIRE PERIOD CLASS data rn For DAY S For WEEK S For MONTHI
249. the student data base Return cancel auem rae moves to the next cell Option 7 mean hetent a10 1 gen Return or Command or Con amp Hrmwar Slarmy T 912 4516779 trol moves to the beginning of m the next student record Speaking of the Alpha sort function Once you have completed the roster for a class you may e FINALLY it s time set up your class roster wish to rearrange it some Please enroll your students here LAST NAMES what before proceeding with AEN FIRST RETURN moves to a cell OPTION grade entry Clicking on the RETURN moves to a new line Alpha sort button at the right of the screen places a sorting 1 0 stu Group brd amp nIpha sort box around the first of the 26 Number Sex Code sys DON T alpha er Dennis 829 558 435 M 5 19JE 1 1 petize sort Bowles Chartes a 659 703 905 M 5 116 1 Samples Chancellor James L 685 856 985 M 5 18 1 Dickerson Michael R 937 865 627 M 5 18BE Cancel Garcia EugeneF 355 877 561 M 3 16uS_ Glenn Helen 124 282 298 F 5 18 Gray Kathleen 574 851 489 F 5 1 Previous Howard Stacey E 515 489 265 M 5 18E 1 category headers This means simply that clicking Sort at this point will alpha betize this class roster by Stu dent Name Clicking I D Number Stu Sex Group Code Grd Sys etc will sort the rost
250. these columns are dimmed because otal Points they do not apply to this default grading style Categories Click this Sample button to see what teachers at Q otal Points Tpts WITH Categories Coronado High School and others around country do in their classes Composite Grade Z Weighting is asedio 3 Click here to Import category setup information a single grade of from other classes The time saver 168 value You now have the option of creating up to 18 ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES into which you can enter your students scores You may A Weight these categories into a single grade OR use the TOTAL POINT system Description po sini g Total Points This oix is grayed since weights are Categories a not used this format Total Points Tpts Category Descriptions are limited to 20 char WITH Categories acters each all in UPPER case 9 tm Category Codes are limited to 3 characters all used to calculate PAR NOTIFICATIONS caps We recommend that these acronyms as similar as possible to their descriptions to help Pe 166 value students and parents interpret them at a glance You now have the option of creating up to 18 ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES into which you WEIGHTED SYSTEM with categories can enter your students scores
251. these two non sequiturs 1 You may not print a gradebook with student names randomly rearranged None of us could think of a single practical use for a freshly scrambled roster of students real names you see 2 You may not print a gradebook with student numbers in the as is mode Changing stu dents names to I D Codes and then leaving their data on the very same lines as before when posting a gradebook 15 unnecessarily risky so consider yourself protected here The final three options at right exist for teachers whose charges share a common last name within a specific district city or region When a student body possesses a host of children surnamed Smith VanDyke Kim Garcia or the like the second of these three options can be a godsend for writing on the second page of one s grade book Instead of seeing a dozen Kim s in a row on the extreme right side of the page who is which student first names or student numbers can reside there 22 TAHA FEPUETS base af ihh M SEPMEER 24 1908 Thir class s rurren ANAO 12 be 52 pagrexl d deb B unb STURT dt LASI Piers Pie far Got Dij riesce CR PAST gates liri peastipa pr Bg CERRENT ATES PEDER Cine a4 is option HLFHH SUPAEHICHLLV Ces armes cbr former RESO PES 1 murmhen 5i i Q Bg REESE in qaas first do Lance Del
252. ting chart may eventually prove to be your favorite especially if you have a computer in your classroom Click on the Daily Record to bring it forward then click on the rightmost inverted triangle in the upper left corner of a student s seat Thefulllistof your Daily Record categories will descend complete with codes and descriptions Slide down to the appropriate item and release The two letter category code will then ap pear inside that tab and the entry will berecorded automatically in the Daily Record as well See Helen Glenn s seat at right A HINT Expand and center the seating chart on your monitor when using this option It makes entry for bottom row students much easier Helen B Glenn Kathleen Gray With Grades or Rank in Class And now for the real power behind MtG seating chart Once you ve recorded a number of assignments for your students you may use these two options to examine more closely the aca demic dynamics of your classroom That 1s you may display charts with stu dents grades or their rank in class to find out specifically where pockets of intellectual excel lence and resistance exist in your room We place this information in all four corners of each seat so you can easily compare the performance of stu dents seated next to or near to each other You ll note in the two charts at right for instance that Helen Glenn be feeling a bit isolated from the other
253. tion of even one seat in your template you must completely rebuild all layouts based upon it The Date of Daily Record Entry Sie Display Reports Special Window Undo SEATING CHARTS The default date of Daily Record entry is taken directly from your Mac s The TEMPLATE system clock If it has not been set correctly access your Date amp Time TETTE DATE or General Control Panel below left and change the date shown If se you simply wish to change the current entry date click within the EmptyBlank Clear calendars which follow in this option and record your data Cut Paste ae Sample Gradebook Seating Chart 1 De ze mm Danald T James L Susan L Kathleen Michael Lunn T Charles Chancellor Huntington Gray Dickerson Jenkins Bowles Tamara Dennis E Thomas L Jeremy D Jason D Eugene F Lee Archer Ingram Torrence Kosterman Garcia Lester L Shelli M Bewerly H Eugene J Timothy John St James O Grady Jansen Sampson Muss Powell Jr Jeffrey P Helen B Kristin Carie 5 Stacey E Michael 5 Lewis Glenn Winston Howard Rutledge Kristi Jeremy D Molly P Vickie R Rebecca Jd Stephen Ogden Yoder Cann Smith Knight Huston Click on the incorrect date element type in the correct number or use the up and down arrows Control Panels General Controls General Controls Rate of Insertion Point Blinking Time 0 39 21
254. tively 8 C La ER 8181218 8 8 8 8 3 F3 Changing an Assignment Sie Display Reports Annotations Special Window Undo ADD an assignment aen CHANGE an assignment DR P UNDRUP an assignment 0 DELETE an assignment REPOSITION assignment 96 M Assignments Students Setup Info Empty Blank Clear Repeat Previous Score Repeat 5core Fill Column Cut Paste 1 Actually what we re talking about here is editing the setup information for previously entered set of scores You may change any assignment s title its category if applicable its position in the gradebook its value and or its X Factor and you may initiate the process in either of two ways Sample Gradebook ASSIGNMENT NUMBERS gt 27 286 29 30 31 EE 56 CURRENT ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES gt LIT PAR SPL OFT ORL LIT LIT WRT OFT 4 lt P Option 1 Click anywhere in the 100 200 TOTALS assignment column you wish to 76 420 edit thus selecting it and then mM EARERHRERERAERESESERSEERTIERERSERERREN WO wi c zi access the menu and submenu M P Cert eee A SEES shown above 78 Vi B 2 EXCiEXCi 29 BB pu a bans SUNL d vow x
255. ts so you ll never have to type a roster or bubble in a grade sheet again Just select your vendor navigate to your classes import and relax Lampus pisi 205 Knoxville TN 37915 2580 America URL _ http www campus com 423 523 9506 Voice E Mail Info campus com 423 525 5628 Fax Carter Pertaine Inc 1500 S Dairy Ashford Suite 400 Houston TX 77077 URL 281 558 1270 Voice E Mail 281 526 8980 Fax 225 Marketplace Bethlehem PA 18018 lt Pentamation Inc Pentamation URL hHhttp www pentamation com 610 691 3616 Voice E Mail Fax Schoolmaster Olympia Computing Company Inc 7249 Capitol Boulevard South Tumwater WA 98501 5519 URL _ http www schoolmaster com 360 352 0922 Voice E Mail schoolmaster schoolmaster com 360 352 0957 Fax SIMS Computer Solutions Inc 7044 Mill Court S E Olympia WA 98503 URL 360 456 1888 Voice E Mail Fax Skyward Inc 5233 Coye Drive Steven s Point WI 54481 URL _ http www skyward com 800 236 7274 Voice E Mail kevin skyward com Fax 23 Weighting Cat s Equally This new feature has nothing to do with making felines heavier Rather it focuses upon the Equalize button found on the MtG You now haue Ehe option of creating wp te Grading System screen Sometimes 18 CATEGORIES into which 23 can aniar your students scares You may it s necessary to make computational S Wieight dhere into
256. ty student line we ll take you di rectly to the ros ter setup screen 28 1 There you can wl m ow a 4 doyourthing 3 and the usual re strictions for enrolling stu dents apply Dropping Undropping Students JUPE Display Reports Annotations Undo 382 Assignments Setup Info p EmptyBlank Clear Repeat Previous Score j Repeat Score Fill Column Cut Paste 1 Special Students ADD students DROP UNDROP students DELETE students TRANSFER the selected student 1 ilu dime ig up gaur class reterii Pere prar here LIES zi FST ARR 1a a aru crit GPi TER F2 i MEID mors dg oe bres tio E I E Tis Ged Jipka apri Las iter Sie Linke 4 prt en re ee ee gen La DENT alae T a jkugsres d 15 117 Wb ns Iu kie r 855 31B 8 12 1881 I 2 51 Ai 8564 PB P 5 IN zA Tarrerew D 578 828 335 1 Commi Winni Ersin pH 24 4 it al Tonal et opr EG Hil m 7 114 rat rhil 3 mamas Fi e Window This process is so ea
257. ue to our promise we shall be brief once again You may print any one of five histogram formats here for the entire grading period for a single assignment for a category or categories with student names or with student numbers Experience over the years has shown that you ll print more of the grading period with student numbers histogram than any other for once students see this report they want to see it with current data as often as possible I think they respond to the graphic nature of the document or perhaps it s closer to than the other reports Who knows Window Tote Annotations Special For the TEACHER For the STUDENTS d For the CLASS From THIS CLASS only By TABLE By HISTOGRAM By BAR GRAPH From MULTIPLE CLASSES By TABLE By HISTOGRAM By BAR GRAPH 5 With DAILY RECORD infa FEA A bao Making the Grade s bar HALIDE graph printouts are among the a s Leoben ns Ohpleay Collier Colon ipii Loads Loomne 5 Tipe Colores oon Lidia Coleen lik bande vam T 14 ibraugh 3 J E lhrasgh ihraagh JE n 1 Ibraugh most powerful and revealing documents offered for analyz ing a single class s or multiple classes acad
258. ugene BF HAND Fel OSERHSERE FRERMI 5i Glenn Helen PEST HAH PACTS 2i Groy Kathleen R TIS ii Ad Si E B ARAN URERLUAED L bd od oim aim Di Hawa Sin EO eri Aa TEU IE See URED F U E B Y LATE 1 RE ABSENT EXCUSED BY 5 6 63 ABSENT SUSPENDED CUNEXCUSED gt uPRIPARER Onan Oo 2 ABSENT PRE ARRANGED BY PARENT HT HBSEHT TRURMT FROM SCHOOL i i 5 SCHOOL FUNCTION i TU TARDY TO CLASS UNEXCUSED gt 4 RIPBBSEHT ILL THE INFIRMARY TL TARDY TO CLASS U E R w LATE 5i ABSENT UNEXCUSED EY SCHOOL 3 UM UNPREPARED FOR CLASS ACTIVITY LI m m m bi WARNING While we enthusiastically support modifying a Daily Record Code you must never transform its basic message once that item has been used Wording spelling punctuation YES Content NO 95 Choosing the Mode of Data Entry Window Site Display Reports Undo 362 Setup Info gt Entry Mode Sequentially EmptyBlank Clear Randomly Cut Paste 360 Special For brevity s sake we have temporarily combined the Sequential and Random entry options from the Daily Record above We did this because
259. unch the program again to see if the problem persists 4 Increase Making the Grade s RAM allocation Too small a memory partition can be the cause of many program anomalies especially when printing on non Apple devices 5 Check your Mac s hard drive and directories for damage Run Disk First Aid the free diagnostic and repair utility that ships with every Mac on the Disk Tools floppy or System CD If this application finds and can repair the damage click the Repair button If it cannot repair the damage you may require a com mercial application like MacTools Deluxe or Norton Utilities to repair the damage for you 6 If you continue to experience trouble and you purchased this product from one of our dealers please consult their support staff next They are completely familiar with all Jay Klein Productions programs and 2 are your best source for convenient fast knowledge able technical assistance 7 If you still have a problem contact Jay Klein Productions at the addresses below or call our Techni cal Support Hotline at 719 599 8786 between the hours of 9 00 AM and 5 00 PM Mountain Monday through Friday When you call please have your docu mentation and original Program Disk in hand and if possible be seated at your computer with the product running If you prefer you can write us at the following snail mail address but be sure to include daytime and evening telephone numbers for the fastest possible
260. ur only responsibilities with LaserWriter LaserWriter Plus LaserWriter IIf g LaserWriter IINT LaserWriter IINTX R LaserWriter Select LaserWriter 8500 or the like are to make sure it is selected in the Chooser that AppleTalk is active and that the tray contains an adequate supply of paper Moy 3 More economical for the average teacher but just as fast and powerful is Hewlett Packard s LaserJet series The HP LaserJet 3100 with which programmer Pete Jahelka tested the imaging code for Making the Grade also sports as much as 600 dpi and in general proffers the best of all compromises between speed output and affordability Be sure to check Preferences under the File Menu for more about HP printers 4 Another step down on the speed ladder but every bit as impressive as the lasers in print quality is Apple s StyleWriter series At 360 dpi this inkjet device is actually superior to some in print resolution but as one of my esteemed colleagues wisely observed Fast it ain t We strongly recom mend that you set the StyleWriter s print mode to Faster not only because itsaves considerable amounts of time but because it produces better looking printouts Really Keep in mind however that what you save in money with this great little printer you will spend waiting for it to do its thing At the bottom of the speed quality output curve is Apple s Image Writer II series at one time we remember so we
261. ure only 86 TRADE SECRETS and more TROUBLESHOOTING A TIP Starting a New Grading Period So it s that time of year already How time does fly when you re having fun One marking period has come and gone and it s time to begin anew in your electronic gradebook So how s this feat performed in Making the Grade you may ask Actually there are at least three ways to effect the commencement of a new term each of which possesses its own unique advantages and psychological ramifications for your students CLASS CARRYOVER METHOD I te Reports tperial Bind E MOD an assignmeri CHEE an stciqrenent k hipdrnin inmin Empty Repeat Previa roert Repeat iarr T alarma pa m3 xL Pase The functional essence the Phantom carryover is to stay within this class as the new period begins but to drop temporarily all of the as signments recorded for the previous term This is performed in the screen at right with the Drop button one we provided so you won t have to select each activity title by hand hampis Gracie bea We call the first of our three class carryover options the Phantom of the Marking Period It begins under the Edit Assignment Drop Undrop an assignme
262. ust give each N day days up asking you next to identif P a title before selecting another those days on which no school will be held for the class Mon Tue Wed Thu All you must do is click on a specific day or group of days and then give it or them an official NS title of no more than 30 characters Note that all selected days must have a title of at least one character before you may proceed with the next TEN T holiday selection The Next button in this part Fret not by the way if you discover an error in your selection of NS of the Daily Record serves days for the Clear button is the remedy you seek It will remain dimmed two purposes first to enter until you click on an errant date then it will become active and clicking the NS title and second on it will erase only that date or dates to move to the next screen 92 AND FOR STEP THREE Please indicate below which day s of the week this class is scheduled to meet If it meets the usual M click to go week each class meets Sorry no Saturdays and Sundays are available for now Also keep in mind that even if you select only one active day we will display on screen and print in hardcopy the complete five day Previous layout for each week Step Threeisentirely a point and clicker for here you indi cate which days of the school Step Four and the last asks ALM
263. vate them to higher planes of achievement INDICATE changed scores LOCK the screen temporarily RESET the display report range for documen CUSTOMIZING LETTER GRADE ENTRY REVERT to previous entry ROUND score percentages SELECT R GRU UP SELECT A STUDEMT the Teacher Hide mode SHOWCASE special scares In addition to the preset marks of INC EXC TRU CHT and you may create as many as 28 unique score entries for this class 5 characters Each must begin with a LETTER or SYMBOL and each must be defined computationally Otherwise let your imagination and the Sample button below be your quide CODE DESCRIPTION EXC INC a Important If you re a teacher who prefers to work exclusively with a traditional letter grade sys E Above Average Work Shown 86 8 tem A through all you must do is enter those c Average Work Exhibited 768 characters in the first column at right give them a F Failing Work Exhibited O 56 81 brief definition and then assign a computational BU Rbsent AndUnewused O aa value to each EXC INC 0 ora single percentage ABE Absent AndExcused amp o o naf Then every time you enter a C for example your ALP Almost Passed This Assignment 0 Q 59 8 Mac will show that character on screen and in stu PLG CaughtPlagiarizingonThis dents ta
264. ver activates to 30 minutes or more whatever your longest printing session has been Daredevil Dan DOS Shet Select Fish j Fish Pro c Flying Toasters Pra z E 5 Messages Show sea floor j Movies Til Dawn E f Enable sleep corners Nirvana E Puzzle d By Jett Thomas and Dana Muise Original concept by Ed Fries amp Tom Saxton E ah E Ecologic HUGE TIP If you re a really brave person and as a teacher you must be ask this of a software customer service representative sometime What was most frequent problem you encountered with customers on the phone or Internet today Now after that person calms down a bit you ll probably hear something like Printer problems it s always printer problems And almost always the source of such difficulties is obsolete or damaged printer drivers critical files that reside deep within Mac OS System Folder in Extensions FYI Updating your computer with the latest system software can corrupt or antiquate existing drivers so your printer can be disabled even with the best of intentions That s the bad news The good news 1s that obtaining the latest working printer drivers is only an Internet connection away for most of us as evidenced by the sample website screens below Whenever your printer fails to respond as it should start your detective work at locations like these The resources they conta
265. y have noticed that I and 4Dickerson Michael AK my colleagues at Coronado High e seem to have developed a fetish Rupe I II DEMENS Mmmm f d dtardi thi a orad Kathleen Dd 0 1 P RED 3 orattendance and tardiness within HIDE MIDI M M mise sl Pend TIC TBI SiHoward Stacey E our sophomore classes We must confess to this charge but 15 not DAILY RECORD CODES entirely our fault Blame it on the 1 EXCUSED BY PARENT S gt 6 ABSENT SUSPENDED UNEXCUSED gt State of Colorado our local school ee ice A 3AF ABSENT SCHOOL FUNCTION S TUE TARDY TU CLASS UNEXCUSED gt board and too much nice weather 4iRIiHBSEHT ILL 1M THE INFIRMARY 9 TL TRRD TO CLASS amp W E R Y LATE for our students own good Pray UNEXCUSED BY SCHOOL UN FOR CLASS ACTIVITY for snow pray for snow pray for snow 93 Undo Setup info Entry Mode Empty Blank Clear Cut Copy Paste Once again and as usual entering information into MtG Daily Record is so simple and intuitive that little more need be said as explanation However and for the truly fastidious please permit a few words of enlightenment In order to save as much of your valuable time as possible we shall co
266. y requests to do so It was our humble opinion that the potential downside of the option outweighed its potential benefits but here it is just the same Please do remember however that forewarned is forearmed Always think twice and thrice when utilizing this option at the end of a marking period Duplicating Student Scores Speaking of features high on MtG request list the famous Grade Busters DITTO function is in Whenever you wish to repeat a student s grade in NEW ASSIGNMENT or general EDIT mode press the or apostrophe quotation marks key to the immediate left of RETURN on the keyboard That score whether it be numerical alphabetical or symbolic will be duplicated automatically with each press of the key until a new score is entered Then of course that score will be repeated NOTE When entering a brand new set of scores into your gradebook the DITTO key defaults initially to the maximum value of that assignment We had to have something resident there you see To fill down all remaining score cells with the same grade press Command and behold marks from that point to the bottom of the class roster become duplicates of the previously entered score regardless of what may have been there beforehand This feature overwrites all scores below it with the DITTO value you see so do be cautious with its use ANOTHER KEYBOARD TIP The Page Up and Page Down keys are fully functional within the
267. you post student scores Let your imagina tion be your guide with this choice You can enter al most anything you wish from stu appear in the class Roster Position numerical positions in the roster dents Social Se roster from top to Numbers ing as STUDENT NUMBER 1 and 50 curity Numbers bottom Do keep to building or dis Your Own in mind however 11 characters LETTERS or NUMBERS trict matriculation that Roster Posi tion Numbers are subject to change if a new student comes into the class and you then sort the gradebook by student last name Confusion has been known to rule here Numbers MAKING THE GRADE 11 numerical characters similar to 5SN s Numbers s562 937 481 Actually these I D codes are our least favorite for they are usually foreign to both you and your students Nevertheless if a student number like 480 859 932 is what you have in mind and speed is of the essence this is the choice for you numbers NOTE We strongly urge you not to use stu dents nicknames here Such aliases are usually known to one and all making anonym ity a moot issue at best Class Grading Scales It s now time to set up your grade equivalents for this class a task which you may have to do only once for the rest of your teaching career At this point Grade Busters 1 2 53 users will notice two significant program enhancements in Making the Grade the ability to
268. ysis of complex student behaviors good and bad At any rate the HET E S Fea restrictions and guidelines for setting up your 100 Line Library are few SHOWCASE special scores 76 1 Eachcommentis limited to 70 char acters of courier non proportional type Should any statement exceed that length just continue it onto the next line and then select both lines when tailoring stu dent reports 2 You may leave blank lines in your library as dividers or grouping devices if you wish For instance lines 1 50 might be your comments of praise and 60 through 100 your comments of concern You can always fill in the intervening blank lines 5 1 60 whenever inspiration strikes 3 Unsure of your spelling or typing Then use the Export button at right to dump your comments into an ASCII file for analysis by your favorite spelling checker THE COMMENT LINE LIBRARY MAKING THE GRADE s 166 LINE LIBRARY of teacher comments is created and edited here and then appended to student take home documents in the REPORTS section WARNING This familiar button will bring in the complete set of comment lines from another class file not just selected parts thereof Therefore this function will replace any and all lines you may have entered in this class with those recorded in another Calculating Incomplete Scores This feature found its way into the Making the Grade package through the window ATTACH individual studen
269. ze them and place them at the bottom of the roster out of harm s way Be sure to examine Prefer ences under the File menu for more options here Deleting Students Sie Display Reports Assignments d Empty Blank Repeat Previous Score Repeat S5core Fill Column Cut Annotations Special Students 2 ADD students DROP UNDROP students DELETE students TRANSFER the selected student Window WARNING This is one of those rare functions in Making the Grade that may truly be labeled data destroyers That is if you choose to utilize this function as intended you will permanently eradicate information recorded for one or more of your students As you may have inferred by now we do not recommend DELETING a student from your gradebook until you desperately need the space or are somehow positive that you will never need such data again Keep in mind though that all too often Johnny leaves on Friday to go live with his father in three states away and then shows back up at his desk Monday morning True As an additional precaution against accidental erasure of this vital information we require that you DROP a student before you may DELETE him or her from your records We realize this second step may appear to be cumbersome and unnecessary but it s our way of trying to save you from yourself on a very bad day hnum belo are Ibacxs ut

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