PowerTeacher Support

This website contains links to PowerTeacher Support documentation, primarily on The Modern Pen. These links can also be found on The Modern Pen itself, but it is also collected here to make it easy for teachers to find those relevant blog entries when they are needed.

PowerTeacher Pro is expected to be released for the 2016-2017 school year. This release will include a new Gradebook that runs in Chrome rather than launching a separate application. Updated materials will be created and linked here as PowerTeacher Pro rolls out.

Please note that some of the posts listed below are the same post listed in multiple locations on this page.

Overview/General

• Teachers in multiple schools: Switching between schools
• Student course assignments and English Language Learners
• Grade scales

Categories

• Categories overview
• Categories for Kindergarten
• Categories for Learner Qualities (Middle School)

Assignments and Entry

• Overview on entering assignments
• Assessing the Learner Qualities
• Weighting, points, rubrics overview
• Weighting rubrics: A specific example
• Creating an assignment
• Entering Power Standards for specific assignments
• Quick entry of scores with the Reporting Term filter

Power Standards

• Entering Power Standards for specific assignments
• Entering Power Standards for a specific assignment without entering an academic grade
• Checking student performance in Power Standards
• Power Standards-How to override
• Power Standards-How many assessments?
• Power Standards-Odd or even assessments

End-of-Trimester/End-of-Year

• Report Card tasks
• Self-Verification before Grades & Comments are due
• Overriding Grades
• Overriding Power Standards
• Entering elementary school comments
• Entering elementary school Learner Quality marks
• Entering middle school comments

Gradebook Tips & Tricks

• Fill Down
• Quick Entry of Scores with the Reporting Term Filter