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Hey Everyone, I am looking for a teacher (any grade) from South Dakota to join in on the upcoming 2008-2009 post card exchange! If you are interested in joining or would like more information please email me at [email removed]
by 5th grade teach
Aug 15, 2008
Help complete our potcard exchange! We need you! EMail me your name, grade, school address, and email address.
I would like to email everyone right after Labor Day!
first come first serve!
by J. Seward
Sep 12, 2008
I work as a teacher in a self contained classroom. I have 6,7, and 8th graders in my classroom. I find infinite campus grading program to be more work that its worth. The way infinite campus is set up, I have to type all assignments in triplicate. I have to type it for each grade. It is really three times the work and I hate it.
Go to Instruction / Reports / Section Summary. That is the hard copy of your gradebook.
In the state of South Dakota is there mandated classroom size limits?
I am so happy to have found I am not alone in thinking that Infinite.Campus is a lousy program. There have been good programs that parents and students can use to check grades. I have no idea why a school would get Infinite.Campus. I think my school got it just because it allows parents to keep tabs on their child's progress. It was probably cheap,...See MoreI am so happy to have found I am not alone in thinking that Infinite.Campus is a lousy program. There have been good programs that parents and students can use to check grades. I have no idea why a school would get Infinite.Campus. I think my school got it just because it allows parents to keep tabs on their child's progress. It was probably cheap, but I don't get involved in what we buy - don't have time to think about money. It might be good for parents and students, but it’s time-consuming on the teacher. I agree - it is not streamlined. Let me list the things that I can think of off the top of my head - stuff that happens over and over and over and I just have to accept it without complaint and try to get my job done so I don't have to go off to Siberia. Maybe the IC people will hear my complaints and be able to make some money if they can improve it. For one thing it takes up a lot of real-estate on the screen. My screen setting only goes to 1280 by 800 pixels. If they would just get that fancy title out of the way, that would help a lot. Is that supposed to advertise? To enter one set of grades, IC takes up more than 1/3 of the width of the screen and well over 100% of the screen if the class is more than probably about 18 students. I also use Excel to keep my grades. Excel is so much easier and helps me find mistakes - usually the wrong possible points or wrong date for an assign. I try to align the rosters of Excel along side the Infinite Campus roster so that I can key grades in all lined up. But it is difficult to line things up because you can not make the IC.window small enough. Today I was entering two classes of grades. One class was 19 students and one was 16. It took me five times as long to enter the 19 students just because I had to keep moving the window for Excel around to line up with the IC roster, and I had to scroll the IC.roster. With my small 16 student class, the whole roster fit in the IC.window and I could key the grades in rapidly, line for line without having to move either roster. With Excel I can fit class sizes of 25 to 30 on one screen. I figured out that if there are more than 15 students (I think it was), because of the limits on the IC window, I have to keep moving my Excel window to align with the IC roster so the Excel scroll bar disappears off the bottom of the screen. Then I have to keep adjusting the position of the Excel window around the IC window to line up the Excel roster up with the IC roster. IC really is hard to work around in so many ways. There's really not time to enter grades every day with IC, and then it takes even longer if you don't because you have to change the date due each time. If you are on the phone with a parent and trying to switch from attendance to grades, the IC program takes a long time to switch and a lot of times you have to log in again. That is another reason I use Excel. I use Excel as a back up for attendance and grades. I always refer to my Excel back up as I communicate student’s progress over the phone or in meetings. Well, I hope the IC programmers hear these complaints and come up with a quick update. I don’t know if I can stand much more of this. I think I was able to do grades faster by hand back in the day. One more thing, I don’t know if it is the infinite campus or what. With all the problems since getting IC, it might well be related since I didn’t have this problem before. My cursor scroll slows to a snail’s pace. When I scroll about in Excel it goes slow and choppy. I managed to correct it just once by going to control panel, but then the next day it was slow again. Then I managed to report it to Microsoft. The next day it was fast again in the morning, but by the afternoon it was slow and choppy again. Like I say, I don’t know if this is caused by IC, but the timing does seems suspicious.
Hello Fellow Educators,
Please take the time to look this over to see if any of it > applies to you or someone you know. Your View Counts Too! > I will post the results. > > Thank you so very,very,much. > E
by SalesPitchUseKids
Mar 14, 2009
I do not understand why schools are buying Power School, Curriculum Mapper and other programs. It almost seems like they want to overload their teachers so the managers can have an excuse, or to keep teachers under their power. Really, I don't get it. I keep wondering about this when I do grades, write curriculum, etc. The programs they make teache...See MoreI do not understand why schools are buying Power School, Curriculum Mapper and other programs. It almost seems like they want to overload their teachers so the managers can have an excuse, or to keep teachers under their power. Really, I don't get it. I keep wondering about this when I do grades, write curriculum, etc. The programs they make teachers use are so cumbersome.
I think most teachers are used to Microsoft Word and Excel. Excel is great for calculations, analysis of grades, adjusting grades as necessary (to balance student motivation for example). The vast majority of teachers do this. Even principals want this done. Have principals taught long enough to know the most efficient methods? I just keep thinking - what is up with all of this? Is it that everyone wants to be a manager and no one has been in the trenches. (Maybe that is it. I am thinking now of some of the teaching interviews where I was told that "nowdays" [back in the 90's] they want managers more than academic specialists.)
Ok, I like Power School because it is easier to communicate with parents. Of course parents should be supportive and not join in overwhelming the teachers. What I don't like about Power School is how its Power Grade grading program is so different. Why can't I take my Excel grades and just paste them into Power Grade? Power Grade looks like a program that would take a tremendous amount of programming by the company to allow grades to be pasted. It also looks like it would be difficult at this point for the programmers to build more Excel like features into Power Grade. How did Power School get this far? Did teachers have any input into this? What teachers? What kind of teachers - wanna-be mangers?
I always enter the same grades into Power Grade as I do in Excel. I use Excel as a back up and check. I run the two systems side by side on the monitor. Most every time there is a discrepancy. Sometimes it is in the Power Grade entry and sometimes it is in the Excel calculations. I want to keep doing this, but I wish I could just copy and paste my Excel grades into Power Grade. Did the programmers realize this should be done?
by EA MCGRAW
Mar 18, 2009
Dear Fellow Educators,
What affects the marketability of a professional educator? If you had to interview for a job as an educator, today, would you be hired, or would there be factors that affect your marketability? Take this survey...find out! Results will be posted May 11, 2009. NO NAMES PLEASE!
Thank you, Ea
What is going on? Where is anyone who actually cares about teachers, be they novice or veteran? Aren't we supposed to care about ourselves? Where is the solidarity and all of that good stuff? Let us know what's going on. You are not alone.
Ea
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