Elementary Grades Configuration

The web2school Elementary Grades program is designed to allow teachers to enter grades and comments for Courses (Subjects), Skill Types and Skills. This data is then used to print Report Cards. These report cards use a more narrative style than traditional report cards.

When teacher grade books are created in Elementary Grades the program looks to see if there are schedules for the selected teachers. If the Scheduling System has been implemented the program creates grade books that contain the teachers' classes and student rosters. If there is no schedule for teachers, the program creates an empty grade book for each one to which courses and students can be added.

Steps for creating grade books are as follows:

1. Each class that is to receive a grade must be created in the Course database. As courses are created, please keep in mind that they will be ordered on the elementary report card by course number, with lower numbered courses appearing first. Therefore, you may want to number academic courses using lower numbers, and specials such as PE using higher numbers. See Add A Course.
2. Each teacher must be entered in the Personnel database as a faculty member. See Add Personnel.
3. Each teacher must be a user on the system. They must have a password and user name. See User Types.
4. If you use the Scheduling program, make sure your teacher and student schedules are complete.
5. Configure Grade Definitions. See Elementary Grades - Grade Definitions.
6. Configure Grade Types. See Elementary Grades - Grade Types for additional information.
7. Create grade books. See Elementary Grades - Create Elementary Grades for instructions.
8. If you do not use the Scheduling program, you must add students and courses to each grade book manually.