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05-09-2008, 05:34 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NORCAL.
Posts: 224
| does your school use an online program where you can access your grades?
okay so my school uses parent connect and honestly it's screwed up.
my friend's in student life committee and she said they're thinking of using another online thing where you can access your grades and stuff and i suggested school loop cause i know my public school does it and that's the only other one i know of ..
but do you guys know any that you actually like and isn't screwed up? | 
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05-09-2008, 08:14 PM
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#2 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: US
Posts: 325
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05-09-2008, 08:18 PM
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#3 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 357
| No; our transcripts are straight-up ink and tears. | |
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05-09-2008, 08:22 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 57
| Edline...unfortunately
I like the fact that you can access your grades constantly and the fact that you can access homework and assignments on it. However, I hate having parents know all about what I'm doing during a certain week of school, and if I get a bad grade on a quiz (which doesn't really affect my grade), they'll ask me about it. It gets annoying having your parents have all that information. | |
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05-09-2008, 08:31 PM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 765
| Aeries. It helps a ton to be able to check your grades. Teachers can't pull any "fast ones" on you, and you can inform them of mistakes in input which occur a lot. | |
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05-09-2008, 08:48 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 218
| yup...it's great since you can track what you missed, mistakes, absences, etc. we no longer get progress reports because of it | |
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05-09-2008, 09:13 PM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 380
| Nope, just paper progress reports and report cards.
My sister's school tried it, then dropped it for unknown reasons. As of now my school has no plans to do this. | |
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05-09-2008, 09:19 PM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 182
| Well, our school uses Skyward Family Access. Most everyone and their parents like having the ability to check grades, and it estimates what you're getting for semester based on your current and past quarter grades (obviously it's a pretty crude estimate, though). It has information about the money you owe, how much money you have in your lunch account, attendance, etc.
So far, there hasn't been any major problems with it. We had one recently, but that was a person in the office who made it a mistake, but it was a pretty limited problem and easily fixed. I guess some of the teachers had a slightly hard time adjusting to it, though. | |
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05-09-2008, 09:23 PM
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#9 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NORCAL.
Posts: 224
| hmm .. i sent these websites to my friend through email.
thanks guys, parent connect does no good. first of all, it's only meant for parents and hence my parents dont get the point that EVERY OTHER PARENT gives their kid the password so that they can check their grades ... but it is saved on my laptop so i can look at them anyway.
that's why i'd rather have something that BOTH me and my parents can access. along with that, my gpa on there is totally wrong and ...
the community service department has to enter our hours like they're a grade ... | |
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05-09-2008, 09:40 PM
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#10 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: A place where rich hobos, with bodacious hips, run rampant...
Posts: 525
| yes, but there are often times mistakes. | |
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05-09-2008, 09:52 PM
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#11 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 57
| edline. totally sucks, especially since teachers dont even input stuff except when required to for the end of the grading period (every 6 weeks) | |
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05-09-2008, 10:27 PM
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#12 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 52
| We have one. I think it's better to not have it. It's so stressful and all we care about is our grades. The teachers are also stressed about by the demands of grade by both students and parents constantly.
It can also ruin your day! | |
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05-09-2008, 11:53 PM
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#13 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 55
| My school uses parent connect too, but they just started using student connect as well which provides us students with a different username/password than our parents. I'm not sure what the point is really, I always used my parents' to check my grades, but there aren't really any major problems with the way it works here... | |
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05-10-2008, 12:30 AM
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#14 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 248
| Yeah, Powerschool Quote: |
The teachers are also stressed about by the demands of grade by both students and parents constantly.
| One of my favorite teachers had to go another school to teach because so many students complained to higher levels about him putting in grades slowly (those dang students...) | |
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05-10-2008, 12:51 AM
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#15 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dallas
Posts: 259
| yes... it's called parent connect... wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh | |
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