Admin Skills-Based Report Card Setup - Step 1

The Admin Skills-Based Report Card Setup - Step 1 page is only available to users who log on to txGradebook with a district- or campus-level security administrator user ID. The page allows you to set up report cards that teachers can print from the Grades menu. You can create multiple report cards. For each report card, you select and enter data for the components that you want to print on the report card. Each course is associated with a report card, so the report card options are applied to the course.

This is the first of two pages. On the Step 2 page, you will select the skills that will be assessed on the report card.

To generate report cards:

1. From the Admin menu, select Elementary Report Cards, and then select Elementary Skills-Based Report Card Setup.

The Admin Skills-Based Report Card Setup - Step 1 page is displayed allowing you to set up report cards.

2. In the Report Card field, click to select the report card you are updating. This list is predefined.

3. Select the report card components you want to include:

4. Select Print Parent Signature Line if you want to include a place for parents to sign the report card.

5. Select Print Attendance if you want the student's attendance data to be printed on the report card. If you select Print Attendance, two additional fields are displayed:

6. In the Attendance Period field, click to indicate which period to use for reporting attendance on the report card.

7. If you select Report Card Period, attendance will be calculated based on the period for which the report card is being printed. For example, if the report card is printed for a fifth period reading class, attendance will be pulled for fifth period only. This is the default setting.

8. If you select ADA Period, when the report card prints, the program will determine what the ADA period is for the particular student's attendance track and only count absences incurred during that period.

2. In the Tardy Period field, click to indicate which period to use for reporting tardies on the report card. 

3. If you select Report Card Period, tardies will be calculated based on the period for which the report card is being printed. For example, if the report card is printed for a fifth period reading class, tardies will be pulled for fifth period only. This is the default setting.

4. If you select ADA Period, when the report card prints, the program will determine what the ADA period is for the particular student's attendance track and only count tardies incurred during that period.

5. If a particular period is used for reporting tardies at the elementary level, you can select the period. This may or may not be the ADA period.

2. Select Print Letter Grid if you want to include the letter grid for indicating the student’s recognition skills related to alphabet letters, such as recognizing upper- and lower-case letters. This is only used if the letters skill set is associated with the course.

3. Select Print Number Grid if you want to include the number grid for indicating the student's recognition and ability to write numbers. This is only used if the numbers skill set is associated with the course.

4. In the Grading Type field, click to select the grading type to be used on the report card. The drop down lists all grading types set up on the Admin > Elementary Skills-Based Setup page.

5. In the Choose District Logo field, you can select a logo to be included at the top of the report card. The drop down lists all images that have been copied to the correct location on the server by the district and are referenced in a key in the config file.

Notes:

• The logo file names will have "_elem_logo" somewhere in the file name (e.g., bestview_elem_logo.gif and bestview_elem_logo_new.gif).

• The default logo for the district will always appear in the drop down, regardless of how the file is named. This is the image file for the log that appears on the txGradebook Login page; it can also be used for the report cards.

6. Under Grading Type Description, you can enter a detailed explanation of the grading type. A blank letter editor and formatting toolbar are displayed. The buttons on the toolbar allow you to change the font, size of font, attributes (bold, italic, underline), alignment, spacing, and other formatting of the text.

For example, if the grading type is E,S,U, the description could be as follows:

6. E - Excellent

7. S - Satisfactory

8. U - Unsatisfactory

This description will print on the report card under Grading Scale. It also appears on the Assignment Grades (skills-based) page when you move the pointer over the Grade Types field.

7. Under District Message, you can type a message that will be displayed on the report card for all students.

8. In the Orientation field, indicate if you want to use the narrow or wide orientation depending on your printer orientation setting.

9. Click Save.

If your changes were saved successfully, a message is displayed indicating that the save was successful.

10. Click Go to Step 2 to go to the next page for setting up elementary skills-based report cards.