Gradebook

Starting WebPams Gradebook: WebPams Version

Ask your JPams district coordinator for the web address of the WebPams gradebook in your district. It is usually in this format: Media:http://webserveraddress/WebPams Your address: ____________________________________ Using your favorite browser, go to the address given. At the start page, enter your User ID and Password, then click Sign In.

Important for Web Gradebook: Save often and Logout when done! If stopping Web Gradebook for a moment to do some other task, be sure to save first! Main Screen for WebPams – 3 sections – Menu Items, Messages from Edgear, Stats for district enrollment and ethnicity breakdown

WebPams Gradebook

Click on Grades, then WebGradebook to open the gradebook. (Presently in testing mode until completion)

Setup Box appears – make changes, if necessary, and click OK.

At the bottom of the screen, choose Year; Teacher, if necessary; Course; Marking Period.

Toolbar Icons

Tooltips are available for each icon. Just hold your mouse pointer (without clicking) over each icon and an explanation will appear.

1. Assignments: Click to display the dropdown menu to access the New item which creates a New Assignment for the class section. Once an assignment is created, you can use the Edit item to make changes or the Remove item to remove or delete an assignment. 2. Grades: This menu allows you to use grades features. 3. Reports: Creates reports, logs, charts, etc. The remainder of the items all give the same type of graphs dealing with the Selected Assignments, All Assignments, and Final Grade. 4. Show Me: Allows you to see Empty Grades, LEP students, and more to come. 5. Admin: Allows administrators to preform tasks. 6. Attendance: Allows teachers to complete daily attendance. 7. Discipline: Allows teachers to complete their sections of the Behavioral Form. 8. Seating Chart: Creates a seating chart for the students in each class. 9. Save: A very important item used to save grades entered on each assignment. This is a must to save the grades – whether new grades or changes to existing grades.

Setting up Non Weighted Categories

Use categories to organize your gradebook, but is not mandatory. The categories creates items used as defaults and can be changed when entering a new assignment. This feature allows you to choose specific colors for the different types of assignments given in a class. (i.e. Test, Quiz, Term Paper, etc.) These categories will appear in the Assignment Type drop-down box when you create a new assignment.

1. To create categories, click on Assignments on the Menu Bar and choose Categories from the drop-down menu. 2. Click on Blank line to create a new category completing the Name of the category (i.e. Tests, Exams, Homework, etc). Select the Grade Type. Enter the default Maximum Value (this can be changed when creating an assignment) of points. Select a Color for the assignment type. When done, click Save (green box) to save the assignment category. Continue using the blank line to add additional assignments.

Setting up Weighted Categories

This feature allows you to set categories that are based on weight values of the total grade. When a user creates assignments with weighted categories, no non-weighted categories can be used in combination with these weighted categories within a class section.

1. Use the same steps as the Non-Weighted Categories above. 2. In the Weight field, enter the weight value that this category will use. 3. When done setting up weighted categories, click Save (green box).

Important Note about Categories and Weights: All categories created in WebGradebook show for all classes. A user can have categories that are non-weighted for some classes and also have weighted categories for others.

The user needs to remember that if a weighted category is used on an assignment in a particular class, then all assignments in that class must be of a weighted category type. The gradebook will not calculate weighted and non-weighted assignments in the same class.