OCTOBER 2014 - Fall has begun!
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Coming Up This Month...
By
the end of October, most FastDirect schools will be wrapping up the
grading period for 1st quarter. Here are some FastDirect
functions that may need to be addressed:
- Closing input for 1st mid-quarter reports
- Opening up teacher input for 1st quarter
ReportCards
- Closing 1st quarter ReportCards when
teachers have finished importing grades
If
your school started in late August or early September, then you may be
gearing up for mid-quarter reports. Click here to read about the two different ways to
create progress reports.
Review
Your ReportCards! One very important step in creating
report cards is to make sure everything has been set up
correctly. This requires looking over a sample report card to
double check:
- Course names
- Subcategories
- Grade scales/marking codes
- Formatting
- Printing
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For Trimester Schools...
In
October, your school may be gearing up for mid-trimester reports. Click here to read the FAQ explaining the two
different methods for mid-term reports. If you school is using the
import process, then here are the functions that will need to be
addressed:
- Confirming the 1st mid-trimester dates in
'Grades' then 'ReportCard Input Controls'
- Changing input for mid-trimester from
'Not Yet' to 'Allow Input' in 'ReportCard Input Controls'
- Having teachers go through the
mid-trimester ReportCard input process
- Closing the input process by changing
'allow input' to 'input complete'
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What's New...
We
have created a new grade book printout report - One Line Per Event,
Grade Only (No Averages). This grade book printout will give a
list of the events for each course and the grade for each event but
will not include any final averaging.
Read more...
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| ...For
Administrators |
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While
Bulletin Boards are an effective tool for keeping the school community
connected, they may not be necessary for everyone. For the staff
accounts that do not need BulletinBoards, administrators have the
option to hide these accounts from displaying in the list of staff in
Planner.
Read more...
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Teachers |
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When a student is marked
absent and then arrives tardy, the homeroom teacher is allowed to
change that student to tardy and set the number if minutes that the
student arrived tardy.
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more...
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| ...For
Parents |
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Don't
want to log in to read your FDmail messages? With Email Forwarding, you
can receive all FDmail messages directly to your email!
Read
more...
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| Video Tutorial of the Month |
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Carrying
over from last month's video tutorial, we have more Monitor help for
those unusual attendance situations. Watch this video tutorial to learn
more about the ADVANCED Monitor functions.
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Watch now - MP4 format or YouTube
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