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	<title>The Parent Portal</title>
	<summary></summary>
	<author>Matt Freund</author>
	<keywords>Adobe Captivate Project The Parent Portal</keywords>
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	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>Welcome to the Parent Portal tutorial, an interactive simulation designed to give parents, guardians, and students a look at the portal.  Teachers may also find it useful as a way to see what the parents will see.

The information that appears in the tutorial is from a training database from Powerschool.  The school, student, teachers, grades, and other information is fictitious.  The images that appear are the default images of the portal and may be different in a real situation if the school has customized the look of the portal.   PowerSchool is a Trademark of Pearson Education, Inc.</text>

	<text>Tutorial created by Matt Freund on July 2009</text>
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<section type="slide" position="2">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>This is the portal login screen.  Once you&apos;re at the screen, you will type in your 
username and password and click on the Enter button to login.</text>

	<text>Click on the blue Enter 
button to continue.</text>
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<section type="slide" position="3">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>This is the first page you will see after you login, also known as the Grades and Attendance page.  At the top of the page is the student&apos;s name, date and time 
of last login, school information, and some navigation icons to other pages - 
you will see that same information and those icons on every page.   

In this tutorial, feel free to click on any of the icons to learn more about the page associated with that icon.  When you&apos;re logged into the actual portal, you can click on the question mark icon to the right of the logout button to learn more about the page.  Also, when logged into the actual portal, clicking on the blue PowerSchool wording in the top left-hand corner will return you to this page.

To exit the tutorial, click on the Logout button in the top right-hand corner. </text>
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	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The Grades and Attendance page displays the last two weeks worth of attendance for each course, the course name and the teacher&apos;s name, grades and percentages, and total absences and tardies.</text>

	<text>Letters and numbers in blue are links to more information.  Click on the A- or 95 under Q1 or the 2 under Absences to see more information.</text>

	<text>There is a link to standard&apos;s grades from this page and citizenship grades appear in the letter grade column (H).</text>
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<section type="slide" position="5">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The Grades History page displays grades for the entire school year.  
Clicking on a percentage will show you more information for that grade.</text>
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<section type="slide" position="6">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The Attendance History page displays the attendance for a term.  Dots indicate the class was not in session and blanks indicate the student was present.  Otherwise an attendance code will appear for the date.  A legend will appear toward the bottom of the page explaining the codes.</text>
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<section type="slide" position="7">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The Email Notification page allows you to sign up to receive emails for one or more items.  This icon does not appear when a student logs in.  The emails contain the same information you&apos;ll find here in the portal.</text>
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<section type="slide" position="8">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The Teacher Comments page may or may not display any comments entered by the teachers - it depends on the gradebook being used by the teacher. The teacher&apos;s name is a link to his or her&apos;s email address.</text>
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<section type="slide" position="9">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The School Bulletin page will display information if a school publishes the daily bulletin.  At the bottom will be dates for previous bulletins. </text>
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<section type="slide" position="10">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The Class Registration page allows students to pre-register for the next school year.  The school will still create the student&apos;s final schedule - this page is just to make course requests.  Information only appears if a school uses this function during enrollment time.</text>
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<section type="slide" position="11">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The Balance page will display any meal and fee transactions, as well 
as the current balances for both.  The information only displays if the school is using PowerSchool to track meals and fees.</text>
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<section type="slide" position="12">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The My Calendars page allows you to subscribe to certain classes to track assignments, scores, or final grades. </text>
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</section>
<section type="slide" position="13">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>Clicking on the Logout button will log you out of
Powerschool and take you back to the login page.</text>

	<text>To restart, click on the blue Enter button above.</text>
</content>

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</section>
<section type="slide" position="14">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The Class Score Detail page will appear after you click on a grade.
It will list any teacher comments for that grading period and any assignments and scores that are part of that grade.</text>

	<text>If a teacher has added a comment to an assignment or a score, it will appear in blue and you can click on it.  Click on the blue Book Project under Assignment or 10 under Score to see an example of both.</text>

	<text>The Codes column will show any codes the teacher has given to an assignmnent.</text>
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<section type="slide" position="15">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>The Assignment Description page will appear after you click on a a link to an assingment name.  The Description area will have what the teacher has added in the gradebook to describe the assignment.</text>
</content>

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<section type="slide" position="16">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>When you click on a blue score, a window will pop up  with the comment the teacher has added to the score in the Comment area.

Click here to return to the previous screen.</text>
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</section>
<section type="slide" position="17">
	<title></title>

	<content>
	<text>This page will appear anytime you click on a number in the Absences column on the Grades and Attendance page.  Absences and codes are listed on this page, along with a code legend at the bottom.</text>
</content>

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