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GRADING SKILLS POWER ============= Student Skills Achievement Program Designed for Outcome-Based Education Version 3.00 for use with IBM PS/2, XT, PC and compatibles 512K and DOS 2.1 or greater required Computer program and manual written by Terry L. Jepson Entire contents Copyright Terry L. Jepson 1991-94 All Rights Reserved. Published by WISCO Computing P.O.Box 8 Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008 (715) 423-8189 Rapids River BBS support (715) 435-3855 (24 hours N,8,1) Voice support available to registered users (715) 423-8189 What is Outcome-Based Education? Many people may not be familiar with the relatively new term "Outcome-Based Education" (OBE). GRADING SKILLS POWER was developed to help ease the increased work load Outcome-Based Education will bring. The Minnesota State Department of Education has adopted the following definition of Outcome-Based Education (1991): Education that is outcome-based is a learner-centered, results-oriented system founded on the belief that all individuals can learn. In this system: 1) What is to be learned is clearly identified; 2) Learner's progress is based on demonstrated achievement; 3) Multiple instructional and assessment strategies are available to meet the needs of each learner; 4) Time and assistance are provided for each learner to reach maximum potential. Outcome-Based Education is one method for obtaining greater accountability from teachers for their students' academic achievement. The Minnesota State Department of Education has issued a state mandate that all K-12 public schools across the state must implement outcome-based curriculum by 1995. Other states are either considering or legislating "Outcome-Based Education." Clearly, OBE requires more teacher time and effort than conventional instruction. OBE requires the teacher to continually monitor each student's work, determine what skills and tasks (outcomes) each student has mastered, and provide immediate feedback. Teachers will be required to further individualize their instruction, create and administer an assortment of assessment tools, and keep extensive records of each student's progress. GRADING SKILLS POWER has been designed to help keep these extensive student records. Page 2 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1-0 Introduction.............................................. 7 1-1 Requirements.............................................. 7 1-2 Getting Started........................................... 8 1-3 Capabilities.............................................. 8 1-4 Hard Disk Installation................................... 9 1-5 Starting a New School Year............................... 9 1-6 The MENU BAR............................................. 13 CHAPTER 2 SET UP MENU 2-1 Change Current Quarter (Term) Number.................... 14 2-2 Print Outs to use the Student Name or I.D. Code......... 14 2-3 Revise/Review Common Message on Individual Reports...... 15 2-4 Teacher's Name to be Printed on Reports................. 15 2-5 Name of School on Reports............................... 15 2-6 Which Skills to Print.................................... 15 2-7 Skill Report Title: MID QUARTER REPORT................... 16 2-8 Number of Terms per Semester............................. 16 2-9 Skill Mastery Levels: U N A P D..................... 16 2-10 Student Calculations.................................... 16 2-11 Semester Calculation Method............................. 17 2-12 Revise/Review School Letter Grades...................... 18 2-13 Method to Determine Grade Accuracy (Rounding)........... 19 2-14 Selecting a Printer..................................... 20 2-15 Printer Pitch for Reports............................... 20 2-16 Miscellaneous Settings Sub-Menu......................... 20 2-16-1 Use School Letterhead for Progress Reports........... 21 2-16-2 Include Attendance Summary on Progress Reports....... 21 2-16-3 Include Numbered Comments on Progress Reports........ 21 2-16-4 Include Teacher Narrative on Progress Reports........ 22 2-16-5 Include Common Message on Progress Reports........... 22 2-16-6 Include Parent Signature on Progress Reports......... 22 2-16-7 Add Parent Comment Request on Progress Reports....... 22 2-16-8 Include Letter Grades on Skill Reports............... 22 2-16-9 Include Skill Percentages on Skill Reports........... 22 2-16-10 Include Combined Skill Average on Skill Reports...... 23 2-16-11 Include Semester Calculations on Skill Reports....... 23 2-16-12 Include Skill Points/Weights on Skill Reports........ 23 2-16-13 Include Skill Quarter (Term) on Skill Reports........ 23 2-16-14 Use Paper Save Option for Supported Print Outs....... 23 2-16-15 Use One Direction Printing for Line Drawing.......... 24 2-16-16 Does Your Printer Support Line Characters............ 24 Page 3 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS 2-16-17 Ignore Checking for Printer Status................... 24 2-16-18 Flip Seating Chart Cell Labels....................... 24 2-17 Saving the Displayed Information to Diskette............ 24 CHAPTER 3 STUDENT NAMES MENU 3-1 Enter/Add New Class Title................................ 25 3-2 Revise Class Tiles....................................... 26 3-3 Enter/Add New Students to a Class........................ 26 3-4 Revise Student Name/I.D./Text File/SuperData............. 27 3-5 Record/Revise Numbered Comments.......................... 28 3-6 Record/Revise Text for Progress Reports.................. 30 3-7 3-8 PRINT OUT Student Names - Screen Display............ 31 3-9 3-10 PRINT OUT Student Names - Student Grid............. 31 3-11 PRINT OUT Student Names - Seating Chart................. 32 3-12 PRINT OUT Student Names and I.D. Codes.................. 32 3-13 Delete Complete Student Name/Record..................... 32 3-14 Delete Complete Records of One Class.................... 33 CHAPTER 4 SKILL GROUPS MENU 4-1 Skill Group Titles - Enter/Add New Groups................ 34 4-2 Skill Group Titles - Revise Group Names.................. 34 4-3 Enter/Add/Revise/Mark Skills in a Group.................. 35 4-4 4-5 PRINT OUT All Skills................................. 36 4-6 Excuse Students from a Skill Group....................... 37 4-7 Delete One Skill for All Students........................ 38 4-8 Delete All Skills - One Group............................ 38 CHAPTER 5 SKILLS MENU 5-1 Record/Revise Student Skill Mastery Levels............... 39 5-2 5-3 Student Skill Reports - One Student.................. 40 5-4 5-5 Student Skill Reports - All Students................. 42 5-6 Student Skill Reports - Matching SuperData............... 42 5-7 Student Skill Reports - Deficiency Only.................. 42 5-8 Student Skill Reports - SuperData/Deficiency............. 42 5-9 5-10 Detailed Records One Group/All Groups............... 43 5-11 5-12 Administrative Summary One Group/All Groups........ 44 CHAPTER 6 UNIT MENU 6-1 Unit Report Title ....................................... 45 6-2 6-3 Skill Unit Reports - One Student..................... 45 6-4 6-5 Skill Unit Reports - All Students.................... 45 6-6 Skill Unit Reports - Matching SuperData.................. 47 Page 4 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS 6-7 Skill Unit Reports - Deficiency Only..................... 47 6-8 Skill Unit Reports - SuperData/Deficiency................ 47 6-9 Detailed Skill Unit Report - One Group................... 47 6-10 Administrative Skill Unit Summary - One Group........... 48 6-11 Selected Skill Unit Summary............................. 48 6-12 Missing Skills Summary.................................. 49 CHAPTER 7 REPORTS MENU 7-1 Progress Report - View/PRINT OUT - One Student........... 50 7-2 Progress Report - PRINT OUT - One Class.................. 50 7-3 Progress Report - PRINT OUT - All Classes................ 50 7-4 Progress Report - PRINT OUT - Matching SuperData......... 50 7-5 Chart Summary - View/PRINT OUT - One Class............... 52 7-6 List - Matching SuperData - View/PRINT OUT............... 53 7-7 List - Deficiency - View/PRINT OUT....................... 53 7-8 List - Deficiency/SuperData Matches - View/PRINT OUT..... 53 7-9 List - Combined Average - View/PRINT OUT................. 53 7-10 Complete Semester Summary - View/PO - One Group......... 53 7-11 Complete Semester Summary - PRINT OUT - All Groups...... 54 7-12 School Year Summary - View/Sort/PO - One Class.......... 55 CHAPTER 8 - ATTENDANCE MENU 8-1 Record/Revise Attendance/Tardy Information............... 56 8-2 Individual Attendance Reports - View/PRINT OUT........... 57 8-3 8-4 8-5 Multiple Individual Attendance Reports........... 59 8-6 Detailed Attendance Report - PRINT OUT - One Class....... 59 8-7 Detailed Attendance Reports - PRINT OUT All Classes...... 59 8-8 Administrative Attendance Summary - View/PRINT OUT....... 60 8-9 Adm. Attendance Summary - PRINT OUT - All Classes........ 60 CHAPTER 9 - UTILITY MENU 9-1 Back Up Student Data Diskette............................ 61 9-2 Save Current Quarter/Term Grades/Percents................ 62 9-3 Revise Previous Term Letter Grades/Percents.............. 62 9-4 Transfer One Student's Grades to a Different Class....... 63 CHAPTER 10 EXTRA MENU 10-1 Reset Printer........................................... 64 10-2 Advance Paper........................................... 64 10-3 Form Feed............................................... 64 10-4 Advance Student Number.................................. 64 10-5 Advance Group Number.................................... 65 Page 5 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS 10-6 Run Grade Modules....................................... 65 10-7 Change Display Colors................................... 65 10-8 School Year Setting..................................... 66 10-9 Set Term Start/End Dates................................ 66 10-10 Select Non Student Days............................ 66 10-11 Teacher Note Pad................................... 67 10-12 Ordering Information............................... 67 10-13 Print Order Blank.................................. 68 10-14 About Grading Skills Power......................... 68 CHAPTER 11 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 11-1 Additional Start Up Options............................. 69 11-1-1 GRADES /INSTALL................................... 69 11-1-2 GRADES /J......................................... 69 11-1-3 GRADES /JC:\SMITH\................................ 69 11-1-4 GRADES /B and GRADES /C........................... 70 11-2 Network Installation.................................... 70 11-3 Enhancements Planned for GRADING SKILLS POWER........... 70 11-4 Files Created by GRADING SKILLS POWER................... 70 APPENDIX Sample Grade 2 Skills .................................... 72 The information contained in the GRADING SKILLS POWER program and manual is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, no responsibility is assumed by the author or WISCO COMPUTING for its use. The author or WISCO COMPUTING shall not be liable for any direct, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use of the GRADING SKILLS POWER program or this manual. GRADING SKILLS POWER is a trademark of WISCO COMPUTING. All other company names and product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. I welcome your comments. I like the programs I have created, but I can always do better with a little help from my friends. Thank you for investing your time and attention to GRADING SKILLS POWER. And special thanks for la creme de la creme, where ever you might be, for motivating me to do my best. Terry L. Jepson Page 6 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION 1-0 INTRODUCTION GRADING SKILLS POWER is NOT a normal grade book program. This program is a teacher developed database of student skills and a record of mastery levels of those skills by all students. Student grades can be based on skill mastery levels and skill weights. This program was designed specifically for Outcome-Based Education. Skills are entered in different skill groups ( for example, math, science, reading, etc.). Reports are created listing the skills and the levels of student mastery. Administrative summaries include totals of all skills the students have achieved. Reports can be quickly printed listing up to 900 skills to be learned during the school year. GRADING SKILLS POWER can be used by both elementary and secondary teachers. Elementary teachers divide skills into groups based on the subject matter (for example, math, science, reading, etc.). Secondary teachers divide skills into groups based on their units. For example, an earth science teacher could have groups called rocks and minerals, weathering and erosion, rivers, ground water, glaciers, volcanoes and plate tectonics, weather, oceanography, and astronomy. This program allows up to 60 skills listed in each of 15 skill groups. Up to 15 classes (groups of students) can use the same set of skills. GRADING SKILLS POWER can keep up-to-the-minute information for all students. The program prepares, prints and stores information necessary to produce comprehensive reports. You will save hours of your time usually spent preparing for conferences, for preparing reports for parents, and completing reports for administrators. GRADING SKILLS POWER is specifically designed to be simple to understand and easy to use. The ten menus allow easy movement through the program so you can begin recording student skills in just a few minutes. 1-1 REQUIREMENTS The following equipment is needed to use GRADING SKILLS POWER: * An IBM or IBM compatible with at least 512K of memory, and two disk drives (or hard disk drive and one diskette drive) * A printer, capable of printing both 10 and 12 characters per inch * The GRADING SKILLS POWER program diskette and blank formatted student data diskette for storing student data * An IBM compatible mouse is optional Page 7 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION 1-2 GETTING STARTED Before you start using GRADING SKILLS POWER, please fill out the registration card and mail it back to us. With a completed registration card technical support can be provided. Information can also be sent about updates and add-on modules. 1-3 CAPABILITIES * Can be used by all grade levels - includes many special options for both elementary and secondary teachers * Save data for up to 15 classes with up to 36 students in each class * Save data for up to 15 skill groups per class * Save data for up to 60 skills per skill group * Reports with up to 900 skills per student can be printed * Excuse selected students from selected skill groups * Save attendance data for either 4-9 week quarters or 6-6 week terms each year * Can automatically duplicate (back up) student data diskettes * Can automatically alphabetize student names if desired * Can produce blank grade book sheets with student names and a grid of boxes * Skill reports can be printed with either a complete listing of all skills, term skills, or finished term, semester, or year skills. * Ideal for use in either self-paced or regular courses * Achieved skills are easily entered, added, revised, updated, or dropped * Easily revise student skills and their weights * Students can be added or dropped or excused from skills at any time * Calculate quarter (term), semester, and year grades based on mastery levels and skill weights * Comprehensive individual reports for parents, counselors, and students * Selected skills can be grouped as a unit for additional reports * Selected students and classes can be excused from selected skill groups * Student mastery levels can be easily transferred to different classes without recording the skill mastery levels again * Add general comments to all individual student reports * Add personalized comments to selected individual reports * Reports can summarize achieved student skills for each group * Optional parent signature request on reports * Prints detailed reports suitable for gluing into your grade book * Print out detailed and individualized student attendance reports * Print out complete 6 by 6 seating charts for all classes. Page 8 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION 1-4 HARD DISK INSTALLATION If you are in WINDOWS or a software application, exit the program or master menu to return to your DOS prompt (probably C:\>). To Exit WINDOWS, follow these steps (you may have to repeat steps 1 and 2): 1. Hold down the Alt key and press the space bar. 2. Hold down the Alt key and press the F4 function key. 3. A message box will be displayed stating "This will end your Windows session." Move the mouse pointer to the OK button. Press the left mouse button once. Now you are at the DOS prompt. C:> is displayed on the screen. If C:\> is not displayed, Type CD\, then Enter. Now you are going to make a subdirectory, change to the new subdirectory, and copy the files from the program diskette to the new subdirectory. 4. Type MD SKILLS Press Enter. You have just made a subdirectory even though it looks like nothing was done. 5. Type CD SKILLS Press Enter. You have just changed to the SKILLS subdirectory. The DOS prompt is C:\SKILLS> 6. Place the floppy program diskette (either 3 1/2" or 5 1/4" size) in the disk drive. Type COPY A:*.* Then press Enter. The program files will be copied to your hard drive. You will know the copying is done when the message "3 files copied" is displayed. You can remove the floppy diskette from the disk drive. This floppy should not be needed again. Store it in a safe place. 1-5 STARTING A NEW SCHOOL YEAR This section explains how to start a new school year. The DOS prompt should be C:\SKILLS> If this prompt is not displayed, type CD\ then type CD SKILLS Then press Enter. These files (SKILLS.EXE, COMMENTS.GRD, and WISORDER.DOC) must be located in this subdirectory. The file SKILLS.DRV will be created when this program is properly installed. The file SKILLS.DRV contains the location of all skills and student data. You need to decide where to keep your skills and student data and a back up copy of your data. Each of the 3 choices have some advantages and some disadvantages. a. On a floppy diskette - (either A: or B:) - You would keep a back up of your student data in the C:\SKILLS subdirectory. Page 9 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION b. In the same subdirectory as the program. You would keep a back up of your student data on a separate diskette inserted in either drive A: or B: c. In another subdirectory on your hard drive. If you make this choice, the program will make the new subdirectory for you when you are answering the 4 start-up questions. You should keep a back up copy of your student data on a separate diskette inserted in either drive A: or B: The following instructions are followed ONLY at the start of a school year (or you teach semester classes with totally different students in each class each semester). I recommend that a new formatted floppy be used for your student data. If you are saving your student data on the hard drive, previous student data files need to be erased. These files are from previous years. As mentioned above, only 3 files need to be located in the SKILLS subdirectory to start the program. The file SKILLS.DRV will be created after the program is started the first time. If your student data was stored in a different subdirectory, all student files (not skill files) in that subdirectory need to be erased. GRADING SKILLS POWER refuses to overwrite existing student data files with blank files of the same name. This was done to prevent accidentally blanking out your valuable data. The easiest way to remove student files, and keep the skill text files, is to use the selection to delete student data on the NAMES MENU. Student data file names and descriptions are found in section 11-5. 1. If you decided to keep your student data on a floppy diskette, place the blank formatted student data diskette in the disk drive. 2. Type SKILLS /INSTALL Then press Enter to start GRADING SKILLS POWER for the new school year. 3. You are asked if you want to start a new school year. Press Y for Yes. The number of classes on your data diskette is set to 0. 4. Now you will be asked four questions so the correct file structure can be determined by GRADING SKILLS POWER. Question 1: Drive Containing Student Data: Enter the letter of the disk drive (and optional subdirectory) to be used for saving your student data. a. If you decided to save your student data on a floppy diskette, enter either A:\ or B:\ and press Enter. b: If you decided to save your student data in the same subdirectory as the program, just press Enter. c. If you decided to save your student data in a different hard drive subdirectory, enter the drive and subdirectory (for example C:\SKILLS\DATA\). This subdirectory will be created if necessary. Page 10 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION Question 2: Current School Year: This question asks for the current school year. Enter a school year in the format 1994-95. This information is needed for displaying the proper semester 6 month calendar when the F2 function key is pressed and for determining attendance information. Question 3: Quarters (Terms) per Semester: This question asks for the number of terms per semester. Many schools use two-9 week quarters (terms) per semester. Other school districts (corporations) use three-6 week terms per semester. The correct number of terms (either 2 or 3) is needed so the correct number of empty files are created for recording grades. In GRADING SKILLS POWER, term and quarter are defined as a part of a semester. +========================+========================+ | August - January | January - June | | Semester 1 | Semester 2 | | Quarter 1 Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 Quarter 4 | | or | or | | Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 | Term 4 Term 5 Term 6 | +========================+========================+ Question 4: Starting Quarter Number: This question asks the starting quarter (term) number. If you are beginning the program at the start of the school year, you would answer 1. Teachers starting the second semester would answer either 3 or 4, depending on the number of terms per semester. Refer to the chart above. After these four questions are answered, two files are created. The file SKILLS.DRV is created in the program subdirectory of the hard disk. SKILLS.DRV contains the drive letter (and subdirectory) of your skill and student data. The file SKILLS.CNF will be created on your student data diskette or in the student data subdirectory of your hard disk. SKILLS.CNF contains your class names, printer codes, teacher name, school name, and other settings used by the program. Since you haven't entered your class names or other information, the information will either be blank, or contain default (start-up) settings. Page 11 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION Press any key to remove the copyright screen. This title screen also includes your serial number. The MENU BAR will be displayed at the top of the screen. If you have trouble seeing the menu choices, press Alt-B for a black/white monochrome display or Alt-C for color display. The black/white display may be necessary for some lap-top computers. Press the right arrow or Alt-S to go immediately to the SET UP MENU. Enter information such as teacher's name, school name, printer, etc. After entering the appropriate SET UP MENU information, select Save the Displayed Information, and press Enter. This information is kept in the file SKILLS.CNF with your skill and student data. In the future, start GRADING SKILLS POWER by following these steps: 1. Exit WINDOWS (follow the 3 steps above). If C:\> is not displayed, Type CD\ Then press Enter. 2. Type CD SKILLS Then press Enter. This command changes to the SKILLS subdirectory of Drive C: The DOS prompt C:\SKILLS> is displayed. 3. Type SKILLS. Then press Enter. This command starts GRADING SKILLS POWER. Other Start-up options are explained in Chapter 11 - Miscellaneous. These options allow reading your student data from your back up storage. To return to WINDOWS, follow these steps: 1. Type CD\ Then press Enter. This command returns you to the C:\> DOS prompt. 2. Type CD WINDOWS Then press Enter. This command changes to the WINDOWS subdirectory of Drive C: The DOS prompt C:\WINDOWS> is displayed. 3. Type WIN Then press Enter. This command starts WINDOWS. Windows and Macintosh versions of GRADING SKILLS POWER are planned for the future. Contact WISCO Computing for availability. Page 12 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION 1-6 THE MENU BAR GRADING SKILLS POWER contains 10 menus. Each menu title is displayed in the MENU BAR at the top of the display screen. The menu choices below each title are explained in other sections of the manual. 1. SKILLS - Record and Print Out Student Skills 2. UNIT - Print Out Unit (Groups of Skills) Skills 3. REPORTS - Print Out Progress Reports and Skill Reports 4. ATTENDANCE - Record and Print Out Student Absences 5. GROUPS - Entering Skills and Skill Weights 6. NAMES - Entering Class and Student Information 7. UTILITY - Back Up Data and Saving Term Information 8. SET UP - Initial Set Up Information Used by your Classes 9. EXTRA - Miscellaneous Printer and Diskette Services 10. QUIT - The only way to leave GRADING SKILLS POWER The TEN menus of GRADING SKILLS POWER allow easy movement through the program. The MENU BAR serves as the center of this program. Each menu title is selected at the MENU BAR. You can select a Menu title from the MENU BAR by: 1. Using the left or right arrow keys, 2. Holding down the alternate key and pressing the first letter of the menu name, or 3. Placing the mouse cursor on top of the menu name and pressing the left button of the mouse. Menu choices are listed below each menu title. These choices are described in other sections of this manual. Select a choice by: 1. Using the up or down arrow keys, 2. Pressing the first letter of the choice, or 3. Placing the mouse cursor on top of the choice name, then pressing the left button of the mouse. Choices displayed in red letters on a white background, or with a bullet to the left of the choice can not be selected. QUIT on the far right of the MENU BAR is the only way to leave GRADING SKILLS POWER. Leaving the program with this selection insures that all student data has been safely saved on diskette. Page 13 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU SET UP MENU 1. Change Current Quarter (Term) Number: 1 2. Print Outs to use the Student: Name 3. Revise/Review Common Message on Individual Reports 4. Teacher's Name to be Printed on Reports: MR. JEPSON 5. Name of School on Reports: EAST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 6. Printed Skills: Semester Completed Skills 7. Skill Report Title: MID QUARTER REPORT 8. Number of Terms per Semester: 2 9. Skill Mastery Levels: U N A P D 10. Student Calculations: Class Completed Skills 11. Semester Calculation: Cumulative Points 12. Revise/Review Letter Grade Percentage Equivalents 13. Rounding Method: Two Decimals-Down 14. Current Printer Number: HP LaserJet 15. Printer Pitch for Reports: 12 cpi 16. Miscellaneous Settings Sub Menu 17. SAVE the Above Displayed Information 2-1 CURRENT QUARTER (TERM) NUMBER When GRADING SKILLS POWER was started for a new school year (section 1-5), the fourth question asked for the starting term number. To change quarters, press enter, then a number between 1 and 6. A message will appear reminding you to save letter grades and percentages with a selection from the Utility Menu before switching quarters (terms). The saved percentages are used to calculate semester grades. Some schools use 6-six week terms to determine grades and others use 4-nine week quarters. In this program, term and quarter have the same meaning. Use the UTILITY Menu Selection to adjust a student's grade for a previous quarter (term). Then save the changed grades. The UTILITY Menu selection can also be used to enter previous term grades if you did not start using GRADING SKILLS POWER at the very beginning of the school year. 2-2 USING STUDENT NAME OR IDENTIFICATION CODE Some print outs on the SKILLS, UNIT, and REPORTS MENUS can be made using either the student name or the student identification code. Move the cursor to this selection, press enter, then press either N for the student Name or I if the Identification code to be used. Page 14 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU 2-3 REVISE/REVIEW COMMON MESSAGE ON INDIVIDUAL REPORTS Messages might ask parents to call the school if they have any questions. The message can be up to 10 lines long. A student message could be a reminder that a book report, etc is due. Pressing the F1 function key displays a help screen for editing lines of the common message. The edit help screen can be displayed through out the program to help edit text information. After editing the last line, press Enter or the up or down arrow curror to have the displayed information replace the information in the SKILLS.CNF file. Then press ESCape. The letter Y must be entered on the Miscellaneous Settings - Sub Menu for this common message to be printed. 2-4 TEACHER'S NAME TO BE PRINTED ON REPORTS The teacher's name is included on most print outs. 2-5 SCHOOL'S NAME TO BE PRINTED ON REPORTS The school's name is included on many print outs. Either the school name will be printed or a 1 and 1/2" margin will be left at the top of the student progress reports. The margin allows you to use school letterhead for the printing of the progress report. The setting on the Miscellaneous Sub-Menu determines if the top margin should be left for the school letterhead. The option of using the school letterhead applies only to the progress report. 2-6 WHICH SKILLS TO PRINT This selection determines which skills are printed on the skill reports. This selection does not determine which skills are used to calculate the student grades. Skills mark with an X for the Quarter(term) indicating all students are excused, are not included on any printouts. Completed skills have had a mastery level entered for at least one student. After pressing the enter key for this selection, six choices are displayed. Enter the one or two letter code. Your choice will be displayed on the Settings Menu. The six choices are: A = All Skills S = Semester Skills Q = Quarter(Term) Skills AC = All Completed Skills SC = Semester Completed Skills QC = Quarter(Term) Completed Skills Page 15 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU 2-7 SKILL REPORT TITLE The title that is entered will be printed on many reports. This title does not print on reports made with the Unit Menu. Unit Menu reports use the title entered with the title selection of the Unit Menu. 2-8 NUMBER OF GRADING TERMS PER SEMESTER Enter the number of terms each semester. You must enter either the number 2 or 3. Semesters usually contain either 2-nine week or 3-six week grading terms per semester. The number of grading terms is used for recording attendance and student progress information. 2-9 SKILL MASTERY LEVELS When this selection is made, a chart showing the skill mastery levels and their respective weights is displayed. Each mastery level must begin with a different letter. The hyphen (-) is reserved for excusing students from individual skills. Excused skills are not included in grade calculations. Up to six mastery levels can be entered. Some school districts use three levels called Beginning, Developmental, and Independent. The higher the weight, the higher the achievement level. Mastery level weights may vary from 0 to 9. Use the tab key to move between columns. Press Enter, then Escape when you have finished entering mastery levels and their weights. The first letter of each mastery level will be displayed on the SET UP MENU. The following chart displays five of six possible levels. +---------------------+ | MASTERY LEVEL WT | | Unacceptable = 0 | | Novice = 1 | | Apprentice = 2 | | Proficient = 3 | | Distinguished = 4 | +---------------------+ 2-10 STUDENT CALCULATIONS This selection determines how the student grades for the current term will be calculated. Grades can be calculated from either Class completed skills or Student completed skills. If Class completed skills is selected, any skill which at least one student in the class has completed will be used in the calculation. If the student has not completed the skill, it is counted as 0 until a mastery level is entered for the student. Page 16 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU If Student completed skills is selected, any skill which the student has had a mastery level entered will be used in the calculation. If a student has not completed the skill (no mastery level entered) or a hyphen was used to excuse the student from the skill, the skill weight is ignored when the grade calculations are made. Total points earned during the quarter will be compared to the total points possible. The letter grade will be determined by the percentages you entered on the SET UP MENU. 2-11 METHOD TO CALCULATE SEMESTER GRADES To work properly, the grades from the previous quarter (term) must have been saved with selections 2 through 6 of the Utility Menu. Five different methods can be used to calculate semester grades. Different methods can be used for different classes. 1. Weight/Numbers 2. Weight/Percentages = 100 3. Last Quarter Only 4. Weight/12 Point Scale 5. Cumulative Points The Weight/Numbers method is identical to the Weighting/Percentages method, but the total does not have to equal 100. For example, each term as 1 for a total of 3. Each term would be 1/3 of the total weight. If Weight/Percentages is chosen, the semester grade is determined by the entered weights for each term and semester exam. The weights for the quarters (terms) and semester exam must total 100%. If your school uses 3-six week (terms) per semester: Weight for Quarter (Term) 1 Grade: 33 Weight for Quarter (Term) 2 Grade: 33 Weight for Quarter (Term) 3 Grade: 34 Total Weight: 100 If your school uses 2-nine week quarters (terms) per semester: Weight for Quarter (Term) 1 Grade: 50 Weight for Quarter (Term) 2 Grade: 50 Total Weight: 100 If the term has not been used, but that term is assigned a percentage weight, that weight will be distributed to the other term(s). Page 17 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU For example, if we use these percentages, and we are in the second term, the 34% for term 3 must be distributed to the other terms. Otherwise, 34% of every student's grade would include an F grade (34% of 0 points). Since the first two terms are weighted equally, the 34% would be distributed equally to the two terms. These weights would change 1st Term to 50% and 2nd Term to 50%. When the semester is completed, the grade would be calculated based on the assigned weights (33%, 33% and 34%). The Last Quarter Only method uses only the current quarter to determine the semester grade. The previous quarter grades will be printed on some reports, but they will be ignored in the calculations. The Weighting/12 Point Scale assigns numerical values to the earned letter grades for each term. At the end of the semester, the weighted numerical values are added to determine the final semester grade. If Cumulative Points is chosen, total points earned in all terms of the current semester will be added. The semester grade will be based on the total points earned out of the total points (weight) possible. This method is best if you have a different number of total points possible in each quarter. Cumulative Points is the default grading method. After entering this information, press ESCape to leave this display screen. The selected method will be displayed on the SET UP MENU. 2-12 REVISE/REVIEW LETTER GRADES/PERCENTAGES Most school systems use the letter grades displayed below in the left column (the default). Some districts do not use +'s and -'s. Some schools use the letter E for Effort instead of the letter F. The last letter grade by position 13 in the chart will be calculated as 0 points earned on assignments. GRADING SKILLS POWER allows any of the first six letters of the alphabet (ABCDEF) to be used. Each set of 3 letter grades (1-3), (4-6), (7-9), and (10-12) must start with the same letter as displayed in the chart. The middle letter of each group should not have a plus or minus sign. If plus or minus letter grades are omitted, the middle letter grade must be entered as displayed in the second column. If your school does not use letter grades, enter a period to replace every letter grade and set letter grades to No with the Miscellaneous Settings. Page 18 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU Percentages should be set to your grading curve. Student letter grades for the selected class will be determined by the percentages listed on this chart: These entered percentages are the bottom of each letter grade. The default scale is listed in the left column. 1. A+ = 100.01 1. A = 90 1. A+ = 98 2. A = 93.333 2. A = 90 2. A = 94 3. A- = 90 3. A = 90 3. A = 94 4. B+ = 86.667 4. B = 80 4. B+ = 90 5. B = 83.333 5. B = 80 5. B = 86 6. B- = 80 6. B = 80 6. B = 86 7. C+ = 76.667 7. C = 70 7. C = 78 8. C = 73.333 8. C = 70 8. C = 78 9. C- = 70 9. C = 70 9. C = 78 10. D+ = 66.667 10. D = 60 10. D = 70 11. D = 63.333 11. D = 60 11. D = 70 12. D- = 60 12. D = 60 12. D = 70 13. F = 0 13. E = 0 13. F = 0 After moving the cursor to the corresponding percentage, enter the new lowest (bottom) percentage that will be accepted for that letter grade. Enter spaces to remove any extra digits that are displayed. Letter grades are assigned to unit, quarter and semester grades, unless periods replaced all letters. Letter grades will not print on the reports if the proper setting is made on the Miscellaneous Sub- Menu. Press ESCape to leave this display. After saving these letter grades, they will be used in all letter grade displays and calculations. 2-13 METHOD TO DETERMINE GRADE ACCURACY (ROUNDING) One of four methods may be chosen to determine the grade. The default (starting) method is Three Decimals-Down. 1. Two Decimals-Up 3. Closest Integer 2. Two Decimals-Down 4. Full Integer For example, if the student's grade is 89.65%, the four different methods calculate as follows: Page 19 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU Method 1 (Two Decimals-Up) First finds the letter grade from the 89.65%, then rounds up to 90% if a bottom percentage of the letter grade is not crossed, else 89% will print. Method 2 (Two Decimals-Down) First finds the letter grade from 89.65%, then rounds to 89% when necessary. - Default Method 3 (Closest Integer) rounds the grade up to 90%, then determines the letter grade. Method 4 (Full Integer) drops the fraction, rounds the grade to 89%, then gets the letter grade. 2-14 SELECTING A PRINTER The following printers are supported by GRADING SKILLS POWER. Others may have been added after this manual was printed. Epson LQ 24 pin C. Itoh Epson FX 9 pin Diablo 630 IBM Proprinter X24E Okidata IBM Proprinter 9 pin Panasonic KX P1091i HP Laserjet/Deskjet Panasonic KX P2123 Toshiba P1351 After selecting a printer, the name of the printer will be displayed on the SET UP MENU. Most printers imitate one or more of the listed printers. If your printer is not listed, check your printer manual for the proper setting. 2-15 PRINTER PITCH FOR REPORTS Most Reports can be printed in either 10, 12, or 17 pitch. If your printer supports 15 characters per inch (cpi), some reports may be printed with this pitch. Some printers, for example, the LaserJet II did not support 12 pitch. 2-16 MISCELLANEOUS SETTINGS SUB-MENU When this selection is made, another screen of settings is displayed. Use the up and down arrows to move between settings. These settings further customize GRADING SKILLS POWER. Press the letter Y for Yes or N for No. The program ignores settings that do not apply to your equipment. Press ESCape when you have finished your settings. Then you can save these settings. Page 20 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU Miscellaneous Settings +----------------------------------------------------+ | Use School Letterhead for Progress Reports: No | | Include Attendance Summary on Progress Reports: Yes| | Include Numbered Comments on Progress Reports: Yes| | Include Teacher Narrative on Progress Reports: Yes| | Include Common Message on Progress Reports: Yes| | Include Parent Signature on Progress Reports: Yes| | Add Parent Comment Request on Progress Reports: Yes| | Include Letter Grades on Skill Reports: Yes| | Include Skill Percentages on Skill Reports: Yes| |Include Combined Skill Average on Skill Reports: Yes| | Include Semester Calculations on Skill Reports: Yes| | Include Skill Points/Weights on Skill Reports: Yes| | Include Skill Quarter (Term) on Skill Reports: Yes| | Use Paper Save Option for Supported Print Outs: No | | Use One Direction Printing for Line Drawing: Yes| | Does Your Printer Support Line Characters: Yes| | Ignore Checking for Printer Status: Yes| | Flip Seating Chart Cell Labels: No | +----------------------------------------------------+ 2-16-1 USE SCHOOL LETTERHEAD FOR PROGRESS REPORTS If Yes is selected a 1 and 1/2" margin will be left at the top of the student progress reports. This margin allows you to use school letterhead for printing the progress report. If No is selected, the school name entered on the SET UP MENU will be printed on the progress reports. This setting applies only to the progress reports. 2-16-2 INCLUDE ATTENDANCE SUMMARY ON PROGRESS REPORTS If Yes is selected the attendance summary will be printed on the student progress reports. This setting applies only to the progress report. +-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+ Attendance | Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4 | Days Absent | 12.0 | 5.5 | | | Times Tardy | 2 | 3 | | | +-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+ 2-16-3 INCLUDE NUMBERED COMMENTS ON PROGRESS REPORTS If Yes is selected, up to three personal one line comments will be printed on the student progress reports. These numbered comments are entered with the Revise/Review Numbered Comments of the NAMES MENU. If you want a longer personal message, use the Revise/Review Student Text File selection of the NAMES MENU. Page 21 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU ******************************************* * Personal Comments about this Student * * *Absent too often * * *Fails to complete make-up work * ******************************************* 2-16-4 INCLUDE TEACHER NARRATIVE ON PROGRESS REPORT If Yes is selected, personal messages to selected students can be printed on the student progress reports. This message, up to ten lines long is stored in the student directory or on the student data diskette. The file name is listed in the ASCII text file column of the Revise Student Name/I.D. chart viewed with the NAMES MENU. This text could also be entered with the Revise/Review Student Text File selection of the NAMES MENU. 2-16-5 INCLUDE COMMON MESSAGE ON ALL PROGRESS REPORTS If Yes is selected, the common message entered on the SET UP MENU will be printed on all student progress reports. 2-16-6 INCLUDE PARENT SIGNATURE ON ALL PROGRESS REPORTS If Yes is selected, the student progress reports will include a request for the parent signature and date. ____________ ________________________ Date Parent Signature 2-16-7 INCLUDE PARENT COMMENT REQUEST If Yes is selected, the message "Comments may be written below and returned to school by the student." will be printed on the student progress reports. 2-16-8 INCLUDE LETTER GRADES ON SKILL REPORTS Some schools do not use the letter grades A through F. If your school does not use letter grades, change this setting to No. Your letter grades are determined by the settings on the SET UP MENU. 2-16-9 INCLUDE SKILL PERCENTAGES ON SKILL REPORTS If you do not want to print the percentages on the skill reports, change this setting to No. The percentages are calculated according to your settings on the SET UP MENU. Page 22 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU 2-16-10 INCLUDE COMBINED SKILL AVERAGE ON SKILL REPORTS If Yes is selected, the skill average from all skill groups will be calculated and printed. The combined skill average is calculated by dividing the total number of points earned by the total number of points (weight) possible. The skill group with the highest number of possible points (weight) will the greatest effect on the combined average. In other words, each skill group does not contribute equally to the combined average unless all skill groups have the same number of points possible. 2-16-11 INCLUDE SEMESTER CALCULATIONS ON SKILL REPORTS Some teachers prefer not to print semester grades on reports until the end of the semester as a method of student motivation. This setting is most useful when semester grades are calculated by weighting. The most common use would be for printing reports early in the second or third terms of the semester. When weighting is used to calculate semester grades, second (or third) term points have a much higher effect on the semester grade early in the term. 2-16-12 INCLUDE SKILL POINTS/WEIGHTS ON SKILL REPORTS This setting determines if the skill weights are printed on detailed reports, administrative summaries, and skill listings. Skill weights are entered on the Enter/Add/Revise/Mark Skills of the GROUP MENU. On individual reports, this setting determines if points earned out of points possible are printed. The points earned/possible are printed next to the mastery level. The points possible are determined by multiplying the skill weight by the highest mastery weight. The points earned are determined by multiplying the skill weight by the earned mastery weight. 2-16-13 INCLUDE SKILL QUARTER (TERM) ON SKILL REPORTS If Yes is selected, the quarter (term) number the skill is to be mastered is printed on the reports. 2-16-14 PAPER/RIBBON SAVE OPTION The ribbon save feature is useful when printing the student grid on the NAMES MENU. If No is selected, all 36 rows of the grid will be printed. If Yes is selected, only one extra row is printed. Page 23 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 2 - SET UP MENU 2-16-15 ONE DIRECTION PRINTING FOR LINE DRAWING When set to Yes, the printer is set to print lines always starting at the left side of the paper. This makes a neater print out, but also increases the time to print the report. This setting only affects the lines drawn for seating charts, attendance reports, and the student grid of boxes. 2-16-16 PRINTER SUPPORT FOR LINE DRAW CHARACTERS This setting is used to print the calendars of the Individual Attendance Reports. If the wrong setting is made a series of weird or foreign language characters are printed for the line borders of the calendar months. If No is selected, regular characters (dashes, the plus sign, and vertical bar) are substituted for the line drawing characters. For LaserJet printers, an attempt is made to use the PC-8 character set which supports line drawing. The default set of the LaserJet printer (Roman-8) does not support the line drawing characters. The best way to find the correct setting for a compatible printer is to print a sample attendance report or seating chart. 2-16-17 IGNORE CHECKING FOR PRINTER STATUS GRADING SKILLS POWER always checks the status of the parallel printer port before sending any data. This normally works quite well. You may experience problems if you map a parallel port to a serial one by the MODE command, or if you have a non-standard, or very fast computer. The program might actually think that your printer port (LPT1:) is busy when you know it is not. If you have printer problems like this, press Y for Yes to ignore the printer status. A laser printer always ignores the printer status. 2-16-18 FLIP SEATING CHART CELL LABELS When set to No, the seats are labeled like a spreadsheet as displayed on page 28. However, some teachers prefer the front of the room to be labeled as the first row (A1, B1, C1, etc.). When set to Yes, A1 swaps places with A6, A5 with A2, A3 with A4, B1 with B6, etc. 2-17 SAVING THE DISPLAYED INFORMATION When you are done making changes, choose this selection. The next time you start GRADING SKILLS POWER, these saved values will be used. Page 24 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 3 - STUDENT NAMES MENU STUDENT NAMES MENU 1. Enter/Add New Class Titles 2. Revise Class Titles 3. Enter/Add New Students to a Class 4. Revise Name/I.D./Text File/SuperData/Seat 5. Revise/Review Numbered Comments 6. Revise/Review Student Text Files 7. PRINT OUT Student Names - Screen Display - One Class 8. PRINT OUT Student Names - Screen Display - All Classes 9. PRINT OUT Student Names - Student Grid - One Class 10. PRINT OUT Student Names - Student Grid - All Classes 11. PRINT OUT Student Names and I.D.'s - One Class 12. PRINT OUT Student Names - Seating Chart - One Class 13. Delete Complete Name/Record - One Student 14. Delete All Student Names and Grades - One Class 3-1 ENTER / ADD NEW CLASS TITLES Records for up to 15 classes can be maintained on your diskette. Class titles must be entered before adding students to any class. Press ESCape when you are done entering the class titles. Elementary Teachers Elementary teachers who teach two sets of students should enter the names of the two classes. For example one class could be called SECOND GRADE - MRS. JONES and the second class SECOND GRADE - MRS. SMITH. Students would be entered in each class with selection 3 of this menu. Both classes would use the same group of skills. If some of the subject area skills are not taught to a class, you could excuse those students with the appropriate selection from the GROUPS MENU. You can also keep attendance information for each class of students. Secondary Teachers Enter the course title and period numbers. For example, a secondary teacher could enter EARTH SCIENCE PERIOD 1, and EARTH SCIENCE PERIOD 2. Students are entered in each class with selection 3 of this menu. All classes would use the same skill groups. If some skill groups have not been taught yet, you could excuse those students with the appropriate selection from the GROUPS MENU. You can also keep attendance information for each class of students. Page 25 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 3 - STUDENT NAMES MENU 3-2 REVISE CLASS TITLES The class titles entered with the above selection can be revised at any time with this selection. 3-3 ENTER / ADD NEW STUDENTS TO A CLASS Class Titles must be entered with selection 1 of this menu before you can place students in the respective classes. Up to 36 students can be placed in each class. The following chart will be displayed after the class is selected: Student Name Class ID ASCII SuperData1 SuperData2 Seat +-------------------+--------+-----------+---------+---------+---+ 1|ABRAHAMSON, TOM |TEXT 448| | |JONES | A6| 2|ADAMS, CRYSTAL |TEXT 451| | | | B1| 3|ASHENBRENNER, LORI |TEXT 358| |DEBATE | | A1| 4|BERRY, DEBBIE |TEXT 450| |DEBATE | | E3| 5|BRONK, SHERI |TEXT 361| | | | C2| 6|BROWN, MELISSA |TEXT 452| | | | B2| 7|HAGEN, ANNE |TEXT 360| |CHEER | | A2| 8|HAGEN, TAMMY |TEXT 366|GRTEXT1.S8 | | | F1| 9|HOUSTON, DON |TEXT 446| | | | F2| 10|JACOBS, KEVIN |TEXT 463| |FOOTBALL | | E4| 11|JOHNSON, PAUL |TEXT 363| | | | C6| 12|JORDAN, JEFF |TEXT 462| |FOOTBALL | | E5| 13|KELLER, DAN |TEXT 365| |GOLF | | C5| 14|KONKLE, JENNY |TEXT 358| | | | A5| 15|LAWSON, SARAH |TEXT 364| | | | B4| +-------------------+--------+-----------+---------+---------+---+ Next Action: __ S = Save Now Tab = Next Choice Sh-Tab = Prev Choice Alt-T = Text Editor for Personal Message on Indiv. Progress Reports Move between columns of this display by pressing the Tab or Shift-Tab keys. To move the cursor in each column, use the Up arrow, Down arrow, PgDn, or PgUp keys. The F1 key can be pressed to display a help screen for editing information. The other columns of this chart are explained in the next section of this manual. Students can be added to classes at any time. Enter the student's last name first so student names can be alphabetize if desired. Do not skip any rows when entering the student names. If you have 24 students in your class, then the first 24 rows must have names. The Enter, Up arrow, down arrow, tab, or shift-tab keys must be pressed after each student name is entered. When you have finished entering the student names, press ESCape. Then you will be asked if you want to alphabetize these names. Press Y for Yes or N for No. The student names are saved before returning to the NAMES MENU. Page 26 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 3 - STUDENT NAMES MENU 3-4 REVISE STUDENT NAME/I.D./TEXT FILE/SUPERDATA/SEAT The student information entered with the previous selection of this menu can be revised at any time with this selection. First select the class that the student is enrolled in. The chart from the previous page will be displayed. You can not delete students with this selection. Students are deleted with selection 13 of this menu. Move between columns by pressing either tab or shift-tab. To move the cursor in each column, use the up arrow, down arrow, PgUp or PgDn keys. Press the F1 key to display a help screen for editing information. The Class I.D. may be up to 10 letters long. Each student should have a different Class I.D. If you post student grades, this code can be substituted for the student name on some print outs in place of the student name. This code might be a school I.D., pseudonym, text book number, social security number, etc. If you do not want to use an I.D. code, leave this column empty. The ASCII Text column displays the DOS filename of personal message that can be written on specific individual progress reports. Messages may be up to 10 lines long. A filename is automatically entered if one is not displayed. The text editor can be accessed by pressing Alt-T when the cursor is on the row containing the student name. This same text can also be accessed from the selection on the NAMES MENU. These text files are saved on the student data diskette or in the student data subdirectory. Pressing Alt-D deletes the text file name so the file will not print on the reports. When student progress reports are printed, the student data diskette is checked to see if a matching ASCII file exists. If it exists, and the Miscellaneous Settings Sub-Menu has the proper setting, the text information is included on the student progress report. SuperData1 and SuperData2 are other ways to organize reports. For example, if the word football was entered for all football players, you would be able to print reports for just football players. Different SuperData like the homeroom, golf or debate, etc. could be used to generate a different group of reports. The program checks for SuperData matches in either column when selecting students. The SuperData2 column may be used in a future version of GRADING SKILLS POWER to link to an administrative package for class scheduling and report card generation. Page 27 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 3 - STUDENT NAMES MENU The Seating Chart is labeled similar to the cells of a spreadsheet program. The letters A through F indicate the column. The numbers 1 through 6 indicate the row number. Row 1 is closest to the back of the classroom. Student names are placed in the squares matching the letter/number combination from the following chart. Student names are divided by the space between the first and last name. Names are printed with either 10 or 12 pitch. The pitch and cell labels are determined by the Miscellaneous Sub-Menu of the SET UP MENU. Teacher: Class Name: +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ | A1 | | B1 | | C1 | | D1 | | E1 | | F1 | +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ | A2 | | B2 | | C2 | | D2 | | E2 | | F2 | +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ | A3 | | B3 | | C3 | | D3 | | E3 | | F3 | +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ | A4 | | B4 | | C4 | | D4 | | E4 | | F4 | +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ | A5 | | B5 | | C5 | | D5 | | E5 | | F5 | +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ | A6 | | B6 | | C6 | | D6 | | E6 | | F6 | +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ < Front of Room > After pressing ESCape to leave this display, first you will be asked if you want to save any changes that were made. Press Y for Yes or N for No. Then you will be asked if you want to alphabetize the names. Press Y for Yes or N for No. Changes will be automatically saved to your student data subdirectory or data diskette. 3-5 RECORD/REVISE NUMBERED COMMENTS After selecting the class, a data entry screen will be displayed. Up to three personal comments can be printed on progress reports. Yes must also have been selected on the Miscellaneous Settings Sub-menu of the SET UP menu. If you need a longer personal message to the student, use the Text entry selection from the NAMES MENU. The 81 comments available are divided into five groups. Comments 1-15: IN CLASS PARTICIPATION Comments 16-28: ATTITUDE/EFFORT Comments 29-40: HOMEWORK/ASSIGNMENTS Comments 41-62: SKILLS/ABILITY Comments 63-81: BEHAVIOR/DISCIPLINE Page 28 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 3 - STUDENT NAMES MENU Personal Comments to Add to Progress Reports: IN CLASS PARTICIPATION SKILLS/ABILITY 1. Asks pertinent questions 41. Demonstrates originality 2. Demonstrates leadership 42. Demonstrates good study habits 3. Effective group participation 43. Effective writing ability 4. Good lab student 44. Excellent student 5. Leader in group activities 45. Good reading comprehension 6. Participates well in class 46. Intellectually eager 7. Pleasure to have in class 47. Shows mastery of research skills 8. Shows good listening skills 48. Working up to ability 9. Shows good speaking skills 49. Works well independently 50. Should continue in science 10.*Difficulty expressing ideas 11.*Does not participate in class 51.*Erratic progress 12.*Does not work well in open lab 52.*Extra practice would be helpful 13.*Hinders group performance 53.*Needs additional help 14.*Minimal group participation 54.*Needs to improve speaking skills 15.*Shows poor listening skills 55.*Needs to improve study habits 56.*Not working up to ability ATTITUDE/EFFORT 57.*Poor reading comprehension 16. Displays commendable effort 58.*Poor reasoning skills 17. Displays consistent effort 59.*Poor writing skills 18. Eager to learn 60.*Shows little effort to improve 19. Shows improvement 61.*Tries but can not master skills 20. Shows interest in work 62.*Weak in basic skills 21. Shows pride in work BEHAVIOR/DISCIPLINE/OTHER 22.*Constantly complains 63. Accepts responsibility 23.*Lack of motivation 64. Cooperative, courteous student 24.*Lacks serious attitude 65. Has paid lab activity fee 25.*Negative attitude 66. Pleasant, friendly student 26.*No response to offer to help 27.*Personal effort unsatisfactory 67.*Absent too often 28.*Works only enough to pass 68.*Avoids responsibilities 69.*Displays unacceptable behavior HOMEWORK/ASSIGNMENTS 70.*Disregards class rules 29. Assignments done very neatly 71.*Has conflicting activities 30. Does well on daily work 72.*Has not paid lab activity fee 31. Does well on class projects 73.*Lacks respect for classmates 74.*Lacks respect for teacher 32.*Careless work 75.*Please call for conference 33.*Does not read assignments 76.*Self discipline needed 34.*Does homework without learning 77.*Socializes too much in class 35.*Fails to complete assignments 78.*Tardy too often 36.*Fails to complete make up work 79.*Tired and listless in class 37.*Homework incomplete 80.*Unwise use of class time 38.*Lab reports need improvement 81.*Unwise use of lab time 39.*Low test/quiz scores 40.*Poor penmanship Page 29 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 3 - STUDENT NAMES MENU The asterisk next to the number indicates a negative comment. The comments can be revised with any word processor that can read and save in ASCII format. If you are using DOS version 5.0 or later, comments can be edited by typing EDIT COMMENTS.GRD and pressing Enter at the DOS prompt C:\SKILLS> All 81 comments must be present in a revised comment listing. Pressing Alt-W pops-up a window displaying 16 of the 81 available comments. Pressing the up arrow, down arrow, PgUp, and PgDn keys display the remaining comments. Then press ESCape to remove the pop-up window before entering comment numbers. Pressing tab moves the cursor between the three comments that can be entered for each student. Pressing Alt-D deletes the student comment number. The comments made for each student can be also be printed with this selection. The numbers are not printed on student progress reports. 3-6 RECORD/REVISE TEXT FOR PROGRESS REPORTS After selecting the class and student, a personal message box will be displayed which allows up to 10 lines of text to be entered, saved, and printed on individual reports. The Enter key must be pressed before pressing ESCape to make sure the last line properly replaces the last line in the computer's memory. The following options will be displayed: <S>ave <C>ontinue <N>ot save Normally the letter S is pressed to save the text. After the text is saved you are asked if you want to view/edit other text files for this class. If you press Y for Yes, the class names are displayed for your selection. You can press ESCape twice to leave this selection if necessary. Pressing N for No, returns you to the NAMES MENU. If you had accidentally pressed the ESCape key, or notice a mistake in the display, you can press the letter C. The cursor will return to the first displayed line. If the letter N is pressed, the displayed text will not be saved to your subdirectory or student data diskette. The next time this menu selection is made, the previously recorded text will be read from the data subdirectory or student data diskette. These text files are not backed up using the Back Up Files selection of the UTILITY MENU. Yes must be selected on the Miscellaneous Settings Sub-menu of the SET UP menu to print these text files. If you do not want selected text files to be printed on the student progress Page 30 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 3 - STUDENT NAMES MENU reports, you can delete the file from the student data diskette or subdirectory using DOS. You could also go to the Revise Student names of the NAMES MENU, select the student and use the tab key to move to the ASCII Text column. Press Alt-D to Delete the displayed filename. Press the enter key. Then press the ESCape key. Then press S to Save the displayed information. 3-7,3-8 PRINT OUT STUDENT NAMES - SCREEN DISPLAY Selection 7 prints out for one class. Selection 8 prints out all classes. This selection prints out a student listing as it appears on the display. Three blank lines will be printed in front of each student name. This is an easy way to print a student listing for a field trip, etc. If you don't have immediate access to a computer to record student mastery, this print out can be used for temporarily recording student mastery levels. It is often much easier to enter grades from one sheet of paper than from 36 copies of unalphabetized papers at a computer. ___ ___ ___ ABRAHAMSON, TOM ___ ___ ___ MILLER, CARRIE ___ ___ ___ ADAMS, CRYSTAL ___ ___ ___ OLSON, LARRY ___ ___ ___ ASHENBRENNER, LORI ___ ___ ___ PETERS, LINDA ___ ___ ___ BERRY, DEBBIE ___ ___ ___ PETERSON, SARAH ___ ___ ___ BRONK, SHERI ___ ___ ___ REINKE, BOB ___ ___ ___ BROWN, MELISSA ___ ___ ___ ROBERTS, JAY ___ ___ ___ HAGEN, ANNE ___ ___ ___ SCHMIDT, JIM ___ ___ ___ HAGEN, TAMMY ___ ___ ___ SCHNEIDER, DAVE ___ ___ ___ HOUSTON, DON ___ ___ ___ SORENSON, MARY ___ ___ ___ JACOBS, KEVIN ___ ___ ___ STEVENS, VICKI ___ ___ ___ JOHNSON, PAUL ___ ___ ___ WAGNER, RYAN ___ ___ ___ JORDAN, JEFF ___ ___ ___ WITTENBERG, SUE ___ ___ ___ KELLER, DAN ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ KONKLE, JENNY ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ LAWSON, SARAH ___ ___ ___ A sample screen display print out is displayed above. 3-9,3-10 PRINT OUT ALL STUDENT NAMES - STUDENT GRID Selection 9 prints out one class. Selection 10 prints out all classes. This selection prints out student names with a set of boxes like a blank grade book page. The boxes will be printed in either 10 or 12 pitch. The pitch (cpi) is set on SET UP menu. This print out can be used for temporarily recording student mastery if you don't have immediate access to a computer to record mastery. It is often much easier to enter mastery levels from one sheet of paper than from 36 unalphabetized student papers at a computer. Page 31 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 3 - STUDENT NAMES MENU EARTH SCIENCE PERIOD 1 Teacher: MR. JEPSON -----------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--++--+ |ABRAHAMSON , TOM | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |ADAMS, CRYSTAL | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |ASHENBRENNER, LORI | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |BERRY, DEBBIE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |BRONK, SHERI | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |BROWN, MELISSA | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |HAGEN, ANNE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |HAGEN, TAMMY | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |HOUSTON, DON | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |JACOBS, KEVIN | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |JOHNSON, PAUL | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |JORDAN, JEFF | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |KELLER, DAN | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |KONKLE, JENNY | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | |LAWSON, SARAH | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | Only a partial student grid of boxes is displayed above. 3-11 PRINT OUT STUDENT NAMES - SEATING CHART A seating chart of six rows by six columns with student names is printed. The desk codes are explained in section 3-4. The Change Miscellaneous Settings determines the pitch and box characters. 3-12 ONE CLASS - PRINT OUT STUDENT NAMES AND I.D.'S A listing of student names and Identification codes is printed with this selection. 3-13 DELETE COMPLETE NAME/RECORD - ONE STUDENT Student information entered with selection 3 of this menu can be deleted at any time with this selection. If you need to keep some record of the student grades, you should either make an individual printout for the student first. First select the class the student is enrolled in. Then move the cursor with the up or down arrow key to the student to be dropped. The Number of the student will be displayed. Press enter to continue. A message stating all records from all terms of the current semester for this student will be deleted. Press any key except ESCape to continue. Enter the word DELETE to confirm. If you enter DELETE, all information, including name, identification code, and all mastery levels will be removed. To keep information about a student, EXcuse the student from all future skills. This is done with the GROUPS MENU. Page 32 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 3 - STUDENT NAMES MENU 3-14 DELETE ALL STUDENT NAMES AND RECORDS - ONE CLASS All information about a class can be deleted with this selection. First select the number of the class. The current class name will be displayed. Below the class name you must enter the word DELETE. By entering the word DELETE, all information about the class, including all students, I.D.'s, and all grades will be removed. Use this selection with great care. This selection is usually used by teachers who have a mixture of classes of different durations. For example, some classes may only last one quarter or one semester while others may last all year. If you need to have a record of these grades, make sure you make detailed print outs of the classes before deleting them. This selection can also be used to delete all class information (names, attendance, and mastery levels), but keep the skill text levels and skill weights. This selection can also be used to clear student data to start a new school year. The skills entered on the GROUP menu are not deleted with this selection. Page 33 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 4 - GROUP SKILLS MENU SKILL GROUPS MENU 1. Skill Group Titles - Enter/Add New Groups 2. Skill Group Titles - Revise Group Names 3. Enter/Add/Revise/Mark Skills in a Group 4. PRINT OUT All Skills - One Group 5. PRINT OUT All Skills - All Groups 6. Excuse Students from a Skill Group 7. Delete One Skill for All Students 8. Delete All Skills for One Skill Group 4-1 ENTER / ADD NEW GROUP TITLES Records for up to 15 skill groups for each class can be maintained on your diskette. Each skill group can have up to 60 skills. Skill Group titles must be entered before skills can be added to any group. Press ESCAPE when you are done entering the skill groups. All classes (groups of students) can use the same group of skills. Students and classes can be excused from selected skill groups with selection 6 of this menu. Elementary Teachers Elementary teachers would divide the skills into groups based on the discipline ( for example, math, science, reading, etc.). If a teacher taught two classes of students, both classes could use the same skill groups. If some skill groups are not taught to a class of students, you could excuse those students with selection 6 from the GROUPS MENU. Secondary Teachers Secondary teachers would divide the skills into groups based on their units. For example, an earth science teacher could have groups called rocks and minerals, weathering and erosion, rivers, ground water, glaciers, volcanoes and plate tectonics, weather, oceanography, and astronomy. All classes use the same skill groups. If some skill groups haven't been taught yet, excuse students with selection 6 of the GROUPS MENU. 4-2 REVISE SKILL GROUP TITLE Skill group titles entered with the above selection can be revised at any time with this selection. Page 34 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 4 - GROUP SKILLS MENU 4-3 ENTER / ADD / REVISE / MARK SKILLS IN A GROUP Skill Group Titles must be entered with selection 1 of this menu before placing skills into their respective group. First select the group to place the new skills in. A chart will be displayed with the skill group name near the top. A sample skill group display follows. Num. Wt Q U MATHEMATICS Outcomes +--++-++-++-------------------------------------------------------+ 1 | 1||1||B||Orders numbers using the symbols < or > | 2 | 1||1||B||Counts, reads, and sequences number 0-500 | 3 | 1||1||B||Rounds to tens places | 4 | 1||1||A||Knows additions facts 1-18 | 5 | 1||1||S||Knows subtraction facts 1-18 | 6 | 2||1||A||Adds two-digit numerals with regrouping | 7 | 2||1||A||Adds three-digit numerals with no regrouping | 8 | 2||1||S||Subtracts three-digit numerals with no regrouping | 9 | 2||1||A||Adds three-digit numerals with regrouping | 10 | 2||2||S||Subtracts two-digit numerals with regrouping | 11 | 2||2||S||Subtracts three-digit numerals with regrouping | 12 | 3||2||M||Knows multiplication facts 0-6 | 13 | 3||2||D||Knows division facts 0-6 | 14 | 3||2||M||Multiplies a two-digit by a one-digit with regrouping | 15 | 1||2||G||Identifies 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 of an object | +--++-++-++------------------------------------------------------+ Alt-M = Mark All Skills Tab = Move between columns F1 = Help The first column labeled Num. indicates the skill number. Up to 60 skills can be placed in each group. The second column labeled Wt refers to the skill weight. Skills which require advanced thinking are usually given more weight. In the example above, since multiplication requires more thought than addition, it is assigned a higher weight. Skill weights can vary from 1 to 9. The skill weight is multiplied by the mastery level weights to determine the points earned and points possible. The third column labeled Q indicates the quarter (term) that the skill is to be mastered. Any term number or the letter X for excused can be entered in this column. This column determines which skills are printed and used in calculating student grades. Alt-M, followed by the mark character, quickly marks the entire column with the mark. For example, if you pressed Alt-M, then 1, all skills would be marked for mastery in quarter (term) 1. The fourth column labeled U marks the skill unit. In the example above, addition skills are marked with the letter A, and subtraction skills are marked with the letter S. All UNIT menu selections use these marks to identify skills for reports created on the UNIT menu. Any character can be used to mark the skill unit. Page 35 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 4 - GROUP SKILLS MENU The last column displays the skill text. If a plus sign appears at the right edge of the column, it indicates text extends beyond the edge. Each skill can be up to 120 characters long. Only the first 60 characters are displayed. When reports are printed, the complete skill will be properly printed. Skills can be added to groups at any time. Do not skip any rows when entering the skills. If you have 50 skills in your group, then the first 50 rows must have skill text. The Enter key, up arrow, or down arrow must be pressed after each skill text is entered. To move the cursor, use the up, down, page up, page down, and tab keys. The F1 key can be pressed to display a help screen for editing information. Alt-S can be pressed to search for skill text. When Alt-S is pressed, enter the text to search and find. The program searches all text after the current skill number for the first occurrence of your text. If the text is found, the chart is adjusted, with the cursor located at the skill number. This searching ignores capitalization, so you do not have to remember if your text contains capital letters. When you have finished entering the skills, press the ESCAPE key. Then you will be asked if you want to save these changes. Enter Y for Yes or N for No. This skill group is saved before returning to the GROUPS MENU. 4-4,4-5 PRINT OUT ALL SKILLS Selection 4 prints skills from one skill group. Selection 5 prints out skills from all groups. Selection 6 of the SET UP menu determines which skills are included on this report. Skills completed for the year, semester, term, or current term, or all skills can be printed. To the left of the skill text additional columns of information can be included. Columns that can be included are Skill Weight and Skill Term. The additional columns are printed if Yes is selected on the Miscellaneous Settings sub-menu of the SET UP menu. If you want student totals for each skill, you must use selections from the SKILLS, UNIT, and REPORTS menus. Page 36 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 4 - GROUP SKILLS MENU 4-6 EXCUSE STUDENTS FROM AN ENTIRE SKILL GROUP Each class (group of students) can use the same group of skills. The data for each class is kept in separate files by the program. If a student is excused from the skill group, individual print outs will not include that skill group for the excused students. All students can be excused from a skill by marking the Qtr(term) with an X on the GROUPS menu. Individual students can be excused from a skill by using a hyphen (-) for the student mastery level on the SKILLS Menu. Elementary Teachers If some skill groups are not taught by you, you could excuse those students with selection 6 from the GROUPS MENU. Secondary Teachers For example, an earth science teacher could have groups called rocks and minerals, weathering and erosion, rivers, glaciers, volcanoes and plate tectonics, weather, oceanography, and astronomy. All classes can use the same skill groups. If a skill group, for example, astronomy, has not been taught yet, you could quickly excuse all students with this selection. Pressing Alt-M, followed by X quickly excuses all students from a skill group by entering the X in the Group column for all students. Alt-M, followed by the space quickly removes the marks in the column for all students. Excuse Students from an Entire Skill Group Skill Group Number 3 - MATHEMATICS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 +-------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ |ABRAHAMSON , TOM | | | _| | X| | | | | | | | | | | |ADAMS, CRYSTAL | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |ASHENBRENNER, LORI | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |BERRY, DEBBIE | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |BRONK, SHERI | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |BROWN, MELISSA | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |HAGEN, ANNE | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |HAGEN, TAMMY | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |HOUSTON, DON | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |JACOBS, KEVIN | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |JOHNSON, PAUL | | | | | X| X| X| | | | | | | | | |JORDAN, JEFF | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |KELLER, DAN | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | |KONKLE, JENNY | | | | | X| X| X| | | | | | | | | |LAWSON, SARAH | | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | X = Excuse Student from entire skill Group Space = Erase Mark Alt M, then X = Excuse all Students in the current column After you finish excusing students from different skill groups, press the ESCape key. The following options will be displayed: <S>ave <C>ontinue <N>ot save Page 37 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 4 - GROUP SKILLS MENU Normally the letter S is pressed to Save the changes. If you had accidentally pressed the ESCape key or notice a mistake you can press the letter C. The cursor will return to the first displayed name. If the letter N is pressed, the changes will not be saved. 4-7 DELETE ONE SKILL FOR ALL STUDENTS After selecting the group, the list of skills in the group are displayed. Use the cursor keys to scroll to the skill to delete. Press enter when the skill is selected. Then enter the word DELETE. This skill will be deleted from that skill group. All student records of mastery levels of this skill will also be deleted from all classes. 4-8 DELETE ALL SKILLS - ONE GROUP Use this selection with great care. All skill text in the group and all student data from all classes associated with the skill group will be deleted. This selection is only made if you are completely changing the skills students should master. This selection would be used to completely remove the sample student names, skills and data files that were included with this program. To delete only student data, but keep the skill text, weights, and unit marks use the Delete All Student Names/Records - One Class selection on the NAMES MENU. Then you will not have to reenter these skills to start a new school year. Use this selection with great care. If you need to keep some record of these skills, you should make detailed print outs before deleting these skills. First select the group number to delete. Press the Enter key to continue. A message stating all skills and related student data will be deleted. Press any key except ESCAPE to continue. Enter the word DELETE to confirm. If you enter the word DELETE, all skills and related student data for all classes will be removed. This selection can be used to completely delete the demonstration student names, skills, skill mastery, student grades, and attendance data that was included with this program. Page 38 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 5 - SKILLS MENU SKILLS MENU 1. Record/Revise Skill Mastery Levels by Group 2. Student Skill Report - PRINT OUT - One Student - One Group 3. Student Skill Report - PRINT OUT - One Student - All Groups 4. Student Skill Reports - PRINT OUT - All Students - One Group 5. Student Skill Reports - PRINT OUT - All Students - All Groups 6. Student Skill Reports - PRINT OUT - Matching SuperData 7. Student Skill Reports - PRINT OUT - Deficiency - All Groups 8. Student Skill Reports - PRINT OUT - Deficiency/Superdata 9. Detailed Skill Report - PRINT OUT - One Group 10. Detailed Skill Reports - PRINT OUT - All Groups 11. Administrative Skill Summary - One Group - PRINT OUT 12. Administrative Skill Summary - All Groups - PRINT OUT 5-1 RECORD/REVISE STUDENT SKILL MASTERY LEVELS After selecting the class and skill group, a floating spreadsheet will be displayed with the student names on the left and columns representing the skills. For example, if the mathematics skill group is selected, the following chart is displayed. The skill text is displayed at the top of the display. Skills were entered on the GROUP menu. To move the cursor, use the up, down, page up, page down, and control-arrow, and home keys. The F1 key can be pressed to display a help screen for editing information. 1- Orders numbers using the symbols < or > MATHEMATICS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 +-------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ |ABRAHAMSON , TOM | D| P| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| D| N| P| A| N| N| |ADAMS, CRYSTAL | D| P| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| D| P| A| N| N| |ASHENBRENNER, LORI | D| D| D| D| D| P| D| P| P| P| P| D| P| D| D| P| |BERRY, DEBBIE | D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| N| |BRONK, SHERI | D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| N| |BROWN, MELISSA | D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| P| A| N| N| |HAGEN, ANNE | D| D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| N| P| A| N| N| |HAGEN, TAMMY | D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| | | | | | | | | |HOUSTON, DON | D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| N| |JACOBS, KEVIN | D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| N| |JOHNSON, PAUL | D| D| D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| | | |JORDAN, JEFF | D| D| D| D| D| A| A| A| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| N| |KELLER, DAN | D| D| D| D| D| P| D| P| P| P| P| A| P| A| A| N| |KONKLE, JENNY | D| D| D| D| D| P| D| P| P| P| P| N| P| A| N| N| |LAWSON, SARAH | D| D| D| D| D| P| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| N| Mastery Levels: N = Novice A = Apprentice P = Proficient D = Distinguished U = Unacceptable - = Excused Page 39 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 5 - SKILLS MENU All classes can use the same skill groups. Press the first letter of the mastery level to mark the achieved skill for a single student. Press the space bar to erase the mark at the cursor position. Pressing Alt-M, followed by the mastery level letter quickly marks the skill for all students in the cursor column. Alt-M followed by the space quickly erases all marks in the column for all students. If the student has been excused from the skill group with selection 6 of the GROUPS MENU, an X is displayed next to the student name. Marks can not be entered for these excused students. The F2 function key can also be pressed to display a calendar. If you are in first semester, August through January will be displayed. If you are in the second semester, January through June will be displayed. Alt-S can be pressed to search for skill text. When Alt-S is pressed, enter the text to search and find. The program searches all text after the current skill number for the first occurrence of your text. If the text is found, the chart is adjusted, with the cursor located in the skill column. This searching ignores capitalization, so you do not have to remember if your text contains capital letters. When you have completed entering the student mastery levels, press the ESCape key. The following options will be displayed: <S>ave <C>ontinue <N>ot save Normally the letter S is pressed to Save the changes. If you had accidentally pressed the ESCape key or notice a mistake you can press the letter C. The cursor will return to the first displayed name. If the letter N is pressed, the changes will not be saved. 5-2 STUDENT SKILL REPORTS PRINT OUTS If more than one class was entered, you must select the class first. If you are printing for only one group, you must select the skill group. Then select the student. After making the appropriate selections, the report will be printed. Selection 6 of the SET UP menu determines which skills are included on this report. Skills completed for the year, semester, term, or current term, or all skills can be printed. Skill calculations are determined by selection 10 of the SET UP menu, skill weights, and skill mastery levels. Page 40 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 5 - SKILLS MENU To the left of the skill text additional columns of information can be included. Columns that can be included are Skill Term, Mastery Level, and Points Earned/Points Possible (Weight). The skill quarter (term) was set on the GROUP menu. The mastery level was entered with the first selection of the SKILL menu. Points earned is calculated by multiplying the skill weight by the mastery level weight. The points possible are calculated by multiplying the skill weight by the highest skill mastery level. These additional columns are printed if Yes is selected on the Miscellaneous settings sub-menu of the SET UP menu. EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SKILL MASTERY REPORT MID QUARTER REPORT ASHENBRENNER, LORI Teacher: MR. JEPSON School Year: 1994-95 SECOND GRADE Date: SEP 15, 1994 All skills completed this semester are listed. MASTERY LEVELS: N = Novice A = Apprentice P = Proficient D = Distinguished U = Unacceptable MATHEMATICS No. Q Mastery Level 1 1 D 5/ 5 Orders numbers using the symbols < or > 2 1 D 5/ 5 Counts, reads, and sequences number 0-500 3 1 D 5/ 5 Rounds to tens places 4 1 D 5/ 5 Knows additions facts 1-18 5 1 D 5/ 5 Knows subtraction facts 1-18 6 1 P 4/ 5 Adds two-digit numerals with regrouping 7 1 D 5/ 5 Adds three-digit numerals with no regrouping 8 1 P 4/ 5 Subtracts three-digit numerals with regrouping 9 1 P 4/ 5 Adds three-digit numerals with regrouping 10 2 P 8/10 Subtracts two-digit numerals with regrouping 11 2 P 8/10 Subtracts three-digit numerals with regrouping 12 2 D 10/10 Knows multiplication facts 0-6 13 2 P 8/10 Knows division facts 0-6 14 2 A 6/10 Multiplies a two-digit by a one-digit with regrouping ----------- partial listing for manual ---------------- The full heading, as displayed above, is only printed on the first page of a multiple page report for the student. The report title was entered with selection 7 of the SET UP menu. Page 41 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 5 - SKILLS MENU 5-3 SKILL REPORTS - ONE STUDENT All reports for one student in all groups will be printed before advancing to the next student. Make sure that the printer has enough paper to print all these reports. 5-4,5-5 STUDENT SKILL REPORTS - ONE CLASS Selection 4 prints student skill reports for one group. Selection 5 prints student skill reports for all groups. The student name will be displayed on the screen as each report is processed. When printing all groups, the reports for each student are printed before advancing to the next student. To start printing reports at a student other than the first student, select Advance Student Number on the EXTRA MENU before using this selection. 5-6 PRINT OUT STUDENT SKILL REPORTS - MATCHING SUPERDATA This selection will search all groups. If the student's SuperData is the same as the requested SuperData, a Student Skill Report will be printed. This set of reports is ideal for providing coaches with complete information about student academic performance. The SuperData is listed in either SuperData Data column of the Revise Student Name chart viewed with the NAMES MENU. 5-7 PRINT OUT STUDENT SKILL REPORTS - DEFICIENCY This selection searches all groups. If the student's current percentage is equal to or below the deficiency percentage entered with this selection, then a Student Skill Report will be printed. These reports are ideal for providing guidance counselors with detailed information about students performing below average. Some schools have substituted this report for school deficiency reports that are sent home to parents. 5-8 PRINT OUT STUDENT SKILL REPORTS - DEFICIENCY/SUPERDATA This selection searches all groups. If the student's current percentage is equal to or below the deficiency percentage entered with this selection and the student's Superdata matches the requested Superdata, then a Student Skill Report will be printed. These reports are ideal for providing guidance counselors with detailed information about students performing below average. Page 42 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 5 - SKILLS MENU 5-9,5-10 PRINT OUT COMPLETE DETAILED RECORDS - ONE GROUP Selection 9 prints out the Detailed Achievement Report for one skill group for one class. Selection 10 prints out the Detailed Achievement Report for all skill groups for one class. After selecting the group, the detailed record is printed. The pitch setting from the SET UP menu determines how many skills are included on each sheet. This detailed record can be glued into your school grade book at the end of each quarter (term). Selection 6 of the SET UP menu determines which skills are included on this report. Skills completed for the year, semester, term, or current term, or all skills can be printed. Skill calculations are determined by selection 10 of the SET UP menu, skill weights, and skill mastery levels. To the left of the skill text additional columns of information can be included. Columns that can be included are Average Percentages and Letter Grade for the class, Skill Term, Skill Weights, and the number of students achieving each mastery level. The Percentage and letter grades are determined by the information entered with selections 10 and 12 of the SET UP menu. The skill quarter (term) was set on the GROUP menu. The mastery levels were entered with the first selection of the SKILL menu. These additional columns are printed if Yes is selected on the Miscellaneous settings sub-menu of the SET UP menu. The detailed record includes all student names, all mastery levels, quarter (term) percentage, letter grade, and points earned, points possible for the current term. The semester grade and percentage is also included if the current term is not the first term of the semester. The semester points earned from semester points possible is also printed if semester grades are calculated by cumulative points. This selection should be used periodically to create printed copies of your grades. Detailed records can be glued into your grade book at the end of each quarter. Periodic printing can help prevent panic if your data diskette becomes accidentally damaged. This is also why back-ups of the student data should be made periodically. Skills too long to fit on one line will automatically formatted to print properly. This report provides the most complete record of all reports in GRADING SKILLS POWER. The line below this menu selection displays the date (from the system date) that detailed records of all classes were printed. A sample detailed record print out is on the next page. Page 43 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 5 - SKILLS MENU SKILL ACHIEVEMENT - DETAILED REPORT - QUARTER 1 EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Teacher: TERRY JEPSON Page 1 MATHEMATICS - SECOND GRADE 1994-95 No. N A P D 1 15 Orders numbers using the symbols < or > 2 5 10 Counts, reads, and sequences number 0-500 3 15 Rounds to tens places 4 2 13 Knows additions facts 1-18 5 2 13 Knows subtraction facts 1-18 6 1 9 5 Adds two-digit numerals with regrouping 7 1 9 5 Adds three-digit numerals with no regrouping 8 1 14 Subtracts three-digit numerals with regrouping 9 15 Adds three-digit numerals with regrouping 10 15 Subtracts two-digit numerals with regrouping 11 14 1 Subtracts three-digit numerals with regrouping 12 4 2 7 2 Knows multiplication facts 0-6 13 15 Knows division facts 0-6 14 15 Multiplies a two-digit by a one-digit with regrouping 15 13 1 1 Identifies 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 of an object SKILL NUMBER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 --------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ ABRAHAMSON , TOM | D| P| D| P| D| D| P| P| P| P| D| N| P| A| N| ADAMS, CRYSTAL | D| P| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| D| P| A| N| ASHENBRENNER, LORI | D| D| D| D| D| P| D| P| P| P| P| D| P| A| D| BERRY, DEBBIE | D| P| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| BRONK, SHERI | D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| BROWN, MELISSA | D| P| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| P| A| N| HAGEN, ANNE | D| D| D| D| P| D| P| P| P| P| P| N| P| A| N| HAGEN, TAMMY | D| P| D| P| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| N| P| A| N| HOUSTON, DON | D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| JACOBS, KEVIN | D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| JOHNSON, PAUL | D| D| D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| JORDAN, JEFF | D| D| D| D| P| A| A| A| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| KELLER, DAN | D| D| D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| A| P| A| A| KONKLE, JENNY | D| D| D| D| D| P| D| P| P| P| P| N| P| A| N| LAWSON, SARAH | D| D| D| D| D| D| D| P| P| P| P| P| P| A| N| ----------------partial print out for manual ------------------ 5-11, 5-12 ADMINISTRATIVE SKILL ACHIEVEMENT SUMMARY Skills are printed with numbers indicating how many students in the class achieved each skill level. This report looks identical to the top of the detailed record. The difference between the administrative and detailed reports is that no student names are listed on the administrative report. Page 44 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 6 - UNIT MENU UNIT MENU 1. Unit Report Title 2. Individual Unit Report - One Student - One Group 3. Individual Unit Report - One Student - All Groups 4. Individual Unit Reports - All Students - One Group 5. Individual Unit Reports - All Students - All Groups 6. Individual Unit Reports - Matching SuperData 7. Individual Unit Reports - Deficiency - All Groups 8. Individual Unit Reports - Deficiency/Superdata 9. Detailed Skill Unit Report - One Group 10. Administrative Skill Unit Summary - One Group 11. Selected Skill Unit Summary 12. Missing Skills Summary 6-1 UNIT REPORT TITLE This title is only printed on UNIT reports from the UNIT menu. This title does not print on reports made from other menus. The title for reports from other menus is entered on the SET UP Menu. A Unit refers to a sub set of a skill group. For example, the mathematics skill group could have addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, etc. The addition skills could be marked with the letter A on the GROUP Menu. With this selection, the title Addition Skills could be entered. When reports are selected from this menu, the title Addition Skills would be printed. When a selection is made from this menu, you will be asked which mark will be used to match the skills for this report. If the letter A was entered to mark addition skills, you would press the letter A. 6-2,6-3,6-4,6-5 INDIVIDUAL SKILL UNIT REPORT PRINT OUTS You will be asked which Unit mark to use. Skills are marked on the GROUP menu selection Enter/Add/Revise/Mark selection. If more than one class was entered, you must select the class first. If you are printing for only one group, you must select the skill group. Then select the student. After making the appropriate selections, the report will be printed. To start printing reports at a student other than the first student, select Advance Student Number from the EXTRA menu before using these selections. To start printing reports with a group other than the first group, select Advance Group Number on the EXTRA MENU before using this selection. As multiple student reports are processed, the student name will be displayed on the screen. Page 45 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 6 - UNIT MENU If the mark you enter for the report matches the mark from the GROUP menu, the skills are included on this report. Class excused skills (the quarter(term) is marked with an X instead of a number) will not be printed. Unit skills may come from different terms. Skill calculations are determined by selection 10 of the SET UP menu, skill weights, and skill mastery levels. To the left of the skill text additional columns of information can be included. Columns that can be included are Skill Term, Mastery Level, and Points Earned/Points Possible (Weight). The skill quarter (term) was set on the GROUP menu. The mastery level was entered with the first selection of the SKILL menu. Points earned is calculated by multiplying the skill weight by the mastery level weight. The points possible are calculated by multiplying the skill weight by the highest skill mastery level. These additional columns are printed if Yes is selected on the Miscellaneous settings sub-menu of the SET UP menu. EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SKILL UNIT REPORT MID QUARTER REPORT ASHENBRENNER, LORI Teacher: MR. JEPSON School Year: 1994-95 SECOND GRADE Date: SEP 15, 1994 All skills completed this semester are listed. MASTERY LEVELS: N = Novice A = Apprentice P = Proficient D = Distinguished U = Unacceptable MATHEMATICS ADDITION SKILLS No. Q Mastery Level 1 1 D 5/ 5 Knows additions facts 1-18 2 1 P 4/ 5 Adds two-digit numerals with regrouping 3 1 D 5/ 5 Adds three-digit numerals with no regrouping 4 1 P 4/ 5 Adds three-digit numerals with regrouping ----------- partial listing for manual ---------------- The full heading, as displayed above, is only printed on the first page of a multiple page report for the student. The unit title (Addition Skills) was entered with selection 1 of the UNIT menu. Page 46 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 6 - UNIT MENU 6-6 INDIVIDUAL UNIT SKILL REPORTS - MATCHING SUPERDATA This selection will search all groups for the matching Unit mark. If the student's SuperData is the same as the requested SuperData, an Individual Student Report will be printed. This set of reports is ideal for providing homeroom teachers and coaches with complete information about student academic performance. The SuperData is listed in either SuperData column of the Revise Student Name chart viewed with the NAMES MENU. 6-7 PRINT OUT UNIT SKILL STUDENT REPORTS - DEFICIENCY This selection will search all groups for the matching Unit mark. If the student's current percentage is equal to or below the deficiency percentage entered with this selection, then an Individual Student Report will be printed. These reports are ideal for providing guidance counselors with detailed information about students performing below average. 6-8 PRINT OUT UNIT SKILL REPORTS - DEFICIENCY/SUPERDATA This selection will search all groups for the matching Unit mark. If the student's current percentage is equal to or below the deficiency percentage entered with this selection and the student's Superdata matches the requested Superdata, then an Individual Student Report will be printed. These reports are ideal for providing guidance counselors with detailed information about students performing below average. 6-9 PRINT OUT DETAILED UNIT RECORDS - ONE GROUP Selection 9 prints out the Detailed Unit Report for one skill group for one class. Only skills that match the unit mark will be included on the print outs from this menu. After selecting the unit and group, the detailed unit record is printed. The pitch setting from the SET UP menu determines how many skills are included on each sheet. Skill calculations are determined by selection 10 of the SET UP menu, skill weights, and skill mastery levels. To the left of the skill text additional columns of information can be included. Columns that can be included are Average Percentages and Unit Letter Grade for the class, Skill Term, Skill Weights, and the number of students achieving each mastery level. The Percentage and letter grades are determined by the information entered with selections 10 and 12 of the SET UP menu. The skill unit and quarter (term) were set on the GROUP menu. Page 47 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 6 - UNIT MENU The mastery levels were entered with the first selection of the SKILL menu. These additional columns are printed if Yes is selected on the Miscellaneous settings sub-menu of the SET UP menu. The detailed unit record includes all student names, all mastery levels, quarter (term) percentage, letter grade, and points earned, points possible for the current term. The semester grade and percentage is also included if the current term is not the first term of the semester. 6-10 ADMINISTRATIVE SKILL UNIT SUMMARY This selection prints the skills with numbers indicating how many students in the class have achieved each skill level. This report looks identical to the top of the detailed record. The difference between the detailed and administrative reports is that no student names are listed on this report. 6-11 SKILL UNIT SUMMARY This selection lists the student, and their earned percentage and letter grade for the selected unit. WEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL Polynomial Equations Teacher: MR. MARSHALL ALGEBRA HOUR 3 ------------------------------------------------------- Student Name Unit Grade ANDERSON, JULIE A- 93% DAVIS, LORI D+ 69% HAMILTON, SHERI B- 81% HARRIS, TROY A 90% KNUTH, CURT D+ 69% KOLINSKI, KRIS A- 91% MCKENZIE, ANNA B 83% PERKINS, JILL C+ 78% REIMER, SCOTT B+ 89% ROSS, DEBBIE A- 91% RUSHMAN, SALLY A- 90% SCHULTZ, PAM A 96% SIMMONS, RUTH SMITH, JENNY A 96% ---------- partial printout for manual ---------- Page 48 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 6 - UNIT MENU 6-12 MISSING SKILLS SUMMARY The student names and the number of missing skills in each of the skill groups will be printed. This is an example of this print out. A hyphen is printed if all skills have been completed. EX is printed if the student has been excused from the skill group (for example a reading class could be divided with different skills for each set of students). KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT CHART - MISSING SKILLS SUMMARY Teacher: MRS. JOHNSON School Year: 1994-95 SECOND GRADE DATE: Oct 14, 1994 MATH SCIENCE READING READING WRITING MUSIC QUARTER 3 HEALTH ROBINS SPARROWS --------------------------------------------------------------------- ALTMAN, ALAN 5 1 - EX 3 2 BATES, DAVID 5 2 EX 2 2 2 BENDER, BRIAN 4 3 EX 2 2 4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- BLACK, SHELLY 3 3 2 EX 2 3 BRANDT, GARY 4 3 3 EX 2 3 BUTLER, SHARON 5 2 EX 2 2 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- FULLER, CHRISTA 5 2 EX 3 2 3 GILBERT, RYAN 4 1 3 EX 3 3 HACK, MICHELLE 4 2 3 EX 2 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- HANSON, CURT - 4 3 EX 2 3 JENSEN, ANDREA 1 3 3 EX 2 3 KRUEGER, KAREN 1 3 EX 3 2 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- LUNDT, PAUL 1 3 2 EX 2 1 NELSON, JAY 1 2 3 EX 2 3 OLDS, CARRIE 2 3 EX 2 2 - --------------------------------------------------------------------- PETERSON, TAMMY - - 1 EX 1 - PIERCE, SHELLY 2 2 EX 3 1 2 SONNENBERG, AMY 3 4 2 EX 2 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- TURNER, CHERYL 3 3 EX 3 2 3 WEBSTER, MARY 3 3 EX 3 2 3 WHITE, TAMMY 3 3 EX 4 2 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- WINTERS, JOHN 4 4 3 EX 5 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 49 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 7 - REPORTS MENU REPORTS MENU 1. Progress Report - View/PRINT OUT - One Student 2. Progress Reports - PRINT OUT - One Class 3. Progress Reports - PRINT OUT - All Classes 4. Progress Reports - PRINT OUT - Matching SuperData 5. Chart Summary - View/PRINT OUT - One Class 6. Listings - Matching Superdata - View/PRINT OUT 7. Listings - Deficiency - View/PRINT OUT 8. Listings - Deficiency/Superdata - View/PRINT OUT 9. Listings - Combined Average - View/PRINT OUT 10. Complete Semester Summary - One Group 11. Complete Semester Summary - All Groups 12. Semester/Year Summary - View/PRINT OUT 7-1,7-2,7-3,7-4 PRINT OUT STUDENT PROGRESS REPORTS This selection print outs a one sheet progress report for each student. A grade for each skill group is included on this report. Student grades are calculated for each skill group. The student's name, skill group, quarter and semester grades are displayed and printed. When viewing the student listing, move the cursor to the student. To print a progress report for the student, move the cursor to the student, then press Enter twice. Then you will be asked if you want to view other student grades. Enter Y for Yes, N for No, or K for Keep going to the next student. The first 7 selections on the Miscellaneous Setting sub-menu of the SET UP menu apply specifically to Progress Reports printed from the first 4 selections of the REPORT menu. This settings determine if a large top margin should be left for the school letterhead or the school name entered on the SET UP menu should be printed. Those settings also determine if Attendance, numbered comments, teacher narrative, common message, parent signature, and request for parent comments are printed. Other settings of the Miscellaneous Setting sub-menu apply to all reports, including the progress reports. If the student matches the requested, those reports can be viewed and printed with selection 4 of this menu. An example of a student progress report is on the next page. Page 50 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 7 - REPORTS MENU KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRESS REPORT ALTMAN, ALAN TEACHER: MRS. JOHNSON DATE: 12-10-1994 QUARTER 2 CLASS LAST TERM CURRENT GRADE SEMESTER GRADE MATH C 74% 352/400 B+ 88% B- 81% SCIENCE HEALTH B 86% 294/320 A- 92% B+ 89% READING ROBINS A- 91% 190/200 A 95% A- 93% WRITING B+ 87% 197/250 C+ 79% B- 83% MUSIC B+ 87% 110/130 B 85% B 86% COMBINED QTR. AVERAGE 1143/1300 B+ 88% +-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+ Attendance | Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4 | Days Absent | 12.0 | 5.5 | | | Times Tardy | 2 | 3 | | | +-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+ ******************************************* * Personal Comments about this Student * * *Absent too often * * *Fails to complete make-up work * ******************************************* A personal message to individual students can also be printed on this report. This personal message is only printed on selected reports. This message is stored in the data subdirectory or on student data diskette. The file name is listed in the ASCII text file column of the Revise Student Name chart viewed with the NAMES MENU. Our all day field trip to the environmental camp is scheduled for May 3. Parent volunteers are still needed. This general message may be up to 10 lines long and printed on all reports. __________ _________________________________ Date Parent Signature Comments may be written below and returned to school by the student. Page 51 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 7 - REPORTS MENU 7-5 VIEW/PRINT OUT CHART SUMMARY The student name and letter grades for the current term or semester in all groups will be displayed and printed. A grade distribution chart for all students will also be printed. This is an example of the student chart summary. You will also be asked if you want the percentage to be printed. KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Teacher: MRS. JOHNSON School Year: 1994-95 DATE: Oct 14, 1994 MATH SCIENCE READING READING WRITING MUSIC QUARTER 3 HEALTH ROBINS SPARROWS --------------------------------------------------------------------- ALTMAN, ALAN B+ A- A C+ B BATES, DAVID B- B B B B- BENDER, BRIAN C+ C B- B D+ BLACK, SHELLY B C+ B- B- C+ BRANDT, GARY B C- C+ B C BUTLER, SHARON C- B+ B+ B+ C- FULLER, CHRISTA B- A- C- B- C GILBERT, RYAN B- C- C- C C+ HACK, MICHELLE B- B C B B- HANSON, CURT A- A- B+ B- B JENSEN, ANDREA B- C+ B- B C- KRUEGER, KAREN C C- C B+ B LUNDT, PAUL C B- B- B- A- NELSON, JAY C+ D B B C partial printout for manual ---------------------------------------------------------------------- G R A D E D I S T R I B U T I O N A B C D F I Other Total MATH 2 12 8 0 0 0 0 22 SCIENCE HEALTH 4 7 10 1 0 0 0 22 READING ROBINS 2 6 4 0 0 0 0 12 READING SPARROWS 0 3 7 0 0 0 0 10 WRITING 2 17 3 0 0 0 0 22 MUSIC 3 6 11 2 0 0 0 22 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ----- TOTALS 13 51 43 3 0 0 0 110 Page 52 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 7 - REPORTS MENU 7-6,7-7 LISTINGS - SUPERDATA AND DEFICIENCY MATCHES Selection 6 includes all students with SuperData matching the requested SuperData. Selection 7 will include all students with have a percentage equal to or less than the deficiency percentage. You will be asked if you want to alphabetize the list (by either name or Class I.D.), on the complete print out. These selections are most useful to make a one page listing of students matching either the superdata, or earning a low percentage. The SuperData was entered in the Revise Student Names/I.D. selection of the NAMES MENU. 7-8 LISTINGS - DEFICIENCY SUPERDATA MATCHES - ALL GROUPS This selection makes a listing of students matching the SuperData and earning a low percentage. This printout makes it very easy to provide a student listing for school districts and states using the NO-PASS- NO-PLAY rule. SuperData was entered in either SuperData column of the Revise Student Names/I.D. selection of the NAMES MENU. For example, SPORT could be entered in the SuperData column of the Revise Student Name/I.D. selection of the NAMES MENU. When this selection is made, enter the deficiency percentage and SPORT for the matching SuperData. All students having a percentage equal to or less than the deficiency percentage and having SPORT for the SuperData would be printed on this report. 7-9 LISTINGS - COMBINED AVERAGE LISTING The combined average of students is calculated by taking the total points earned and dividing by the total points possible for all classes. The total points earned is calculated by multiplying the skill weights by the mastery levels. The total points possible is calculated by multiplying the skill weights by the maximum skill mastery level weight of all skill groups. If one skill group has twice as many points possible as a second skill group, the first skill group will count twice as much towards the combined average. In other words, each skill group does not contribute equally to the combined average. 7-10 VIEW/PRINT OUT COMPLETE SEMESTER SUMMARY After selecting the group, the Quarter/Semester Summary will be displayed. If I.D. was chosen with the SET UP MENU, the student Class I.D. code will be printed instead of the student name. Page 53 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 7 - REPORTS MENU WEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL TERM - SEMESTER GRADE SUMMARY 06-03-1994 Teacher: MR. MARSHALL ALGEBRA HOUR 3 Student Name TERM 4 TERM 5 TERM 6 Sem Grade ANDERSON, JULIE A- 92% B 85% A 100 A- 91% DAVIS, LORI EX EX C 76% B- 80% C+ 78% HAMILTON, SHERI B 85% D+ 69% B+ 88% B- 81% HARRIS, TROY B 85% A+ 103 A 100 A 96% KNUTH, CURT EX EX D+ 67% A 95% B- 81% KOLINSKI, KRIS A+ 104 A 100 B- 80% A- 91% MCKENZIE, ANNA A+ 103 C+ 78% C+ 77% B 83% PERKINS, JILL C+ 78% A+ 101 B- 82% B+ 87% REIMER, SCOTT B+ 89% B- 83% A 100 B+ 87% ROSS, DEBBIE A- 91% D 63% A- 91% B- 80% RUSHMAN, SALLY A- 90% B 85% B- 80% C+ 79% SCHULTZ, PAM A 96% A- 90% A 100 A 93% SIMMONS, RUTH B- 83% B+ 87% A 97% B 85% SMITH, JENNY A 96% B+ 89% A 100 A 95% SWEET, SUE A- 92% A- 92% C 73% B- 83% THOMPSON, DAN D- 63% F 54% D 64% D- 61% WAITE, BRENT F 52% D+ 67% D 64% F 57% ZAGER, KEVIN D+ 67% A+ 103 A 93% B 86% ZIMMERMAN, CRAIG A+ 101 D 65% A 97% B 86% CLASS AVERAGE B- 83% B- 82% B+ 87% B- 82% WT. 1/3 WT. 1/3 WT. 1/3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 7-11 PRINT OUT COMPLETE SEMESTER SUMMARY - ALL GROUPS The student name, term grades and semester grade will be printed for all groups. If I.D. was chosen with the SET UP MENU, the I.D. code will be printed instead of the student name. Semester grades are not included on the Print Outs if No was chosen on the Change Miscellaneous Settings of the SET UP MENU. If early terms of the semester are displayed or printed as EX, then the grade subtotals were not saved properly with UTILITY MENU selections 2 through 6. Those selections save subtotals for quicker calculations. Page 54 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 7 - REPORTS MENU 7-12 VIEW/SORT/PRINT OUT SCHOOL YEAR SUMMARY - ONE CLASS After selecting the group, the student name, both semester grades, and the school year grade will be displayed. Each semester is weighted 50%. Pressing the letter S sorts these grades from highest to lowest. Pressing the letter P sends this information to the printer. You can print these grades in either sorted or unsorted order. If I.D. was chosen with the SET UP MENU, the I.D. code will be printed instead of the student name. The selection is only available the last term of the second semester. This is an example of a School Year Summary PRINT OUT. WEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL Jun 03, 1994 Teacher: MR. MARSHALL ALGEBRA HOUR 3 ------------------------------------------------------- Student Name SEM. 1 SEM. 2 1993-94 YEAR ANDERSON, JULIE A- 93% A- 91% A- 92% DAVIS, LORI F 57% D+ 69% D- 63% HAMILTON, SHERI B 85% B- 81% B- 83% HARRIS, TROY B 85% A 96% A 90% KNUTH, CURT F 50% D+ 69% F 59% KOLINSKI, KRIS A+ 104 A- 91% A 97% MCKENZIE, ANNA A+ 103 B 83% A- 93% PERKINS, JILL C+ 78% B+ 87% B- 82% REIMER, SCOTT B+ 89% B+ 87% B+ 88% ROSS, DEBBIE A- 91% B- 80% B 85% RUSHMAN, SALLY A- 90% C+ 79% B 84% SCHULTZ, PAM A 96% A 93% A 94% SIMMONS, RUTH B 85% B 85% SMITH, JENNY A 96% A 95% A 95% SWEET, SUE A- 92% B- 83% B+ 87% THOMPSON, DAN D- 63% D- 61% D- 62% WAITE, BRENT F 52% F 57% F 54% ZAGER, KEVIN D+ 67% B 86% C 76% ZIMMERMAN, CRAIG A+ 101 B 86% A- 93% CLASS AVERAGE B- 83% B- 82% B- 82% WT. 50% WT. 50% ------------------------------------------------------- Page 55 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 8 - ATTENDANCE MENU ATTENDANCE MENU 1. Record/Revise Attendance/Tardy Information 2. Individual Attendance Reports - View/PRINT OUT - One Student 3. Individual Attendance Reports - PRINT OUT - One Class 4. Individual Attendance Reports - PRINT OUT - All Classes 5. Individual Attendance Reports - PRINT OUT - Matching SuperData 6. Detailed Attendance Report - PRINT OUT - One Class 7. Detailed Attendance Report - PRINT OUT - All Classes 8. Attendance Administrative Summary - View/PRINT OUT 9. Attendance Administrative Summary - PRINT OUT - All Classes 8-1 ABSENCES - TARDIES - RECORD/REVISE You can not use this selection until the Set Term Start/End Dates and the Select Non-Student Days selections on the EXTRA MENU are completed. Up to 80 student days are available for each quarter (term). After selecting the class, a floating spreadsheet will be displayed with the student names on the left and the columns representing the days. The F2 function key can also be pressed to display a calendar. If you are in first semester, August through January will be displayed. If you are in the second semester, January through June will be displayed. F2 = Calendar Display Day 9 - Tue 09-06-1994 EARTH SCIENCE PERIOD 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 __ |ABRAHAMSON, TOM >| N _ | |ADAMS, CRYSTAL | N | |ASHENBRENNER, LORI | A N | |BERRY, DEBBIE | N | |BRONK, SHERI | N | |BROWN, MELISSA | A N | |HAGEN, ANNE | N | |HAGEN, TAMMY | N | |HOUSTON, DON | N | |JACOBS, KEVIN | T T N | |JOHNSON, PAUL | N | - partial print out for manual --- The following letters can be entered on this display: H = Half Day Absence A = Absent T = Tardy N = Non-Student Day F = Field Trip E = Excused X = EXAM Day Absence U = Unexcused S = Suspended L = Late Entry Date W = Withdrawal Date Page 56 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 8 - ATTENDANCE MENU In the upper left corner, the day of the current quarter (term) and date are displayed. The student names will remain displayed on the screen as you move around. The > symbol is displayed on the student row to help indicate the correct student. As you move the cursor to the left or right the Day Number-Date displayed in the upper left corner changes. As the cursor is moved up or down the > symbol displayed next to the student name also moves. These cursor keys (Home, Ctrl-left arrow, Ctrl-right arrow, PgUp, and PgDn) are also supported. When the cursor is in the correct column (day/date) and in the correct row (student), a letter can be pressed to mark Absences or Tardies. An absence or tardy can not be entered on a non student day. If you want to erase a mark, press the space bar. The letters AHFEXS and U are all included when calculating total absences. When you have completed recording absences and tardies, press the Esc key. The following options will be displayed: <S>ave these marks <C>ontinue entering marks <N>ot save these marks Normally the letter S is pressed to save these marks. If you had accidentally pressed the Esc key, you can press the letter C. The cursor will return to the first displayed name. If the letter N is pressed, the displayed attendance marks will not be saved to diskette. 8-2 INDIVIDUAL ATTEND. REPORTS - View/PRINT OUT - ONE STUDENT After selecting the class, you will be asked if you want to use the calendar or the listing format. The calendar format uses the six months of the current semester. If the student was absent or tardy, the letter recorded with selection 1 of the ATTENDANCE MENU replaces the day numeral on the calendar. This display and print out helps spot absence and tardy patterns. The listing format prints the day and date of the absences. Total absences and tardies for each quarter (term) and semester are displayed and printed. Move the cursor to select the student, then press the enter key twice. The individual report will be displayed. Use the page down or down arrow key to move to the bottom of the individual attendance report. Press ESCAPE to leave this display. Press the letter P to print this information. The lines that print the borders of the calendars of the Individual Attendance Reports are set by the Miscellaneous Settings sub-menu of the SET UP MENU. If the wrong setting is made, a series of weird or Page 57 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 8 - ATTENDANCE MENU STUDENT ATTENDANCE REPORT - SEMESTER 2 Teacher: MR. JEPSON School Year: 1994-95 Class: EARTH SCIENCE PERIOD 3 06-02-1995 Student: PETERSON, SARAH +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | January 1995 | February 1995 | March 1995 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | 1 2 A 4 | 1 2 3 4 | | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | 5 T 7 8 9 T 11 | 5 H 7 8 9 T 11 | | 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | 12 13 14 H T A 18 | 12 N N N N N 18 | | 22 23 24 25 26 T 28 | 19 T 21 22 23 T 25 | 19 20 21 22 23 T 25 | | 29 30 31 | 26 27 28 | 26 27 H 29 30 31 | | | | | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | April 1995 | May 1995 | June 1995 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | 1 | 1 A 3 4 5 6 | 1 2 3 | | 2 3 4 5 6 T 8 | 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | | 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | | 16 17 18 19 20 T 22 | 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | | 23 24 25 26 H A 29 | 28 N 30 31 | 25 26 27 28 29 30 | | 30 | | | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ QUARTER (TERM) 3 2.5 DAYS ABSENT 6 DAYS TARDY QUARTER (TERM) 4 2.5 DAYS ABSENT 4 DAYS TARDY SEMESTER RECORD 5.0 DAYS ABSENT 10 DAYS TARDY A = Absent H = Half Day T = Tardy F = Field Trip S = Suspended N = Non Student Day E = Excused Absence U = Unexcused Absence L = Late Entry Date W = Withdrawal Date Page 58 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 8 - ATTENDANCE MENU foreign language characters are printed for the line borders of the calendar months. If No is selected, regular characters are substituted for the line drawing characters. For LaserJet printers, an attempt is made to use the PC-8 character set which supports line drawing. The default set of the LaserJet printer (Roman-8) does not support the line drawing characters. After viewing or printing a report, you can return to the ATTENDANCE MENU or continue to view/print other reports. Pressing the letter Y will display the student list again. Then select which student to view. Pressing the letter K (Keep Going) displays the next student's report. Pressing the letter N for No returns to the ATTENDANCE MENU. 8-3 8-4 8-5 MULTIPLE INDIVIDUAL ATTENDANCE REPORTS Selection 3 Prints attendance information for one class. Selection 4 prints attendance information for all classes. Selection 5 prints attendance information for students with matching SuperData in all classes. After selecting the class or SuperData, choose either the calendar or the listing format. A sample calendar print out is on the previous page. If no attendance information (no absences or tardies) was ever entered for the student during the semester, that student report will not be printed. Use the Advance Student Number selection of the EXTRA MENU to start printing reports with a student other than the first one listed. 8-6 DETAILED ATTENDANCE REPORT - PRINT OUT - ONE CLASS After selecting the class, a detailed report with student names and school days for the current term is printed. This report shows the letters that were recorded for each student with selection 1 of the ATTENDANCE MENU. 8-7 DETAILED ATTENDANCE REPORT - PRINT OUT - ALL CLASSES Use the Advance Class Number selection of the EXTRA MENU to start printing reports with a class other than the first one listed. If only one class of students are entered, this selection is not available. Page 59 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 8 - ATTENDANCE MENU 8-8 ATTENDANCE ADMINISTRATIVE SUMMARY - View/PRINT OUT After selecting the class, total absences and tardies for each student for each term of the semester, and semester totals will be displayed. Use the up and down arrows to scroll the student information. Press the ESCAPE key to stop viewing. Then you are given the option to print this information. 8-9 ATTENDANCE ADMIN. SUMMARY - PRINT OUT - ALL CLASSES Use the Advance Class Number selection of the EXTRA MENU to start printing these reports with a class other than the first one listed. ATTENDANCE SUMMARY REPORT - SEMESTER 1 EAST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL Teacher: MR. MARSHALL School Year: 1994-95 ALGEBRA HOUR 3 Date: 11-07-1994 Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Semester STUDENT AB T AB T AB T ----------------------------------------------------------- ANDERSON, JULIE 0.0 0 1.0 0 1.0 0 DAVIS, LORI 3.0 1 3.0 1 6.0 2 HAMILTON, SHERI 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 HARRIS, TROY 2.0 0 0.0 0 2.0 0 KNUTH, CURT 0.0 3 0.0 1 0.0 4 KOLINSKI, KRIS 12.0 0 3.0 0 15.0 0 MCKENZIE, ANNA 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.0 1 PERKINS, JILL 3.0 0 0.0 0 3.0 0 REIMER, SCOTT 6.0 0 1.0 0 7.0 0 ROSS, DEBBIE 0.0 2 0.0 0 0.0 2 RUSHMAN, SALLY 10.0 0 2.0 0 12.0 0 SCHULTZ, PAM 2.0 0 0.0 0 2.0 0 SIMMONS, RUTH 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.0 1 SMITH, JENNY 1.0 0 0.0 0 1.0 0 SWEET, SUE 0.0 2 3.0 0 3.0 2 THOMPSON, DAN 5.0 0 0.0 0 5.0 0 WAITE, BRENT 1.0 0 0.0 1 1.0 1 ZAGER, KEVIN 0.0 1 2.0 0 2.0 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- AB = ABSENT T = TARDY Start of Qtr. 1: Thu 08-29-1994 End of Qtr. 1: Fri 10-28-1994 Start of Qtr. 2: Mon 10-31-1994 End of Qtr. 2: Fri 01-13-1995 Page 60 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 9 - UTILITY MENU UTILITY MENU 1. Back Up Student Data 2. Save Current Grades/Percent for Term 1 3. Save Current Grades/Percent for Term 2 4. Save Current Grades/Percent for Term 3 5. Save Current Grades/Percent for Term 4 6. Save Current Grades/Percent for Term 5 7. Save Current Grades/Percent for Term 6 8. Revise Previous Term Grades/Percents 9. Transfer One Student to a Different Class 9-1 MAKING A BACK UP OF THE STUDENT DATA DISKETTE This selection automatically makes a back up copy of the student data diskette without using the DOS utilities. Follow the instructions on the screen. The original student data diskette must remain in the regular disk drive. You may press ESCape to leave this selection. To back up your data to a hard drive subdirectory that contains the program, you would enter C:\SKILLS\ To back up your data to a diskette, you would only need to enter the Drive letter and the colon and back slash, for example A:\ If necessary, place a formatted diskette in the BACK UP disk drive. Press Y for Yes to Continue with the BACK UP process. The student name, data, attendance, and note pad files will be read and copied to the back up diskette. The ASCII Text files printed on the progress reports (displayed on the Revise Student Names/I.D. selection of the NAMES MENU) are not backed up. If the BACK UP diskette was in the drive that normally contains the program diskette because you only have two disk drives, return the GRADING SKILLS POWER program diskette to that disk drive. Then press any key to continue. If your original data diskette becomes damaged, you can read your data from your back up diskette. This is why it is important to make back ups of your data. Computer diskettes and people are not perfect. Page 61 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 9 - UTILITY MENU GRADING SKILLS POWER can read the backup diskette directly by starting the program with the command SKILLS /J You will be asked to enter the drive containing the student data. If your back up data is on a diskette, enter the drive letter, colon, and back slash, for example, A:\ If your backup data is in a hard drive subdirectory, enter the drive letter, colon, back slash, and subdirectory name, for example C:\DATA\ Then you will be asked if you are ready to read the new data. Press Y for Yes. You should then either save the new drive information by saving the information in memory with the SET UP MENU, and make a back up of this data to another floppy diskette. This new drive information will be used until you change it again by starting GRADING SKILLS POWER again with the SKILLS /J option. Then enter the old drive information, and save that information with the SAVE selection of the SET UP MENU. 9-2 SAVE CURRENT QUARTER (TERM) GRADES/PERCENTS Selections 2 through 6 save the current quarter (term) letter grades and percents. Selections in red or with a bullet to the left of the choice can not be selected. Only the current term can be selected. Grades for each quarter (term) are stored with the other student data. Print outs that include the LAST QTR grade use this information saved with these selections. The percents are also used to calculate semester grades. 9-3 REVISE PREVIOUS TERM LETTER GRADE/PERCENT Occasionally it might be necessary to adjust a student's previous term (quarter) grade. After selecting the class, group, and previous term, the list of student letter grades and percents are displayed. Use the up and down arrows to move to the student. Enter the new percent. The letter grade will be automatically recalculated. This new grade will be printed on all reports for the student and used in all calculations and distributions. The F1 function key can be pressed to reveal a help screen for cursor movement and special grades that can be entered. Press any key to remove this help screen. Page 62 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 9 - UTILITY MENU 9-4 TRANSFER ONE STUDENT'S GRADES TO A DIFFERENT CLASS When a student transfers to a different class of a course you teach, you can copy the student's name, I.D. codes, and mastery levels to the new class. First select the current class the student is in, then the student number, then the class that the student will be transferred to. No information is removed from the original class. To delete all student information from the original class, use selection 13 of the NAMES MENU. Page 63 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 10 - EXTRA MENU EXTRA MENU 1. Reset Printer 2. Advance Paper 3. Form Feed 4. Advance Student Number 5. Advance Group Number 6. Run Skills Modules 7. Change Display Colors 8. School Year: 1994-95 9. Set Term Start/End Dates 10. Select Non-Student Days 11. Teacher Note Pad 12. Order Information 13. Print Order Blank 14. About Grading Skills Power 10-1 RESET THE PRINTER This selection will send codes to reset the printer. 10-2 ADVANCE PAPER This selection will advance the paper in the printer 1 line. 10-3 FORM FEED This selection will eject the current page from the printer. 10-4 ADVANCE STUDENT NUMBER You do not have to start printing individual reports with student number 1. When this selection is chosen, enter the new starting number. Printing will begin with the student number you entered and end with the last student in the class. This selection can be helpful if you are in the middle of printing and the paper jammed in the printer, or ESCape was pressed to stop printing the reports. Page 64 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 10 - EXTRA MENU 10-5 ADVANCE GROUP NUMBER When printing reports for all groups, you do not have to start with group number 1. When this selection is chosen, enter the new group number. Printing will begin with this class and end with the last group. The starting group number remains active until you leave GRADING SKILLS POWER or reset this number back to 1. This selection can be helpful if you are in the middle of printing and the paper jammed in the printer, or ESCape was pressed to stop printing the reports. 10-6 RUN SKILLS MODULES When this choice is selected, you will be asked which module. The following modules are included in the program. Other modules may be added after this manual is printed. Module 2: Delete All Classes and Data (New Year) Module 4: Change Maximum Skill Weight Module 6: Change LPT Port from #1 Module 7: Change Calendar Year Module 9: Repair/Replace Data File FUTURE PLANS: WISCO Computing may develop and other programmers may write other modules that use information from the GRADING SKILLS POWER name, data, attendance, listing and SKILLS.CNF files. Examples of other modules include graphics routines, special class cards, school scheduling, school report cards, word processing, trouble shooting, etc. Windows and Macintosh versions of GRADING SKILLS POWER are being considered for the future. Contact WISCO Computing for availability. 10-7 REVISE/REVIEW GRADING SKILLS POWER COLORS Up to 127 color combinations may be used by GRADING SKILLS POWER. When this selection is made, a chart showing the 127 color combinations and their associated numbers is displayed. The default values for screen colors are listed below. The first column is for color monitors. The second column is used for monochrome monitors. You may enter different numbers from the displayed chart: Page 65 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 10 - EXTRA MENU Color Monochrome Normal Screen Color: 023 007 Help Screen Color: 113 007 Pull Down Menu Color: 043 112 Error Color: 079 112 Text Entry Color: 112 007 Menu Selection Color: 007 007 When you have finished entering the color numbers, press ESCape. Then press a number for the mouse cursor color. The (1-7) number refers to the chart column. For example 4 represents red. Some menu selections deliberately turn the mouse cursor off to prevent accidental loss of data. The mouse cursor is turned back on when appropriate. Then press Y for Yes to save these changes. 10-8 SCHOOL YEAR: 1994-95 This setting was made when the new school year was started. This information is needed to display the proper calendar when the F2 function key is pressed and for determining the days of the week when recording and printing attendance information. The year must be entered with the format 1994-95. 10-9 SET TERM START/END DATES Enter the starting and ending dates of each term for the entire school year. Dates must be properly formatted 08-28-1994. If you enter the wrong format, the computer will beep. If you need help, the calendar can be displayed by pressing the F2 Function key. This program allows up to 80 school days per grading term. The starting and ending dates are used to store the student absence and tardy information. These dates also determine the limits for cursor movement when recording and revising student absences and tardies. Press ESCape when you have finished entering the start and end days for each school term. Press S to Save these dates to diskette, No to Not Save and C to Continue. 10-10 SELECT NON-STUDENT DAYS All week days between the start date of your first term and the ending date of your last term are displayed on the left side of the screen. Move the cursor to the dates that students are not present (for example Labor Day). Press the letter N to mark Non Student days. Press the Space bar to erase the letter N. Up to 72 Non Student days can be selected for the school year. When you have finished marking all Non Student days, press ESCape. Then press Y for Yes to save the marked dates before returning to the EXTRA MENU. Page 66 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 10 - EXTRA MENU 10-11 TEACHER NOTE PAD This note pad (up to 10 lines) may be used to store reminders such as when certain parents get a report, for example after a student misses an assignment, fails a test, every two weeks, etc. This file is backed up when using the Back Up selection of the UTILITY MENU. Pressing the F1 function key displays a help screen for editing lines of this note pad. The editing help information is used consistently through out the program to edit text information. Press Enter before pressing ESCape after editing the last line to have the displayed information replace the information in the NOTEPAD.GRD file. 10-12 ORDERING INFORMATION Computer programs can be purchased directly from WISCO Computing. Program prices are displayed when this selection is made. Site licenses allowing all people in the building to use the program are available for three times the individual price. WISCO Computing is preparing Windows and Macintosh versions of these programs. Contact WISCO Computing for availability. The following six DOS programs are currently available: GRADEBOOK POWER Creates comprehensive student progress reports for teachers, students, and parents. Prints over 20 different reports. Teacher developed. Many special options for elementary and secondary teachers. Use either 2-nine week quarters or 3-six week terms per semester. Constantly improved. IBM 512K $59.00 + $2.00 Shipping SURVEY POWER Create, analyze, and print out complete demographic and correlation results to your surveys, opinion polls, and tests. Accepts single choice, multiple choice, rank order, text entry, and cumulative type questions. Useful in business and school environments. Constantly improved. IBM 512K $39.95 + $2.00 Shipping GRADING SKILLS POWER Creates comprehensive student reports marking up to 900 skills that students are attempting to achieve. These reports can be used as an alternative or a supplement to a regular grading program. Teacher developed database. Designed for Objective Based Education. Constantly improved. IBM 512K $59.00 + $2.00 Shipping Page 67 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 10 - EXTRA MENU CROSSWORD POWER Make crossword puzzles from your words and clues. Insert words manually or automatically into the puzzle grid. Auto-search can quickly create over 200 different word arrangements to find the puzzle with the most words. Puzzles can also be saved as PCX graphics and as macros for duplication into Word Perfect 5.1 and 6.0. Constantly improved. IBM 512K $39.95 + $2.00 Shipping VOCABULARY POWER Create matching & multiple choice quizzes, cryptolists, word searches, vocabulary bingo cards, and flash cards from your words & definitions. Words and clues are automatically randomized before print outs are made. Great Teacher tool. 100% compatible with CROSSWORD POWER. Constantly improved. IBM 512K $39.95 + $2.00 Shipping BASKETBALL STATS POWER Prepares, prints, and stores information to produce comprehensive basketball statistical reports. Save data for 45 different teams with up to 45 games per season. Print individual, team, summary, and trend reports. Constantly improved. IBM 512K $39.95 + $2.00 Shipping 10-13 PRINT ORDER BLANK An order blank can be printed from this menu. Payment can be mailed to WISCO Computing, P.O. Box 8, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008. Credit card orders can also be taken by telephone at (715) 423-8189. This same telephone number can also be used to fax your order. 10-14 ABOUT GRADING SKILLS POWER The GRADING SKILLS POWER program and manual were written entirely by Terry L. Jepson. The author, a full time teacher, gave up his weekend, evening, and vacation time he could have spent watching foot- ball games, spending time with friends, or just relaxing. He has tried to add those features requested by his customers to meet their needs. Please reward him by having your friends buy their copy of the program. WISCO Computing is planning Windows and Macintosh versions of GRADING SKILLS POWER. Contact WISCO Computing for availability. Page 68 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 11 - MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION 11-1 ADDITIONAL START UP OPTIONS Use the instructions on pages 9 through 12 for normal start up. Information on retrieving student data from a backup diskette or hard drive subdirectory can be found in section 11-1-2 of this manual. GRADING SKILLS POWER is normally started by typing SKILLS However, there may be times when you need to start differently. These additional start up options are typed after SKILLS as indicated below. 11-1-1 SKILLS /INSTALL This option is used to start GRADING SKILLS POWER for a new school year. These complete detailed instructions are found on pages 9 through 12. 11-1-2 SKILLS /J You will be prompted to enter the drive or subdirectory containing the student data. This option overrides the subdirectory setting in the SKILLS.DRV file. For example, a department with a legal site license would only need one copy of the GRADING SKILLS POWER program on the computer. All teachers could access their data in different subdirectories using this option. When the program is started with the command SKILLS /J you will be asked to enter the drive containing the student data. If your data is on a diskette, enter the drive letter, colon, and back slash, for example, A:\ If your student data is in a hard drive subdirectory, enter the drive letter, colon, back slash, and subdirectory name, for example, C:\DATA\ Then you will asked if you are ready to read the new data. Press Y for Yes. This data drive information will be saved when any settings are saved on the SET UP MENU. 11-1-3 SKILLS /JC:\SMITH\ This start up option automatically accesses data from the SMITH subdirectory of drive C:. Jones could keep data in subdirectory C:\JONES\ and start the program with SKILLS /JC:\JONES\ Smith could keep data in subdirectory C:\SMITH\ and start the program with SKILLS /JC:\SMITH\ This option is useful for using a menu selection program to access different directories with the site license version. Page 69 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 11 - MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION 11-1-4 SKILLS /B and SKILLS /C Skills /B forces black and white display. This may be necessary to read the display of some lap top computers. SKILLS /C forces color for display. If the program detects a monochrome monitor, the color setting will be ignored. 11-2 NETWORK INSTALLATION The Site License version of GRADING SKILLS POWER will run on the combination of NOVELL and I-CLASS networks. The item file is: X:^MAP DEL A:>NUL^SKILLS^MAP A:=H: <CLSYES >NUL 11-3 ENHANCEMENTS PLANNED FOR GRADING SKILLS POWER Windows and Macintosh versions of GRADING SKILLS POWER are being considered for the future. Contact WISCO Computing for availability. Customer requests determine which additional features and modules are added to this powerful program. 11-4 FILES CREATED BY GRADING SKILLS POWER The file SKILLS.DRV is created on the program diskette. It contains the drive or drive subdirectory to search for student data. It must be located in the subdirectory as the program SKILLS.EXE The file SKILLS.CNF is created on the student data diskette. This file contains class titles and period names, skill group names, printer number, and other information displayed on the SET UP MENU. An automatic back up of this file is called SKILLS.CN1. All files starting with SKILLS1. are used for the first class recorded on the Student Names Menu. Files ending with .NAM contain student names for the class. SKILLS Files ending with .G1 contain the data and skill text for group 1. Files ending with .G2 contain the data and skill text for group 2. SKILLTXT.*** files can be checked with a spell checker if necessary. The file NOTEPAD.GRD is the note pad file created with the selection on the EXTRA MENU. ASCII text files created with the NAMES menu are named by class and student number. The text file, GRTEXT2.S11 is a text file for the 11th student in the (2) second class. Page 70 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Chapter 11 - MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION I welcome your comments. I like the programs I have created, but I can always do better with a little help from my friends. Thank you for investing your time and attention to GRADING SKILLS POWER. And special thanks for la creme de la creme, where ever you might be, for motivating me to do my best. Terry L. Jepson N o t e s Page 71 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Appendix - SAMPLE GRADE 2 SKILLS The next eight pages are a listing of skills taught to second grade students in my local school district. SKILLS ACHIEVEMENT EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Teacher: TERRY JEPSON 1994-95 READING - GRADE 2 SAMPLE Page 1 1 __ Understands multiple meanings of words 2 __ Uses context clues to discover meanings of unknown words 3 __ Recognizes synonyms 4 __ Recognizes antonyms 5 __ Classifies groups of words into given categories 6 __ Sequences a group of three or four sentences from a selection previously read 7 __ Sequences a group of five sentences from a selection previously read 8 __ Predicts an appropriate outcome 9 __ Identifies supporting details when presented choices 10 __ Draws conclusions based on selection read 11 __ Identifies cause and effect relationship 12 __ Understands the author's purpose 13 __ Distinguishes between fact and fiction 14 __ Uses punctuation as a clue to intended meaning 15 __ Phonetically decodes graphemic bases 16 __ Phonetically decodes vowel digraphs 17 __ Phonetically decodes consonant clusters 18 __ Uses structural analysis to decode contractions 19 __ Uses structural analysis to decode possessives 20 __ Uses structural analysis to decode plurals 21 __ Uses structural analysis to decode comparatives 22 __ Uses structural analysis to decode superlatives 23 __ Uses structural analysis to decode compound words 24 __ Uses structural analysis to decode words with prefixes 25 __ Uses structural analysis to decode words with suffixes 26 __ Differentiates between fiction and non-fiction 27 __ Begins to identify and understand figurative language 28 __ Experiences a variety of non-fiction formats including biographies 29 __ Becomes aware of the format of drama 30 __ Alphabetizes a list of words by their first letter 31 __ Alphabetizes a list of words by their second and third letter 32 __ Reads and follows a three-step direction 33 __ Reads and follows a four-step direction 34 __ Uses the telephone directory 35 __ Uses the table of contents 36 __ Uses a glossary/dictionary 37 __ Shows interest in reading stories and books independently 38 __ Self-corrects miscues that disturb meaning Page 72 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Appendix - SAMPLE GRADE 2 SKILLS SKILLS ACHIEVEMENT EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Teacher: TERRY JEPSON 1994-95 COMMUNICATION SKILLS - GRADE 2 SAMPLE Page 2 1 __ Uses declarative sentences while speaking 2 __ Uses interrogative sentences while speaking 3 __ Uses expression and inflection while speaking 4 __ Answers the telephone using proper techniques 5 __ Gives simple directions to a group or another student 6 __ Expresses oneself through the use of role-playing 7 __ Expresses oneself through the use of recitation 8 __ Expresses oneself through the use of interviewing 9 __ Expresses oneself through the use of choral reading 10 __ Begin's to appreciate others' points of view 11 __ Attends and contributes in small group discussions 12 __ Retells the major details of a story 13 __ Retells the sequence of a story 14 __ Listens and follows three or four directions 15 __ Attends to report given by a classmate and paraphrases information from the report 16 __ Attends to others or a story which is being read or told for at least 15 minutes 17 __ Demonstrates a knowledge of the three step process 18 __ Gathers other sources of information relevant to the topic 19 __ Edits written work for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling 20 __ Writes a simple paragraph using proper sequence 21 __ Expands written work using adjectives 22 __ Expands written work using adverbs 23 __ Writes a creative story using the basic literary form; setting, problem(goal), resolution 24 __ Makes the transition from manuscript to cursive writing 25 __ Uses cursive writing in all written work 26 __ Writes declarative sentences 27 __ Writes interrogative sentences 28 __ Composes a thank you note 29 __ Composes an invitation 30 __ Writes a friendly letter 31 __ Writes a summary of what has been read or heard 32 __ Understands the proper use of quotation marks used in written conversation 33 __ Uses pronouns properly 34 __ Uses capital letters at the beginning of proper nouns 35 __ Uses capital letters at the beginning of sentences; and periods, question marks or exclamations at the end 36 __ Is willing to take a risk with invented spelling of unknown words 37 __ Uses a range of resources to find out about spelling 38 __ Uses full stops appropriately Page 73 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Appendix - SAMPLE GRADE 2 SKILLS SKILLS ACHIEVEMENT EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Teacher: TERRY JEPSON 1994-95 COMMUNICATION SKILLS - GRADE 2 SAMPLE Page 3 39 __ Revises writing by adding or changing information 40 __ Sustains interest in writing tasks 41 __ Writes in a form that can be read by others 42 __ Proofreads the work of peers 43 __ Uses conventional spelling 44 __ Demonstrates proper care and use of a computer 45 __ Demonstrates proper care and handling of a disk 46 __ Demonstrates proficient use of loading and saving a file 47 __ Demonstrates proficient use of entering and deleting text 48 __ Demonstrates proficient use of cursor movement 49 __ Demonstrates proficient use of insert and typeover 50 __ Demonstrates proficient use of underlining 51 __ Demonstrates proficient use of centering 52 __ Uses an efficient method of keyboarding 53 __ Uses word processing skills to write original stories or reports Page 74 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Appendix - SAMPLE GRADE 2 SKILLS SKILLS ACHIEVEMENT EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Teacher: TERRY JEPSON 1994-95 MATHEMATICS - GRADE 2 SAMPLE Page 4 1 __ Orders numbers using the symbols < or > 2 __ Counts, reads, and sequences numbers 0-500 3 __ Rounds to ten places 4 __ Knows addition facts 1-18 5 __ Knows subtraction facts 1-18 6 __ Adds two-digit numerals with regrouping 7 __ Adds three-digit numerals with no regrouping 8 __ Subtracts three-digit numerals with no regrouping 9 __ Adds three-digit numerals with regrouping 10 __ Subtracts two-digit numerals with regrouping 11 __ Subtracts three-digit numerals with regrouping 12 __ Knows multiplication facts 0-6 13 __ Knows divisions facts 0-6 14 __ Multiplies a two-digit by a one-digit with regrouping 15 __ Identifies 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 of an object 16 __ Divides objects into haves, thirds, and fourths 17 __ Estimates answers to calculations and recognizes reasonable results 18 __ Reads and writes money amounts through 50 cents 19 __ Calculates money amounts through 50 cents 20 __ Reads and writes money amounts using the $0.00 notation 21 __ Recognizes and reads 1/2 hours on a clock 22 __ Recognizes and reads 1/4 hours on a clock 23 __ Recognizes and reads 5 minute intervals on a clock 24 __ Reads standard and digital clocks 25 __ Recites days of week in sequence 26 __ Recites months of the year in sequence 27 __ Reads day and date from a calendar 28 __ Identifies a teaspoon and tablespoon 29 __ Identifies a cup, pint, and quart 30 __ Identifies a gallon, liter, and milliliter 31 __ Weighs an object using pounds 32 __ Weighs an object using kilograms 33 __ Measures in centimeters 34 __ Measures in inches, feet, and yards 35 __ Reads a Celsius thermometer 36 __ Reads a Fahrenheit thermometer 37 __ Solves one-step story problems using addition and subtraction 38 __ Solves two-step story problems Page 75 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Appendix - SAMPLE GRADE 2 SKILLS SKILLS ACHIEVEMENT EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Teacher: TERRY JEPSON 1994-95 MATHEMATICS - GRADE 2 SAMPLE Page 5 39 __ Understands and uses the four-step method ACT OUT OR USE OBJECTS to solve a problem 40 __ Understands and uses the four-step method MAKE A PICTURE OR DIAGRAM to solve a problem 41 __ Understands and uses the four-step method USE OR MAKE A TABLE to solve a problem 42 __ Understands and uses the four-step method MAKE AN ORGANIZED LIST to solve a problem 43 __ Understands and uses the four-step method GUESS AND CHECK to solve a problem 44 __ Understands and uses the four-step method USE OR LOOK FOR A PATTERN to solve a problem 45 __ Understands and uses the four-step method WORK BACKWARDS to solve a problem 46 __ Understands and uses the four-step method USE LOGICAL REASONING to solve a problem 47 __ Understands and uses the four step method MAKE IT SIMPLER to solve a problem 48 __ Understands and uses the four-step method BRAINSTORM to solve a problem 49 __ Names and draws a triangle, circle, rectangle, square, and ellipse 50 __ Obtains relevant data from graphs, charts, grids, and tables 51 __ Enjoys math activities 52 __ Uses mental math to solve problems Page 76 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Appendix - SAMPLE GRADE 2 SKILLS SKILLS ACHIEVEMENT EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Teacher: TERRY JEPSON 1994-95 GEOGRAPHY - GRADE 2 SAMPLE Page 6 1 __ Locates continents, islands, and lakes on the globe or world map with reference to the equator 2 __ Shows on a globe or world map that the equator divides the earth into a northern and southern hemisphere 3 __ Shows on a globe or world map that the prime meridian divides the earth into an eastern and western hemisphere 4 __ Locates on a map the four cardinal directions (N,S,E,W) 5 __ Locates on a map the in between directions (NW,NE,SW,SE) 6 __ Tells the cardinal direction of one place from another 7 __ Recognizes that cities, states, countries, and continents are different sizes 8 __ Compares uses of maps and globes 9 __ Locates and identifies the United States on a world map or globe 10 __ Locates Wisconsin on a map of the United States 11 __ Locates islands on a map or globe 12 __ Locates and identifies the three big oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian 13 __ Locates Lake Michigan on a globe or world map 14 __ Locates rivers on a map or globe 15 __ Calls the earth's largest land areas continents, and the earth's largest water bodies oceans 16 __ Locates and distinguishes between states and cities on a map of the United States 17 __ Recognizes that a symbol may be a drawing, a color, or a pattern 18 __ Understands that maps symbolize places and symbolically give information 19 __ Understands that symbols may or may not look like that which they symbolize 20 __ Identifies capital cities on a population map 21 __ Makes maps of simple familiar areas and uses symbols to represent desks, houses, etc. 22 __ Correlates shadings of the interaction color code with elevation 23 __ Infers from a map why cities are located where they are 24 __ Compares symbols on one map to those of another 25 __ Compares the distance (scale) between two cities on one map with the other Page 77 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Appendix - SAMPLE GRADE 2 SKILLS SKILLS ACHIEVEMENT EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Teacher: TERRY JEPSON 1994-95 SCIENCE - GRADE 2 SAMPLE Page 7 1 __ Illustrates the life cycle of an animal 2 __ Explains how animals adapt to their environment 3 __ Explains endangered species 4 __ Explains extinction 5 __ Classifies animals into vertebrates and invertebrates 6 __ Illustrates the sequence of events in the food chain 7 __ Lists and reports on some of the endangered species 8 __ Describes characteristics of birds 9 __ Describes characteristics of mammals 10 __ Describes characteristics of fish 11 __ Describes characteristics of reptiles 12 __ Describes characteristics of amphibians 13 __ Identifies plant parts and explains their basic functions 14 __ Describes how seeds are formed inside a flower 15 __ Describes the conditions necessary for plant growth 16 __ Describes how seeds are formed inside the cone of a plant 17 __ Names some plants that reproduce from spores 18 __ Names the six flower parts (stamen, pollen, pistil, pollen, tube, ovules) 19 __ Predicts how plants grow in response to changes in the environment 20 __ Categorizes seasonal changes of plants and animals 21 __ Lists in order the members of the solar system 22 __ Compares and contrasts the earth, the sun, and moon 23 __ Explains some properties of the sun 24 __ Names some constellations 25 __ Explains how to find the North Star 26 __ Explains planetary revolution and rotation 27 __ Understands that the sun provides heat and light 28 __ Names three fossil fuels 29 __ Explains forms of energy used in and out of the classroom 30 __ Names some energy sources other than the sun 31 __ Explains the term matter 32 __ Gives examples of the three forms of matter 33 __ Explains the term molecule 34 __ Illustrates how matter can change from one form to another 35 __ Explains a physical change where molecules stay the same 36 __ Explains a chemical change where molecules change 37 __ Describes the characteristics of rocks 38 __ Explains the weathering of rocks 39 __ Defines soil 40 __ Explains the path which water may take during the water cycle 41 __ Defines vapor, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation 42 __ Identifies causes and effects of pollution 43 __ Explains the need for environmental conservation Page 78 GRADING SKILLS POWER MANUAL Appendix - SAMPLE GRADE 2 SKILLS SKILLS ACHIEVEMENT EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Teacher: TERRY JEPSON 1994-95 FAMILY LIVING - GRADE 2 SAMPLE Page 8 1 __ Differentiates between wants and needs 2 __ Understands and compares food, clothing, shelter, and communications of various cultures 3 __ Recognizes that location, climate, weather, and resources help to determine the type of community that will exist 4 __ Understands that communities provide facilities and services individuals cannot provide 5 __ Recognizes that communities change 6 __ Understands how and why rules and responsibilities are made in the home, school, and community 7 __ Demonstrates a knowledge of where to obtain needed information 8 __ Participates effectively in democratic decision-making at home and at school 9 __ Understands and compares celebrations of different cultures 10 __ Classifies foods according to the four food groups 11 __ Compares ingredient information on various processed food 12 __ Explains that food supplies nutrients that are needed for growth, repair, and maintenance of cells 13 __ Describes how family, friends, and peers influence food choices 14 __ Gives examples of how sensory qualities of food affect food choices 15 __ Identifies habits and effects of emotion on eating 16 __ Identifies the main parts of the sense organs and their functions 17 __ Identifies drugs and their effects 18 __ Identifies protective behaviors for personal safety 19 __ Identifies people who can be part of their support system for personal safety 20 __ Identifies positive and negative ways peers influence each other 21 __ Identifies three most important things in his/her life 22 __ Recognizes ways people abuse others 23 __ Recognize the heart as a muscle that needs exercise 24 __ Recognize that oxygen is need to live 25 __ Explains basic function of respiratory system 26 __ Identifies tars and what they do to the lung 27 __ Explains why the body needs rest and exercise 28 __ Describes how germs cause illness 29 __ Explains value of immunizations and how germs are spread 30 __ Identifies poisons at home or in school Page 79 Computer Programs from: WISCO COMPUTING, P. 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