PowerTeacher
Gradebook
Introduction
The Stamford Public School district acquired the
Pearson PowerSchool suite of student
information management tools to take the place
of StarStudent. PowerTeacher is one of the
web-enabled modules that is integrated with
our PowerSchool student information system. It
provides teachers with a variety of classroom
management tools including an online
gradebook.
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Overview
• PowerSchool Gradebook will be rolled out to
Stamford Middle and High School teachers
starting in the fall of 2014.
• The gradebook implementation will then be
followed by opening the public portal for
students and parents during the fall of the
2014-2015 school year.
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Teacher Benefits
• It will save teacher’s time. PowerTeacher
Gradebook is seamlessly integrated with
PowerSchool, so almost no setup is required
for teachers.
• All classes, rosters, student demographic
information, grading periods, standards,
rubrics and grades scales are automatically
loaded.
• Teachers can access Gradebook from almost
any web-enabled device.
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Benefits of Student Portal
• Enabling students to view their grades in real
time throughout their classes instead of
having to wait for a report card to show up
once per quarter will empower them to take
ownership of their learning.
• Students can direct their own learning and
assume responsibility for their own work.
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Benefits of Parent Portal
The parent portal enhances our schoolto-home communication by providing
our parents real time access to
attendance, assignments, assignment
scores, teacher comments, final grades,
school announcements and much more.
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Key Dates
• April 8, 2014: A core group of approximately 25 teachers
from our Middle and High Schools participated in
Gradebook training presented by a Pearson trainer on April
8 and 9, 2014.
• May 15, 2014: Gradebook Implementation Steering Group
meeting to review goals, implementation timeline,
launching of Parent/Student Portal and any other rollout
details that will emerge.
• June: PowerSchool Gradebook PD Leader position to be
posted.
• Summer 2014: Teachers selected to serve as PowerSchool
PD Leader to provide the August 29 training will convene
for a train-the-trainer session conducted by Paula Ward and
Kelly Murphy.
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Key dates
• August 29, 2014: Teachers at middle and high schools attend a hands-on
training class for 2 hours. This professional development will be delivered
by the PowerSchool Gradebook PD Leader.
Topics covered:
• Setting up courses using weighted categories;
• Weighting semester/quarters and
• The creation of semester assignments
• September 2, 2014: Teachers begin using PowerTeacher Gradebook.
• September 8 to October 3, 2014: Gradebook support will be provided by
the PowerSchool Gradebook PD lead and by Central Office staff onsite
throughout the school day.
• November 4, 2014: 2 hour follow-up training for Middle and High School
Teachers.
• Fall-Winter 2014 – Parent and student portal will be opened
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Gradebook Features
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PowerTeacher GradeBook provides real-time access to student rosters by scheduled class.
As information is updated in PowerSchool, PowerTeacher is also updated.
Conversely, as data such as attendance and grades are posted to PowerTeacher GradeBook,
PowerSchool is updated.
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Gradebook Features
PowerTeacher GradeBook provides the teacher with the ability to
post and publish all components that will be used to calculate
marking period and final grades including homework, projects,
quizzes, and exams
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Class Content
Teachers can post expectations and links to resources that describe and support a
particular assignment or task. With the Class Content feature, teachers can maintain their
own libraries of resources that can be linked to the assignments, or to the class
description. When we go live with PowerSchool’s Parent and Student portal, parents and
students will be able to view these assignments/tasks online.
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Gradebook Features
• As students complete assignments and teacher evaluates student
work, grades can be posted.
• Based on district and teacher parameters, the grades will be
continually calculated to show student progress.
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Individualized Assessment
The Student View of gradebook provides the teacher with overall view of
each student’s work and provides an alternative way to enter the student's
grades.
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GradeBook Reports
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PowerTeacher GradeBook has a variety of reports including attendance, demographic, grade
and roster reports.
Each report can be run on an individual student, a select group of students or all students.
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Parent/Student Portal Features
When we go live with Parent Portal, teachers will be able to publish the
components of what will make up marking period and final grades including
assignments, projects, tests and exams. This information will help parents
keep up with their child’s academic progress and attendance.
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Resources
An online portal will be developed by Central
Office personnel to house:
• Pearson website
• PowerSource
• Gradebook training materials
• Pearson videos
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PowerTeacher
Gradebook