I was wondering how other schools were monitoring teachers posting to Faculty Access.  We have teachers who don't regularly post assignments and grades, even though they are required to do so.  The only way I know of to monitor it is to log into Faculty Access as a Supervisor and search gradebooks.  This is very time consuming and therefore is not getting done as often as it should.

I wonder if someone has come up with a better way to do this.  I would appreciate any ideas.

Thanks,

Marilyn Mossman

Marilyn,

 I don't know of any way to monitor or report on this.  What we do is let the parents drive it.  I am assuming you have NetClassroom.  If so, if the parents are told they will see, at a minimum, a weekly update of grades on NetClassroom.  If it doesn't happen they need to talk(complain) to the teacher.  If no updates continues to happen, word will get back to the principal pretty quick via the parents.  If parents are told by the administration that it will happen then they will expect it.  We used to have problems with this when we first started using FAWeb and NetClassroom but not too much anymore.  If they aren't updating their gradebooks then there are probably a number of other things they aren't doing as well.  Slackers don't last long.

If you make a query and select:

Grades/Daily Grades -- Academic Year = this year, Quarter =whatever quarter you are checking, "date last changed" >= 2 weeks ago (or whatever your criteria is), then you will get a list of gradebooks where the grades haven't been changed in  2 weeks.  On the output tab, you will want to select the TEACHER and the COURSE, that is under that same area (Grades/Daily Grades).   You will have lots of duplicate rows but that is okay, you will still see which teachers have not updated their gradebook in more than 2 weeks.

The only problem with this method is if the teacher entered just one grade, then the date last changed has been updated.  For example, if a student made up an old assignment, and the teacher entered that one make up grade, then the "last changed date" would be something more recent.  However for the most part it will help you find teachers who haven't updated their gradebook. 

 Greetings,

 Which type of query did you use?

SSS