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txGradebook – A Teacher’s
View
txGradebook
• Is a web-based application designed for use by teachers
in the classroom, at home or anywhere with Internet
access.
• Is fully integrated with the RSCCC/iTCCS Student
Information Systems. NO uploads or downloads are
necessary.
• Supports five different user types: teachers, district
and/or campus administrators with update capabilities or
inquiry only rights.
• Straight forward and easy to use.
• Superior support provided by the ESCs.
• Extremely cost effective!
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txGradebook
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Login
Update Profile
Administer Categories and Assignments
Seating Chart Setup
Post/View Attendance
Enter Assignment Grades
Post/View Cycle and Semester Grades
Print IPRs
Generate various reports
Administrator Options
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Login
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From this page, a user
may establish an account
(1), reset a password (2)
or login to the application
(3).
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Announcements
The announcements displayed on
this page are maintained in the SIS
at both the district and campus
level.
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Settings
To access any of the Settings
pages, click on the Settings tab to
display this menu or use the links
in the sub-menu.
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Update Profile
This page allows the teacher to
change their password or PIN,
update Hint Questions or enter
their phone number, e-mail
address and a note for parents to
view in txConnect.
Note, the option to combine
courses for attendance posting.
By checking this box, coursesections that meet the same
period of the day will be grouped
together on the Post/View
Attendance page.
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Profile - Student Order
Allows teachers to customizes student
order. Teacher’s can select whether new
students should appear at the top or
bottom of the list. Alpha order is the
default.
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Administer Categories
Percentage – weights must total
100%.
Point – the total will initially be
zero and will increment
automatically as assignments are
added to the category.
Multiplier – allows the teacher to
designate how many times a
group of assignments will be
counted towards the average.
Color Coding of Categories
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Copy Categories
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Administer Assignments
This page allows the teacher to
build the assignments that will be
administered for the selected
course-section.
By checking the Extra Credit box,
the assignment can only help the
student’s grade.
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A teacher
may also
enter an
assignment
note which
can be
viewed in
txConnect.
Administer Assignments
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Copy Assignments
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Course Note
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Seating Chart Setup
The Seating Chart Setup page
allows you to create and
maintain seating charts for all
of your classes. The seating
chart lists the student name,
gender, and ID and photos if
available. The seats are colorcoded by gender. Student
seats can be rearranged at
any time.
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Post/View Attendance
On this page, the
teacher may post
attendance for a given
period or view
attendance that has
already been posted.
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Post/View Attendance
Once posted in the
grade book,
attendance must be
changed in the SIS by
the Attendance Clerk.
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Student Information
Throughout the
application, the
teacher may have the
opportunity to click on
the student ID to
display additional
student information.
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Contact Information
If an e-mail address exists for the
contact, you can click the contact's
name to send an e-mail message
to the contact
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Attendance
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Student Schedule
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Photo
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TAKS
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Grades
To access any of the Grades
pages, click on the Grades tab to
display this menu or use the links
in the sub-menu.
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Assignment Grades
This page allows the
teacher to enter student
assignment grades. The
page may be populated
using multiple selection
criteria, including
students withdrawn from
the course.
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Assignment Grades
A red ‘T’ represents a Transfer Walk-In Average. Once a
weight is assigned to the grade, the icon will remain blue for the
remainder of the cycle. This grade will be factored into the
student’s working cycle average. Assignments due before the
student enters the course are automatically excluded from the
cycle average.
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Assignment Grades
An orange note labels an
assignment as a redo or
late. Comments may be
added at the assignment
level and may be selected
to print on the IPR.
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A red note represents an
assignment that has been
excluded from the
student’s working cycle
average.
Assignment Grades
The txGradebook also supports
Incomplete and Missing
assignment grades. A Missing (M)
assignment will count as a zero
while and Incomplete (I) will make
any averages incomplete until a
grade is entered.
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Assignment Grades
The teacher also has the option to
exclude an assignment for all
students or auto-fill the
assignment with a specific grade.
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To save changes made
on the assignment grades
page, the teacher must
enter their PIN and click
Save Grades.
Cycle Grades
The link below is used to
make grades ready to
post into the SIS.
This area displays
information that will be
posted into the SIS.
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Cycle Grades
The teacher may click on the
posted cycle average for each
student to display additional
information posted in a previous
cycle.
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Cycle Grades
The codes and
descriptions displayed
below are maintained in
the SIS.
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IPR Comments
This page allows the
teacher to assign
comments to display on
the student IPR.
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IPR Comments
The teacher may also
enter a note that will
display on a specific
student IPR.
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Print IPR
By entering an average in
the field below and
clicking Select, the list to
choose from will be
condensed.
This page gives the
teacher several options
for printing IPRs.
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Print IPR
By scrolling to the bottom
of the screen, the teacher
will find an area where a
note may be entered that
will display on all student
IPRs.
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Print IPR
Note that two different
comments displayed at
the bottom of the IPR.
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Print IPR by Average
This page allows the
teacher to select students
for which to print IPRs
from all classes taught.
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Reports
To access any of the Reports
pages, click on the Reports tab to
display this menu or use the links
in the sub-menu.
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Blank/Missing Report
This report will show the teacher
which students have
blank/missing/incomplete
assignment grades for the
selected course.
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Blank/Missing Report
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Cycle Grade Range Report
This report will show the teacher a
list of students with a working
cycle average that falls within a
specific grade range.
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Cycle Grade Range Report
Note, this report
was generated
without printing any
student names.
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Assignment Grades Report
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Assignment Grades Report
Note, this report
makes use of an
Assignment Legend
for matching up
assignment grades
with the appropriate
assignment title.
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UIL Report
This report is only available to
administrative users and
teachers who have been
granted UIL access in the SIS.
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UIL Report
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Class Roster Report
The Class Roster Report page
allows Teachers to view and print
the class rosters.
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Class Roster Report
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Missing Exam Grades Report
The Missing Exam Grades
Report produces a report of
students who are missing
semester exam grades.
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Missing Exam Grade Report
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Seating Charts Report
The Seating Charts Report allows
teachers to print seating charts for all
periods or one period.
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Seating Charts Report
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Attendance Verification Report
The Attendance Verification Report Selection page allows
teachers to produce a report showing attendance for all students
for a selected course section and date range. Teachers can view
data for up to one semester. Teachers can also generate a
summary report that displays only totals for the selected date
range.
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Attendance Verification Report
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Attendance Verification Report
A summary report that
displays only totals for
the selected date range.
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Special Programs Report
The Special Programs Report produces a report of
the special programs in which students are
enrolled.
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Special Programs Report
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Administrator Options
A district administrative user may
choose which campus and
teacher grade book to access,
while the campus administrative
user may only select the teacher.
The Synchronize Data button
should be used to update the
settings defined in the SIS Grade
Reporting and Attendance
headers.
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Admin Student Grades
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Admin Student Grades
The administrator may click on the
current cycle average for any
course in the schedule to display
the category and assignment
detail.
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Missing Averages Report
This report is only available to
Administrative Users.
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Missing Averages Report
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Special Programs Report
The report provides a listing of the
special populations for each
student.
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Special Programs Report
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