San Antonio ISD txGradebook

http://www.saisd.net/txgradebook/

Guides available for teachers and new users…http://www.saisd.net/txgradebook/

Teacher Guide

Four Steps1. Registration and Login p. 12–14

2. Course Groupings (Optional) p. 27-31

3. Administer (Assign) Categories p. 32-34

4. Administer (Create) Assignments p. 35-38

Pgs.: TX Grade Book Teacher Guide

Prior to the First Day of School

User ID: Not case sensitive; must be 6 – 8 alphanumeric characters (may not be changed)

Password: Case-sensitive; must be 6 – 9 alphanumeric characters; must have at least three of the following Uppercase, Lowercase, Numeric, and/or punctuation

PIN: must be four numeric characters Hint Q & A: Case sensitive; must select 3 hint

questions

1. Registration and Login (p.12-14)

Allows you to group courses by course number or class period

Allows you to copy categories and assignments for multiple sections of the same course or multiple course offered during the same period

You can only group your courses at the beginning of the semester BEFORE any categories are added.

2. Course Groupings (p.27-31)

Select the semester and course section and assign categories as defined by SAISD (Student Grading E20 ) Assignments (60%)

(i.e. journals, labs, projects, classwork, homework, class participation, etc.)

Assessments (40%) (i.e. examinations, quizzes, projects,

etc.)

3. Assign Categories (p.32-34)

You will be able to create and delete assignments AFTER you assign categories for each course.

4. Create Assignments (p.35-38)

One-time process for teachers to complete the enrollment of students

Teachers will be able to “Activate” students who are Present for the class period

Once a student is activated by any teacher, he/she is active for all the remaining periods and teachers will now be able to mark a student Present, Absent, or Tardy.

A student who has not shown up to school MUST remain as “Inactive”

5. Mass Activation (p.20-21)Day 1 – 10 of New School Year

6. Post/View Attendance7. Assignment Grades 8. Interim Progress Reports 9. Cycle Grades

Throughout the School Year

Attendance must be taken daily and for each period. Official attendance – 10:00 a.m.

All students are set to “Present” by default.

Errors in posting attendance MUST be emailed to attendance clerk (Mr. Wilson) so that they may be corrected.

6. Post/View Attendance (p.22-26)

You WILL be locked out after 3 consecutive failed attempts at signing in.

After 2 failed attempts: Go to “Forget your Password?” Staff ID: 9 digit employee ID (including

preceding 0’s) User ID Answers to Hint Questions (case sensitive)

Account Maintenance (p.17-18)

After creating assignments, you will be able to enter assignment grades for students

Grades Numerical I – Incomplete M – Missing (counts as a zero for the assignment

grade) X – Excluded

Comments Notes

Modifications

7. Assignment Grades (p.39-47)

Every 3 weeks Will be printed and distributed by the

campus Comments entered into the

txGradebook will be included in the Interim Progress Reports

Interim Progress Reports can be run by a teacher as needed (i.e. Parent Conference)

8. Interim Progress Reports (p.52-56)

Every 9-weeks Final cycle grades (Review all grades before

posting)

Citizenship grades Comments

Must be electronically submitted “Select courses to mark grades as Ready to Post”

9. Cycle Grades (p.48-51)

Email: HelpDesk@saisd.net gradebook@saisd.net

CC: GB Campus Coordinator

You MUST include: Your full name Your campus name Your campus number (006)

Locked Out??

Double click on the State of Texas Icon OR “Click Here” to access the log-in page.

Look to the far right under “New User?” click on the word “here.”

Type in all applicable information until ALL information has been entered. Click the “next” button.

Note: Your staff ID is your employee ID with the two “00” ex: 001234567.

REGISTERING

Next the System will ask you to create a User ID, Password, and Hint Questions. (Refer to the Teacher’s Guide, pgs. 12 -14 for info. on creating your User ID, Pin, & Hint Questions). If at anytime you receive a red error message, the information you entered is incorrect. Read the error message and correct the information.

Once you’ve entered all the required information click the Finished button. If there are no errors, you will be directed to the gradebook home screen.

REGISTERING