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Getting started
- Getting started as a class adviser
- Getting started as a subject teacher
- Signing in with a password, Google or Microsoft, or a passkey
- Signing up and what happens in the first ten minutes
- What your dashboard is telling you
- Reading the class overview
- Trying the demo before you put real learners in
- The sample class, and deleting it when you are done
Learners
Encoding scores
- Encoding scores on the class record
- Adding an activity
- Blank, zero and excused are three different cells
- Filling a whole column at once
- Explain this grade
- Copying activities to the next term
- Fixing a score, a column or an activity you got wrong
- A grade that says recomputing, or will not compute at all
How grades are computed
- Understanding the DO 015 grading system in SchoolAide Lite
- Explain this grade: every number behind a term grade
- Why is my computed grade different from my ECR?
- A learning area shows no term grade
- Transmutation tables: DepEd preset or your own
- The transmutation table is locked after a release
- Quarterly classes still on DO 8, s. 2015
- Descriptive grading for Kindergarten to Grade 3
- Adjusting a term grade, and where the adjustment lands
- MAPEH, TLE and other grouped subjects
Attendance
- Marking absences and lates in the register
- Telling the register which months each term covers
- Choosing the days your class actually met
- Fixing a mark you did not mean to make
- What attendance prints on the report card
- When a learner goes over the 20% absence limit
- The register is closed because the term is released
Reading your class
Report cards
- Previewing a real learner's report card
- Choosing the SF9 layout and the merit card design
- Releasing report cards and what learners receive
- What each pre-flight blocker means
- Printing the report cards
- What a learner or guardian receives by email
- A grade was wrong after the cards went out
- The QR on a card and what it proves
Conduct and comments
- Marking observed values on the conduct grid
- Renaming or adding to the core values
- Undoing a mark and checking who changed what
- A conduct cell will not take a mark
- Writing the teacher comment on a report card
- Releasing with a blank comment or an unmarked value
- Where the marks and the comment print on the card
- Reporting observed values for your own subject
Awards and rankings
Working with co-teachers
- Putting a teacher on each subject
- Joining a class with a code
- Linking your subject to an adviser's class
- Reviewing the learner match before you link
- Reverting a link, and fixing a learner who appears twice
- Adding a co-teacher to your gradebook
- Who can see what
- Handing a gradebook over to another teacher
- Handing in a grading period
End of the school year
- Class settings: deadlines, signatories and the card layout
- Closing the school year, step by step
- Final grades, the general average and promotion status
- A learning area shows INC
- Rolling a class into the next school year
- Archiving, reopening and deleting a class
- Descriptors and observations for Kindergarten to Grade 3
- The Learner's Progress Report instead of an SF9
Learners and parents
Your account
When something goes wrong
- Something looks wrong: what to check first
- I cannot sign in
- The six-digit code never arrived
- The term will not release: reading the pre-flight check
- My learner did not receive the card
- A grade is wrong on a card that is already out
- The app says I do not have permission, or that I hit a limit
- A report card or export is taking a long time
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