Interim Progress Reports
Entering Comments for Interim Progress Reports
If this is the first term, skip to Entering New Notes.
If you have never entered any notes this year then skip to Entering New Notes.
If you have used Interim Progress Reports this school year, you must delete the old notes.
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Interim Progress Reports are due mid-quarter . We use Gradequick to send in all of the comments. There is one VERY IMPORTANT step that you must take in Gradequick before entering new comments for your 2nd, 3rd or 4th quarter interim progress reports You will need to erase all of the comments that you put in for your students for the previous quarter. There is an easy way to delete all of the notes in a given class. PLEASE BE SURE TO DO THIS BEFORE ENTERING YOUR NEW NOTES. If you do not delete the old notes they will appear in your current quarter progress report.
On the PC
1. Open your class Grade Sheet in Gradequick.
2. Go to the Edit Menu and select Memos.
3. In the submenu select "Zap All Notes To Students".
4. Save your Grade Sheet (File- Save).
5. You are now ready to enter new memos for this quarter's Interim Progress Reports.
On the Mac
1. Open your class Grade Sheet in Gradequick.
2. Go to the Edit Menu and select Global Changes.
3. Select Zap from the submenu.
4. A dialog box will appear with ZAP on top. In the Apply to: pull down menu select "Notes to Students".
5. Select OK. The dialog box will tell you that it will remove all notes to students. Select OK.
6. Save your Grade Sheet (File- Save).
7. You are now ready to enter new memos for this quarter's Interim Progress Reports.
Be sure to delete the Notes for EACH of your classes. If you do not delete the notes, the notes that you submitted for the previous quarter interim progress reports will be put into this quarter's interim progress report.
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Gradequick Interim Progress Reports
1. Open your class Grade Sheet in GradeQuick Web.
2. Go to Edit menu, Memo, Edit Memos.
3. Select Student Memo. Click OK.
4. Once you select OK for Student Memos be sure the Note To Student is selected (this should be the default setting).
5. You can either type notes to the student, or you can insert "Quicknotes" which are pre-typed notes created for your convenience. On a PC to open the Quicknotes window, go to the File menu in the Memo window. Select "Insert Quicknotes". On a Mac there is a Quicknotes button in the Student Memo box.
6. To insert a "Quicknote" select the appropriate comment(s) in the Quicknotes Library, then click the "Insert Quicknotes into Memo" button. This will automatically insert the selected comments into the window for the student. You can also type custom comments if you wish. It works like a word processor so you can change words, add text, etc. for anything in the box (including text changes to the pre-typed notes). [Hint: "Pleasure to have in class" is (fortunately) a popular quicknote to choose. You might want to prepend "John is a p" in place of the P.
7. To switch students, just use the pull down arrow and select the next student. Add the appropriate comments in the field and select the next student.
8. When you have all of your comments completed, close the Memo and Quicknotes windows. You can open the Memo window at any time and check the notes.
9. To SEND IN YOUR COMMENTS - Go to the FILE menu and Select SEND - -Select the EXPORT INTERIMS TO REDIKER submenu. This will bring up a dialog box asking you to save the file.
Just select the OK button (PCs) or SAVE button (MAC). Click OK to Export.
IF YOU DO NOT SEND THE FILE IN THIS MANNER, YOUR INTERIMS WILL NOT GET TO REDIKER
Please be sure that if a student is in danger of failing that you put the word Fail somewhere in the note - We use this to search and create lists of students in danger of failing..
10. Follow the same procedure for all your other classes.
MVRHS 10/01/2009