Thanks to Carla S. for providing this week’s Mini-Byte!

It’s that time of the year again! Are your grades close to being done? Are they all weighted less than 20% of the overall spreadsheet? There is an easy way to tell in IGPro. If you don’t have the column activated in IGPro, here are the steps to activate:

1. Select View/Change Columns from the menu bar.
2. Click the Tasks tab.
3. Make sure Statistic 4 is checked and set to display Percent of Spreadsheet.

Happy Grading!

Have you had a student transfer out of your class and now the new teacher or school needs that student’s grades? In the past that information was hard to recover in IGPro. With the later versions of IGPro we are now using, it’s much easier!

1. In IGPro, in the Show drop-down list, choose Tasks/Students/Notes.
2. At the bottom of the spreadsheet window, make sure Show Inactive Students IS checked.
3. Click the transfer student’s name. The date the student transferred out of your class and his/her average at the time displays in the Notes window at the bottom of the screen.

Please remember, NEVER delete a student from your gradebook. Instead, wait for the auto-update to inactivate the student. Once the student is deleted, their records are gone forever. There is no way to recover them.

Edulink–love it or hate it, our parents and students are using it to check academic progress online. Ten thousand of our almost 30,000 hits last month came from students and I think that is awesome! As young adults, we want our students to be responsible for their own learning rather than depending on us or their parents to “make” them learn.

With the end of the 1st Marking Period upon us, it will soon be time to switch our gradebooks to the 2nd Marking Period (I recommend making this switch a few days after the report cards go home). In order for the grades to show on Edulink, the 2nd Marking Period spreadsheet name must be displayed in italics. That is what tells Edulink to “grab” those grades each night and post them online.

To make this change:

1. Select Setup/Classes. The Classes window displays.
2. In the Classes window, in the field for Current Grade Spreadsheet, select the new marking period from the drop-down list.
3. Repeat this process for each of the classes listed on the left side of the window.
4. Click Close.

You launch IGPro. You choose “Open a Gradebook on Your Computer”. You click OK and it sends you to…….where????

You EXPECT to be “pointing” to your teacher folder, but it’s not.

This happens most often with shared computers. If the teacher before you has backed up his/her gradebook to a location other than the network, then when you come along to open IGPro, it looks for YOUR gradebook where the last teacher backed up his/her gradebook.

Not to worry. You just have to “map” IGPro back to your gradebook. All gradebooks are located on the network at:

N:\sasixp\IGPRO\IGPData71

1. Click My Computer on the left of the Open window.
2. “Double-click” the N: Drive.
3. “Double-click” SASIxp folder.
4. “Double-click” IGPro folder.
5. “Double-click” IGPData folder.
6. “Double-click” 071 folder.
7. “Double-click” Your teacher folder.

This year in IGPro the order of the spreadsheets has the 4th Marking Period Spreadsheet at the top. This was done so that the current spreadsheet displays at the top when parents and students go online to check grades.

However, it also means that when you created your gradebooks, the 4th Marking Period Spreadsheet was the first one you saw. As a result many of you have entered grades into the wrong spreadsheet.

Don’t panic! Here are the steps to copy those grades over to the correct spreadsheet:

1. Open the class and the spreadsheet the tasks are to be COPIED TO
2. From the Tasks menu, click Copy Tasks
3. Select the class the tasks are to be COPIED FROM
4. Select the spreadsheet the tasks are to be COPIED FROM
5. Click Next
6. Select the tasks to copy
7. Clear the checkbox for Delete original tasks after copying
8. Click Next
9. Select Raw Score
10. Click Next
11. Click OK

In spite of our best attempts, some of us are still receiving the IGPro server error when trying to open our gradebooks. 

To correct:

1. Launch IGPro.
2. Cancel out of all the windows referring to the IGPro server until you are staring at a blank screen with just the IGPro toolbar across the top.
3. Go to Edit/Preferences.
4. Uncheck Use an Integrade Pro Server.
5. Close IGPro.

The next time you launch IGPro, all should be right with the world.