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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi--can someone advise whether we should be checking this regularly and whether the info is accurate? When I clicked on the gradebook tab last week for my middle school kids, my kid had all 100s (which I thought was unlikely), and today when I checked, the grades have dropped and include a D. Are these weekly grades reflecting assignments?

Sadly there has been no call from the top to have teachers use parentvue or canvas in a consistent or even useful fashion. Money poured down the drain on the bus app could have easily been used for a consultant to advise on how to use it more productively and perhaps why.

Some schools are better than others in terms of consistent usage. Principals can and should establish standard practices and expectations for all teachers.

Agree. But this is one of the initiatives the superintendent needs to address if he intends to address academics. Also. Canvas is used differently by every teacher. Some use Modules for assignments, some use Grades for assignments, some have their contact I fo there with a syllabus some don't, some have assignments hidden at the start of a new quarter, others don't.

Nothing works if it's not consistent.

It’s useful but you have to understand it’s not always up to date. So don’t tear into your kid for a missing assignment before you check with kid, as it may have been turned in but just didn’t get transferred into parentvue yet. I also check McPSclassroom which indicates what assignments are out there so we can discuss. Occasionally my McPS classroom will show an assignment submitted before parentvue does, but that’s only if it was an assignment turned on thru canvas which isn’t that common anymore (was very common during the pandemic).

We use it to manage missing assignments. We did catch one missing assignment at the end of the marking period that was not in cavas since the grade itself was so low and so off. So we don’t check the grades until the end but we are focused on getting all the assignments complete and done well.

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Anonymous wrote:Whether it’s useful depends on your kid and on how much you are going to monitor grades. I don’t look but the online grade book is really useful to my DD because it lets her know where she stands after each assignment or assessment. So I’d say it has a lot of value.

Lucky for your kid that her teachers do the right thing and update scores (syncing) so her gradebook is accurate.

I’m not sure all of her info comes from the grade book. She often tells me about her grades and her conversations with her teachers and she lets me know what hasn't been entered yet. So from what I gather, she is getting her test results in class. Her info is always correct.

Anonymous wrote:If teachers consistently updated the grades, it could be useful. For whatever reason, some teachers do not sync scores after they have already graded the assignment, and that means the student's grade in the class is not accurate in gradebook. MCPS needs to have a consistent policy: ALL teachers enter scores for ALL assignments regularly and make them sync scores into gradebook. This way families have accurate info when they look in gradebook and if they need to assist their kid or get assistance for them. Taylor??

The problem is that teachers are human and there are only so many hours in the day - meaning the chronological 24-hour day, not the school day. They have very little time to plan and grade while school is in session, which means that those activities are essentially overtime/homework. They are part of the job, absolutely, but if you have to choose between being ready to teach tomorrow, counseling an individual student with something they need, attending mandatory training, taking care of your own child, or grading papers, it's pretty much only the grading that can actually wait a couple of days. I'm completely sympathetic.

The way I deal with this in order to keep tabs on my own kid is that I just set the system to email me when anything gets graded. I don't really care if it's a new thing or an old thing: what I'm watching for is whether the system thinks that anything is missing, so that DC can check in and submit it, if needed and if allowed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi--can someone advise whether we should be checking this regularly and whether the info is accurate? When I clicked on the gradebook tab last week for my middle school kids, my kid had all 100s (which I thought was unlikely), and today when I checked, the grades have dropped and include a D. Are these weekly grades reflecting assignments?

Sadly there has been no call from the top to have teachers use parentvue or canvas in a consistent or even useful fashion. Money poured down the drain on the bus app could have easily been used for a consultant to advise on how to use it more productively and perhaps why.

Some schools are better than others in terms of consistent usage. Principals can and should establish standard practices and expectations for all teachers.

Anonymous wrote:Hi--can someone advise whether we should be checking this regularly and whether the info is accurate? When I clicked on the gradebook tab last week for my middle school kids, my kid had all 100s (which I thought was unlikely), and today when I checked, the grades have dropped and include a D. Are these weekly grades reflecting assignments?

Sadly there has been no call from the top to have teachers use parentvue or canvas in a consistent or even useful fashion. Money poured down the drain on the bus app could have easily been used for a consultant to advise on how to use it more productively and perhaps why.

I don't think my kid's gradebook is accurate. It seems to be a week to week score, and can fluctuate wildly. It also seems like in some classes it is assigning my kid a zero for stuff that isn't missing pretty frequently, and the teacher gives him an A, so I assume it's wrong.

Anonymous wrote:Whether it’s useful depends on your kid and on how much you are going to monitor grades. I don’t look but the online grade book is really useful to my DD because it lets her know where she stands after each assignment or assessment. So I’d say it has a lot of value.

Lucky for your kid that her teachers do the right thing and update scores (syncing) so her gradebook is accurate.

Whether it’s useful depends on your kid and on how much you are going to monitor grades. I don’t look but the online grade book is really useful to my DD because it lets her know where she stands after each assignment or assessment. So I’d say it has a lot of value.

If teachers consistently updated the grades, it could be useful. For whatever reason, some teachers do not sync scores after they have already graded the assignment, and that means the student's grade in the class is not accurate in gradebook. MCPS needs to have a consistent policy: ALL teachers enter scores for ALL assignments regularly and make them sync scores into gradebook. This way families have accurate info when they look in gradebook and if they need to assist their kid or get assistance for them. Taylor??

I find it very helpful in high school, but I never cared in elem or middle school. It is accurate though some teachers take a long time to grade or update. I check it every few days.

I find it useful for secondary school. Not for ES.

The first parking period ended recently, so the grades you see now are the first few of the second marking period. You can change back to MP1 on the pulldown menu.

Hi--can someone advise whether we should be checking this regularly and whether the info is accurate? When I clicked on the gradebook tab last week for my middle school kids, my kid had all 100s (which I thought was unlikely), and today when I checked, the grades have dropped and include a D. Are these weekly grades reflecting assignments?