Still not seeing standards in the Gradebook
October 21st, 2009
It’s your lucky week…2 blog posts in one week! I just wanted to add another post to Josh’s previous post. This was sent out to the listserv a couple of weeks ago from Janet and we are seeing alot of schools having issues with the uppercase/lowercase alpha characters used in course numbers tied to standards so I thought I would post here as well.
In the past we’ve told you that many things are not case sensitive in PowerSchool, but in this recent version – we’ve discovered many things are case sensitive. Here’s some examples:
If a school’s standards are tied to a class that is in uppercase or lowercase letters – they have to match exactly or they won’t show in the gradebook.
One School had standards tied to these courses… am1,am2,am3
They wouldn’t show in the gradebook until they matched the course information like such …. AM1,AM2,AM3 – once we changed the course numbers to match the case that was used when the course was created, they showed up fine.
Along the same lines today… Another School and I discovered that case sensitivity comes into place in the sort order of assignments in the scoresheet, which many teachers have asked about this fall!
If you enter Test Chapter 3… It will actually come before review sheet in the gradebook – as soon as we switched it to lowercase like this: test chapter 3 – it switched the order???
The moral of the story is this… Be “case sensitive” when entering information into PowerSchool, and if assistance is needed – call the helpdesk.
Janet
EduTech
Posted by Melissa Bitz in Grading at 12:26 pm