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SCHOOL LOOP USER`S MANUAL - Fremont Unified School District

1. Categories GB4 Custom Codes GB4 Getting There Custom Ordering GB4 Custom Progress Report After selecting a gradebook click the blue Published Grades tab Message GB4 i Data Entry GB4 Punished Grades Dropped Students GB4 7 Extra Credit GB4 Grade Scales GB4 Reviewing Published Grades Grades Drafts Restore amp History GB4 Fore each period the Publish Grades view displays Instant Score Updates GB4 Manage Gradebooks GB4 1 Student Name GB4 Scenarios 2 Current Grade base on published grades Gradebook Scenario I 3 the percentage score as affected by weightin Gradebook Scenario II mep j y weighting Gradebook Scenario III 4 points earned unaffected by weighting Gradebook Scenario IV 5 Category columns show the category s name total points available and the weight if used Gradebook Scenario V Mode Special Views GB4 More Columns GB4 Publish Grades GB4 Published Grades GB4 1 2 3 4 ae 5 glee Reports GB4 Average 51 48 Grade Score Points Weighting 20 00 Weighting 60 00 Rounding Default Score AARON TAYLOR 7504 E 80 08 119 00 148 00 40 00 48 00 83 33 79 00 100 00 79 00 a CHANG JESSE 3739 B 86 38 128 00 148 00 42 00 48 00 87 50 36 00 100 00 86 00 F i A k z x z F 5 Student Scoresheet GB4 cle Submitting Work SSS Ee CER TOL ED 32 OSE SChooftdep Manual rage 34 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp pii
2. Drop button or restore all grades and start over click the Regenerate Low Scores button If you wish to restore all dropped score without choosing new scores to drop simply click the Submit button without checking any categories after you click the Regenerate Low Scores button Chick Regenerate Low Scores to clear categories or slari over Click Dont Drop to remove student from Dropped Scores P Student iD Dropped Assignment E Category Score Current Score Revised Score Change DorrtOrep 1 ABUNDIS ANDREW 173008 Pronouns Assignment 70 89 90 7 Coni Mop 1 ALLMAN CARLOS 170998 Ade cies Aagignmeni AAD 85 0 gai Dont Drop 1 BARBA GRIZELL 160969 Adjectives Assignment W0 25 20 5 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 23 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1319263275282 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1296917878367 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000015 Dropped Students GB4 Applies To Plus Grade Version 4 of our gradebook handles dropped students a bit differently from the previous version When students are dropped from the school s student information system School Loop received that information that evening The next time you access your gradebook you will first see a list of the students who have been dropped from your classes At that time you must choose to hide those student either now or later The student
3. GRADEBOOK TOOLS click the Transfer Grades option Undelete Assignments Use the Transfer Grades tool to select the student in their original class and the same studentin their Manage Gradebooks new class Click Submit and you re done phew BE Charts Transferring grades between different students is allowed but you will receive a warning message Note Transferring grades does not delete grades from the original class Bien ae Score Note The same Assignments must be published to both periods for grades to transfer If they are not edit each assignment and check the new period as well as the original period and click Submit Restore Saved Grades Reports Download Gradebook Legend When your students move from one period of a course to another use this tool to transfer their grades If you attempt to transfer grades between different students a warning will be issued From original class te new class 3 BHANDAL DILPREET 12046402 Submit 3 ANTONIO CRYSTAL_JEN 12054812 3 BAKER JAMES 12049326 3 BHANDAL DILPREE ea AL 3 BOUREKAS JOSEPH 12051971 3DAQ TAMMY 40990814 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 42 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1317206594094 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1307002654819 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Weighting GB4 S Applies To Plus Grade ABOUT WEIGHTING School Loop s gradebook allow
4. Publishing News and Events p 77 Fall 2012 v 1 0 Gradebook Gradebook Introduction p 10 Gradebook Getting Started p 11 All Grades p 13 Assign Work p 14 Assignment Scoresheet p 16 Call Alerts p 17 Categories p 18 Custom Codes p 19 Custom Ordering p 20 Custom Progress Report Message p 21 Data Entry p 22 Drop Lowest Score p 23 Dropped Students p 24 Extra Credit p 25 Grade Scales p 26 Grades Drafts Restore amp History p 28 Instant Score Updates p 30 Manage Gradebooks p 31 Publish Grades p 32 Published Grades p 34 Reports p 36 Rounding Default Score and Averaging p 38 Student Scoresheet p 39 Submitting Work Online p 40 Transfer Grades p 42 Weighting p 43 Easy Grade Pro SCHOOL LOOP School Loop Plus Easy Start Guide For Teachers Welcome to School Loop Your teacher Portal enables communication and collaboration with students their parents and your colleagues in new and exciting ways This guide introduces you to all of the basic functions of your account Your Portal Homepage med Eji Bo aE coe nage The top portion of your portal contains a navigation menu icons for frequently used features access to settings help and account management The My Portal link returns you to this homepage The Dashboard is filled with links to your personal site course sites and course related features such as calendar course locker and gradebook The Student Tracker tool allows
5. Calendar Interventions Files Turned in Work student s progress Ag af EAD ESA P M The Student Records link is located in the Click the Open button ta view grades right side of yellow bar above Toolbox on the right side of your Portal Current Assignments homepage You can view each student s current grades and progress reports if our gradebook is used attendance class schedule calendar of assignments and much more via their Student Record Student Tracker For coaches counselors intervention teams and others interested in student success the Student Tracker makes it easier for you to monitor the progress of a specific group of students To create a Roster of students click the Student Tracker link in the Toolbox and then click Add Tracker or click Add New in the Student Trackers section on your dashboard Click ona student s name in your list to see his or her Student Record grades homework and more You can discuss the student s progress or behavior with other teachers add files to his or her record review submitted work and more High Priority Groups Located in the Toolbox of your Portal homepage High Priority Groups can help you to keep tabs on special groups of students High Priority Groups are only visible to administrators teachers and staff The lt 70 in 2 classes Less than 70 in 2 or more classes high priority group is automatically populated based on teacher grades and is updated
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7. Repeat until O7 22 11 FE mmddyy Publish Cancel Note Repeating events have a 2 year and 300 event limit TO EDIT EVENTS To make changes to your published event 1 Click on the date of the event on your calendar 2 Click on the title of the Event Tuesday Events l Ail Day 3 Click the Edit button Event Details TEET Event Audience homepage Posted by Roo venom Lickin I Delete 4 Make your changes 5 Click Publish Only the author of an event or an administrator can edit it Note Editing the dates of a recurring event will prevent you from using Delete All should you want to remove the event Instead if you need to make changes to a recurring event s start and end dates delete all instances of it and start fresh WHO CAN PUBLISH NEWS OR EVENTS WHERE Plus Users Plus Your Personal Website Plus Your Personal Website Teacher Administrator Any Pages You Are an Editor or Any Pages You Are an Editor or Contributor of Contributor of All Grade Levels All Grade Levels All Groups You Belong To All Groups You Belong To All Staff Associate Administrator All Staff Associate Administrator Teacher Parent and Teacher Parent and Student Accounts Student Accounts Request Addition to Homepage Request Addition to Homepage Your Course Websites Plus Staff Your Personal Website Plus Associate Your Personal Website Any Pages You Are an Editor or Any Pages You Are an Editor or Contributor of Con
8. Trend of Zeros FOEN 5 None Pu blished z gt an fi English C T 763 056 Progress Report PE iy T3 TT 250 4 Progress Report Algebra C 76 3 0 1 Progress Report Digital Photo Cc T377 0 4 Progress Report Academic Prep C 78 33 i 0 1 Progress Report Attendance View This Week s All Attendance ar r Date Full Day Period 1 2 3 4 5 222140 2 gt TBE HE HE 2123110 EXE EXE EXE EXE EX 2124 10 7 2125140 2126110 TUX Attendance Legend A Admin E Excused F Field Trip G Independent Study H Home Teach J Tardy 31 minute M In School Suspension O Parent Unexcused T Tardy Unexcused U Unexcused V Tardy Excused X Sports Click All Attendance in the top right corner of the weekly attendance to see attendance for the whole year This view only includes the days that absenses or tardies were recorded Date Full Day Period 1 2 3 4 J FUSD School Loop Manual Page 45 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1327837514169 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1327837514169 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 41840 EXE EXE EAE EXE EXE 4 2040 EXE EXE EXE EXE EXE Wr UHA 4 28 40 UNX 1 2940 TUX 27240 TUX 2 340 TUX 2 8 40 EXE EXE EXE EXE EXE FIFFI Li EXE EXE EXE EXE EXE 2230 EXE EXE EXE EXE EXE 276 10 TUX Attendance Legend A Admun E Excused F Fied Tip G independent Siudy H Home Teach J
9. 1327837514169 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Attendance Setup Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal Student Attendance records from your student information system can be imported into School Loop and made available to parents students and staff If you are already using the tab delimited method for Sloopy imports then importing attendance data simply involves adding two more files to the daily sloopy import and adding a few lines to your config file If you are using another version of sloopy you will need to switch to tab delimited See the Data Integration Sloopy documentin the left column of the Data Imports page for instructions how to setup sloopy for tab delimited and prepare the attendance files for import ATTENDANCE DISPLAY The attendance information for the current week will be displayed in the Dashboard for students and parents School staff can view the same data in the student record for any student Attendance can be shown for the full day by period or both depending on which data is imported from the SIS If attendance data is uploaded for each period then teachers can also see this data divided by period in their Roster Manager An attendance legend explaining the codes your school uses can be added to the bottom of the attendance view By default the attendance section of the student record is collapsed To view click the View This Week s button As of 3 1 10 4 36 P M E Print View Course Summary Grade
10. 1A SPR Gradebook couse a seaea ser Start 9 1 09 End 8 31 10 Start 91709 End 8310 Teala Add New Assignment Reorder Practice As Max Points 10 P Average Percent 0 00 Assignment Average Student GO TO V Reorder Hide 1 ACOSTA ANDRES 1054 0 00 1 ACOSTA ANDRES 171054 2 AGULAR CHRIST 333000 1 1 t AGULAR CHRISTI 173313 J amp E ALCANTARA BRYAN 3160 0 00 4 ALVAREZ ULISES E ALCANTARA BRYAN 173160 6516 0 00 lt m ANG NHAN 6701 000 ALVAREZ VUSES 1176818 gm CABRAL TONY 0014 9 009 Publish Grades At some point after saving your scores you will be ready to publish those scores for students and their parents to see To publish scores click one of the blue Publish buttons located near the top and bottom right of the gradebook All of your saved assignments are listed on the next page Check the boxes in the Publish column for those assignments you wish to make public Students and parents will see a grade based only on published PUBLISHING TOOLS MY WEBSIT AllGrades Published Grades Points Auton Comment Save 4 Publish Cancel a a ae d Publish Grades HOW TO PUBLISH GRADED AS Check the boxes next to the assignment re Then click Publish To un publish unclick scores Saved but unpublished scores in your gradebook Publish Due Assignment are for your eyes only As easily as you published scores v 1 23 09 Periodic Char
11. Reports A Summary report for each student in a period Each student s report starts on a new page 4 Students With Zeros Report Current number of zeros of each student by period 5 Individual Progress Reports by Period Same report as number 3 above but just one student ata time COMPLETE GRADEBOOK 4 By Name By ID Period 1 Penod 1 Porad 4 Panod 4 Period 5 Period S Period 6 Penod amp GRADES 2 With Name and ID ID Only Pericd 1 Penod 1 Period 4 Poriod 4 Period 5 Period 5 Period 6 Pernod PROGRESS REPORTS 3 Period 4 Prig 4 Period 5 Period STUDENTS WITH ZEROS REPORT 4 Period 1 Priod 4 Period 5 Period amp INDIVIDUAL PROGRESS REPORTS BY PERIOD 5 Period 1 ABUNDIS ANDREW ALLMAN CARLOS BARBA GRIZELL COARDERO LORELI CORONADO ASHLEY HUH MATHALIA JARAMILLO SILWESTRE LURA FRANK MANINARE LL IRMA MARTINEZ HUY RODRIGUEZ SERGIO 307 CATALINA TRAH VERONICA TRAN XUAN TSU ERIGA GETTING THERE After selecting a gradebook use the blue Gradebook Tools menu tab to access the menu of reports GRADEBOOK TOOLS PROGRESS REPORTS The individual student progress report is the aE FUSD School Loop Manual Page 36 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1284708013349 amp vpid ene _template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1284708013349 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print most frequently used of all reports SO we ve provided multiple way
12. School Loop FUSD School Loop Manual Page 69 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1295 70545403 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1301480245590 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Mobile Overview Login and Registration Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal Standard Users who are lucky enough to have a smart mobile device can access most of their important School Loop information from anywhere with a WiFi or data connection Now on the go parents can check assignments teachers who are stuck in traffic can assign work and administrators can check on a student s progress from anywhere Mobile School Loop is not an app you won t find itin the Apple App Store Android Market or any other marketplace Instead School Loop has created a mobile version of its sites The benefit of this is that any user with mobile device enabled with a WebKit browser i e most relatively recent mobile devices will be able to access the site through their device s browser And of course it also means that Mobile School Loop is 100 free to use NOTE This feature is still in beta so if you find any problems or experience any mobile related difficulties please send us a ticket letting us know LOGGING IN Getting to the mobile login screen is easy if your school has a published School Loop website you can simply navigate to that website and click touch the Login butto
13. Work Though the gradebook cannot be accessed from the mobile site you can still create assignments from your mobile device Click the blue Assign Work button e Add Event Hitting the blue Add Event button in the header of the portal will Lier seri take you to a full featured mobile version of the event creation page ima Teacher s Mobile Portal e Courses View a list of your current courses along with links to the full Courses calendars and current rosters for those courses Eng 1 Spr P e Student Records Type a name or part of a name into the Look up student Ay field and click Go to search for individual Student Records Learn more Reading Adv Lab about mobile Student Records Student Records e Calendar View your calendar in the default weekly view as seen on your desktop portal or switch to a daily or monthly view using the icons at the Look up student top right corner of the page e Mobile LoopMail Access and manage your LoopMail inbox and send messages Learn more about mobile LoopMail Full Calendar e Full Web Site View Click here to use the full featured desktop version of Mobile LoopMail School Loop on your mobile device Note that some elements are not optimized for mobile browsing and may not work as intended Full Web Site View Note that by going to the Full Web Site View it is possible to use the full gradebook on your mobile device However you may find that not all of the gradebook s Saye pew f
14. a list of all your assignments In the Gradebooks section you can add new gradebooks or access old ones The Roster Manager is packed full of tools Click the Roster button for any period to reveal a list of your students As the list is revealed you ll see links to Easy Start Plus Teacher doc 03 09 2010 www schoolloop com 3 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 5 of 79 SCHOOL LOOP the individual student records and progress reports You can even help your students to login by resetting their passwords A complete list of all your assignments are displayed in the Assignment section and includes the status No grades yet Published etc Calendar Your portal calendar contains the assignments for CALENDAR THIS WEEK all of your courses as well as the events published lt lt Show Me w Add Events E7 for all teachers and the groups you belong to Using Suv alps spite the Show Me menu on the calendar you can Space personaltem C control which events are displayed The Add a Events menu allows you to publish new soomes Parini Chet assignments general events and even personal events which appear for you and you alone There are views for the day week and month LoopMail LoopMail is a safe secure system that enables you to communicate with your students their parents and your colleagues The LoopMail icon is ial located at the top of every page Messages are forwarded from LoopMail LoopMail to your registered email a
15. both Start by clicking the blue Select Categories button Select the assignment categories you want us to include in selecting the a if dropped will have the most positive effect on each students 7 Assignment E Homework Discussion Paper Extra Cred Project Choose your categories and then click the Submit button School Loop s gradebook will then search for the one score from all checked categories that will have the greatest postive effect on the student s grade In some case there may be no grade that if dropped would improve a student s score You ll be presented with the search results showing which students have a low score to drop Uncheck the box next to the student s name if you wish to exclude that student from benefiting from a dropped score Click the Drop Scores button when ready Note This feature only supports dropping a single score from the gradebook At this time is is not possible to drop more than one score per student Drop Ferree Cancel URCHECK to exclude students from dropping low score You must click Drop Scores to complete dropping of low scores Po Student 0 Dropped Assignment e Category Score Current Score Revised Score Change Ci 1 ALLMAN CARLOS 170998 Adjectives Assiprmeni ria BSS trs bti F 1 BARBA GRIZELL 169989 Adjecties Assignment wo 25 mws 5 If you return to the Drop Low Score tool you will have the options to restore dropped score for indiviual students click the Dont
16. have all students Default start new assignments with a score of zero points instead If the Default Score is set to 0 Zero the zero will immediately count towards the eroj incel student s overall score in your gradebook For this reason most teachers choose to stick with the default setting of Empty Note Because a 0 zero is technically a counted value in the gradebook you cannot use autofill to overwrite cells with a zero in them If you use autofill prominently you will probably want to leave this option set to Empty AVERAGING A school administrator must enable this feature School Settings before it becomes available to teachers This feature gives you the option to include the overall class average in the progress reports for individual students allowing students and their parents to compare the student s average with the average of all students in that period CARRASCO GEORGE Grade Last Published WATITI 17 28 PM Grade A Score 95 3 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 38 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1310010815086 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1284708013350 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000032 Student Scoresheet GB4 Applies To Plus Grade ABOUT THE STUDENT SCORESHEET When you access the student scoresheet you re essentially using a gradebook for a single student This view is useful when you want to enter seve
17. in the extra credit category and could lower the student s percentage in that category Example The extra credit category is set to give a student a 5 boost in their grade So far the student has scored 10 10 on the one extra credit assignment giving them 100 in the extra credit category and therefore boosting their grade the full 5 Now you assign another extra credit assignment worth 20 points and the student earns 5 20 Her total for the extra credit category is now 15 30 or 50 Her boost has now gone down to 2 5 We recommend that you leave the percent possible for extra credit at zero until the very end of the term This way the students can see the points they are accumulating against points possible but their grade won t changed based on extra credit until you change it to the final percentage possible Click here for more information on extra credit Q MY STUDENT ARE SHOWING AVERAGES OVER 100 BUT HAVE NOT GIVEN ANY EXTRA CREDIT POINTS A Check your Extra Credit setup The Extra Credit category cannot be one of the weighted categories Change the Extra Credit category to a non weighted category If you are not assigning extra credit assignments set the Extra Credit category to None Click here for more information on extra credit FUSD School Loop Manual Page 44 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1307002654819 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid
18. in your portal e From inside a gradebook click the Add New Assignment button near the top left of the gradebook homepage For each assignment you must assign the work to your classes by period set the assign and due dates and give ita title There are several optional settings such as attaching files or links these will be available for both parents and students to download choosing a category essential if you use weighting and set the maximum score for assignments that will appear in the gradebook Note Gradebooks have a data range If your assignment is not showing up make sure it is due within the date range of your gradebook The final option on the page allows you to create a recurring assignment weekly quiz etc Choose the Repeat option and decide how often you wish the AS51104 AND GUE GATES ke je re o D eke aL i P he pe ii h k ee meee Co Ge Pratt came Dpi P HG TETE SRA Deag heh Yis pol tiem oe B be dhe ee one Liy ee ee ma Poem iL i BFD Tims hi i Caer ie e ore oe ee ee ee S zE emeaaeiag a i TE a E TL F E hsi ey N Di r Enri aa ea p e fo si assignment to repeat If you wish to have a recurring assignment on school days Mon Fri then consider making two recurring assignments one using the MWF option and one using the T Th option COPY EDIT OR DELETE ASSIGNMENTS Everywhere you see your assignments listed in School Loop Calendars Gradebooks and Course C
19. is best when you wish to enter scores and comments for all student of all periods that n i received this assignment Zeeaes Graphing Pr linear Equa From the main gradebook spreadsheet click the title of the assignment at the top of the Exponents column of scores Alternately clicking the title of any assignment listed in your Course Taa t gt 40 Center will also take you directly to the assignment scoresheet iak aissi a Ne aor a i 11 Note Hover over the title to view the pop up of details which includes links to edit E aon SR LAET PER copy and delete Edit Copy Delete Ja 7 B WORKING WITH THE ASSIGNMENT SCORESHEET 1 Hover over the Details button to view for a pop up window with full assignment details and links to Edit Copy Delete view student discussions and access work turned in online 2 Input fields for grades and comments Hover over the i button for the history of any individual student s score 3 Work submitted online including a time stamp and link to the file Mi Gredes Pumed Grades GRADEBOOK TOOLS Save amp Stay Save amp Exit Cancel Assignment Average 70 00 PF Student ES Print View 1 E ABUNDIS ANDREW 172008 E RARAA GAEL 165585 Details Cancel Homework Posted by REOLEN Assigned 4990 10 Dye 430M Laiegore Assignment Point Value 15 sous s View Submesshons Ect Copy Delete ORDERING THE ASSIGNMENT SCORESHEET The default order for th
20. latter two also allow you to add comments As you enter scores student and class averages update automatically as soon as you move the cursor to a new cell If you enter scores and attempt to leave the gradebook you will be prompted to either save or discard those scores If you do manage to leave the gradebook without saving grades a draft of those scores is saved The next time you access that gradebook our system will prompt you to either save or discard the draft scores ENTER SCORES AND COMMENTS For each period your gradebook has a spreadsheet of assignments and students with cells for entering scores To switch periods click one of the period number tabs at the top left of the gradebook To work with either the assignment or student scoresheets click an assignment title or student name Published Gra When your gradebook has more assignments than can be displayed on a single page use the Go To menu near the top left of the gradebook to quickly navigate to any given assignment Hovering over that button displays a menu of all your assignments clicking the title of an assignment shifts the soreadsheet and places that assignment in the first column to the right of the column of student names Additionally there are angle bracket Add New Assignm lt e GOTO Y gt gt links on either side of the Go To button to move to the previous and next page of fi Max Points assignments Prev Next verge Per
21. news 1 Click on the post from inside the News box on your homepage webmasters can edit news from the Content Manager in the webmaster center EAE FUSD School Loop Manual Page 77 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1342782028151 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 134278202815 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Add News 2 Then click on Edit or Delete to make the changes you want News Items for the Home Page TEST Item This ia a test item Posted in Ron Newson Publishes uy Edit Delete 3 Click Publish to republish the news with your changes Only the person who published a news item and administrators will be able to edit it VIEWING EXPIRED NEWS All news items have an expiration date Once the expiration date has ie passed the news item is removed from the News element but can still NEWS i 7 sl be accessed in the News archive News for the Homepage By default the News element displays 3 current news items To see all All tha news that is fit to print Comtinas Cu rrent news items click View All News Posteo fy Dero Tasch Pubis Preece rid oT i i i ar Onei To see all expired news click News Archive in the View All News ia window News for the Homepage Audiente Homepage TO PUBLISH EVENTS 1 Click the Add Event button at the top of the Dashboard on your Portal Page Or Click the Add Ev
22. period as well as the latest published grades for that class a link to the full progress report and a link to the class calendar At the top of this section there is also a link that allows the user to email members of the student s Learning Management Team e Due Assigned Today This area displays only the current assignments for a student that are either due or are newly assigned on the current date e Current Assignments This button will display all current assignments this includes any assignments that have been assigned and are not yet past due e Calendar View your calendar in the default weekly view as seen on your regular portal or switch to a daily or monthly view using the icons at the top right corner of the page e Mobile LoopMail Access and manage your LoopMail inbox and send messages Learn more about mobile LoopMail e Full Web Site View Click here to use the full featured desktop version of School Loop on your mobile device Note that some elements are not optimized for mobile browsing and may not work as intended Parent portals have one additional feature that will not appear on student portals because many parents have multiple students associated with their account those parents will see a blue Change Students button in the header bar of their mobile portal Hitting this button will pull up a list of all of the students associated with the parent account in question Select the linked name of a different s
23. registered students and parents via LoopMail Unregistered parents will geta phone call in their native language letting them know their student is trending up or down For more details see the Publish and Notify section of the Publish Grades page FUSD School Loop Manual Page 17 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 132964498722 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1310010813907 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000009 Categories GB4 Applies To Plus Grade ABOUT CATEGORIES When publishing assignments for students the use of categories provides an additional descriptor for students and parents For those teachers using School Loop s gradebook who also choose to use weighting the use of categories are required An added benefit of using categories is that the School Loop gradebook displays student performance by categories even if weighting is not used For more information about this benefit see our help pages about the gradebook tabs for All Grades and Published Grades Although your gradebook comes with several preset categories you may add edit and delete categories as desired There are no restrictions on the use of categories but there are a few caveats e The Assignment category cannot be deleted e You cannot delete categories used for an assignment even if that assignment was deleted WORKING WITH CATEGORIES To work with categorie
24. selecting this option Just like on the desktop version of the Student attendance Record you can also grant deny a student Communication Rights within the system or change a student s password to help them regain access to their account from this area Calendar At this time files that have been posted to the Student Record and the full record Interventions of submitted work are not available from the mobile version However you can still access these files by using the full version of the site from your phone ifyou beaming Management Team need to access those files Student Info 2010 Schon keap inc Prevecy olios AN rag be rere reset Liser Aqneameant FUSD School Loop Manual Page 76 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 129975276083 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 134278202815 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Publishing News and Events Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal Standard Publishing News and Events allows you to share important information targeted to specific groups at your school News is published to a News Element Type in the details of your news and attach links or images as desired Events are published to a Calendar Element Choose a date and fill in the details of your event Both News and Events can be published on your school s homepage and or to specific pages or groups of users at your school TO PUBLISH
25. small x Click that x to remove that person from the message Send Your Message This is the easy part When ready click one of the Send buttons located at the top and bottom of the page TO Vicki Campbell Mr Principal ADDITIONAL TEACHER OPTIONS Teachers have one additional addressing option that will allow you to address LoopMail to your students along with their parents and members of their Learning Management Team While creating a new LoopMail message click the To CC or BCC button to bring up the Add Rerinients erreen In additinn ta the linke mantinned ahnave teachers will alen cee ASD SabdeAfedp Mdalailbage 62 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1327837629717 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 3 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1327837629717 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print I MAM I See a LV VVI YVI HE CAAA UY UIV PN PZ NZ A MAN Y Y Yy OVMA VIIVI OY WIN MAITY ee es rather long link labeled My students their parents or Learning Management Teams in All Users the Select a List box Clicking this link calls up a specialized screen that allows you to Colected Users address LoopMail to users who are specifically associated with your current class rosters The tabs on the left allow you to select from your students by period The check boxes allow Students you to select students individually from the list or you can check the topmost box in the Parents he
26. view these message as you would any other message in your personal or school email inbox REPLY TO A MESSAGE When working directly within LoopMail you reply to messages in the same fashion as every other email program you ve ever used Reply Reply All and Forward buttons are included with LoopMail see image above Your reply will include the sender s original message and you may add or delete recipients before sending Replying to messages forwarded to your regular email account As stated above LoopMail messages forwarded to you do not include the sender s real email address As such you cannot reply as you would normally Instead you must use one of the two giant buttons included in the body of the message Click the Reply or Reply All button in the message and you ll be transported to your School Loop portal Yesterday s Assembly Want to Login insstamthy where you may compose and send your reply School Loop s Auto From Cralle Wright Login feature if enabled allows you to skip the login process after To Mir Principal ae cc clicking one of the reply buttons in forwarded LoopMail messages For Date 3 3 10 6 50 PM security reasons however the auto login feature has strict limitations Subject Yesterday s Assembly The security of your account is ultimately more important than a small convenience feature Learn more about Auto Login FUSD School Loop Manual Page 61 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp pi
27. 00 Weighting 5 00 Weighting 10 00 6 CEBALLOS TRAVIS 3669 C 76 95 306 00 391 00 290 0071070 7817 amp 0010 00 80 00 00710 00 60 00 E CHANG JESSE 3739 C Taiz 3400 39100 331 00371 00 89227 7 00 10 00 70 00 6 00 10 00 60 00 GASTELUM ESWAN 1933 Ae 87 44 366 00 381 00 370 00 36100 10245 80010 00 90 00 90010 00 90 00 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 13 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1280193948002 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 Assign Work GB4 000005 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1339579952251 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal Assignments are an integral part of the School Loop system Teachers publish assignments so students and parents can access them Students can even turn their work in online and parents can see the work Assignments can be published to your gradebook and or calendar which includes your course website Current Assignments assigned or due in the current week appear in the Current Assignmentlist in the Dashboard on the Portal homepage for teachers students and parent PUBLISHING ASSIGNMENTS There are several ways to access the Assign Work form Assign Work e Click the blue Assign Work button at the top left eos the Dashboard on your Portal homepage Pee 1 e Select Assign Work from the Publish hee Tools menu located on the menu bar near the eas F Fi h top of every page
28. 31967004132 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1329645059358 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Publish Grades GB4 S Applies To Plus Grade SAVE VERSUS PUBLISH GRADES As scores are entered in the gradebook you ll want to save grades periodically Saving grades ensure that your work won t be lost but it doesn t allow students and parents to view those grades Publishing grades is a separate action you must take to share grades with your students and their parents This two step process save and publish allows you to control which grades students and parents can see and when they may see them HOW TO PUBLISH GRADES When you re ready to publish grades look for the blue Publish button ar ey on the main gradebook spreadsheet located on the right side of the COURSE CENTERS GRADEBOOK FOR 4 Settings page There are buttons near the top and bottom of the page Click this button to display a list of all your assignments from that gradebook Check the box for the assignments you wish to publish before clicking the Publish button If you make a mistake or change Save amp Stay Save amp Exit Publish Cancel your mind you may unpublish by removing the check from the box SE and clicking the Publish button again The green dot and gray x indicate published and unpublished assignments respectively These same symbols are also displayed in your gradebook ju
29. 4 Applies To Plus Grade The custom progress report message appears on the progress report for all your students and their parents Use this message to provide additional information about your grade policy office hours or important grading deadlines You can change the message as often as you like Note You must republish grades to update the custom progress report message for students and parents If you frequently use the comment fields found on the assignment and student scoresheets you may use the custom progress report message as a legend for comments similar to comments typically used on report cards Instead of typing out your comments enter a code such a A B 1 or 2 to represent comments listed in the custom progress report message e g 1 Late work reduced by 20 CREATE A CUSTOM PROGRESS REPORT MESSAGE Start by clicking the Settings link near the top right of any page in your portal then click the title of a course in the Course Settings section of the next page and finally click the Go button for Custom Progress Report Message Enter your message and click the Submit button Custom Progress Report Message ALGEBRA Settings Index ALGEBRA Main Custom Progress Report Message Enter any message you want to appear in progress reports For example create a key regarding comments 1 excellent 2 absent 3 missing asssignment This custom held wil appear as Soon as you publish grades Mr Walker is available
30. EU Myfyr Arcsin Mareen Hip bo Copy Address Read Later 3 On your portal page calendar click the Turn In Work link for the assignment 4 Click Select File tap the name of the file to be uploaded Giowniio ads SE intuAVOd hemi FUSD School Loop Manual Page 40 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1340017269582 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 diat Pe tel Lh i help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1340017269582 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print xsmnr000034 A Racerd png mir eAEr A mony i 8 22 12 IITE 5 Link is created click Submit Success message received 6 At the top of your portal open your Dropbox to view submission Disclaimer School Loop does not endorse or sponsor this app and we provide no guarantees about the quality or functionality of this software We are merely relaying suggestions made by other users who found this app to be helpful FUSD School Loop Manual Page 41 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1340017269582 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1317206594094 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000035 Transfer Grades GB4 Applies To Plus Grade When one of your students transfers between periods of the same subject transferring their grades o is just a few simple clicks From the Gradebook Tools menu near the upper right of your gradebook
31. GO DOWN WHEN THEY GET A HIGH SCORE ON AN ASSIGNMENT A Remember that grades are weighted by category So if the score on the assignment fa lqweetban des ayaiageate 4b at gategory help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1307002654819 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1307002654819 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print the overall grade will go down 000037 Example Student s current overall grade is 90 for all categories tests homework etc and they get a 92 on the next test Intuition tells us that their grade should go up However if their test average is 95 then the weighted average for the Tests category will go down and therefore their overall grade will go down as well Q MY STUDENT RECEIVED 100 ON AN ASSIGNMENT AND THEIR GRADE WENT DOWN HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE A The student had over 100 in that category most likely due to extra credit Example Student has turned in all of their homework and has some extra credit points putting their average for the category at 110 Now they turn in another homework assignment receiving 100 for that assignment Their weighted average for the Homework category will go down because 100 is less than 110 Q MY STUDENT DID SOME ADDITIONAL EXTRA CREDIT BUT THEIR GRADE WENT DOWN SHOULDN T EXTRA CREDIT ALWAYS RAISE THEIR GRADE A Not necessarily Adding a new extra credit assignment will change the total points possible
32. Group owner District Admins site admins members may Group Owner District Admins members may only only delete their own uploaded files delete their own uploaded files All members All members All members All members FUSD School Loop Manual Page 57 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1331377023196 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 126728060695 2 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print LoopMail Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal Have you switched to new LoopMail If you haven t already there s no reason not to The new version of LoopMail is prettier to start with and has better tools for addressing messages It s also the future of LoopMail designed so that future upgrades will be easier to implement Look for the New icon and link to switch in the upper right corner of Ol LoopMail d HeW Switch to new LoopMail Starting with the 2010 2011 school year everyone s account will default to the new version of LoopMail and the old version will cease to exist No messages will be lost during the transition but why wait You could be enjoying all of the new features now SAFE AND SECURE EMAIL FOR ALL USERS LoopMail is safe secure and never anonymous everyone publishes in their real name Because LoopMail is a private internal messaging system your email address is always hidden from other users You may send LoopMail to other registered users of
33. Home Browse By Subject A L Browse By Subject M Z Movies Resources Training What s New e o e e o e Tips amp Tricks Account Management Attendance Call Alerts Course Center Data Imports Directory Services Grade Export Gradebook GB4 Gradebook GB3 Groups Implementation LoopMail Mobile School Loop Partner Gradebooks Portals Publishing Registration School Loop Standard School Settings Student Record Student Tracker Unification Webmaster Websites Movies Index Document Library Design Services Gallery of Sample Sites Help amp Support Course Outlines On Site Training Teacher Training Webmaster Training Assignment Discussions Locker Documents Account Management Grade Submission Gradebook LoopMail Trackers Miscellaneous Gradebook GB4 School Loop Gradebook GB4 Gradebook Introduction GB4 Gradebook GB4 Getting Published Grades GB4 Er Started Gradebook Conversion Applies To Plus Grade Guide Altrad GBA About Published Grades Alternate Gradebook or E Website GB4 GB4 The Published Grades tab in the gradebook shows a summary of the scores you have published Since your students and Assign Work GB4 n Work GB4 their parents can only see the grades you choose to publish the scores and grades in the this view match the progress Assignment Scoresheet reports as seen by students and parents In contrast the All Grades tab shows all grades in the gradebook published or GB4 not Call Alerts GB4
34. J CHANE TETE TEF Se Cee oO en Toa Oradea anc couse Gre i as ene EBAT cree fi ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT MHE zS eea i harr EAI FP See RATH OLT x Tae HH TEEF Select aE pig im ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES If you plan to use weighting with any of your gradebooks itis a requirement that you set up your categories Otherwise this step is optional However many teachers who do not use weight choose to use categories to help keep assignments organized and to provide an additional layer of information for their parents and students Start by clicking the Go button for Assignments Categories On the page that follows you may edit or delete the system default categories You may also add your own categories There is no limit to the number of categories you may have Just keep in mind that this is a universal list and that all categories will be available for use in any and all of your gradebooks Learn more about setting categories GRADEBOOK SETTINGS All settings most settings are per gradebook and must be configured for each gradebook A few of the settings are universal and apply to all gradebooks These universal settings are clearly marked on the gradebook settings page From the Settings Index page click select a gradebook to configure by clicking the title of the gradebook All of your gradebooks are listed on this page For most teachers the gradebook defaults are the preferred settings so the minimal configuring required
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36. Mail hides the email address of all of our users and we offer the Bcc addressing option Since the use of Bcc is not always clearly understood we present this short tutorial on the proper use of blind carbon copy also known as blind courtesy copy or blank carbon copy Addressing Options There are three addressing options typical of all email clients as well as LoopMail To Cc and Bcc To These are the primary recipients of your message Cc Other interested parties should be included here Bcc These recipients are not listed No recipient of the message can see the Bcc list A Common Scenario An administrator wants to send an announcement to the parents of students enrolled in Special Education courses To protect the privacy of all students and parents the administrator is careful to not include the names of students or other details that might be used to identify a particular student Unfortunately the administrator included all parents in the Cc field of the email message When the message is received each parent can see the full list of parents who where included in the message A Better Solution To completely hide the recipient list in the scenario above the administrator should have addressed the message to himself in the To field and included all of the parents in the Bcc field In doing so each parent would see that the message was sent by the administrator to himself No other recipients are listed Using this technique ensure
37. NEWS 1 Click the Add News button atthe top of the Portal Page Dashboard or from the Content manager of your Webmaster Center or from the News Element on your page F _ a 2 Select your Audience from the options on the left hand side of the page 3 Fill in the form on the right hand side of the page 4 Click the Enable Discussion box if you would like to allow others to discuss your posting 5 Click the Publish button at the bottom of the page Add Event PUBLISH DATE Publish agin Erpira parea SP ory ON diel a NEWS ITEM Haddin e hoe Ee Soace Sie Bf f Hdd FE EZ ANN amp alla a a pa al Cj Tys attachments EI GTI Enable m Discus sion If you select the Request Addition to Homepage box for your audience your news will not publish on the homepage until itis approved by a webmaster News will display on the Ae email and Portal Page of all persons to whom it was directed fa Request Addition To Homepage RICH TEXT EDITOR FOR NEWS The News feature includes a Rich Text Editor with a tool bar that allows you to customize your posts much like word processing software You can edit the justification add links images and color to your text as well as many other features Check out the buttons on the tool bar at the top of the News form to see all of the editing options available TO EDIT NEWS To Edit your published
38. Tardy 31 mnute M n School Suspension O Parent Unexcused T Tardy Unexcused UsUnexcused VeTardy Excused X Sports CREATING AN ATTENDANCE LEGEND From your portal page click School Settings Click Go under Access Registration Management Scroll down to the Attendance legend form and enter explanations for your school s attendance codes When you are done click Submit ATTENDANCE LEGEND Optional for schools sending attendance data Provide users with a legend explaining the attendance codes used by your school e g A Absent V Venfed Absence A Admin E Excused F Field Trip G Independent Study H Home leach J Tardy 31 minute M In School Suspension Q Parent Unexcused T Tardy Unexcused U Unexcused V lardy Excused A Sports CUSTOM LEGEND LAYOUT Some basic tags and styling are supported allowing a tabular layout for your attendance legend Use this legend template to create a legend similar to the one below E Excused Absence U Truant suspension hl Med Emergency 0 liness H On Campus Suspension A Unexcused Absence T Tardy FUSD School Loop Manual Page 46 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1327837514169 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1267281049691 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Attendance Display Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal School staff can view attendance information for the current week in the Dashboard of the student record
39. ader bar to select all of the students in the list this is handy for selecting entire periods at Associates once The radio buttons above the list allow you to select whether to send the message to Teaches students parents or both Note thatthe list will not change when you select the parents option you will still select the name of the student in question but when you click Add the mins amp staff parents names will be added as addressees Groups In addition to addressing messages to your students and their parents you can also easily 7 address messages to the Learning Management Team LMT of any single student Just Mi students their parents oF click the blue envelope icon next to any student s name to send LoopMail to the student Learning Management Teams their registered parents teachers and other staff members on that student s team MANAGE YOUR RECIPIENT LIST The first 10 recipients added to your message will appear in the TO field and may be removed by clicking the small x to the right of their name Additional recipients beyond 10 are indicated as 29 More for example i as z Te Age 2 Burl Sean Fiore Rauban Wr Greener Teat A dadb Oar m C Eanna C Kanan 7 Wore If the total number recipients is 40 or fewer clicking the 29 More link will display all recipients in the TO field as seen in the image below fa aqurre Burt F SeanFives A 6 RewGones Wr Orenee
40. ader of the portal will Lier seri take you to a full featured mobile version of the event creation page ima Teacher s Mobile Portal e Courses View a list of your current courses along with links to the full Courses calendars and current rosters for those courses Eng 1 Spr P e Student Records Type a name or part of a name into the Look up student Ay field and click Go to search for individual Student Records Learn more Reading Adv Lab about mobile Student Records Student Records e Calendar View your calendar in the default weekly view as seen on your desktop portal or switch to a daily or monthly view using the icons at the Look up student top right corner of the page e Mobile LoopMail Access and manage your LoopMail inbox and send messages Learn more about mobile LoopMail Full Calendar e Full Web Site View Click here to use the full featured desktop version of Mobile LoopMail School Loop on your mobile device Note that some elements are not optimized for mobile browsing and may not work as intended Full Web Site View Note that by going to the Full Web Site View it is possible to use the full gradebook on your mobile device However you may find that not all of the gradebook s Saye pew functionality works as smoothly as it does in the desktop version Users using the Ai Rete ea ole older version of our gradebook GB3 may find that this more basic software works 3 fairly well but some functionality in our
41. ake care that the total for weighted categories Assignment 20 0 is 100 Finally click the Submit button Citizenship For your convenience there s an Add Category button if you need to add an Discussion additional category Final Exam Homework 0 0 Project ay Quiz oo Test 60 0 Total 100 Submit Cancel WEIGHTING EXPLAINED How weighting is used to calculate grades is not always clearly understood by students and Category Weight studentAvg Score parents This explanation should be helpful In Hareik 39o PL 13 the example there are three weighted categories Homework Tests and Final Each is o a weighted 30 50 and 20 respectively Tess as bac Ss The figure to the right illustrates that a student s Final 20 x Grade averages for the Homework and Tests l gt categories are 60 and 70 respectively Categones Used 60 53 he Eo Since there is no score for the final exam that 30 66 25 category will not be used in calculating the student s average The weight of each category used is multiplied by the student s average for that category Those products are summed together and divided by the total of the weighted categories in use 80 as pictured above In this example the student has earned 53 of a possible 80 for an average of 66 25 How that percent grade converts to a letter grade is based on your grading scale FAQS Q HOW CAN A STUDENT S GRADE
42. all resources in the locker To add resources to the group locker use the Add Resources button and then choose to add a file link or folder from the drop menu SEND LOOPMAIL TO GROUP This link opens a new message form with all group members automatically added to the BCC field This feature is available to teachers staff principals assistant principals and sys admins klata Gand tb aankiailta rarna ia natavailahla tar Makiai wia arciine FUSD School Loop Manual Page 52 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1330940284681 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 3 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 13 3094028468 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print IWS VON LYVP MaN W OIVUP I9 IIViGAVGHaNvic IVI WIisuiLeyiUt yivup gt DELETING GROUPS Administrators and the group s creator are the only persons who can delete a group The Delete Group option will appear in the group Toolbox of those individuals TOOLBOX Edit Name Description Caiete Group FUSD School Loop Manual Page 53 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1330940284681 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 3 3 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1309518013775 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print High Priority Groups Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal With School Loop Plus administrators can create groups of students that require additional attention from teachers Such groups might includ
43. amp piid 1330940284681 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 3 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1330940284681 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print E eee Group Home Add Members Remove Selected Edit Name Description Delete Group i Send LoopMail to Group STUDENTS SELECT LIST Al C Hame a Descriptian Siudernts Ea 0 JESSE ABANTO 4510 Grade 4 Parents aoc lies Staf Loop TT M G2 tf E TO REMOVE MEMBERS 1 Click the Members View Add or Remove link in the group toolbox 2 Check the box to the left of each persons name you wish to remove 3 Click the Remove Selected button on the top of the page 4 Click the Remove button CALENDAR The Group calendar is located at the top left of the Group homepage It displays the events published for that group Click on any date with a blue number to see the events for that day Click on or at the top of the calendar to move forward or backward by month This will allow you to view all events past and future for your group Group members can add events by clicking Add Event at the bottom of the calendar They can also request that their events be published to the school s homepage if the school uses the School Loop website feature Click the Request Addition to Homepage box in the Audience column on the left hand side of the New Event Publication page NEWS AND EVENTS When a member posts an event or news for the group it appears on every m
44. ance All At Risk J3 Al Students Atak due to 4bendancte Basies Altendance Severe Risk TS Students at Severe Rick dis i Shendance Baies Attendance Significant Rak iT Students al Significant REE due io Allaniance Szuez Be sure to review our help pages covering all the features of Student Trackers HOW THE TRENDS ARE CALCULATED Typically schools have several different codes for absences medical excused field trip etc but for the Chronic Absence Tracker you specify which attendance codes will be counted towards chronic absences Initially it takes 20 days of accumulated attendance before any trends are displayed From that point forward trends are based on a running 20 day window When the system calculates trends the following rules apply 1 Once a student reaches either 10 or 20 absences they are automatically added to the corresponding risk group Significant or Severe 2 To move from the Severe risk group to the Significant risk group the student s absence rate must drop to 10 or less 3 To be removed from the Significant risk group the student s absence rate must drop to 5 or less 4 If period absences are reported missing 50 or more of the periods in student s schedule counts as a full day of absence In other words a student who misses 2 of 4 periods in a day is credited with a full day absence A student with 6 periods must miss 3 periods 5 Attendance risk by period is calculated separately from day absences For
45. cel J You may check multiple recipients before clicking the TEACHERS mewing mm SELECT A LIST Add button Your selections will not be lost as you Ge m oma Description Sudenis move from tab to tab or from role to role F Chen Allen Teacher Parents Note The options in the SELECT A LIST section are E F ALMEIDA Teacher ahri not the same for all users Teachers have additional 7 2 Af Bena bien Stat options based on the courses they teach Associates E penhe ree Afterschool Professionals and Afterschool Professionals cannot choose parents F O Vick Campbell hachi PRN or students as recipients G E Cali Formia Teacher Lookup 2 LOOKUP HIE Choose Lookup from the SELECT A LIST menu to search for LOOKUP recipients by entering part of their name first or last in the Enter Enter Name i Name field When you find the person you re searching for simply F N click their name Continue searching and clicking to add more recipients Dermo Teacher Teacher If there are many users with similar names simply enter more of Test Case Assittant Principal their name to narrow your search For example enter jones and TRAVIS CEBALLOS Student ID 3689 Gode 9 you ll see every user with that last name but if you enter jones a Bob Tutor Afterschool Professi a you ll see every Jones whose first name begins with the letter A en Removing Recipients Next to each recipient s name in the TO CC or BCC fields you ll find a
46. cent Enter Scores As you type the background of any cell with a changed value will be highlighted in orange This feature is 2 CEBALLOS TRAVS 3689 77 50 C used on all grade input pages and serves multiple purposes 12 AARONSON ALEX 7504 60 00 B 30 ALDRETE RAQUEL 7678 70 00 C 40 SOTELO BRIANNA 0312 7250 C 1 The orange highlighted cells 5i remind you that there are 5 CHANG JESSE 3739 82 50 B scores to be saved Be sure to click one of the Save buttons before attempting to leave the page 2 lts easy to spot any scores changed by accident or by a student when you were distracted a E HORA 8395 80 00 H Hint If the cells of newly added or changed scores are not turning orange then those scores will not be saved This can happen if your session times out Moving From Cell To Cell While there may be some difference between browsers the Enter Tab and arrow keys can be used to advance the cursor to the next cell Holding the Shift key down while using the Tab key typically moves the cursor in the reverse direction Autofill Instantly fill in every empty cell in column with the same value by entering that value in the cell next to the Autofill button and then clicking the button Autofill will not over write cells that have scores P Student Points Comment Autofill 1 AARON TAYLOR 167504 Comments Assignment and student scoresheets include an input field for comments These comm
47. column on the Groups page DISTRICT WIDE GROU PS FUSD School Loop Manual Page 56 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1331377023196 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1331377023196 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print District wide groups have most of the same features as site groups with the advantage of allowing membership from other schools in the district District wide groups can be either public or private Note The Send LoopMail to Group feature is not available and District Wide groups are for staff only Students and parents cannot be added to District Wide groups District wide private groups can also be created by checking both options at the bottom of the create group page These groups are only visible to members of the group and District Administrators While school level System Admins can see any private group at their school they cannot see district wide private groups unless they have been added to the group The following table outlines the rights the rights associated with private groups Who Can see the group add or remove members add or delete files post news and events participate in discussions Private Site Group Private District wide Group Group owner District Admins site admins group members Group owner District Admins group members Group owner District Admins site admins Group Owner District Admins
48. ct vede D Private Group F District wide Private Group Note Once a group is created the optional Private and District wide settings cannot be changed If you made a mistake in the type of group you wanted you will need to delete and recreate the group PRIVATE GROUPS Faculty and staff can now create private groups that cannot be seen by users who have not been added to that group s membership With public groups faculty and staff at a school site can see a complete list of groups at the school and are free to join any group they wish Private groups allow for more discretion and control with regards to a group s membership as new members can only be added to private groups by either the group owner or users with administrator rights Note A private group member who has Webmaster or Editor rights has the ability to display the group locker on the website Creating a private group is easy simply click the Groups icon at the top of your portal and then click Create Group At the bottom of the creation form you will see a check box that allows you to make the group private Checking this box will set your new group to private Group Hame Serre Group Description Membership Criteria Create Gangejl Users with Site Admin and District Admin accounts will still be able to see private groups created at the school level and can also join these groups if they wish These groups will be labeled Site Private in the Type
49. d On the next page you will be asked to choose from the various user types e g Students Teachers Parents etc or one of your groups Selecta user type inbox Semt Current Archivi and then find the user from the list in the case of user types with many names such as Students or Parents you will be asked to narrow the list using the first letter of the user s last name Once you have narrowed the list click touch the check box by the users you wish to add to the addressee field and select Add Recipients With the current version of Mobile LoopMail once you have added recipients you cannot remove them without starting the addressing process over from the beginning so be haniai careful Once you have entered your recipients simply fill in the Subject and Message areas pate e and then hit Send You will be taken back to your Sent box where you will see a message confirming that your message was sent Note Remember that if you do not want users to see the other recipients ofa message or if you are sending to a large number of recipients the BCC field is your best option when adding addressees READING AND MANAGING MESSAGES When you receive a new message the bar on your mobile portal will turn green prompting you to check for unread LoopMail Click the Mobile LoopMail bar on your mobile portal to view your inbox As with the mobile version unread messages will be displayed in bold Simply click to
50. d amp vpid 1265673451568 1 2 8 22 12 School Loop Help Website Published Grades GB4 Online GB4 000026 Transfer Grades GB4 Weighting GB4 Weighting Calculator Alternative Grading Methods Alternative Grading 2012 2013 School Loop Help On School Websites Online Gradebook Online School Calendar Student Email Digital Locker Powered by School Loop User Agreement Privacy Notice FAQ Staff Login Translation Spanish Chinese Japanese Korean Arabic French RSS Feeds Site Map German Italian Portugese FUSD School Loop Manual Page 35 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid amp vpid 1265673451568 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1284708013349 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Reports GB4 os Applies To Plus Grade ABOUT REPORTS Your gradebook comes with a number of printable reports Each report opens in a new window There are four styles of reports 1 Complete Gradebook Includes summary of all grades as well as every assignment for all students per period and can be printed with student names or just student ID numbers 2 Grades Current student averages by period May be printed with both student names and IDs or just IDs alone These reports are sortable by name ID or percent average ALGEBRA ONE Wright Orville Scores for Period 1 Printed 7 7 09 SSS Name ID Grade AARON TAYLOR 167504 of A B CEBALLOS TRAVIS 173669 79 6 C 3 Progress
51. daily with the gradebook option Click the name of the High Priority Group to view the students in that group Easy Start Standard Staff 03 11 10 www schoolloop com 2 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 8 of 79 SCHOOL LOOP LoopMail LoopMail is a safe secure system that enables you to communicate with your staff students and their parents The LoopMail icon is located at the oe top of every page Messages are forwarded from LoopMail to your LoopMail registered email address Groups All Administrators Teachers and Staff have the ability to view create and ac join groups in School Loop Groups are made up of any number of users og including students and parents Each group shares a common calendar Groups news and resource locker Group members may start and participate in an online discussion board Using the pre configured School Loop Help Group is a great way to connect with other users Members can post questions and suggestions for other users to see Beyond The Easy Start Guide When you re ready to learn more about your School Loop account visit our Help Website and Support Center where you will find a searchable knowledge base document library and online instructions Use the red Help link at the top right of any page in your portal to access these resources If you can t find the help you need fill out a help ticket and our School Loop Support Team will quickly get you the answers you need Easy Start Standard S
52. ddress Groups All Administrators Teachers and Staff have the ability to view create and ao join groups in School Loop Groups are made up of any number of users acg including students and parents Each group shares a common calendar Groups news and resource locker Group members may start and participate in an online discussion board Using the pre configured School Loop Help Group is a great way to connect with other users Members can post questions and suggestions for other users to see Beyond The Easy Start Guide When you re ready to learn more about your School Loop account visit our Help Website and Support Center where you will find a searchable knowledge base document library and online instructions Use the red Help link at the top right of any page in your portal to access these resources If you can t find the help you need fill out a help ticket and our School Loop Support Team will quickly get you the answers you need Easy Start Plus Teacher doc 03 09 2010 www schoolloop com 4 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 6 of 79 SCHOOL LOOP School Loop Plus Easy Start Guide For Staff Welcome to School Loop Your staff Portal enables communication and collaboration with your colleagues and the community in new and exciting ways This guide introduces you to all of the basic functions of your account Your Portal Homepage The top portion of your portal contains a navigation SeHOO z menu
53. dividual student F 0 00 If you wish to apply a special grade scale to an individual student click that student s name in your gradebook spreadsheet to bring up their Student Scoresheet Click the Change button as pictured below and you ll be presented with a menu of all your save grade scales Current Score 58 Current Grade F Grading scale for this student Default Category Due Date Assignment Max Points Edi FUSD School Loop Manual Page 27 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 132368127683 3 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1324640664668 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Grades Drafts Restore amp History GB4 Applies To Plus Grade Worried about losing grades We ve got you covered As you enter scores and the cursor moves to a new cell our system saves a draft of those scores Should your computer crash or some other calamity occur before you can click one of the Save buttons your scores can be recovered Worried about someone tampering with your grades If someone gains access to your gradebook and makes changes it s possible to restore grades to a previously saved version Need to know when individual scores were changed We store the history all scores in your gradebook DRAFT GRADES When scores were entered but not saved the next time you access that gradebook you ll be presented with the unsaved grades At that
54. e 79 95 Current Grade C Grading scale for this student Default Cham an assignment for that student Empty cells indicate Category Due Date Assignment Max Points Score that the default max for that assignment will apply Assignment 1271 09 Order of Operations Defaut 10 00 Click one of the save buttons on the page when Assignment TAN w09 Like Terms Default 40 00 J6 ready Assignment 12 30 09 Distributive Property Detautt 3 00 8 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 39 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1284708013350 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1340017269582 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000033 Submitting Work Online GB4 Applies To Plus Grade ABOUT SUBMISSIONS Your students may submit work online for any assignments published to your gradebook Any file that could be attached to an email message can be submitted to you through your assignments All work submitted by students is time stamped so there can be no arguments about when the work was submitted Students get an archive of all their submitted work in their portal Note Students cannot submit files to calendar only assignments Assignment Average 6 50 P Student Points Comment Tine Stamp AARON TAVLOR 167504 a ji ONNA 10 20 AM GETTING THERE There are several ways to access a list of work submit
55. e assignment scoresheet is alphabetical by student last name grouped by periods You also have the option to sort the scoresheet by student scores from highest to lowest Just click the Points column title Click the Student column title to return to default sorting order The sort order you choose will also be displayed in the print view AllGrades Published Grades Assignment Average To Import Gradebook Scores Mone m P Student Comment 1 AARONSON ALEX 167504 i 1 ES ALDRETE RAQUEL 167678 72 i FUSD School Loop Manual Page 16 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1289140151014 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 132964498722 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000008 Call Alerts GB4 Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal This feature is available only if your school is using the optional Call Alert integration Please contact School Loop and your site administrators for more information When posting an assignment you can also schedule a phone call to the parents of your students who do not have a School Loop account and whose first language may not be English See the Call Alert Setup page for a list of available languages Registered parents will never get a phone call the daily email and all the information you post on School Loop is their source of notification Unregistered parents may receive a call if your scho
56. e configuration of those gradebooks depends on your particular requirements Below you will find several different scenarios describing the application of multiple gradebooks If one gradebook per course does not meet your needs find the scenario below that best describes your required setup and follow the directions For those that must weight various gradebooks to determine a final grade instructions can be found in Scenario III below CREATING A NEW GRADEBOOK Depending on how your school schedules your courses you may not automatically get a new gradebook at the beginning ofa new term If this is the case you simply need to create a new gradebook for the new term Hover over the Course Center menu on the navigation bar on your Portal homepage and choose one of your courses from the pull down menu that appears In the Gradebooks Section click Edit next to the current gradebook Edit the End date of the gradebook to correspond to the last day of the previous term Click Submit Click the Add New Gradebook button Enter a name for your new gradebook We recommend that you include the term e g Algebra 2nd Qtr Set the Start and End dates to correspond to the first and last day of your grading period Click Submit NOOO BRWDND Be sure to give each gradebook an appropriate name and be careful that the start and end dates are accurate for each term Note Always republish grades after editing your gradebook da
57. e students who are on the cusp of meeting API objectives mainstreamed special education and in danger of not graduating High Priority Groups are only visible to administrators teachers and staff In addition to the groups created by administrators there is one group automatically generated by School Loop 70 in 2 classes Less than 70 in 2 or more classes This group is automatically formed based on the grade published by teachers and is updated each night Students are removed from the group as they improve HOW ARE HIGH PRIORITY GROUPS DISPLAYED An administrator s Dashboard contains a list of all the high priority groups Click any group name to view a list of students in that group student Trackers Create Hews High Priority E Description TO ing Classes IT Fos pertoreence m 2 cps n Eacessive Ajeng 278 Were Ap 2 E j Same Cuh as amp 0 ji SARP 4 a The 20 Zero Ca 110 20a mere maga s Trending Down hep Now T3 Trending 2 ci n Description Show Trackers _ ee Ong a a ick Show Trackers to wira tneckers Teachers can view High Priority Groups by clicking the View All button on their Dashboard to the right of the Student Tracker heading Students that are in High Priority Groups will display on the teacher s Dashboard and in the Student Performance section at the top of the Course Center pages as well Click on a student s name to go directly to the Student Record Clic
58. eep use the Pencil edit icon and Add content buttons to change options and add new content When ready Click the Publish button If you d like to Practice Teacher finish building your site at a later time click the blue Save button To prepare your course pages click on the appropriate links Practice Teacher Not Pub ALGEBRA 1A SPR ALGEBRA 14 SPR in the navigation menu on the left of the page and follow the same process just used for your personal page Course Centers Course Centers are the hub for the courses you teach and are divided into two sections Student Performance and Course Tools The Student Performance section highlights trends in student grades over the past week Students trending both down and up in grades are listed Also included are the High Priority Groups created by administrators that contain students on your roster and a link to the course calendar showing all the assignments you ve posted MATH LAB MATH LAB Pa a i A v ramp Course Center P PHYSICS STUDENT PERFORMANCE l i ies app i fe olemas Th aa Li I E ti gt F FEEFEE EE F r 8 Cee ria Course Tools GRADERS ASSIGNMENTS Bisi ira Ce kee Se i pa ad So a eet Eiis uer lai Eiri Tia Peik G Bah ri t ii pam m a i iin puan re Pera Per pionna mm z sr r ark E dki ie mein a In the Course Tools section you ll find all your Gradebooks a Roster Manager a map of your course site and
59. ember s Portal Page as well as on the group homepage If using School Loop for the school s website members may request that group news and events be added to the school s homepage calendar These requests must be approved by the school webmaster PROJECTS A group project can be started by any member of the group Projects are essentially a special type of discussion with a specific time frame such as meeting times and deadlines Projects can be used to create an organizational structure for groups when tackling large topics such as WASC or textbook adoption To create a project just click the blue Start Project button and fill in the details Group projects are listed on each member s portal homepage DISCUSSIONS All Group discussion threads appear in the Discussion area of each member s portal All members of the group may read and reply to any or all group discussions All members of the group receive an email message with each new discussion post or reply to a post unless they opt out of email replies for that group s discussions Members may opt out of email replies from the group homepage by clicking the View All button in the discussion section Click the radio button for opting out Click here for more detailed information about School Loop Discussions LOCKER Like all School Loop lockers files and links may be stored and organized into folders The group locker is for the mutual benefit of all its members who may upload and access
60. ems you cannot delete messages in LoopMail Instead you can move messages from your Inbox to your Current Archive or file them in another folder Messages from previous school years are stored in the Historical Archive If you file messages in a custom folder the messages remain there and won t be automatically archived If you need to search your inbox you can sort the columns by date sender or subject by clicking the column header Click the header a second time to sort again in the reverse order You can also search your inbox using the Lookup tool just start typing into the text field at the top of your inbox and LoopMail searches for matches and populates a list of results on the fly You can enter dates such as 3 3 or any part of the sender s name or message subject If you want to get fancy use the plus sign for an advanced search such as 3 3 wilbur Note The Lookup tool only works on one mailbox at a a time In other words searching your inbox wont show results from your sent messages Also the search does not work on the contents of messages only the date title and sender recipient s LoopMail Inbox Switch back to old LoopMail 2s inbox 2 Sent Move Selected Lookup FF Current Archive BB inbox Date w Sender Subject 114140 T2571 PM SAVANNAH CARRASCO Tomoirow s assignment seni F 11A1A0 1251 PM Robbie Bolen Leanne community workshop tomorrow GA Parent Messages F 4141401250 PM Ima Admin All Statt Me
61. en N ascending and descending sorting nbi t YA E N LAN BA PEA IR XY ae T AA A Si When you drill down by date on the data tables we present you with a list of students who were absent on that particular day Each student s name in the listis a link to a page displaying all of their attendance for the current school year We also indicate which students were newly added or dropped from a category Th leis Naturally the data from all of these charts and tables are downloadable as CSV files ggg gr gr gr which can be opened by Excel or other S a Ey a J As i spreadsheet applications To grab your data just click the Download button located atthe top right of each graph and table TRACKING AT RISK STUDENTS Now that we ve identified which student are L Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Perio at risk based on their attendance it s time to feb po2pin g J4 4 track their academic performance using one of the three Students Trackers automatically ae 3 SP created by our system All At Risk Feb O05 2070 a 26 21 Significant Risk and Severe Risk As with Feb 04 2010 a J5 19 all Trackers you can view each student s Feb 03 7010 9 25 19 overall average for all courses number of assignments with zeros and how many of their teachers are publishing grades Additionally you can easily compose and send LoopMail messages to any or all members of the student s Learning Management Team General Description Attend
62. ent button at the top of the calendar at the bottom of your Portal Page You can also click on a date on a calendar on any of your webpages or the Content Manager of the Webmaster Center J Day View 2 Click the appropriate boxes to choose your Audience on the left hand side of the Events Form page 3 Fill in the form to complete the information for your event on the right hand side of the page 4 Click Publish Your Event will now be published on the calendars of all your selected audiences If you chose to have your event published to the homepage a webmaster will have to approve it before it will be published REPEATING EVENTS You can save time by publishing one event that repeats at regular intervals rather than publishing each instance of the event Let s say you have an event that repeats every Friday Make sure that the event date is on a Friday then go down to the bottom of the New Event Window and choose Repeat Every Week Then choose the date for the last instance of the repeating event and click Publish DEDEAT JAC CHCNMENTC DEDEAT ALITOAAATICALLY TILI MIEN FUSD School Loop Manual Page 78 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 134278202815 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 4 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 134278202815 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print mo Ld Pea L E F EELT LS PP SAAN i L LFL Does not repeat ie Repeat Every 7 Week
63. enters the title is always a hyperlink Click the title if you wish to Edit Copy or Delete that assignment Alternately hovering over the title Posted by Orville Wright of an assignment on the gradebook main spreadsheet reveals details about the assignment as well links to Edit Copy or Delete Category Assignment Discuss GOTO Y gt gt Max Points Average Percent Assignment Reorder Hide View Submissions Reorder CEdit Copy Delete View Assignment ECONOMICS Period 2 5 Supply and Demand Worksheet Print View Assigned S2009 Due 7 3009 Point Value 5 Edit Copy Delete Bebe Order of Op Like Properties P 10 A A10 D A10 The Copy function is useful when you wish to reassign an old assignment or for those instances when you need to make similar but different assignments for your classes It saves you the trouble of having to retype all the details fon irabarsengasata second help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 133957995225 1 amp vpid amp cms __ template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1339579952251 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print ume 000006 To delete a recurring assignment you can simply visit the first occurrence of that assignment and choose Delete You will be prompted whether you wish to delete only the first occurrence or all occurrences of that assignment This option is only presented when choosi
64. ents will be visible only to that student and their registered parents when viewing the progress report for your class Saving Scores Although the School Loop gradebook provides safeguards to prevent A accidental grade loss itis important to click one of the save buttons SE E Sl PY adit periodically We recommend that you use the Save and Stay button every few minutes while working on grades FUSD School Loop Manual Page 22 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1284707930519 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1319263275282 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000014 Drop Lowest Score GB4 Applies To Plus Grade You pick the categories eligible for dropping a low score for each student and our gradebook will find the the single score the gives each student the greatest boost in average Even better you have the power to choose not to drop a scores for individual student or if necessary restore all dropped scores for all students GETTING THERE Use the Gradebook Tools menu located on the top right of the main gradebook spreadsheet Choose Drop Low Score from the menu HOW TO DROP LOW SCORES First you must select the categories from which a low score may be selected In other words if you want to drop the lowest Test score just check that category if you wish to drop the lowest score from either the Project or Discussion categories check
65. es print 000031 Rounding Default Score and Averaging GB4 Applies To Plus Grade GETTING THERE From any page in your portal click the Settings link near the top of the page and then look for the Gradebook Settings area on the next page Click the link for the gradebook you wish to configure to open the settings page for that gradebook On this next page you will see the options for Rounding and Default Score in the left column You will only see Averaging if an administrator has enabled this feature Click the Go button next to the setting you wish to change ROUNDING The Rounding option allows teachers to change how many decimal places will be displayed for overall grades This number can be set to either 0 1 or 2 using the drop Decimal Digits menu If zero is selected the gradebook will round to the nearest whole number For example if a student s overall grade is 93 667 the gradebook will round this score to Cancel 94 Note that this setting only affects the student s overall grade not individual grades entered for assignments Even if your rounding is set to 0 decimal places you can still give a student fractional points on any assignment and the gradebook will not round this score This allows for a more precise rounding of the overall grade DEFAULT SCORE By default new assignments in your gradebook will not have any value entered as a score just empty cells The Default Score option allows teachers to
66. eting B Politics Club a Historical Archive Folders Add Edit ORGANIZING LOOPMAIL MESSAGES INTO FOLDERS There are two ways to move messages into folders The first 43 method is to drag and drop individual messages When you pea Inbox move your cursor over one of your messages the cursor Ais Sent Dieses Sekine tert EA changes to a pair of crossed arrows indicating that you may click hold and drag that message to one of your folders Once you i Par apti j z E a HE 4 44 mj drop a message into a folder itwill disappear from your inbox E Current Archive F Sis WFO 5 34 PM 1 The second method allows you to move multiple messages at E gt Hi eee z once Check the box to the left of the messages you wish to move istorical Archive w110 3 55 PM i and mouse over the Move Selected drop menu located just E 410 411 PM h above the date column From the drop menu choose the desired Folders Add Edit F 47 10 4 01PM k destination and click to move all checked messages to that location MANAGING YOUR LOOPMAIL FOLDERS CREATE FOLDERS Currently we only allow you to create new folders to organize your incoming messages For sent messages there is a sent mail folder inside the Current Archive folder where you can store messages you don t want to keep in your Sent mailbox To add a new folder start by clicking the Add button at the bottom of the left column This will bring up the Add Folder window Enter a name for yo
67. example a student with 5 classes who missed first period 5 times in the past 20 days but has no other absences will be in the Significant risk category for period 1 25 absence rate but won t be in any risk category for day absences FUSD School Loop Manual Page 50 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 131763146785 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1330940284681 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Groups _ Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal Standard School Loop Groups are a helpful medium to collaborate with others They allow you to plan and implement projects carry on discussions and share resources School Loop Group membership can consist of any teacher or staff member in the school For School Loop Plus students and parents may also be made members of a group Example uses of groups include extra curricular activities special interest groups departments curriculum planning and parent organizations CREATING GROUPS All groups must have a staff sponsor Any teacher or staff member in the school can create a group Create a New Group Complete this form to add a new group 1 Click the Group icon atthe top of any page in your portal 2 Click the Create Group button Group Name 3 Enter a name and a description 4 Check the option to make the Group District wide if desired Description Membership Criteria 5 Click the blue Create butt
68. for any student if your school has chosen to import attendance data Attendance can be shown for the full day by period or both depending on what data your school decides to include An attendance legend explaining the codes your school uses is located at the bottom of the attendance view Dashboard Attendance Calendar Interventions Files Turned In Work As of 3 2 10 11 06 A M E Print View Course eee vo Gt of Zeros perc haloes AP z A ae 96 67 0 0 Progress Report Drawing amp Painting 5 6 At 100 O 0 Progress Report Functions Statistics Trigonometry A 90 7 0 2 Progrese Report Spanish 56 F C 73 92 0 2 Gayest Repar Biology AP B 84 73 0 3 Progress Report US History Hanar None Publighed English Language amp Composition D 67 75 0 3 Progrese Report al AA Attendance Date e e e e u a a eS Da ee a a ee ee ee IMM m 2 24 10 2125110 A A l n 2 26 10 W110 Attendance Legend Click All Attendance next to View This Week s to see attendance for the whole year This view typically only includes the days that absenses or tardies were recorded Dashboard Attendance Calendar Interventions Files Turnedtin Work FUSD School Loop Manual Page 47 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_vie
69. for parent conferences Tue amp Thu between 3 and 5 pm Please send LoopMail the schedule an appointment HOW IT SHOWS UP When anyone views the progress report for a student your custom progress report message appears as pictured below Progress Report LOPEZ ADRIANA All Progr Ripari Corre Geen EEN timini Record Ob print view ALGEBRAT yeh Orin Panut i Dmm i tara 21 57 iii et ee AAN a Al Caingery Oe Daie Aiikjnmant Siom Percent Comment Submitted Wok ee ee rh Pip Aes b g oiik eae mari Tie tier 24 De L DREI 3 disiam dineti Ley 16 1G CER Lard iat hae maa atv y Fi ype nA ipp Pages is ie Toy E i EE a Ss nye ee ee Tapio agay 7 TihG oom ikapa DNE he i EE NOTESICOMMENTS p Ur Valier a avedatie for perd conferences Tue amp Tihu between Dart S om Pinas send Loonllag tc tcheduke an append NOTES COMMENTS Mr Walker is available for parent conferences Tue amp Thu between 3 and 5 pm Please send LoopMail to schedule an appointment FUSD School Loop Manual Page 21 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1280193948013 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1284707930519 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000013 Data Entry GB4 Applies To Plus Grade ABOUT DATA ENTRY There are three different views for recording scores the main spreadsheet assignment scoresheet and student scoresheet The
70. ge Finally click on the Go button for Grade Scales Universal WORKING WITH GRADE SCALES For each gradebook you may select apply any of your saved grades scales GRADE SCALE OPTIONS Create New Scale SELECT DEFAULT GRADE SCALE Default A 97 00 Default Grading Scale Default A 93 00 submit Canc A 90 00 7 B 87 00 l l B 83 00 To edit a grade scale click the Edit button The edit grade scale process is the g 80 00 same as the current version of our gradebook C 77 00 C 73 00 To add a new grade scale click the Create New Scale button Give your new C 70 00 grade scale an appropriate name and edit as desired D 67 00 D 63 00 Remember that grades scales are universal Each of your grade scales may be D 60 00 used with any gradebook or any individual student F 0 00 If you wish to apply a special grade scale to an individual student click that student s name in your gradebook spreadsheet to bring up their Student Scoresheet Click the Change button as pictured below and you ll be presented with a menu of all your save grade scales Current Score 58 Current Grade F Grading scale for this student Default Category Due Date Assignment Max Points Edi FUSD School Loop Manual Page 26 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 132368127683 3 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 13236812 76833 amp vpid amp c
71. icons for frequently used features help and Se account management The My Portal link returns you ssu to this homepage The Dashboard has links to your personal site and publishing tools for your site Your Weekly Calendar is located just below the dashboard on your Portal homepage Your group and personal events are listed on the calendar Other useful tools are located in the Toolbox on the right My Websites School Loop Plus provides you with a complete website With minimal effort you can create and publish your staff website For advanced users we offer you the tools necessary to fully customize your site but let s first look at the basics From your Portal Homepage look for the Create Your Websites section of the Dashboard Click the link with your name next to the folder icon Doing so will take you to the default page which contains many elements such as a locker calendar notes and news The first thing you should do is to remove the elements you do not wish to keep Click the Trash Can icon in the upper right corner of an element to delete it from your page Add additional elements by clicking the Plus Sign icon where you wish to insert the content A new window will appear with options for 9 different Elements types of content For the elements you wish to keep use the Pencil edit icon and Add content buttons to change options and add new content When ready click the Publish button If youd l
72. id 1316160081959 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1327837629717 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Send LoopMail Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal After clicking the LoopMail icon atthe top of any page in your portal click the blue New Message Button From Mr Principal To send a message you must choose atleast one recipient To and enter a message subject Use the buttons on the toolbar to style the text of your message insert a link or an image etc you can even Subject add smiley faces Below the message pane you ll find buttons for attaching Message files or links li Source Style Adding Recipients f IPT If you need the CC or BCC fields use the links located A ey From Mr Principal below the To pane To Click the To CC or BCC buttons to add recipients using one of two methods Rolodex or Lookup ae Note The To and CC fields have a combined maximum number of 200 recipients for staff members The number of recipients for the BCC fields is unlimited For parents and students the maximum number of recipients for the To and CC fields combined is 50 1 ROLODEX enone First choose one of the roles listed under SELECT A LIST Gemi F Bate gel then use the tabs on the far left to locate your recipient by last initial Check the box next to that person s name an then click the Add button aD Can
73. ike to finish building your site at a later time click the blue Save button To add additional pages or sub sections to your site use the Add menu in the left navigation bar Click Reorder Pages to see the status of your pages as well as drag and drop them into a new order within your sub sections Easy Start Standard Staff 03 11 10 www schoolloop com Add Event Add Wotes f Add Hews Create Your Websites EO My Staf Zoo amp MY STAFF LOCKER rea Resources PPT Word Excel Viewers Download Acrobat Reader Go This Locker is Empty My Staff My Staff Not Pub FUSD School Loop Manual Page 7 of 79 SCHOOL LOOP Publish To Your Website The easiest way to publish content to your JASHBOARL website is to use the blue buttons located just under the yellow title bar of the Dashboard You may also add content directly on the page by using the Add buttons within the elements Your staff page comes with a calendar to which AUDIENCE you can Add Events You may also Add Notes F Website blog style or Add News to your website When cons adding content to your site be sure to check the M Your Personal Site box for Your Personal Site in the Add To section of the simple publishing forms Add Event Add Notes Add News Student Records gt Z o S All students have a Student Record that Student Record ABUNDIS ANDREW includes information designed to highlight a Dashboard Anendance
74. ing the Reply or Reply All buttons in messages forwarded to your Outlook inbox follow the directions listed here Automatic Download Settings Send Recenve Instant Search On the Tools menu click Trust Center Account Settings T E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E l l H ES a ie E E E E 2 E E E Giok murc i o a Trusted Publishers You can control whether Outlook automatically downloads and displays pictures w message Add ins Blocking pictures in e mail messages can help protect your privacy Pictures in HTML download the pictures from a server Communicating to an external server in this w e mail address is valid possibly making you the target of more junk mailings E mail Security Don t doynlooed eretarer atte matically 1 aeee or R55 item Attachment Handling Permit downloads in e mail messages from senders and to recipiet Sate Recipients Lists used by the Junk E mail filter jpastomstic Downton pert tomer E Fermit downloads in R55 items Privacy Options yzone Trusted Zone Macro Security Permit downloads in SharePoint Discussion Boards Programmatic Access Warn me before downloading content when editing forwarding or Automatic Download on the left menu Check the second box Permit downloads in email messages from senders Click OK Auto login is now set Junk Email Settings The above settings will allow you to use the Auto Login feature but it some cases it
75. is to set your grade scale If you choose to us weighting you must configure that feature as well By default weighting is turned off Use the links below to learn more about all of the setting available Weighting Custom Codes Universal Grade Scale Universal Number of Columns in Gradebook Assignment Order Student Order PUBLISH ASSIGNMENTS With your gradebooks properly configured you are now ready post assignments for your students and their parents The horizontal menu near the top of every page in your portal has a Publishing Tools option Choose the Assign Work option from this menu Other ways to add assignments include an Add Work button in the Dashboard of your portal homepage and an Add Assignment button near the top left of every gradebook Any of these options will take you to the simple Assign Work form Learn more about assigning work FUSD School Loop Manual Page 11 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1308731333105 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1308731333105 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000003 SCORE ASSIGNMENTS When itis time to record scores you have three scoring modes to choose from the main gradebook spreadsheet assignment scoresheets and student scoresheets Most teachers have experience with an electronic gradebook and ours is no different the the others when it comes to data entry Just the same we suggest you familiari
76. k the blue button to the right of this section to open and close the list Student Trackers High EEE S E Period 2 P FRENCH 2 GARABAN R Period 3 P FRENCH 2 MACS 5 TRAN K Period 4 P FRENCH 2 ALVAREZ HOWARD S BAY TON HUNT BLANCO S NGO M Period 6 P FREWCH 3 MENDOZA T TRUONG C VOLETI K Period 7 P FRENCH 3 EMOD J WELEZ D 2t Hide Trackers P_ FRENCH 2 77 3 utomaticaly generated for P FRENCH 2 r General Description Ifa student belongs to any high priority groups a list of those groups can be found atthe top of the right column on the student record page High Priority Alert 70 in 7 classes Excessive Absence FUSD School Loop Manual Page 54 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1309518013775 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1309518013775 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print CREATE A HIGH PRIORITY GROUP To create a new High Priority Group click the Create New button on the right hand side of the Portal Page Dashboard Fill in the form and check the High Priority radio dial at the bottom left of the page Uncheck the Display Tracker on Portal Dashboard box at the bottom of the form if you do not want the new High Priority Group to display on Portal Page Dashboards Leave the box checked if you wantit to display Click Create You now have a new High Priority Group Click on
77. ms_template pages print 000018 Grade Scales GB4 Applies To Plus Grade Our current gradebook allows one grading scale per gradebook but version 4 allows you to create additional grade scales that you may apply to individual students The grade scales are universal allowing you to use any of your custom grade scales for any gradebook or any student As always the applicable grade scale appears on the progress report for you the student and their parents to see GETTING THERE From any page in your portal click the Settings link near the top right of the page then select any of your gradebooks from the Gradebook Settings section of the next page Finally click on the Go button for Grade Scales Universal WORKING WITH GRADE SCALES For each gradebook you may select apply any of your saved grades scales GRADE SCALE OPTIONS Create New Scale SELECT DEFAULT GRADE SCALE Default A 97 00 Default Grading Scale Default A 93 00 submit Canc A 90 00 7 B 87 00 l l B 83 00 To edit a grade scale click the Edit button The edit grade scale process is the g 80 00 same as the current version of our gradebook C 77 00 C 73 00 To add a new grade scale click the Create New Scale button Give your new C 70 00 grade scale an appropriate name and edit as desired D 67 00 D 63 00 Remember that grades scales are universal Each of your grade scales may be D 60 00 used with any gradebook or any in
78. n and the system will automatically detect that you are using a mobile device and show the mobile version of the login page see image below If your school is not using the School Loop system for its school website navigating to the school s School Loop URL will take you directly to this mobile login page If you find that you are having trouble getting the the site to pull up the mobile version of the login page you can also force your browser to go there manually Simply add mobile login no quotes to the end of your school s School Loop URL and you ll be able to access the mobile site no matter what kind of device you re using al AT amp T 2 35 PM om demo schoolloop com F a MOBILE BETA We icome To Demo Hi gh School Mobile Espanol PX Login Name Password Gn 2010 School Loop Inc Privacy Matice All nights reserved User Agreement PARENT AND STUDENT REGISTRATION If you are a parent or who hasn t created your user account in School Loop yet you can register from your mobile device and get immediate access to your accounts To register simply click the Register Now button from the mobile login page The system will ask if you are a parent or student select one of these roles to move to the next step Users at districts with our Afterschool Professional role enabled will also see this role as an option As with registration on the desktop ver
79. n before leaving this page Homework E Hint If you are going to give multiple extra credit assignments throughout the term we recommend that you initially set the Paper 0 percent to zero This way students can view points earned in Project aa extra credit throughout the term but it will not change the overall E grade each time you award points Then change the percentage Quiz 0 when you re ready to give students a boost in their final grade Test 60 Sum of all weights 100 Extra Credit Category Extra Cred Extra Credit Percent 4 o FUSD School Loop Manual Page 25 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1281074731431 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 13236812 76833 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000017 Grade Scales GB4 Applies To Plus Grade Our current gradebook allows one grading scale per gradebook but version 4 allows you to create additional grade scales that you may apply to individual students The grade scales are universal allowing you to use any of your custom grade scales for any gradebook or any student As always the applicable grade scale appears on the progress report for you the student and their parents to see GETTING THERE From any page in your portal click the Settings link near the top right of the page then select any of your gradebooks from the Gradebook Settings section of the next pa
80. newer gradebook GB4 may not cooperate well with mobile devices For this reason we recommend using a computer to access and make changes to gradebooks for the time being My Portal Logeut Aacion York iad Event Calhentiar Ricester Calendar Rosier Calandar Rosier FUSD School Loop Manual Page 75 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1296917643091 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 129975276083 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Mobile Student Record Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal The Student Record enables educators to get a 360 degree view of a students il ATET 3G 3 57 PM a performance With the mobile site users with Admin level Teacher or Staff accounts will have access to most of this information on the go The mobile Student Record contains the following parts e Report Card The report card contains the student s current information for each class including letter grade and percentage as well as links to the Progress Report and Calendar for those classes The Report Card area also contains the Email Learning Management Team link which allows the user to quickly compose a message to some or all of the adults involved in the student s education Report Card Add Event Student Record Student ima e High Priority Alert If the studentis currently in the school s a
81. ng Delete on the first occurrence of the assignment You can delete any individual occurrence of the assignment including ones from the middle though this may interfere with your ability to delete all of them at once should you choose to do SO UNDELETE ASSIGNMENTS Accidentally delete an assignment Don t panic it can be restored along with any grades that were entered 1 Open the gradebook hover over Gradebook Tools select Undelete Assignments GRADEBOOK TOOLS Y 2 On the Deleted Assignments page click the title of the assignment to recover as Undelete Assignments Te undelete an assignment click the tle coe Manage Gradebooks Seating Charts A Transfer Grades Ne dmir Drop Low Score be aaa Restore Saved Grades OME Ok TAA Reports 3 You are redirected back to the gradebook with a Success message The assignment with any Download Gradebook associated grades is displayed in the gradebook Legend Note Republish grades after recovering assignments to update the progress report FUSD School Loop Manual Page 15 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1339579952251 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1289140151014 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000007 Assignment Scoresheet GB4 Applies To Plus Grade ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT SCORESHEET The assignment scoresheet view is restricted to a single assignment This view
82. nment Easy Start Plus Teacher doc 03 09 2010 Practice Teacher s Portal Assign Work Add Event Add Notes Add News Assign Work ASSIGN TO ASSIGN AND DUE DATES Dee Date pi osadi ASSIGNMENT Assagirment Resoerces CITI GI Zouc T Semmce amp ace Mas Poeta www schoolloop com 1 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 3 of 79 Gradebooks School Loop provides you with one gradebook for each course you GRADEBOOK FOR teach Use the Gradebook links in the dashboard or the Gradebook For menu in the main navigation bar to access your gradebooks We ll cover just the basics here When you publish an assignment for your classes the Publishing Options allow you to include that assignment in the gradebook Be ELD Sci Science 3 Science 8 Acc TeacherAise hy sure to set the maximum points value for gradebook assignments Save Grades lf you included an assignment in the gradebook it will appear as a new column in the gradebook for that subject You may enter your grades directly into the cells on the gradebook but let s use the Assignment Scoresheet instead Click the title of the assignment at the top of the column of cells to access the Assignment Scoresheet As you can see this scoresheet is for a single assignment and includes fields for comments These comments are clearly displayed for students and their parents in their account portals ALGEBRA 1A SPR Gradebook ALGEBRA
83. ns Tasyo H Jamb Dien Chiron GEapin E CKeene Nee T Kopene J Koulree M Eein B ERunts Mitred Lanan N Vleno Blewton R bes 5 Hlini S C Cloewen Fisper 3 SLope Elsotinnon LL Uassare Gihar Choise BMeuinze ONG E D oea T Horan A Stee kama Dep E ZAgo A o4CErvan Orde Wright rater Zuniga When the total number of recipients is greater than 40 clicking the 31 More link will take you to the Add Recipient page where you will find a new option in the SELECT ALIST menu Selected Users only displays the users you ve selected for the recipient list Use the tabs or Lookup menu to find and remove users from the recipient list Naturally you can use the other options in the menu to add even more recipients to your message Add Recipients Gey SELECTED USERS Eal Ehta replied iira ariy Lookup ag inma Prijam SFLECT amp LET P ghee jik Etki he ii Pe PLN r inet Shad mrada TOT F Sourtei T pacha F dene tegen r 7 CL TA Tieke race ee N Flees Ses ET e J Grma Ama Tone a Greorgoane hi MET Siapthon Unippppnyia H mearan 7 Ppa oip ft ipa School Loop does not have spell check built in but that doesn t mean spell check is not available Most modern browsers have a built in spell checker and it can be used with School Loop for example while composing LoopMail messages For most browsers when spell check is turned on misspelled words will be highlighted usually with a wav
84. ol has uploaded parent phone numbers and native languages Assign Work ASSIGN TO ASSIGN AND DUE DATES P ALGEBRA LA Assign Date 1223711 E Due Date 42 26 11 BE Period 1 irar ry E Period 3 ASSIGNMENT z Pened 2 Resources PUCE Cy Paves ule F Period 5 Publish f Cancel Options PUBLISHING OPTIONS Publishin amp Calendars induding course site and homework email Calendars and Gradebook including course sila and homework email Gradebook Only Category Assignment x Max Points Call Alerts No Calls info TestAlert call day before test Assignment Alert call today and day before due ALERT OPTIONS No Calls This is the default choice for all assignments No parent will receive a call Test Alert call day before test The call will alert parents in their native language about a test scheduled in your class for the next day Example Your child in grade 9 has a test tomorrow in period 3 Assignment Alert call today and day before due Similar to the Test Alert except that the system calls the day the assignment is given and then again the day before it is due Examples Your child in grade 9 was given an important assignment today in period 3 and Your child in grade 9 has an important assignment due tomorrow in period 3 PUBLISH AND NOTIFY With the Call Alert feature teachers are able to notify students when their grades are trending up or down A custom message can be sent to
85. olloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1316160081959 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Read amp Reply To LoopMail Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal READ MESSAGES Find the message you wish to view in your Inbox and click the subject to view that message Note the Newer and Older buttons near the top right of the message window These buttons allow you to scroll through your messages without returning to the Inbox Hew Message E Move to Arche Reply All Hewer Older Yesterday s Assembly FAO 6 14 PH From Orville Wright To Mr Principal w E m That was the best assembly ever My students were so inspired by the motivational speak that they ve started a new senice dub wit the goal of helping students right here on our own campus Thanks for making thal happen Reading messages forwarded to your regular email account For your convenience copies of your LoopMail messages are m forwarded to the email address associated with your account A no reply securemail schoolloop com 6 51 PM To maintain privacy these forwarded messages are from no Yesterday s Assembly d reply securemail schoolloop com Forwarded LoopMail messages are formatted with HTML like a web page so it may be necessary for you to enable your email client s ability to view HTML formatted messages Otherwise you may
86. on ADD REMOVE OR VIEW MEMBERS OF A GROUP The membership of a group can be comprised of anyone with a registered School Loop account You can bring in individuals from outside the school community making them an Associate a role with Group privileges but no access to student information Any member of a group can add other members making the maintenance of group membership a shared responsibility All persons who are added or removed will display on the Membership Tools page along with the group member who added or removed them The Membership Tools page is accessed by clicking the Members View Add or Remove link in the Toolbox on the group s homepage You can view former members by clicking the View Former Members button at the top right of the Membership Tools page This allows the maintenance of the group roster and everyone s actions to be public record TO ADD MEMBERS 1 Click the Members View Add or Remove link in the group toolbox 2 Click the Add Members button on top of the page 3 Click the letter tab of the person s last name on the left hand side of the page or use the Look Up link on the right side of the page and begin typing their name The autofill feature will bring up names you can choose from to select their name You may choose multiple recipients 4 Click the Add button at the top or bottom of the page TOOLBOX er US o an Teachers Members Astos vaua Page 51 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x
87. on GRADE HISTORY On student and assignment scoresheets you ll notice a small square with a cursive i next to each score Click the i to view a page showing the complete grade history On the student scoresheet you can research the history of grades for all assignments for a single student by clicking the Research button near the top right of the page Save amp Stay Save amp Exit Cancel Max Points Edit Score awa FUSD Schoolia Page 28 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1324640664668 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1324640664668 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print OOOO ZONE Ls 1 O Ba Research _ tudent Record Progress Report Date Grade Time Stamp Submitted Work 4 12718268 AM 75 12211 3 42 PM FUSD School Loop Manual Page 29 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1324640664668 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1289140100149 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000021 Instant Score Updates GB4 Applies To Plus Grade To enable Instant Score Updates click the Settings button near the top right of every page in your portal and then click the Change button In the Instant Score Update section Click the Change button again to disable the Instant Score Update feature Note This feature could reduce
88. ore The only code with a non zero value was e for excused With Version 4 of the School i Loop Gradebook you can CURRENT CODES make up your own codes and assign a value of excused h zero or some percentage of Code Value Definition the maximum score These g5 custom codes are universal re 4 a meaning all your codes are ab Excused Absent a saia available for use in all of your gradebooks Create New Code GETTING THERE From any page in your portal click the Settings link near the top right of the page the select any of your gradebooks from the Gradebook Settings section of the next page Finally click on the Go button for Custom Codes Universal CREATE A NEW CODE Click the blue Create New Code button see image above then y complete the form as pictured to the right Create or Edit Custom Code Code This is the value you will enter as a score adal Definition Plain English explanation of the code Definition Value Take your pick If you choose Percent you must also enter a hagi s numerical value in the Percent input field Valya Perent Excused Zero Percent jenter the percent of max porinis a sitert ams mI FUSD School Loop Manual Page 19 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1283580858277 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 128248496723 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages p
89. performance for users on marginal systems and should be turned off if the impact is significant On the main gradebook spreadsheet student and assignment averages and letter grades automatically update after entering a score and moving the cursor to a new cell 4027 90 00 A E o After entering a score and moving the cursor toa new cell the student s average updates instantly 22 SMITH KEVIN 1027 80 00 B iT 9 Before entering a score the student s class average is 90 Assignment averages at the top of each column also p 7 update on the fly Quiz 2 Quiz 1 10 10 92 73 Pie te The same is true if you are working on the Student Scoresheet Current Score 77 50 Current Grade C Note This feature does not replace the function of the Save buttons While your view of student and assignment averages will update on the fly the scores must be saved before students parents and other staff can see those changes FUSD School Loop Manual Page 30 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1289140100149 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1331967004132 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000022 Manage Gradebooks GB4 Applies To Plus Grade WORKING WITH GRADEBOOKS School Loop starts you off with one gradebook per course which may be all you need Sometimes however multiple gradebooks are necessary The number of gradebooks and th
90. point you must choose to either save that draft of scores or delete the unsaved grades e E ib ili Adjpect _ i Verbs Conjpug Pronow Max Points 10 10 10 10 Average Percent 7 4 En e 15 ABUNDIS ANDREW 3008 80 B 8 ab 2 ALLMAN CARLOS 0998 88 B 9 10 3 BARBA GRZELL 9969 40 F 4 3 3 1 CORONADO ASHLEY 3613 0 Unsaved grades are marked in green as pictured above Please note that drafts are saved every 30 seconds which should cover most any circumstance in which scores might have been entered but not saved However clicking the Save button every few minutes when working on grades is your best defense against lost grades RESTORING VERSION OF YOUR GRADEBOOK In those cases when your gradebook has been significantly altered backing up to a previously saved version of your gradebook may be the best option Use the Restore Saved Gades option from the Gradbook Tools menu EE AllGrades Published Grades Each time you save grades that version of your gradebook is archived If your gradebook is altered due to tampering or simple user error you can reverl to one of the archived Versions Version Number Time File Size 41 11 2009 2 41 PM 40 207 40 11 2009 2 40 PM 40 200 39 11 1909 2 28 PM 29 185 38 11 1909 2 13 PM 29 186 37 11 1909 2 12 PM 29 185 36 11 19 09 2 09 PM 29 186 Even if you do restore to an earlier version you can still restore back to a more recent veri
91. ports about student and class grades Submissions Accept work online Call Alerts Schedule automated phone calls to parents with this optional feature Transfer Grades Learn how to transfer grade scores when a student switches periods FUSD School Loop Manual Page 12 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1308731333105 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1280193948002 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000004 All Grades GB4 Applies To Plus Grade ABOUT ALL GRADES The All Grades tab in the gradebook shows a summary of all scores by student and by category The summary includes all grades whether published or not The Published Grades tab shows grades that you have made public to parents and students GETTING THERE After selecting a gradebook then click the blue All Grades tab ALGEBRA I course acesrat Start 909 End 2 2700 REVIEWING ALL GRADES The display shows all grades in your gradebook for all your students broken down by Period and Category Columns include 1 Student Name 2 Current Grade including all assignments 3 the percentage score as affected by weighting 4 points earned unaffected by weighting 5 performance in each category total points available and the weighted value if set gt 3 4 Assignment 5 Citizenship Quiz E T P 374 00 A1000 F 10 00 Average 6 7 53 Grade Score Points Weighting 20
92. py Tasje ba i Max Poania 15 Average Parcent 7o 00 Airiai 300A TH00 C ti o Bic BARBS gaizeLL anca do oos m fis lE 4 4m CORDERO LORELL 4547 TOO Ce to 20 5 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 10 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1280193948450 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 130873 1333105 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 0002 Gradebook GB4 Getting Started Applies To Plus Grade Before you begin this getting started guide we suggest you start by with the link below This page will familiarize you with layout of the gradebook Gradebook Introduction We also suggest you download our Configuration Guide before moving on to the sections below GRADEBOOK SETUP Log into your School Loop account and click the Settings button located near the top right of the page This RF set Settinas action will bring up the Settings page where you will first configure the Categories you wish to use and then all j ng of the setting for each specific gradebook Settings MY WEBSITE SETTINGS GRADEBOOK SETTINGS Cans dapi ner aos ers and cdr Cpa sens ler each omen Wee Cateye ee ce Saar ae cele irk el ge Tam oe Dreja gt Pe a ASSIGNMENT CATEGORIES UNIVERSAL Belleci a Grade Dork CEES ae a uriversa l let for a cours avi i EHG 2 SPR F iYi l Sree Le d SS o Sel EG 7 LAB Elda gt LEF Gee COURSE SETTINGS Cii EYE
93. r may be necessary to include School Loop as a Safe Sender to ensure our Send Receive messages are not filtered as junk mail Instant earch On the Tools Menu click Options On the Preferences tab under Email click Junk E mail Options any EUSD School M LPaqe 66 ofi help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1287831807154 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1287831807154 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Click the Safe Senders tab Click Add and enter schoolloop com Repeat Junk E mail C tions and also add securemail schoolloop com pate seneta E mail from addresses or domain names on your Safe Senders List will never be treated as junk e mail Click OK three times to return to Outlook Enter an e mail address or Internet domain name to be added to the list FUSD School Loop Manual Page 67 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1287831807154 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print ra i i Add address or domain E el 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1295 70545403 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Daily Email Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal Each morning a course info email is sent to all teachers and a Hot News email is sent to all administrators and staff members Each evening a homework email i
94. ral grades and comments for a single student From the main gradebook click the tab for the period in which the student belongs then click the student s Reorder Hide Autofill name ee era a TS AARON TAYLOR 7504 79 95 C 38 3 6 CHANG JESSE 3739 76 70 C 3 z9 WORKING WITH THE STUDENT SCORESHEET Each student scoresheet includes 1 The student s current percent score 2 Max points for any assignment may be altered for an individual student see more info below 3 Change the grading scale used for this student 4 Links to the Student Record and Progress Report for that student The Research buttons show this history of all scores 5 Input fields for grades and comments Hover over the i icon to display the history scores for that assignment 6 Time stamp and link to work submitted online a i Save amp Stay Save amp Exit Cancel eforthis student Default Eng 3 pe a el Leo i 1i Max Points Edit 2 Score Comment Time Stamp Submitted Vtork Current Score 79 95 Current Grade C Category Due Date Assignment Assignenent Ve Order of Operations 10 00 A Seer IAs Like Tema 40 00 Assignment 123009 Distributive Property 6 00 onto 10 20 AM student morii Edit Max Points After clicking the Edit link for for Max Points 2 above the scree refreshes to reveal input boxes where you may enter the alternate maximum value of Current Scor
95. rint 000011 Custom Ordering GB4 Applies To Plus Grade Take control over the ordering of both assignments and students in your gradebook with School Loop s new gradebook Look for the Reorder buttons near the top left of the gradebook spreadsheet Add New Assignm a For assignments you can choose how new assignments are added to your gradebook either to the right or left of the previous entry Additionally you can use a drag and drop interface to customize the order of your assignments DEFAULT ORDER Title Due Category Periods date eee OOO SS p a Verbs EPS AS a ofr fog Assignment 1 4 5 6 2 Conjugation 8 709 Assignment 1 4 5 6 a eee Students can also be organized in your gradebook With just a click you may set the default order as either alphabetically or by start date And like assigments you may place students in a custom order of your choosing use a simple drag and drop interface Click and hold a name then drag and drop on a green bar to reorder DEFAULT ORDER Submit EI Enrolled Name ID Start Date End Date 1 ABUNDIS ANDREW 173008 TERDI s 2 ALLMAN CARLOS 170998 Tego FUSD School Loop Manual Page 20 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 128248496723 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1280193948013 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000012 Custom Progress Report Message GB
96. s click the Settings link near the top right of any page in your portal and then look for Universal Course Settings on the next page Click the Go button For any of the preset categories you may click either the Edit or the Categories Delete link If you need to add a new category enter the desired Assignment Default category name in the field at the bottom of the page and then click the Citizenship Edit Delete 2Ubmit button Hepi Edit Delete Note Categories are universal meaning all categories are available for use with all gradebooks So when setting up categories create all the Extra Credit Editi Delete Categories you will use for the all the courses you teach em weil a When publishing assignments for any Homework Edit Delete course your universal list of categories Category Assignment Project Edit Delete will be available in a drop menu on the Assignment Quiz Fdit Delete Add Assignment form Discussion Test Fdit Delete ADD CATEGORY Nome E FUSD School Loop Manual Page 18 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1310010813907 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1283580858277 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Custom Codes GB4 a Applies To Plus Grade The previous version of School Loop s gradebook allowed you to enter values such as a for absent or m for missing but such codes were counted as a zero sc
97. s listed below were dropped from your class You may choose to hide these students from your gradebook ether now of later If you choose to hide them tater click the Reorder Hide button located just above the list of student names in your gradebook You may also choose to show students previously hidden Period 1 GUZMAN HERNALDO 174785 Period 3 CHENG ELIZABETH 173731 Hide Later Hide HoW If you choose to hide the dropped students later click the Reorder Hide button just Ss above the list of student names in your gradebook when you are ready to hide those ite TO Reorder students Max Points Uncheck the box to the left of the student s name to hide that student from your Average Percent gradebook After clicking Submit the date that you choose to hide the student appears in the End Date column E heecteriede til Aut DEFAULT ORDER Alphabetical BE GCE PERIOD 1 Show Hide Name ID Start Date End Date 1 ABUNDIS ANDREW 173008 72803 F 2 ALLMAN CARLOS 170990 Tems You may choose to show students previously hidden from your gradebook Just check the box next to their name and then uncheck when you want them hidden once again Note Sys Admins cannot show or hide students when auto logged in to the teacher s account Only teachers can show or hide students in their gradebook Note You cannot hide students who are active in your roster To view all hidden students in
98. s sent to all registered parents and students with email addresses YOUR HOMEWORK EMAIL FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS The homework email is sent out every day at about 5pm Teachers need to publish before 5pm for parents and students to see updated grades the same evening This email is a snapshot of all assignments and published grades and includes e Adate and time stamp ire Gat eg e Email Learning Management Parent Account Ima Student 1 19 11 Team ion eam optio ASHBOARD GRADES beer Am of dea 18 A011 S16 PH Letier to WUS Community e Account Management rosie SummaryGrade W Fa Tero Paoi Satter Sya Admn 113 Garman rote i Propeka Repori e re ma arp aae ae is e Access to Grade Details for Stee Sis L 710 Progress Seport Tie Fead a Thon ia Hove Scaroe g Tiari pa Fap Pan bilge bye Adam 1 approved parents f jey ii Wenkiy Bewa 118 01 ia Renty PE aid Propia Feel iemica Richarda Aapoocete 177 Long Ana E a AS Progress Aeri Hih c TE aT Progeeie Brot SCHEDULE Ema Uanagemerd T WORK DUE WEEK OF 1 16 11 12211 jae Cuenaar alata Duce Course Agsigamont Category paan fedni 3 ai Stuns Sas Cekadar Meine Lai Tip Maliar Ley Bo Mia Gorman ache ese Tut Science Ch sechonn 1 2 Homma Social Sidiea Parad TE Hp 3155 355 1i Homia oe een ee Wied Tha Social Studies Reading workbook Chipta t 16 Homework SORACC Panes I Mah Hip 365 366 84 17 joer HETE ork Durie Ske Caria Mates Latir Mayers
99. s that the administrator s efforts to protect privacy are complete FUSD School Loop Manual Page 65 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1267281229454 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1287831807154 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Configure Auto Login Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal School Loop allows you to auto login from LoopMail messages forwarded to your personal or work email account as well as from the Daily Email messages To use auto login the feature must be enabled for your account and you must set your email software to allow images in email messages to be downloaded from our domain To be sure the auto login feature is on in School Loop click Account Management at the top of your portal and check that Allow Auto Login From Email is set to Yes For security reasons you have ten minutes from the time you first open the daily email to use auto login When that time has expired you will no longer be able to auto login from that email Note The following directions for Microsoft Outlook 2007 will ensure you receive email messages from School Loop and are able to auto login from those messages Other email software programs including online email clients such as Gmail have similar settings Please check the documentation for your particular email client CONFIGURE MICROSOFT OUTLOOK If you cannot autolog into your School Loop account by click
100. s to access it In addition to the method described above e Course Center Click the Roster buttons in the Roster Manger e Student Record Links are in the Dashboard e Student Scoresheet Click the button near the top right of the page The progress report also provides access to the progress reports from previous terms Use the drop down located near the top center of the report to access the older reports Parents and students also have access to this report from their portals rrogress KEpggn028 AARON TAYLOR Al Picea Reports bainis Laki GED oo ee ALGEBRA E forget Orvis veces fl Soom BODER Grace ta Bondi SUR Sd i Tupuy Das Gland bapana Eg hipa Tain Rr nn Pome 1 Toae Panan Comment Sabamin Work TEEI ee DE sE ERNI ee el aa Cn hime Hoe as hpu a F Penns Ai hopi EA S Pini A a re te ry i fie a ea 4 Mn ieee arisen il TE aa HOTES COMMENTS bi iiie ry alle bor pater Conteris Tue E Tho bejaan J end 5 fe Paice aed Li fo hei a ape SCORE FER CATEGORY GRADE SEALE Catagory ives by he Scrat hee oe Em Hie TT Wi Eii k a R i Final pram m iii coc 4 _ Bea Lack ee lor dar eel el ee Finn GRADE LEGEND Cre Fey Do nbhis E Gre FUSD School Loop Manual Page 37 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1284708013349 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1310010815086 amp vpid amp cms_template pag
101. s to tools such as the seating chart drop lowest score print reports transfer grades and more 5 Mode Options for how your gradebook displays information include Points raw scores Percent Locked scores and Show All reveals dropped students There s also a convenient button for adding new assignments to the gradebook 6 Assignment Details Title max points and class average The Green dot indicates that you ve published the scores for that assignment for parents and students to view Hover over the assignmenttitle for access to more details and links to edit copy and delete 7 Save grades you ve entered or Publish saved grades for parent and students to view 8 Go To menu Quickly jump to any assignment or change views page by page Reorder assignments or Reorder Hide students with a simple drag and drop interface Auto fill empty cells with any value 9 Your students and their current gradebook average Click the envelope icon next to a students name to start a LoopMail message to the student their parent and anyone listed on their learning management team Click a student s name to access the student scoresheet SPANISH 1 P Gradebook 3 cms Start 3 25 10 Emt 8 2310 1 i l Grades Published Grades 3 Add New Assignment TEST for Up a 25 TEST BY Os Assignment Pid A aro D anao Edi Co
102. s you to calculate grades based on total points or a weighted scale Weighting requires that you have associated all graded assignments with a weighted category so it is important that you first create the categories you wish to use for weighted grading covered on a separate help page After creating your categories you can assign a percent weight to as many categories as you wish to use Although the category list is universal you may weight differently for each gradebook Student grades are based on scores in weighted categories Ifa weighted category has no graded assignments student grades are based only on the categories with assignments CONFIGURE WEIGHTING After setting up all the categories covered in a separate help page you wish to use with your weighting scale you must configure each gradebook separately In this fashion each gradebook can have different weight schemes eE From any page in your portal click the Settings link near the top right of the page i and then look for the Gradebook Settings on the next page Locate the link for the Select es No amp name of the gradebook you wish to configure and click that link From there click the Go button for weighting Category Percent Example enter 15 for 15 To set weighting first check the radio button next to Yes This will allow you to enter the percent values for your weighted categories Enter the percent value for each category you wish to weight T
103. sion of School Loop users will be prompted for the student s information along with some basic account data which varies slightly depending on the role Fill in the fields listed and click touch Register Now If the information given matches the student s account information you will be taken to the School Loop User Agreement Read this page and click Accept Agreement to move on Once you ve done that you will be given access to your mobile portal immediately Note that there is no need to create a separate login name for use with your mobile device your account will work for login from any type of device Similarly an account registered with your mobile device can also be used on the desktop version of School Loop FUSD School Loop Manual Page 70 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1301480245590 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1301480245590 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print FUSD School Loop Manual Page 71 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1301480245590 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1296917643091 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Mobile Teacher Portal Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal While the mobile version of School Loop does not have a full gradebook for teachers to use there are still a variety of useful tools at the teacher s disposal e Assign
104. st above the horizontal row of assignment titles GRADEBOOK TOOLS Publish Cancel Publish Due Assignment Periods Graded Students F x 12 119 Order of Operations 1 3 9 E x 1216 09 Like Terms 1 3 34 F e 12 30 09 Distributive Property 13 gt F e 12 1109 Exponents 1 3 18 F e araga Graphing Project 123 5 21 Once an assignment has been published changes to student scores are updated within a couple of minutes without the need to republish the assignment Note Changes to your gradebook dates or the assignment itself such as title or maximum points will require you to republish grades for the assignment before parents and students can see those changes PUBLISH AND NOTIFY This feature is available only for those schools using the optional Call Alert integration Choose Publish and Notify to send a LoopMail message for students whose grades inal are trending up or down You can setup a generic message to send to all students GRADEBOOK TOOLS who are trending up or down by entering your message in the Message Setup Publish Publish and Notify Cancel window then choosing Autofill Trending Up or Autofill Trending Down Alternately you can write a customized message to a particular student in the text box under the student s name You can also choose to send your message to parents students or both When you are ready click Submit Your grades will be published and your messages will be sent to
105. t you can unpublish scores Click the Publish button again and uncheck the boxes Easy Start Plus Teacher doc 03 09 2010 www schoolloop com 2 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 4 of 79 SCHOOL LOOP My Websites School Loop Plus provides you with a complete website one personal page and one page for each course you teach With minimal effort you can create and publish your teacher website For advanced users we offer you the tools necessary to fully customize your site but let s first look at the basics From your Portal Homepage look for the Create Your Websites section of the Dashboard Click the link with your name next to the folder icon Doing so will take you to the default page which contains many elements such as a locker calendar notes and news The first thing you should do is to remove the elements you do not wish to keep Click the Trash Can icon in the upper right corner of an element to delete it from your page Add Assign Work Add Event Add Notes Add News Create Your Websites fA Practice Teacher Preview Site f ALGEBRA 1A SPR Quick Links MATH LAB TEALHER L CACK Add Resources PPT Word Excel Viewers Download Acrobat Reader Go additional elements by clicking the Plus Sign Icon where you This Locker is Empty wish to insert the content A new window will appear with options for 11 different Elements types of content For the elements you wish to k
106. taff 03 11 10 www schoolloop com 3 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 9 of 79 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1280193948450 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000001 Gradebook Introduction GB4 Applies To Plus Grade ABOUT THE SCHOOL LOOP GRADEBOOK Each gradebook is automatically populated with the correct roster of students based on the data imported from your school s student information system As student add or change periods your gradebook is updated after each of the nightly imports When students drop you have control over when to hide those students from the gradebook GETTING TO YOUR GRADEBOOKS The easiest way to access your current gradebooks is to use the Gradebook For menu on the l horizontal menu bar near the top of every page of your account Alternately you may use the GRADEBOOK FOR Gradebook links in the Dashboard of your portal homepage or the Gradebook section of your ALGEBRAONE course centers ECONOMICS USING YOUR GRADEBOOK The essential components of your gradebook include 1 The title and date range for your gradebook you may edit both 2 Access your gradebooks and all settings via the menu bar 3 View Tabs Numbered tabs indicate the periods you teach for a given course All Grades shows a Summary of student scores by category Published Grades also shows a summary but only for those grades you ve published for students and parents 4 Gradebook Tools Easy acces
107. te District Your Personal Website Administrators Any Pages You Are an Editor or All School Pages and All Faculty Staff Pages at All Sites Contributor of If you make yourself a webmaster for the schools FUSD School Loop Manual Page 80 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 134278202815 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 4 4
108. ted by your students for any given assignment e From your gradebook either the student scoresheet click a student s name in the gradebook or the assignment scoresheet click an assignment title from your gradebook e Click the assignment title in any calendar and then click the View Submissions link e From the Course Center click the title of any assignment located in the Assignments section In all views of student submitted work you will find the student s name a time stamp and a link to download the file Instructions for how students submit work can be found here Drop Box Turning in work SUBMITTING WORK USING IPAD Submitting work using an iPad presents a problem since the iPad does not have a file directory structure Safari and most other browsers do not give the option to browse for files when uploading files to most websites including School Loop A workaround for this lack of file structure is to use a browser called iCab This browser is available from the Apple apps store 1 99 Using iCab work can be submitted via the Dropbox from the student s personal locker or from an online storage service such as DropBox com http www dropbox com The example below illustrates using iCab to submit from the student s personal locker to an assignment 1 Using iCab log into your School Loop account and open My Locker 2 Browse to the file in your locker and Long click on the file select Download File rec MCRER S
109. tes to ensure progress reports remain available for your students and parents GRADEBOOK SCENARIOS Scenario I Multiple Gradebooks with No Cumulative Grade Instructions Example teach a year long class but require a gradebook for each semester Scenario Il Separate Term Gradebooks and a Cumulative Gradebook Instructions Example teach a semester long class but require two separate quarter gradebooks The final grade is simply the two quarter gradebooks combined into one with no special weighting Scenario Ill Weighted Average from Multiple Gradebooks Instructions Example teach a semester long course but need two separate quarter gradebooks The semester grade is based on 40 from quarter 1 and 60 from quarter 2 Scenario IV Weighted Average from Multiple Gradebooks and a Final Exam Instructions Example teach a semester long class with two quarters The final grade for the class is the weighted average of two quarter grades at 40 each and 20 for the final exam also need to submit the final exam grade using School Loop s Grade Export Feature Scenario V Separate Term Gradebooks and a Final Average Gradebook Instructions Example teach a yearlong course with separate terms quarters semesters or trimesters The final grade for the class is the average of the individual term grades with each term grade counting equally FUSD School Loop Manual Page 31 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 13
110. the chosen recipients Note You can only send messages to registered Students Unregistered parents that are selected to receive a phone call will get a call alert in their native language letting them know their student is trending up or down Example call for trending up Your student in grade 11 raised their grade by one letter grade in period 2 Example call for trending down Your student in grade 11 had their grade drop by one letter grade in period 2 Notify FUSD School Loop Manual Page 32 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 132964505935 8 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1329645059358 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print MESSAGE SETUP m Ee Great job pulling those grades up z Students d Parents TRENDING UP ALVAREZ CARLOS Baseline Grade 11 18 09 1 30 PM F 30 Current Grade C 71 11 M Email student M Email parents Great job pulling those grades up 000024 A Students z Parents TRENDING DOWN GOMEZ EMILY Baseline Grade 11 18 09 1 30 PM C 70 Current Grade D 62 78 GRACIA GUSTAVO Baseline Grade 11 18 09 1 30 PM B 80 Current Grade C 73 89 FUSD School Loop Manual Page 33 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page view d x amp piid 1329645059358 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 School Loop Help Website Published Grades GB4 000025 skip Search Go
111. the group s name from the Tracker List page to add students to it Use the Tool Box on the lower right hand side of the page to edit and update your new High Priority Group Note High Priority Groups that you create do not update automatically You can reupload a new list of students at any time to manually update your High Priority Group FUSD School Loop Manual Page 55 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 13095180137 75 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1331377023196 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Private and District Wide Groups Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal Standard Districts that have upgraded to include the Unification feature can create Private and District wide groups The Unification feature is available for both our Standard and Plus products Contact your School Loop Account Manager for pricing details Optlonal Settings Lasse boih boxes unchecked to create a pubic group tor your school Public groups are sible to all staff and group members haa pgs bo adel ew mirri CI Cistectwede Group Membersing oper lo users hom all schodls and the distil office M Private Group Visible ony to members Only creator and district admins can add members GROUP OPTIONS With these optional settings there are 4 types of groups you can create B A era Site Only Public Group OI Private Group E District wide E Private Group W Distn
112. tion is simple Just let us know the attendance codes you wish to count as absences and sit back while we do all the heavy lifting Administrators will access these tools using a new Attendance Trends link in Toolbox on their portal homepage Clicking this link will take you to the trending graphs the default view picture select Webmasters above shows a running trend of the number of students in the Significant Risk and Severe Risk categories above 10 and 20 absences respectively as well as the overall numbers of Suden Records students at risk Hover over the bars or anchor points in the line graph to view the date and number of students in that category For additional graphs use the pull down menu at the top left of the chart The available graphs allow you to analyze trends for both the Significant and Severe Risk students by date grade level and period number The graph for trending by period number is pictured below In addition to the trending charts we also provide you with the same information in FUSD School Loop Manual Page 49 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 131763146785 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 131763146785 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print tabular format Click the View Vata button at the top right of the charts to access the data i tables Each table is sortable just click the a AN column headings to toggle betwe
113. tributor of All Grade Levels All Grade Levels All Groups You Belong To All Groups You Belong To All Staff Associate Administrator All Staff Associate Administrator Teacher Parent and Teacher Parent and Student Accounts Student Accounts Request Addition to Homepage Request Addition to Homepage Plus Any Pages You Are an Editor or Plus Parent Any Pages YourArsLa amp achobtaoos Vanisbedge of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 134278202815 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 3 4 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 134278202815 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Student Contributor of All Groups You Belong To All Groups You Belong To Request Addition to Homepage Request Addition to Homepage Note Parents and Students who are not members of a Group nor Editors or Contributors to any pages will not be able to publish any news Plus Your Personal Site Webmaster All Pages on School Website including Homepage All Pages on All Personal Sites for All Staff All Grade Levels All Staff Associate Administrator Teacher Parent and Student Accounts Standard Users Standard Your Personal Website Standard Your Personal Website Teacher Administrator Any Pages You Are an Editor or Any Pages You Are an Editor or Contributor of Contributor of Standard Your Personal Website Webmaster All Pages on School Website All Faculty or Staff Site Unification Users Associates Your Personal Websi
114. tudent to open the mobile Portal view for that student including their Report Card and Current Assignments a ATER F 3 52 PM Ima Student Wy Portal Logout ima Student s Mobile Portal Report Card Leaning Management Toam As of 2 00 91 3 52 P M Algebra 1A Spr ls Ae 100 Galandar Prograss Repot Eng 1 Spr F Calendar Progress Report io 3 Study Skill F So Calendar Prograss Repot i Compir Concapts Be ami Calendar Progress Repol n Dama 1P B BO Calendar Prograss Rapt Ped Calentar Progress Report Due Assigned Today Tithe Parent Signature Pe u Parked 3 Worksheet ra Tit Grama 1 P Pepice 1 Current Assignments Full Calendar Mobile LoopMail Full Web Site View FUSD School Loop Manual Page 74 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1296917643090 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1296917643091 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Mobile Teacher Portal Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal While the mobile version of School Loop does not have a full gradebook for teachers to use there are still a variety of useful tools at the teacher s disposal e Assign Work Though the gradebook cannot be accessed from the mobile site you can still create assignments from your mobile device Click the blue Assign Work button e Add Event Hitting the blue Add Event button in the he
115. tudents a number of extra credit assignments some worth more than others and the total points possible for all those assignments comes to 50 points A student who earns all 50 points of extra credit will receive the maximum boost of 5 to the class average Another student only accumulated 10 points or 20 of the total extra credit That student will receive a 1 boost to their grade 20 of the 5 max GETTING THERE From any page in your portal click the Settings link near the top right of the page the select any of your gradebooks from the Gradebook Settings section of the next page Finally click on the Go button for Weighting CONFIGURE EXTRA CREDIT Start by turning weighting on click the radio button for Yes then set the percent values for the categories you wish to weight Turn weighting on Yes No If you need to add new categories click the Add Category button create your new categories and return to the weighting page Category Percent Now choose the category you ll use for all extra credit Example enter 15 for 15 assignments and the maximum extra credit percent Do not choose one of your weighted categories Remember this extra Assignment credit category will be used to calculate how big a boost in overall grade the student will receive All extra credit calculations are made separate from the weighted grade calculations Extra Cred j Discussion I k La L Be sure to click the Submit butto
116. uch the name of the message to open it Once you have finished reading the message you are given the following options Reply Reply All or Forward Simply select the appropriate button to perform and you will be taken to a screen will pre filled address fields Though the mobile version does not currently support the full foldering system available in the desktop version you can still send messages to your Current Archive to keep your inbox clean To do this simply go to the inbox using the Inbox tab atthe top of the screen or click the Mobile LoopMail bar from the Portal and check the message you would like to archive Click touch the Archive Checked button and the checked messages will be sent to the archive Use the Current Archive tab atthe top of the inbox to access these messages after you have archived them FUSD School Loop Manual Page 73 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1296917643092 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 Mobile Student Parent Portal help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1296917643090 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal Just like on the desktop version of School Loop students and parents can use the mobile site to keep track of grades and assignments The mobile portal for these two accounts types are nearly identical both will see the following features e Report Card This section contains the class schedule of the student by
117. unctionality works as smoothly as it does in the desktop version Users using the Ai Rete ea ole older version of our gradebook GB3 may find that this more basic software works 3 fairly well but some functionality in our newer gradebook GB4 may not cooperate well with mobile devices For this reason we recommend using a computer to access and make changes to gradebooks for the time being My Portal Logeut Aacion York iad Event Calhentiar Ricester Calendar Rosier Calandar Rosier FUSD School Loop Manual Page 72 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1296917643091 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1296917643092 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Mobile LoopMail Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal COMPOSING A MESSAGE Sending LoopMail works much the same way on mobile devices as it does onthe desktop aren 3 45 PM TT version To reach LoopMail click on the Mobile LoopMail bar on your mobile portal This _ Loopiiall nn will take you to your inbox To create a new LoopMail message click the New Message button near the top of the page On the next screen you will see the message composition form As with the desktop version of LoopMail you have the option to address the message to users in a standard To field as well as a CC or BCC field Simply press the Add Recipients button next to the appropriate fiel
118. ur new folder you may edit later if desired ORDER FOLDERS t Inbox You can reorder all your folders as you please Simply click and hold on the icon of the ridersen PA Manual Page 59 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1341482323790 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1341482323790 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print you wish to move and drag it to the desired location You ll see a rectangular region light up a te to indicate where you re placing the folder You may drop your new folder in the Current Parent Messages Archive folder but the Historical Archive folder is locked and you may not move items into or Cent Archive out of this folder EDIT AND DELETE FOLDERS ob Hota Maem Click the Edit button at the bottom of the list of all folders to bring up the Edit Folders window This window will display all folders that you are allowed to edit or delete Click a folder in the Folders Add Edit left column then edit the name as desired or click the Delete button to remove the folder Folders that contain messages cannot be deleted however you may empty a folder of messages by moving them to another folder The Current Archive and Historical Archive folders may be renamed but cannot be deleted FUSD School Loop Manual Page 60 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1341482323790 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help scho
119. utomatically Learning Management Team generated High Priority Tracker an alert will show just underneath the As of 244 441 3 54 PM Report Card area 1 Algebra 1A Spr ls ae TODE jit e Attendance If your school is uploading student attendance data to FE Frairere Teepe School Loop this option will pull up the full attendance table for the 2 Eng 1 Spr P B 82 5 0 student Calenitar Fropass Report 3 Bludy Skils F STA 20 e Calendar View this student s calendar in the default weekly view as Calendar Progress Report seen on the student s portal or switch to a daily or monthly view using the 4 comptr Concepts B Bii 0 icons atthe top right corner of the page Calendar Progass Report a ae 5 Drama 1 F B ET tn e Interventions All staff may participate in discussions pertaining to the Gandar Picnics Madii student via the Student Record by touching clicking this link and selecting ar er a topic or starting a new discussion Each postis emailed directly to the teachers in the student s Learning Management Team Additionally these discussions are listed on the desktop Portal for the staff members of the Learning Management Team These discussions are never viewable by High Priority Alert Calendar Progress Report Students Parents or Associates 270 in 2 classes Ell Support e Student Info If you are looking for basic information on a student RTI including their login name grade or ID number you can find it by
120. verification DISCUSSIONS No active discussions TELLES J At 621 83 72 75 4 7 09 Trending Down 2 Name Grade New Score Baseline Date of Zeros Email NEWS HERNANDEZ J C 70 5 79 55n 4 7 09 Oo HERNANDEZ J B 85 87 93 75 4 7 09 0 5 ALVAREZ C B 62 33 56 5 4 7 08 0 CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Electronics Recycling Drive CHERI ALLEM Teacher 4 7 Calling All Campers CHERI ALLEN Teacher 4 3 Homework Due Fridays 1 6 4 9 09 Edit Delete HOT NEWS PUBLISH NEWS FOR ADMINISTRATORS AND STAFF Administrator and Staff daily emails include Fowl E l e e Add General Event and Publish Ch a oe m Em fs News links LoopMail Locker Calendar _ Groupe e School and Group News School Loop for 6 23 10 Group discussions and projects Autologi working P p J tarena ia email client that could help you e Access to Toolbox items SCHOOL amp GROUP NEWS TOOLBOX 1 including Student Records Student Records Student Tracker and High Student Tracker Priority Groups summer news Published 6 16 10 e Access to LoopMail Personal Lockers News and Groups Audience Homepage Posted by Mr Admin Sys Admin e Account Management summe MEWS System Bulletin Summer Availability and Archived Data Published 5 31 10 Audience Assisiant Principals Associates District Admin District Associates District Staff Principals Staff Sys Admins and Teachers Posted by School Loop
121. w d x amp piid 1267281049691 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1267281049691 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print r Dee si ys feed l 2 i sf af ETETA EFTE eo t 5 gt FUSD School Loop Manual Page 48 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1267281049691 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 2 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 131763146785 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Chronic Absence Tracker Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal THIS NEW FEATURE IS NOT YET BROADLY AVAILABLE TO ALL PLUS SCHOOLS DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS INTERESTED IN THIS FEATURE SHOULD CONTACT SCHOOL LOOP FOR MORE INFORMATION Chronic absenteeism is a key indicator for students at risk Tracking attendance and identifying trends are vital to the effectiveness of your attendance related intervention programs School Loop can help After including attendance data in your daily imports the attendance trending tools can be enabled These tools not only allow you to see attendance trends for students at Significant Risk above 10 absences and Severe Risk above 20 absences by date grade level and period number but shows you which students are in each category Moreover Trackers for each group are automatically generated TRENDING AND TRACKING TOOLS TRENDING GRAPHS AND TABLES Configura
122. y red underline and right clicking on the misspelled word will bring up a list of suggested words However since the Rich Text Editor in use throughout School Loop also has a right click context menu it takes an extra keyboard combination to get the browser s suggested words to display Here s a guide to the keyboard and mouse click combinations needed to access suggested words for various browsers Mac Safari Firefox Chrome Ctrl Command click Windows Firefox Chrome Safari Ctrlt right click Internet Explorer No built in spell check FUSD School Loop Manual Page 63 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 132783 7629717 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 2 3 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1327837629717 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print There are Spell Check add ons available for Internet Explorer Try searching the web for IE spell check add ons School Loop does not endorse or support any add ons and we provide no warranty about the use of such software FUSD School Loop Manual Page 64 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1327837629717 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 3 3 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1267281229454 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print LoopMail Privacy Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal In schools student privacy is a major concern and therefore is a major concern for School Loop To help ensure privacy Loop
123. you to create groups of students to easily follow their progress and communicate with their Learning Management Team Your portal also contains a calendar of your assignments and events news published for you discussions and projects for groups you ve joined and links to other features such as student records Settings Your School Loop account does not require that you adjust any settings before al Settings use but you will need to configure your gradebooks before you begin to publish grades Click the Settings link located near the top right of every page of your portal to access settings for your website courses and gradebooks Assign Work Use the blue Assign Work button on your Dashboard or choose Assign Work from the Publishing Tools menu on the main navigation bar to access the simple Assign Work form On the left choose the periods that will receive this assignment On the right choose the assigned and due dates and enter a short assignment title All other settings are optional Click the Publish button when ready Congratulations you ve just published your first assignment All students in the assigned periods and their parents will see this assignment listed in the calendar on their account portals Made a mistake No worries Anywhere you see your assignments listed in your portal the titles will be clickable links Click an assignment title and you ll find links to Edit Copy and Delete that assig
124. your School Loop site The Associate and Afterschool Professional roles however have very limited rights to send messages to students GETTING THERE From your portal click the LoopMail icon at the top of the page to access your LoopMail inbox Logged in as Orville Wright My Portal Account Management Help Logout er Loophlail When you have new messages waiting for you a notice appears at the top of the right column of your user portal You may click the LoopMail icon in this alert to access your inbox You Have New Messages EPA LoopMail HOW LOOPMAIL WORKS LoopMail messages remain inside the School Loop System However we do forward copies of your messages to the email address used with your account Those messages do not contain the email address of the sender so it s not possible to reply to that message Instead the message contains two large buttons Reply and Reply All which will transport you back to your School Loop account where you can compose and send your reply FUSD School Loop Manual Page 58 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 126728060695 2 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1341482323790 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print Manage LoopMail Applies To Plus Grade Plus Portal Like many web based email clients the left column displays your Inbox Sent messages and Archived messages Unlike other email syst
125. your gradebook use the Mode menu near the top left of the gradebook and select Show All Hidden students will appear in you gradebook but will have a line through their names FUSD School Loop Manual Page 24 of 79 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 1296917878367 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 1 1 8 22 12 help schoolloop com cms page_view d x amp piid 128107473143 1 amp vpid amp cms_template pages print 000016 Extra Credit GB4 Applies To Plus Grade WITH WEIGHTING OFF If you do not use the weighting feature on your gradebook your grades are simply based on the total points earned out of the total points possible As such you may add extra credit in any number of ways The typical methods used by teachers include adding points to existing assignments and assigning extra credit assignments that have a max value of zero points WITH WEIGHTING ON Some teachers apply extra credit points to individual assignments which works both with and without weighting turned on Some teachers however prefer to have a special extra credit category For this method you mustfirst specify an unused category as being the extra credit category Once you ve selected your extra credit category you ll set the maximum percentage boosta student may receive due to extra credit Let s say you set Extra Credit as your extra credit category imagine that and you set the maximum boost at 5 Over the course of the term you give your s
126. ze yourself with the general features of the gradebook and the various mode for grade entry by following the links below Learn more about scoring assignments Data Entry Assignment Scoresheet Student Scoresheet PUBLISH GRADES School Loop puts you in charge Grades you ve recorded in the gradebook are for you only until you decided when and which grades to publish for students and parents to see Consequently there can be a difference between the recorded grades and the published grades Follow the links below to learn more About Publishing Grades All Grades View Published Grades View ADVANCED GRADEBOOK V4 TOPICS Once you are happy with the gradebook configuration and comfortable with the basic features you can explore these advanced topics Assignment Discussions Conduct online discussion about your assignments with your students Auto Updates See how the Gradebook updates percentage scores on the fly Custom Progress Report Message Add more detailed information to the progress reports Drop Lowest Score Learn how to well drop the lowest score from the Gradebook Dropped Students Understand how our Gradebook deals with dropped students Extra Credit How to include extra credit the right way Grades Drafts Restore amp History See how the Gradebook protects you from accidental grade loss Manage Gradebooks Need multiple Gradebooks Here s how Mode Special Views Points percents and locked Oh my Reports Print re

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