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STANDARDS AND BENCHMARKS

ELEMENTARY REPORT CARDS

Table of Contents

Elementary Report Card Guide for Teachers Pgs. 2-4

Tying Assignments to Benchmarks to Calculate Results Pgs. 5-8

Printing Elementary Report Cards Pg. 9

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JMC IIN NC C.. "Bringing computing ease to your student record needs" INSTRUCTIONAL DOCUMENTATION STANDARDS AND BENCHMARKS ELEMENTARY REPORT CARDS Table of Contents Elementary Report Card Guide for Teachers Pgs. 2-4 Tying Assignments to Benchmarks to Calculate Results Pgs. 5-8 Printing Elementary Report Cards Pg. 9 JMC Inc PO Box 328 Lake City, MN 55041 Telephone: Fax: 1-800-524-8182 1-651-345-2215 Web: Email: http://www.jmcinc.com support@jmcinc.com or sales@jmcinc.
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Elementary Report Card Guide for Teachers This is a brief introduction to JMC elementary report cards. For complete instructions please visit http://www.jmcinc.com/videos/videos.html and watch the instructional video “Teacher Elementary Report Card Entry.” 1. Go to File: Office to Teacher. This updates your GradeBook with any information that has been updated in the office. There is no need to do this daily. 2. Go to Edit: Edit Assessments for a Student if you are a: • Grade level teacher i.e.
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Edit Assessments for a Student Screen 12A. Choose the student you want to assess. 15A. If you have a spot on your report card for “hand-typed” comments they will be entered only in the comment area for benchmarks named “Comment Line” or something similar. 13A. Click on the result that the student has earned for the Standard or Benchmark where the cursor is displayed. 14A. Enter in hand-typed results in the comment area to the right of the result box.
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Preparing Course Grades to Send to the Office If you enter daily assignment, test, and project scores into the JMC GradeBook in the Score: Assignment Scores you can have these Course Grades displayed on the report card if the report card is set up to receive and display the course grades. Please note that this is an abbreviated version of using Course Grades. Please refer to the GradeBook documentation with questions. 16. Go to Edit: Course Grades. 17. Choose a Course. 18.
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Tying Assignments to Benchmarks to Calculate Results There are four steps to attach assignments to benchmarks to calculate benchmark results. The following is a list of those steps followed by a detailed explanation. Step 1: Go to Scores: Categories and Assignments to attach Assignments to Benchmarks. Step 2: Go to Scores: Standards and Benchmarks to verify Assignment weighting within a Benchmark.
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C. Highlight/Choose the benchmark to which you want to attach the assignment and click “OK.” D. Now when you highlight/choose an assignment you will see what benchmark is attached to it. E. Continue to add assignments and attach them to benchmarks making sure to hit the “Select a Benchmark” button after you have created an assignment.
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Step 2: Go to Scores: Standards and Benchmarks to verify assignment weighting within a Benchmark. This screen will show you, in list order, which assignments are attached to which benchmarks. This screen will also show how the benchmarks are weighted for calculating a standard. A. Choose the Course and Standard with which you want to work. B. If calculating only benchmarks this screen is used to: • Review which benchmarks are attached to which assignments.
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Step 3: Go to Edit: Edit Assessments for a Course or Grade or Edit: Edit Assessments for a Student to calculate Benchmark results. A. Choose the course you are working with in the “Course or Grade” popup menu and then click the “Add” or “Add Initial Assessment Set” button in the top right corner. Please note: this screen will look slightly different on the Edit Assessments for a Course or Grade screen. B. Enter the Assessment date for the current term. C.
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Printing Elementary Report Card Forms 1. Have teachers go to File: Teacher to Office in their (IP) GradeBook making sure that “Grades” and “Standards and Benchmarks” are checked 2. Bring the Grades into the Office. Go to Grades: Entry: TGE GradeBook Entry choosing the way in which grades are sent to the Office and the term for which you want to collect grades. Macintosh/Apple Version Windows Version 3. Optional Step: Check to see if teacher(s) successfully sent grades to the office.