Carol Goodman
Information Systems Analyst
Wm.S.Hart UHSD
Santa Clarita, CA
661-753-5740 ext. 213
cgoodman@hartdistrict.org

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Carol Goodman
Information Systems Specialist
Wm.S.Hart UHSD
Santa Clarita, CA
661-753-5740 ext. 213
cgoodman@hartdistrict.org

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Hello WR teachers,

The latest version upgrade has been installed in Infinite Campus. Among many features are the new Enhanced Teacher Tools. Please review the attached documentation to get a jump on the new application. Gradebooks in last year, as well as this year, have been converted and may be copied to the 11-12 year.

There is no more Lesson Planner and you can not enter assignments directly into the gradebook

Please review the attachments- assignments will now be entered in through "Assignments" (under instruction)

Enjoy and good luck,
Rich

Richard Haring
Science Department Chair
AVID Coordinator
West Ranch High School

Adding New Assignments with NEW 2011 Updated Infinite Campus Gradebook_1.doc Download this file

Copy Feature in the NEW 2011 Updated Infinite Campus Gradebook_1.doc Download this file

Entering Scores in the NEW 2011 Updated Infinite Campus Gradebook_1.doc Download this file

Setting Up Gradebook with NEW Assignment Module 2011_1.doc Download this file

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Ron Ippolito
Teacher, West Ranch High School
http://www.MrIppolito.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

Carol Goodman
Information Systems Specialist
Wm.S.Hart UHSD
Santa Clarita, CA
661-753-5740 ext. 213
cgoodman@hartdistrict.org

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Carol Goodman
Information Systems Specialist
Wm.S.Hart UHSD
Santa Clarita, CA
661-753-5740 ext. 213
cgoodman@hartdistrict.org

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Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dERfRFdxNWlyc2Q2TjMxaH...

Rio Norte JHS
Teacher/ASB Director
(661) 295-3700

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By using http://www.speedtest.net, I tested our network speed at Rio
Norte Junior High School this afternoon. The download speed I picked
up was 0.68 Mb/s.

Try speedtest.net at home and see what result you get. On a SLOW day
at my house (using Time Warner Cable), my download speed is about 15
Mb/s (I can typically get 17-21 Mb/s). If the school speed is 0.68
Mb/s, and home speed is 15 Mb/s, then that means the connection our
students get here at school is 95% slower than what they get at home.

Looks like we need to work together as a community to improve our
schools' network speeds.

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It gets better! You can easily share documents and publish them online. The electives department is using it to give all of next year's seventh and eighth graders a chance to have a say in their elective, without the hassle of having to hand-enter every student's preferences into an Excel spreadsheet (it populates the spreadsheet automatically). As a school, we're already using it for Character Counts, tardies, and Student of the Month nominations. Science Olympiad, Drama/Dance, and Yearbook are using online Forms instead of paper applications for students signing up for next year's programs.

But wait...it gets BETTER! Teach your students how to use Google Docs (or let them teach you), and allow them to submit assignments using Google Docs. No more "my printer ran out of ink" or "I e-mailed it to you...didn't you get it?" No more crates full of papers to bring home. Students can start work at school, continue at home, collaborate with their teammates, and present back at school...all without a flash drive! Teachers can make comments using "sticky notes" in the margins and monitor progress. Team Thunder students are already using Google Docs as we move closer to a "paperless classroom." History students are completing their Medieval Levels Projects with Google Docs; science students are doing lab write-ups and projects on Google Docs.

February's "Technology in the Classroom" workshop will be completely devoted to Google Docs. It's on Wednesday, February 23, 2:15 to 3:30 p.m. in Room D-6. Curious? Check out the online tour here:
http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html

See you then,
Ron

Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

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It's here:
http://j.mp/PrintYourGrades

Also, if you're like me, at some point in your time here at Rio you have misplaced your check-out form. That then involves the walk-of-shame or the email-of-shame to Nancy as you sheepishly ask for another one (been there, done that). I scanned it for you (OK, and a little for me, too), just in case you need another copy. Who knows, before Friday I may need another copy:

http://j.mp/DontBugNancy

Cheers,
Ron

Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

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I've gotten a couple e-mails saying teachers are entering Q2 grades, but not seeing any scores come up in the yellow section. Easy fix, and we actually did this all at the beginning of Q1 and then forgot (I admit that I forgot about it too).

You need to assign a GRADING SCALE to your Term Q2 Term Grade (see attached image). Basically, your spreadsheet needs to know how to calculate what is an A, a B, and so on, but until you assign a Grading Scale to the "Term Q2 Term Grade" for each class period, it will leave the yellow section of your Gradebook blank.

I also have a little how-to video on the blog from August 30, when this issue came up the first time. Check it out here:
http://ichelp.posterous.com/are-you-missing-letter-grades-in-your-gradebo

Happy Friday!
Ron

Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

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1. Go to Admin>Preferences>Hide Dropped Students. UN-check the Hide Dropped Students box.
2. Here's where it gets tricky. If you save your preferences, you have only saved it in one class. To save it in ALL classes, choose Mass Assign to all classes" (in blue at the bottom), Toggle all the boxes so they're all checked, and then hit Save.

You should now be able to go back into your Gradebook and view the grades for all dropped/transferred students in every class, regardless of whether they transferred to a different class of yours, another Rio Norte teacher, or another school.

You would think there would just be a simple toggle switch right there in the Gradebook: "View Dropped Students" and "Hide Dropped Students." Again, that would be easy, right? Hopefully Infinite Campus will include this in next year's update. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

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1. When your grades for Q1 are complete, and you are ready to begin posting to the "Q1 - Term Grade," you right-mouse click in the green portion of your Gradebook (see attached example). You may be tempted to do exactly what we did at the progress report and select the progress grade. Resist this urge! If you do, you will overwrite your progress report grades. Instead, simply choose Post Grades (again, see picture example).
---THE ONE EXCEPTION TO THIS IS, of course, is if you teach algebra, geometry, or Spanish (a high-school level, semester course). In this case, you WOULD go to the drop-down menu so you can select Q1 Term Grade.

2. This one comes as a heads-up from Brian Kunkel: if you are putting your website into Infinite Campus, you must make sure to put the "http://" before your website. Just putting "mrippolito.com" or "www.mrippolito.com" will not make it a hyperlink in Infinite Campus in the parent/student portal. In order to make it an active hyperlink, you must use the correct protocol: "http://www.mrippolito.com" I have also attached an example of what this looks like in Admin>Preferences.

Any questions, give me a holler.

Cheers,
Ron

Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

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BIG THANKS to Audrey Asplund for the idea, and for allowing me to login as her so we could record the "parent point-of-view" in Infinite Campus.

Cheers,
Ron

Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

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I received a very polite e-mail from the dad of a yearbook student a couple days ago telling me that it's sometimes confusing to know which teacher is sending a message using Infinite Campus, and wondering if we could do something about it.

Unlike previous "snappy" software we have used in the past, IC does not include our teacher name or e-mail address anywhere in the message. The reply e-mail address is simply "DoNotReply@hartdistrict.org." That's not very helpful. Parents can often tell who we are from the context of the message, but not always.

I am CERTAIN that this will be addressed in next year's upgrade, but in the meantime, you may want to include your name somewhere in the e-mail. For my part, I'm going to start putting my name at the end of every subject line, for example:

INBs to be graded in our next class - Mr Ippolito

It's an easy way to provide a little extra customer service for our parents and students. :-)

Cheers,
Ron

Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

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On Tuesday afternoon, Marvelous Mindy Moore and Infinite Ippolito will dazzle and amaze you with our presentation on Posting Progress Report Grades. We will then do a brief "Frequently Asked Questions" session where we answer your questions about all things Infinite Campus.

At 2:00 p.m., Mindy and I move our show to the Boom-Boom Lounge (A-1), where you can sit down at a computer, export all your grades and ask questions. This part is totally optional, but hey, why not sit down and get 'em done!?

For those who are wondering, student service students will still be graded on a Pass/Fail basis (we'll show you how). We'll also show you how to manually input your grades if you are using a gradebook other than IC.

The grade window closes on Monday, September 20, at 3:00 p.m. We had some people freaking out (OK, me included) thinking that it was going to close on Thursday, September 16. That's just when the "grading period" ends. Edie has assured me that we have the weekend to do our final tinkering as we have always had.

Peace,
Ron

Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

>>> John Costanzo 9/10/2010 3:00 PM >>>
There will be an adjustment to our meetings scheduled for next week. Tuesday, September 14 is an E day where we are scheduled to continue to write and plan 1st quarter common assessments and follow-up activities. We will do this on Wednesday at 2:30 during our staff meeting. On Tuesday, we will work with Infinite Campus/grading procedures starting at 1:10. You will receive additional information next week. Thanks for your continued support.

John

John M. Costanzo
Principal
Rio Norte Junior High School
www.RioNorteJuniorHigh.com Charting a New Course of Excellence

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See samples here:
http://ichelp.posterous.com/

Simple fix: click the link that says, "Display Active Courses Only." It will clean up the clutter.

Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

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http://j.mp/aybAlH

The instructions seem pretty straight-forward. I'm actually kind of excited about posting grades because, for the first time, I can post them from home, from Starbucks, from anywhere!

Ron Ippolito
Teacher/Yearbook Adviser, Rio Norte Junior High School
http://www.LincolnIsMyHomeboy.com
School: rippolito@hartdistrict.org - Mobile: rippolito@gmail.com
Voice/text: (661) 347-4990

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