Change Your Skyward Password!

🔐🔐🔐Just a little tip as we near the end of CYBER SECURITY AWARENESS month .... below you'll find directions on how to change your Skyward password. 🔑🔑🔑

Click on the Account link located in the top right corner in Skyward.

Click the Change Password button:

Enter your Current Password and click Submit:

Enter and Confirm your New Password and click Submit:

You should receive a pop-up that your account has been updated successfully. Click OK:

Yay!!  You are good to go!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

Welcome Back & Progress Report 2!

First of all I hope your Fall Break was AMAZING! Whether you went on Vacation or enjoyed a Staycation I hope you enjoyed some well-deserved time for yourself!

As you get back into the swing of things I want you to keep in mind the date of our next Progress Report. Progress Report 2 will end on Friday, November 15th. 

Elementary Teachers: As always, you will want to print your Progress Reports from your gradebook to send home. Remember you can also Email your Progress Reports! Click link below for directions! 👇👇👇👇👇👇

Email Progress Reports

Secondary Teachers: Any assignments that you want to count towards Progress Report 2 MUST have a date of November 15th or BEFORE.  Anything with a date later than November 15th will be calculated towards the Semester 2 Grade.

Quarter 1 Grades!

It's hard to believe that TOMORROW, 9/27/20019 is the END of our first grading period! 😱

I have a few links that will hopefully make the grade process go a little smoother for you. 

Kindergarten Teachers:

Click Here for Report Card Directions.

Entering comments for your kiddos? Click HERE for directions on entering them in your KINDERGARTEN HOMEROOM class

Elementary Teachers:

Click Here for Directions on entering your Grade Level Performance marks.

Entering comments for your students? Click HERE for directions on entering them in your HOMEROOM.

Secondary Teachers:

Click Here for Directions on entering Quarter 1 Term Adjustments -- if needed.

Tip of the Week: Export Gradebook

It's that time of year again! Some of you will be wanting to print a "hard copy" of your gradebook and you may have forgotten where you can do this.

Just click on the Export tab in your gradebook for each class. With one click it will create an Excel file for you to save/print/share.

Tip of the Week: Check for Missing Parent Emails

Happy Monday! I have a way for you to quickly check which parents DO and which parents DO NOT have an email address listed in Skyward. I have added a template to gradebooks to make this super duper easy for you....

From inside one of your classes in the gradebook, hover over the Reports tab and select the Class Roster Report. Highlight the template called Parent/Guardian Email and click Print.

I wish I could make this print gridlines for you but it is not an option on this report. 😕

Once you have your report and see who is MISSING an email address -- YOU CAN ADD PARENT EMAILS right from the student profile page! Just follow the directions in the link below if you do not remember how to do this.

Edit Parent/Guardian Emails

Tip of the Week: Online Assignment

There is so much that you can do with the Online Assignment feature in Skyward! You have the option of creating the assignments as True/False, Matching, Multiple Choice, Short Answer and Essay. You can also choose to have the assignments automatically scored in your gradebook as students complete their assignments under their own Skyward Account. Short Answer and Essay of course will need to be manually graded.

While setting up the assignment is fairly easy -- there is still a lot of info regarding available features. At the end of this post I have included a link to a document provided by Skyward that will walk you through everything you need to know about creating an Online Assignment. If you get stuck or have questions I am just a phone call away! 📱 X8668 📱

Online Assignments in Skyward

Tip of the Week: SkyDoc - Skyward Documentation

I wanted to share with you a VERY handy resource that is available 24/7. While I always love it when my fans 🙋 (jk) reach out to me for help - I am not always reachable by phone or email. If you need help right away or just want to research how to do something yourself then you will greatly benefit from using Skyward Documentation. SkyDocs are accessible right from your personal Skyward account. Just (1) click on the ❔ in the upper right hand corner of the screen to bring up a pop-up menu as seen below and (2) select SkyDoc - Skyward Documentation:

Once SkyDoc opens you can search through the Index or Search a number of topics. I recommend clicking on the Search option and then type in your topic of interest. A list of items related to the topic you choose will show up under the Search bar. You will be able to click through the available options to decide which self-help document or tutorial best fits your topic.