Powergrade Help...

Welcome to the Powergrade resources page. Below are items that should help you with your powergrade questions or issues. Don't forget, a good resource for Powergrade help is in the program itself. Simply use the Help menu (Help for Powergrade) when you have the program open.

Powergrade Beginning of The Year Setup & General Help

Powergrade Help - This is a link to an external site (FloydCalderwood.com) that has excellent directions and tips for Powergrade.

Video Tutorials - Atomic Learning has on line videos you can watch to show you almost everything pertaining to Powergrade. To access all of the powergrade videos on Atomic Learning, you'll need to log into the Atomic Learning website with a username and password. Click HERE to view Atomic Learning usernames and passwords.

District Powergrade Mandates...
The district requires that you follow the procedures below pertaining to Powergrade set up and use.

DISTRICT POWERGRADE MANDATES- K-12

*Assignments shall be linked to standards.  Do so by clicking the Standards button when entering a new assignment.

*An assignment can only be linked to 1 standard.

*If an assignment has parts to it that address different standards, the assignment shall be broken down into parts and entered into powergrade as separate assignments linked to the appropriate standard.

*Assignment Weights….  ALL Assignments must be weighted at 1.

*Teachers shall create their own assignment categories. 

DISTRICT POWERGRADE MANDATES- ELEMENTARY

*Teachers should set up their own categories in each class.  The names of the categories should match the standards for the course.  To create categories, simply get into a class in powergrade, go up to the Windows menu and choose Categories..

*Reports…  Grade_Report_Q1_Categories is an example of an individual student Powergrade report that will group assignments together by category and gives the overall percentage for each category.

DISTRICT POWERGRADE MANDATES- MIDDLE SCHOOl & HIGH SCHOOL

*Categories must be set up to reflect 80% Achievement and 20% Productivity for final grade calculation. Productivity should be one of your powergrade categories and should be weighted at 20%. The remaining 80% can either be one category named Achievement, or it can be broken down into various categories, as long as the total of those categories comprises 80% of the total grade. Compare how two different teachers could set up their categories.

*It is recommended, but not required, that assignment names begin with some identifier according to which standard that assignment addresses.  For example, let’s say you have a math quiz that addresses the standard “numbers and operations” which happens to be standard 1 for math.  You could enter the assignment as:

N&O:  Chapter 2 quiz

Or

1:  Chapter 2 quiz

This will be helpful later when you run reports on assignments that are alphabetized.  Try it.  Before running a student report, alphabetize your assignments on your spreadsheet.  Do so by:

1. From the Utilities menu, select Re-order Assignments.
2. Sort by name, then click OK

Now when you run a student report, assignments will be grouped alphabetically, by STANDARD.