SIS - Student Information System - updating (or not)

[Anonymous]

I thought the whole point of the SIS was that teachers no longer had to send out progress reports every two weeks like they used to. Information about students' grades would be even more up to date, as teachers would enter them as grades on assignments were calculated.

My child's teachers were very on top of this for the first three or four months of the school year. Now, many of them hardly update it at all. My son has some grades that I have been staying on top of him to raise by the end of the quarter. He tells me he has taken tests and quizzes and turned in projects since SIS was last updated (early to mid-March), but we have no way of knowing how those grades have impacted his overall grade.

Wondering what others experiences are with this.

[Anonymous]

We have a mixed experience as well. Some teachers update it regularly. Other teachers (such as my DS' math teacher) update it once every 6 weeks or so.

[Anonymous]

Same with DD middle school. Varies by teacher and can be frustrating. Nothing entered in SIS since return from spring break. In some classes, kids know their grades though as many teachers have them track manually in their notebooks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same with DD middle school. Varies by teacher and can be frustrating. Nothing entered in SIS since return from spring break. In some classes, kids know their grades though as many teachers have them track manually in their notebooks.

I am a middle school teacher. Sometimes there aren't grades to record if we are in the middle of a major project or writing assignment because we spend weeks preparing for the assessment to be submitted. There are weeks in which there is just a lot of instruction and practice, but there aren't any assessments to record in SIS, so SIS isn't updated. The teachers in my department only record grades for quizzes, tests, projects, and essays, and those aren't always evenly spread throughout the marking period. We try to spread them out evenly, but that doesn't always happen.

[Anonymous]

As a middle school teacher, it frustrates me too. I enter grades at least 1x per week (if nothing else, there is daily homework I can enter, and there's always late/makeup work students hand in). The kids complain to me constantly that ________ teacher hasn't updated grades in weeks and how are they supposed to know what they are still missing? (I tell them if they turned everything in on time, it wouldn't be an issue, but then they roll their eyes at me in their adorable 13 year old sassy way).

School policy is that we enter at least 1 grade every 2 weeks. In reality, there is no accountability until the end of the quarter. Parents, email (or better yet, have your student email and CC you on it) the teacher and ask for verification that work has been made up, and ask when you can expect to see updated grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same with DD middle school. Varies by teacher and can be frustrating. Nothing entered in SIS since return from spring break. In some classes, kids know their grades though as many teachers have them track manually in their notebooks.

I am a middle school teacher. Sometimes there aren't grades to record if we are in the middle of a major project or writing assignment because we spend weeks preparing for the assessment to be submitted. There are weeks in which there is just a lot of instruction and practice, but there aren't any assessments to record in SIS, so SIS isn't updated. The teachers in my department only record grades for quizzes, tests, projects, and essays, and those aren't always evenly spread throughout the marking period. We try to spread them out evenly, but that doesn't always happen.

OP here. It's not that. Some of the teachers pre-load quizzes and tests and the date they will take place. I know my child has taken a quiz or test (for example, on 3/15) but they don't know their grade yet. So it just shows "Not Graded" and "100 points possible"....three weeks later.

In the first two quarters of the year, my ds would go on SIS on a daily basis to see where he stood and it was very helpful and motivating to him.

[Anonymous]

My child got B+ in Science, instead of A for second quarter, because of irresponsible teacher who didn't bother to enter the second quarter grades in SIS well until into the first 1-2 weeks of third quarter. I realized there were mistakes in 8 homework topics, which would have moved the grade upto A.. I reminded my child to contact counselor and teacher almost every few days to get it fixed.. Now it is almost end of 3rd quarter.. My child said yesterday that it is now not possible to fix it, as it is too late.. and the counselor said , the middle school grades really do not matter..

I am thinking this is one of the reason's she did not get into TJ too, even though she is semi-finalist.

What is the point in SIS and grades/// It may not matter for all , but, for some it is very important.

This is Carson Middle School..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child got B+ in Science, instead of A for second quarter, because of irresponsible teacher who didn't bother to enter the second quarter grades in SIS well until into the first 1-2 weeks of third quarter. I realized there were mistakes in 8 homework topics, which would have moved the grade upto A.. I reminded my child to contact counselor and teacher almost every few days to get it fixed.. Now it is almost end of 3rd quarter.. My child said yesterday that it is now not possible to fix it, as it is too late.. and the counselor said , the middle school grades really do not matter..

I am thinking this is one of the reason's she did not get into TJ too, even though she is semi-finalist.

What is the point in SIS and grades/// It may not matter for all , but, for some it is very important.

This is Carson Middle School..

Thats bad.. By the way, I know the science teacher you are talking about