Parent Guide
Ascend SMS User Guide
Table of Contents
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Logging In
Ascend SMS Screen Layout
Home Tab
Attendance Tab
Progress Tab
Snapshot Tab
Homework Tab
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Logging In
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• From an internet browser, go to your school’s
Ascend SMS website
• https://yourschool.ascendsms.com/
• Log In using the credentials given to you by your
school’s Ascend SMS Administrator
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Logging In
• Upon first login, you will be required to change
your password.
This is the password that was
given to you by your school.
This is the password that you
create.
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Logging In
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Also upon first login, you
will be required to
update your profile.
Be sure to update under the correct
tab.
If Marital Status is divorce, please
contact the school to have an
additional parent account created if
required.
The information entered will be
used for the permanent record
cards as required by the
Archdiocese.
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If Marital Status is marked as
divorced or single, the other parent
profile will not be required.
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Accept the User
License Agreement
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Check “I accept end user
license agreement.”
Click
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Additional Parent Account Letters?
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Please repeat the registration
process for each child. Your
accounts will sync upon
completion.
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Ascend SMS Screen Layout
On All Screens
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Across the top displays
your school logo –
which is hyperlinked to
your school website –
together with your
school name and
address.
Clicking on the ASCEND
SMS logo always brings
you back to this
“Home” screen .
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On All Screens
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Ascend SMS Screen Layout
This blue tabbed menu
bar appears on all
screens.
Each tab may have a
sub menu.
The viewing area allows
you to change which
student you are viewing should you have more
than one child enrolled
at this school.
Clicking the allows
you to quickly send a
message to the school’s
AscendSMS
administrator.
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Ascend SMS Screen Layout
On All Screens
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The left hand side
displays the SECURE
AREA , which describes
the current date, term,
and user login
information.
User can also select to
• manage accounts,
• edit profile,
• change password,
or to
• logout
from any screen.
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The first screen you see
after logging is the
Home Screen
Your child’s most recent
assignment grades are
shown
Each column can be
sorted by clicking the
button. Clicking the
same column a
second time will sort
the column in opposite
order
Clicking on an individual
assignment pulls up
performance
information about that
assignment (see next
slide)
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Parent Home Tab
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The class performance
screen for a particular
assignment is shown
here.
The assignment name is
listed here.
Click
to close the
performance screen.
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Class Performance Screen
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Parent Attendance Tab
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The attendance tab
shows all absences,
tardiness, and early
dismissal information
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Parent Progress Tab
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The Progress tab
shows your child’s
progress measured
against the class
average and/or the
top performer.
Click here to select
what term, which
course, and which
month to view your
child’s progress.
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Parent’s Snapshot Tab
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The Snapshot tab
shows your child’s
grades in each
subject.
Click here to look at
past term snapshots
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Parent’s
Homework Tab
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The Homework Tab has 2
sub menu’s:
• Email alert
• Homework Calendar
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Parent’s Homework Tab
Email Alert
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Email Alert:
• Ascend SMS allows parents
to be alerted often or as
little as you like via:
• Grade Alerts
• Assignment Alerts
• Email Preferences
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Parent’s Homework Tab
Email Alert
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Grade Alerts:
• Click which subjects for
which you want to be
notified, then
• Select which
assignment types
you wish to be
notified
• Tests
• Quizzes
• Homework
• Other
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In this example, the parent
wants to be alerted for
only quizzes and tests in
subjects Religion and
Language Arts, but wants
be alerted for all
assignment types in
Mathematics.
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Parent’s Homework Tab
Email Alert
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Assignment Types:
• Alternatively,
you may wish to be
notified when an
assignment is scored
less than or equal to a
set percentage.
In this example, the parent
will be alerted for all
subjects where student
receives a grade of less
than 90%.
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Parent’s Homework Tab
Email Alert
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Email Preferences:
• You can select
how often you wish
to be alerted:
• As it happens
(immediately after grade
is entered)
• Summary
• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Here is where you enter your
email address(es) for your
computer and/or mobile phone
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In this example, the parent
will be alerted “as it
happens,” i.e., immediately
after the grade is posted
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Parent’s Homework Tab
Homework Calendar
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The Homework Events Calendar
screen shows:
• The number of homework tasks
assigned that day
• By clicking on the number
beside the category pulls
up more detail (next slide)
This example, school was not
in session November 21, 22, 23
therefore, no homework was
posted.
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Parent’s Homework
Homework Calendar Tab
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The Homework Listing screen
shows:
• homework assigned by
all your student’s
teachers that day
• Items your student was
asked to take home
• Items your student was
asked to bring to school
the next day
• Messages from the
teacher to you
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