From pyoung at vian.k12.ok.us Mon Mar 12 12:13:31 2007 From: pyoung at vian.k12.ok.us (pyoung@vian.k12.ok.us) Date: Mon Mar 12 12:27:24 2007 Subject: [Staff] GradeBook Message-ID: From: Gradebook Information Date: Mar 12, 2007 10:14 AM Subject: *Important - Wen-GAGE grade book update* To: ***Important Notice*** We are in the process of applying a critical update to the grade book program for your district. This may cause you to temporarily disconnect from the grade book application. The update applies specifically to calculation of eligibility and grades. If you have had an issue in this area please perform your calculation again after 11:30am CST. We apologize for not being able to give you more advanced notice. Thank You, Municipal Accounting Systems, Inc. Support Staff -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pyoung@vian.k12.ok.us.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 228 bytes Desc: Card for Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/staff/attachments/20070312/c07f5dd2/pyoungvian.k12.ok.us.vcf From pyoung at vian.k12.ok.us Mon Mar 12 21:44:47 2007 From: pyoung at vian.k12.ok.us (pyoung@vian.k12.ok.us) Date: Mon Mar 12 21:48:44 2007 Subject: [Staff] VPS emails Message-ID: I am going to start addressing everything as a blind carbon copy. IMPORTANT!! HOW TO FORWARD EMAIL APPROPRIATELY A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures. Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 20% do; 80% DO NOT. Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? _____ Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every e-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel! _____ How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps: _____ (1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That's right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second. You MUST click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don't click on "Forward" first, you won't be able to edit the message at all. _____ (2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in the "TO:" field of the people who receive it. _____ (3) Remove any "FW :" in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling. _____ (4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent. _____ (5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. (Actually, if you think about it, who's supposed to send the petition in to whatever cause it supports? And don't believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just ain't so!) _____ (6) One of the main ones I hate is the ones that say that something like, "Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great run across your screen." Or, sometimes they'll just tease you by saying something really cute will happen. IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (Trust me, I'm still seeing some of the same ones that I waited on 10 years ago!) I don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed. (Could be why I haven't won the lottery??) _____ (7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other ones floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at Snopes. Just go to Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/staff/attachments/20070312/da0260a0/pyoungvian.k12.ok.us.vcf From pyoung at vian.k12.ok.us Fri Mar 30 23:33:27 2007 From: pyoung at vian.k12.ok.us (Paul Young) Date: Fri Mar 30 23:39:47 2007 Subject: [Staff] Municipal Accounting Systems, Inc. Wen-GAGE Gradebook Information In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3afebf5c0703302133w7887721dgcc1c9771915de576@mail.gmail.com> We will be applying an update to the Wen-GAGE Gradebook for your school oneither 04/02/2007 at 10:00 p.m. or 04/03/2007 at 10:00 p.m. At that time, our servers will be temporarily unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Note: Please refer to the documentation for instructions on utilizing the new options. *4/02/07-Enhancements* *Instructor Workspace* ** 1. Section Settings-Added the ability to define and save how Session Grades will be calculated. For example, the instructor can define how the Credit Grade for the 4th 9 weeks will be calculated. That Grade will then display an estimated average where the Current Average was displayed. The instructor can define as many Grades as necessary for each Session. 2. Students View/Permanent Tab-Current Average will now display with the Grading Period description for the 4th 9 weeks. Instead of a Current Average column, the instructor will see a column that has the same average as the Current Average, but will be named something like 4 th 9 Weeks Midterm 16. 3. Students View/Permanent Tab- Grades that have been previously calculated/recorded as well as Grades/Averages the instructor has defined in Section Settings will display in the grid. If the Grade has already been calculated/recorded, an * will display next to the score. If the Grade is estimated, the calculated average will display in parenthesis. 4. Students View/Permanent Tab-The instructor will have the option to print all Session Grades on the Grid Report or none of the Session Grades on the Grid Report. 5. Students View/Permanent Tab-The absence totals for the session will now display to the left of the Session Grades. 6. Students View/Grades Tab-Grades that have been previously calculated/recorded as well as Grades/Averages the instructor has defined in Section Settings will display in the grid. A new column named Status will identify if the Grade has already been calculated/recorded (Recorded) or is an estimated average (Estimated) based on the settings the instructor defined. If the Grade is estimated, the calculated average will display in parenthesis. 7. *Students View/Assignments/Scores Tab-Current Average has been removed from the grid heading. To view Grades and Averages for an individual student, please refer to the Students View/Grades grid. * 8. Classic View-Current Average will now display with the Grading Period description for the 4th 9 weeks. Instead of a Current Average column, the instructor will see a column that has the same average as the Current Average, but will be named something like 4th 9 Weeks Midterm 16. 9. Classic View-Grades that have been previously calculated/recorded as well as Grades/Averages the instructor has defined in Section Settings will display in the grid. If the Grade has already been calculated/recorded, an * will display next to the score. If the Grade is estimated, the calculated average will display in parenthesis. 10. Student Scores/Student Detail/Students Summary Report-A new section has been added to the report to display Grades that have been previously calculated/recorded as well as estimated Grades/Averagesthe instructor has defined. A column named Status will identify if the Grade has already been calculated/recorded (Recorded) or is an estimated average (Estimated). If the Grade is estimated, the calculated average will display in parenthesis. 11. Student Scores/Student Detail/Student Summary Report-A disclaimer has been added to the bottom of the page specifying that the Averages displayed in the Assignment Summary are only averages for the assignments printed and may not represent the Grade that will be assigned to the student. The Grades that will be assigned to the student will be listed in the Grades/Averages section of the report. 12. Student Scores/Student Detail/Student Summary Report-Total Points Possible and Total Points Received will print in the Assignment Summary section of the report if the Averaging Method for the Section is Simple Points or Weighted Points. 13. Increased the performance of retrieving assignment data. This should speed up various processes that use the student's assignments, including Classic View, Assignments View, Grade Calculations, etc. *Guardian/Student Workspace* 1. Grades Tab-Grades that have been previously calculated/recorded as well as Grades/Averages the instructor has defined will display in the grid. A new column named Status will identify if the Grade has already been calculated/recorded (Recorded) or is an estimated average (Estimated) based on the settings the instructor defined. If the Grade is estimated, the calculated average will display in parenthesis. * 2. Assignments/Scores Tab-Current Average has been removed from the grid heading. To view Grades and Averages for an individual student, please refer to the Grades grid. * 3. Student Scores/Student Detail/Students Summary Report-A new section has been added to the report to display Grades that have been previously calculated/recorded as well as estimated Grades/Averages the instructor has defined. A column named Status will identify if the Grade has already been calculated/recorded (Recorded) or is an estimated average (Estimated). If the Grade is estimated, the calculated average will display in parenthesis. 4. Student Scores/Student Detail/Student Summary Report-A disclaimer has been added to the bottom of the page specifying that the Averages displayed in the Assignment Summary are only averages for the assignments printed and may not represent the Grade that will be assigned to the student. The Grades that will be assigned to the student will be listed in the Grades/Averages section of the report. 5. Student Scores/Student Detail/Student Summary Report-Total Points Possible and Total Points Received will print in the Assignment Summary section of the report if the Averaging Method for the Section is Simple Points or Weighted Points. Please distribute/forward this information to your instructors, guardians, and students utilizing the Wen-GAGE Gradebook and any office personnel utilizing the Wen-GAGE SI System as soon as possible. Sincerely, Municipal Accounting Systems, Inc. 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