Important INOW Reminders for Teachers 1. Please review your
Board Position Statement on grading and keep grades accurate and
current in INow. 2. Verify grades carefully and remember to
recalculate and repost after any grade change! 3. Incomplete grades
must be recorded as a 0 with comment 16 incomplete grades since
INow does not support a letter grade with a null value in the grade
scale. 4. Blank or missing grades in gradebook adversely affect
student averages. Teachers are encouraged to enter scores for all
students for all activities or use the appropriate drop process to
exclude activity from student average. 5. For the 2014-2015 school
year teachers should not use the copy gradebook option that copies
activity setup from the previous academic session. Because of known
issues in the software, behind the scenes problems in gradebook are
created and cannot be corrected. The issue has been reported to STI
support for development and should be corrected for 2015-2016
academic session.
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Winter Update Heading Hyperlinks Prior to the winter 2013
update users were required to double click on a column heading in
the teacher grade book scores tab to cycle through the grade entry
screen. With the winter 2013 update, this has been changed to a
single click, which allows iPad or other tablet users to cycle
through activity score entry. Double clicking tapping is not
support on most touchscreen devices. NOTE: The operation of the
click is the same. If the user places a check next to student(s)
and clicks taps the column heading, the screen will cycle through
the selected students. If no students are selected, the screen will
cycle through all students for the activity.
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With this change teachers are no longer required to create an
activity called semester exam. Classroom/Grade book/View a
class/Click Student Average under Manage. Click the graded item
column next to the student. A new exempt checkbox has been added.
Check if the student is exempt from the graded item (ex. Semester
exam). If the exempt box is checked, data entry will not be allowed
in the direct field. The semester exam grade should be entered into
the direct column and will be posted to the grade file for
calculation as 10% of the grade. Exam grade or exempt status must
be entered for all students for all classes. (If exam setup does
not appear in gradebook (elementary schools) this procedure does
not apply. Winter Update Student Averages/Exempt/Exam-Direct
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Summer Update Page 4-5 The list of available sections now
includes the same section in which the teacher is workingie.,
Journalism 0120 section 3. When users select the same section, they
will have the ability to select either the section start date or a
specific start date. Users may also check the activities to be
copied. When the start date is specific, the user should select the
earliest date on which the earliest activity is to start. Out of
the selected activities to copy, the activity with the earliest
start date will be copied to the specified date. The remaining
activities will be copied based on the days that are marked as IN
SCHOOL in the calendar. NOTE: When a user attempts to copy an
activity to a date that is not an in-school date Information NOW
will use the next in-school date. If there are no remaining
in-school dates, the system will copy the activity to the last day
of the scheduled term.
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Exam/Semester View in Grade book Summer Update Page 6-7 The
average setup screen has been modified. A setting has been added
that allows teachers to see more than one average on grade book
scores tab. Classroom/Grade book/View/Average Setup under Manage.
Column headings can be clicked to sort the list Averages are now
sorted by default by grading period, the sequence of graded item. A
new show in grade book option allows teachers to choose additional
items to show in grade book under the scores tab. Example: for
schools with four grading periods/two terms, during the second
grading period the teacher may want to see column for the first 9
weeks grade, final exam and semester average.
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Progress Report/Report Card Comments Summer Update Page 7-9
Classroom/Grade Book/View/Comment Setup under Manage. Board
approved report card comments appear in the drop list with a lock
icon. Locked comments cannot be edited by the teacher. On the
Comments tab, the progress report comment still shows in the
Comments. If a report card comment is selected for the student, a
green triangle will display on the student averages screen. This
screen is now a combination of the previous Progress Report comment
screen and the Report Card comment screen (previously entered under
Manage/Student Averages.) This new combination screen allows the
teacher to see/edit progress report comments while selecting report
card comments for the grading period.
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Student Average Screen Update Summer Update Page 10-11 The
student averages screen has been updated. The header has been
updated to include both the grading period code and graded item
name. Graded items are sorted by grading period and then graded
item sequence. Teacher created averages will appear at the end of
the list. The horizontal scroll bar has been moved from the bottom
of the grid to the top of the grid. When the user clicks to edit a
cell, the Edit Average screen has been redesigned. The average name
is now a label in the header of the screen. The header also
displays the grading period and the sequence. Fro teacher created
averages, the grading period and sequence is hidden. The NOTES
textbox has been modified to allow one unique note per grading
period.