When do grades need to be submitted?
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Anonymous
| Curious when grades need to be submitted for the quarter. There are still a bunch for grades not recorded or updated in synergy. OC submitted one assignment late but got full marks on it. It is worth a significant percentage of the grade. The teacher told him it would be updated by last week, but it wasn't. He asked again and the teacher said not to worry about what is in synergy. But we were always told the report card grades are pulled from synergy. When do grades have to be submitted? Thanks! |
Anonymous
| Also, ParentVUE/StudentVUE / synergy is going to be down tomorrow for maintenance? That seems strange when it is a day teachers need to be using it to complete grading. |
Anonymous
It always is down while teachers finalize grades. |
Anonymous
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Teachers have to post report cards by 5 pm tomorrow. Synergy will be down tomorrow evening.
Families will see report cards a couple days later |
Anonymous
| 5 pm tomorrow. |
Anonymous
| Thank you! |
Anonymous
| I assume it doesn't matter if an assignment is missing if you don't mind the resulting grade, right? My son was sick for a few days and he has one HW marked as "missing" (though he did talk to the teachers, maybe he missed this, don't know exactly.) He got 50% credit on it due to it being missing and his grade is a clear A anyway, just want to make sure this won't impact anything (like getting an incomplete or whatnot.) |
Anonymous
The final grade is all that matters. |
Anonymous
| Synergy is still open as of 6:45. I’m not sure why. |
Anonymous
I know my kid has some outstanding assignments not graded yet. |
Anonymous
Also waiting for some updates |
Anonymous
It’s possible you won’t see them now. You can ask for a grade report. |
Anonymous
| When can we see them? and whom can I ask? |
Anonymous
Email teachers tomorrow when Synergy reopens. You may come across as a bit micromanaging and paranoid compared to other parents, but you’ll get the grade report and can verify that everything was graded. Personally, I would wait until I saw the report card and had questions about a specific final grade, but you know your needs hierarchy and I don’t. |
Anonymous
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Synergy is back up this morning. I would expect you can see grades in ParentVue now.
Report cards will be distributed on Tuesday 11/15, which I think means they will create the files by end of this week in order to print them (they are done centrally and then distributed to schools). I think the report card pdf appears under documents usually the weekend before the paper copies are sent home. Nothing can change at this point with respect to the report card generation, so if you think something is incorrect, there is no need for a rush to fix it. Be polite in your communications. If there is just an honest mistake (paper misplaced, thought the grade had been entered, etc.) the teacher can fix it by putting in a grade change request to the school registrar via an internal form. This is the same process for an incomplete (I). If you and the teacher disagree about the situation, you can more formally request a grade correction using this form: https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/forms/pdf/355-27a.pdf Personally, I wouldn't bother about any MS courses and grade changes. Chalk errors up to experience and how to monitor and handle the situation better next time. For HS, choose your battles wisely. Remember that MCPS has a heavy curve for semester grade calculation, which is what is on the transcript. BA=A, CB=B etc. And if the issue is that 1st qtr grade is a borderline high C but DC turned in an assignment after the deadline hoping the teacher would take and now you think DC can't get an A for the semester .... Stop and have a conversation with the teacher. Teachers can override the automatic semester grade calculation. If a kid wants an A, then I tell them I need to see A work consistently 2nd qtr, especially on quizzes and tests. If I do, I'll bump up the semester grade. |