Family Access
by Yvette Carpenter
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Skyward Family Access Please take a few minutes to read this. For a full tutorial on how to's go to the District page and click on Technology. Thank you
Thank You for using Parent Access! We hope that this is a useful communications tool for you and your children who are attending Riverton School District. Riverton HS and MS are hoping to get 100 percent of our teachers, parents and students to use this system.. There are four major components of the Parent Access system that we want to make sure you are aware of: 1. Attendance - Parents are able to both look at the attendance records of their children and to enter attendance absence requests in stead of calling the office. You can also email the attendance secretary with questions or concerns. 2. Student Schedules – This component allows you to see your child’s schedule, get information about classes and contact teachers. Teachers can post information about classes including reminders about assignments and upcoming events so this is a place that parents may wish to check on a regular basis. 3. Grades – Mid-quarter, quarter and semester final grades will be posted in this area as scheduled. Progress reports are available to parents as soon as teachers officially post assignments. Please keep in mind that progress reports are designed to help you see if your child is keeping up with the work assigned. Grades are calculated as assignments are posted but these grades tend not to be a very accurate reflection student progress until about mid-quarter time. Grades can change greatly from day to day especially when there are just a few less significant assignments posted.
Following is a list of items parents should consider when analyzing the grade-book. Missing Assignments: ¬ What is the due date? Often an assignment marked as missing is not overdue. It is a “heads up” to parents that the assignment was given and not yet turned in, but not necessarily overdue. Check due dates on missing assignments. ¬ What is the point value of the assignment? Often times the point value is only a few points which is a minor factor in the overall grade. These assignments are sometimes challenge exercises or participation points missed due to an absence. In some cases it is impossible for the student to make up those assignments; however, they have a limited impact on the overall grade. ¬ Your child might tell you that he/she recently turned in a missing assignment; however, it still appears as missing in a teacher’s gradebook. Remember that teachers only have a limited amount of time per day to prepare for classes and grade papers. A teacher’s main focus is to teach the current lesson. It may take several days for the teacher to grade missing assignments and enter scores in the gradebook. If you still have concerns on whether or not your child has actually turned the assignment in, a quick e-mail to the teacher should answer that question. Quarter Grade ¬ This grade can change overnight as teachers enter items such as tests or large projects. For example, your child may have a quarter grade of an A on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning they could have a quarter grade of a C. This could be the result of a low score on a test or large project.
Using the Skyward grade-book at Riverton CUSD is a relatively new venture for teachers and administration. It is better than “the good old days” when the parent, teacher, and child really never knew what the grade was until manual calculations were made at the end of the quarter. At Riverton we are constantly trying ways to make the reporting system of help to parents without being too confusing. Although we have made a great deal of progress in this past year, we have a long way to go! If you have a question, contacting teachers via e-mail is the best way for a fast response. We are asking all teachers to update their grade books on a regular basis. 4. Parent Email Posting – Teachers are able to email parents if parents post their email address in the Parent Access system. Please check your email address to make sure it is accurate or enter/edit your email address if you would like teachers to be able to contact you using email. High School parents can email Jeanne Andruskevitch and Middle School parents can email Andrea DeRosa if they do not have a user name and password for Parent Access. |
