PowerTeacher Menu & Icon Explanations
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Left Navigation Menu:
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| The Daily Bulletin could be used by the office to post daily events. The date links in the center of the screen can be used to view a bulletin other than the current date. Teachers cannot modify the bulletin, only read it. |
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Here you can find a listing of your fellow school staff members. Each person's email address is a clickable link which will open a new email message formatted to that person. At the bottom of the list you will notice a group email feature which allows you to copy and paste everyone's email address - this is handy if you need to send a building email although there may be limits on how many recipients a message can have.
Some email addresses may be missing. The Address Book in Outlook is probably more complete and up-to-date than the one in PowerTeacher.
How to Filter: Click a staff group link (e.g. All or Teachers or Staff) next to Listing Options at the top of the list. The list will change to show the selected group. |
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The personalize menu contains the MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE... CHANGE PASSWORD. Use a password that has both letters and numbers. Avoid using family member or pet names, since those can sometimes be found via internet searches. Anyone on the internet could alter your gradebook, etc. if you use a poor password or allow students to know what it is.
You may also change the default screen that comes up when you are browsing students in the backpack section. I like to keep mine on Quick Look-up, which I use to see if past absences were excused or not. Meeting Attendance is another option you could use for that. |
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The reports menu is where you would go to print a report for all your students at once. You use a different approach if you instead want to print a report for only an individual student or want to print a report for only one class.
At this writing there is only an Attendance Audit Report. If you need a grade report, see Printing Individual Student Grade Reports for how to print one from your Gradebook.
How to Run Reports for All Students
The first drop down menu will contain all the reports which have been created for use in your school. The other settings allow you to print a watermark over the printout or delay your print job for another time. |
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| Option | Explanation |
| Which report would you like to print? | Choose the report to print from the pop-up menu. |
| For which students? | The preset report's selected number of students appears.
Note: This field does not appear when running a report for
an individual student. |
| Test print? | You are encouraged to use the Test Print feature until you know each of the reports. Some take a long time to run, and you do not want to wait for a report only to learn it is the wrong one.
Select this checkbox to generate a test printing of the report, and enter the number of pages to print. If you do not select this checkbox, all the report pages print.
Note: This field does not appear when running a report for an individual student. |
| Watermark Text | If you want to print text as a watermark on each page of the report, use this pop-up menu to either choose one of the
standard phrases or choose Custom and enter the text you want to print as a watermark in the blank field. |
| Watermark Mode | Use the pop-up menu to determine how you want the text to print. Select Watermark to print the text behind objects on
the report. Select Overlay to print the text over objects on the report. |
| When to print | To run this report, select a time to start it:
- ASAP: Execute immediately (this is the default).
- At Night: Execute during the next evening.
- On Weekend: Execute during the next weekend.
- On Specific Date/Time: Execute on the date and time specified in the following fields, using the format mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy. If you do not use this format, an alert appears. If you submit the date with an incorrect format, the date field will be submitted as a blank entry.
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When you've set the options you want, click Submit. The Report Queue – My Jobs page appears.
 How to Use the Report Queue
When you run a report, you can view, cancel, and regenerate reports from the report queue. The Report Queue icon, which looks like a piece of paper, appears in the navigation bar near the top of the PowerTeacher window next to the Logout button. The icon only appears when you have reports in the queue.
- On the navigation bar, click the Report Queue icon.
- The Report Queue - My Jobs Page appears.
Do one of the following:- Click Refresh at the top of the page to update the status of the jobs.
- Once a report is complete, you can click Completed at the right end of its listing to view and print the report.
- You can click the appropriate Trashcan icon to delete a report.
- If you click the Job Name of the report, you'll see details of the report job. Select the Run Job Again checkbox to regenerate the report. Click the Result File link to view the PDF of the completed report.
How to Run Class Reports
- Instead of using the Reports menu, you go back to the Start Page and click the printer icon next to the class for which you want to run a report. The Print Class Reports page appears.
- Enter information in the fields. See the yellow table in How to Run Reports for All Students for options information.
- Click Submit. Depending on the report, either the selected report or the Report Queue – My Jobs page appears.
How to Run a Report for an Individual Student
- Instead of using the Reports menu, you go back to the Start Page and click the backpack icon next to the class for which you want to view student information. The Student Information page appears with the selected class roster displayed in the navigation pane.
- Click the last name of the student whose record you want to view. The student information displays in the default page.
- Choose Print A Report from the Select screens pop-up menu. The "Print A Report" page appears.
- Enter information in the fields. See the yellow table in How to Run Reports for All Students for options information.
- Click Submit. Depending on the report, either the selected report or the Report Queue – My Jobs page appears.
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Class Navigation Icons:
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Clicking on a chair icon allows you to take attendance for a class. The Record Meeting Attendance page appears. Use the pop-up menu to select the attendance code you want entered for a student when you click in the box next to a name.
- If someone is absent, select A (Absent) in the pop-up menu, and then click the box to the right of each student to be marked absent.
- If someone is tardy, select T (Tardy) in the pop-up menu, and then click the box to the right of each student to be marked tardy.
- You can also select (Present) in the pop-up menu to remove an absent or tardy mark from students.
- Click the Submit button to record your marks and return to the Start Page.
By default a student is present if no code is marked for them. However, even if every student is present and on time you still have to go into the attendance screen and click the SUBMIT button so everyone is marked present. |
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The Attendance Indicator changes to a green dot when attendance has been taken for a section. A yellow dot and fraction appears for sections that take attendance multiple times in the same day. |
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The Knife/Fork icon could be used to take lunch counts if a site wished to implement it. |
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 Student Screens |
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On the PowerTeacher start page, click the backpack icon for the class whose student pages you want to view. The class roster appears (shown at left). Click the last name of the student whose record you want to view. The student pages menu displays the default page set as your preference on the Personalize screen. SHORTCUT: Clicking the first name of any student displays the same page that opened for the previous student, but clicking the last name opens your preferred default page.
Click a class under Change Class to open another class, and the main menu displays another list of students.
The drop down menu to the right switches between different information screens for the currently selected student.
Cumulative Grade Information will display a student's GPA , total days absent and present
Demographics is where you will find all the basic info on a student like addresses, phone numbers, etc.
Final Grade Entry is where you enter the final grades and/or standards for your students each quarter
Meeting Attendance is not used
Net/phone Access Summary is not used
Print a Report will do just that for the current student only; see How to Run Reports for All Students for field information.
Quick Lookup will display a student's grades and attendance broken down into quarters
Schedule will show the student's class schedule
Standards is not used yet
Student Photo will display the full size photo
Submit Log Entry is used to send a message to the office about the student. These entries are stored in the student's running log history.
Teacher Comments is simply a place to write in comments about the student which will only be viewable to yourself. Comments are not sent to the office.
Term Grades is where you can view the student's historical grades. Clicking on a a specific grade will bring up the grade book broken down by assignment for schools using PowerGrade.
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