BASH Weekly #8

Student Awards Day/Regents Prep KICK OFF! Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Remember to give Peggy your nominations for student awards. We will also be sharing out Regents Prep incentives for students after the awards ceremony.

Chancellor's Day Professional Development

Thank you teachers for a very successful day of collaboration and learning.

Want to locate files from past professional development sessions? Use the "search" field below (also located on the front page of www.bronxbash.com). Input key words like "questioning techniques", "level of concern", "Bloom's taxonomy", "common core", "critical thinking", etc.

chancellors_day_schedule_2011-12.doc
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New Features for Datacation's Gradebook 

The following features will open to Teachers and Administrators on Skedula on Monday, November 21st and to Students and Parents on Pupil Path on Wednesday, November 23rd.

  1. New grade calculation options
  2. Weighting of individual assignments
  3. Extra credit assignment options
  4. Teacher and student grade display options:
  • Choice of displaying input values, percentages and/or point values
  • Choice of average grade displayed including grade ranges or valid grade conversion
  • Choice of marking period average to be displayed
  • Enhanced choice of color and icon grade ranges for failing, borderline, passing and honors grades
  • New Pupil Path Gradebook View
Teachers and Administrators will have two days to use these new functions before Students and Parents can view them on Pupil Path. Documentation is now currently available on our help site at  http://help.skedula.com/help/?Topic=222

Please note that these are enhancements and will not affect the way the gradebook is currently used.

The Datacation Support Team will be hosting webinars this week to introduce these functions. It will also be taped and available for future reference.  We hope you will join us on one of the following dates (click on the link to make your reserve your seat):

Tuesday, November 15th, 3:15pm

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/801280182  

Tuesday, November 15th, 4:30pm

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/871579406  

Wednesday, November 16th, 3:15pm

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/383357030 

Wednesday, November 16th, 4:30pm

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/515374550