September 26-30

This week I worked on the program Aspen. This is the database our district uses for keeping student information such as contact information, student records, transcripts, and attendance information. We started using this in August. We got a quick 30 minute training on how to post attendance, but that's as far as it went. When students are withdrawn from school, teachers are required to post grades into the system. Our school had scheduled a training for this at the end of the week. However, students were being withdrawn before the training was provided. To help with this problem, Mike (E.T.) taught me how to post grades into the system. I went around to different classrooms and taught teachers how to post grades for those who had students who were moving earlier this week. At the end of the week, Mike trained the rest of the staff on how to post grades into Aspen. I helped throughout the training by walking around and helping teachers who came in late or missed a few steps along the way. I'm sure I will be doing this again next week because I figure some will forget by now and then!