Upgrading MyCompLab – Getting Grade Tracker



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An Instructor's Guide to

Reading Road Trip 4.0 + Grade Tracker

Table of Contents

Upgrading Reading Road Trip 4.0—Getting Grade Tracker 2

Creating a New Class 4

Editing Class Information 8

Verifying Class Information 10

Managing a Class Roster 11

Deleting a Class 15

Accessing the Gradebook 16

Using the Gradebook 20

Upgrading Reading Road Trip 4.0—Getting Grade Tracker

If you registered for Reading Road Trip 4.0 after July 29th, 2005: You automatically have access to Grade Tracker, so there is no need to update your subscription. Ignore the upgrade sections of this document, as well as any links leading to the upgrade site. You may turn to page four of this guide.

If you registered for Reading Road Trip 4.0 prior to July 29th, 2005: You must complete this upgrade process before you can access Grade Tracker. You will be prompted to upgrade on the Reading Road Trip 4.0 login screen. Click on the upgrade link, and you can update your subscription by following three simple steps.

Note: If you registered for Reading Road Trip prior to July 29th, 2005 and used a Reading Road Trip 3.0 access code, you will no longer be able to access Reading Road Trip. You need to re-register for the site using a Reading Road Trip 4.0 access code. Please call 1-800-677-6337 to see if you are eligible to get a free replacement or if you should purchase Reading Road Trip 4.0 access via our online store. We apologize for any inconvenience this re-registration causes you.

1. Provide your Access Information. This includes your login name, your password, as well as the zip code and country in which your school is located. All fields are required. Once you have entered all of your Access Information, click Next.

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2. Reading Road Trip 4.0 will recognize you as an established user, and ask you to review your account information. Enter information for all of the required fields (marked by *). Be sure to read the License Agreement and Privacy Policy before clicking Next. This will lead you to the Confirmation and Summary page, which will recap the first two steps and allow you to log into Reading Road Trip 4.0 + Grade Tracker immediately.

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Creating a New Class

Until you create a class, you will not be able to view your students' grades in your Instructor Grade Tracker. In order for your students' grades to be available to you, you must create a class and distribute its unique Class ID (which will be generated by Reading Road Trip 4.0 when you complete the following process) to your students so that they can join the class.

Upon logging into Reading Road Trip 4.0, you will find two tabs on the navigation bar at the top of the Reading Road Trip window: Grade Tracker and Class Manager.

Note: Only if you have already created a class will you see the third tab called Class Info.

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1. Click Class Manager.

2. Click Create a New Class.

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3. The information in the following table will help you fill in the fields on the Create a New Class page.

|Field |Description |

|Class Name (Required) |The descriptive name for the class that displays on the Class Information page and at any point at which the |

| |instructor or a student has to choose among multiple classes. Class names can contain up to 128 characters. |

| |An example of a class name is Technical Writing 101, Section 2. |

| |Note: You cannot create two classes with the same name. |

|Class ID (Not |The unique ID generated by Class Manager when a class is created (example: cm458726). You must provide the |

|editable) |Class ID to your students so they can join the class. |

|Class Start Date |The date students can first join the class. The default start date is the day on which you create the class. |

|(Required) | |

|Class End Date |The end date for the class, which must be at least one day after Start Date. The default end date is the day |

|(Required) |on which you create the class. You must change the default end date. |

| |Note: You can change the end date at a later time by editing the class. You cannot change the class end date|

| |once the end date has passed. |

|Instructor Name |The name on the Pearson Education account that you used when you registered for access to Reading Road Trip |

|(Not editable from this |4.0. |

|page) |To change the instructor name, click Account Summary in the upper right corner of your screen and follow the |

| |on-screen instructions to make the changes you want. You will see those changes the next time you log in. |

|General Class Information|Text or HTML that displays on the Class Information page, available to both instructors and students. The |

|(Optional) |field is limited to 4000 characters, including all characters and spaces. |

| |Line and paragraph spacing that you establish using carriage returns is not preserved. You can use two line |

| |break tags () to separate paragraphs, or you can enclose paragraphs with and tags to create |

| |paragraphs. |

| |This information can be updated at any time by editing the class info. |

4. After filling in all of the required information, click Create Your Class.

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5. Provide the Class ID to the students who need to join your class.

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Note on Logging In after Creating Classes: If you have created only one class for this website, you enter the class automatically whenever you log in to the website. Upon logging in, the class name is displayed at the top right of the screen.

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If you have created multiple classes for the website, you will be asked to choose which class you want to enter as you log in. You will see a note when the class has ended. Students cannot access classes beyond the class end date. As an instructor, you can access the class 90 days after the class end date has passed.

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The class you enter determines which class gradebook displays when you click Gradebook or Grade Tracker, as well as which class information displays when you click Class Info. If you want to enter a different class, you must log out of the website; then select a different class as you log in again. Once you enter a class, the class name displays at the top right of the screen, as shown at the top of this page.

Editing Class Information

For the duration of the class, you can change any class property you specify when creating the class, including its class end date. To edit information for an existing class, click Class Manager, and then click Edit Class Info for the class you want to edit.

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This will lead you to the page below, which displays the same properties as those listed in the table above and allows you to change them.

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Note: When you create a new class, the class end date must be at least one day in the future. When you edit a class at a later date, you may set the end date to the current date.

Verifying Class Information

The Class Information page provides the following information:

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Managing a Class Roster

Students who join a class appear on the class roster in alphabetical order by the students' last names. The class roster for each class is available to the instructor until 90 days after the class end date.

To view the roster for a class:

1. From the class website, click Class Manager, as shown above.

2. In the Class Manager window, click the View Roster button that is aligned with the name of the class whose roster you want to view.

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Below is a sample class roster.

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Note: When viewing the class roster, you can remove students from your class and change the number of students displayed on the page.

Remove Students from Class

1. From the Class Roster, select the check boxes that appear after the students' names in the Remove column of the roster.

2. Click Remove Selected.

Note: You must click Remove Selected while the selected students are still displayed. Do not display the previous or next group of students before removing selected students.

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3. Click Yes to verify that you want to remove the students from the roster.

4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 to remove students' names on other pages of the roster.

Notes:

▪ Removing a student from the class has no effect on the student's ability to access Reading Road Trip 4.0 or his or her student gradetracker. This means that if you remove a student from your class roster, his or her scores are cleared from your class gradebook, but the student is still able to complete activities and view results of previously completed activities.

▪ A student who is removed can join the class a second time (if removed in error, for example).

Change the Number of Students Displayed

By default, ten students will show at one time. You can, however, display up to fifty students at a time. To change the number of students being displayed at one time, select a different number in the menu shown below:

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When a class has more students than are currently being displayed, Next and Previous links and buttons are provided to display the next or previous group of students.

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Deleting a Class

You can delete a class with an expired end date, or a class with no students enrolled. You cannot restore a deleted class. Prior to deleting your class, you and your students should save scores to your computers by using the Download button in Grade Tracker.

To delete a class:

1. Click Class Manager.

2. Click the Delete button associated with the class you want to delete.

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3. If the class can be deleted, a Confirm Delete Class dialog box appears. Confirm that you want to delete the class by clicking Delete, or click Cancel to cancel the deletion process.

Notes:

Classes will be automatically deleted 90 days after their end dates have passed.

Emergency backups of class scores are available by contacting Product Support up to 12 months after class deletion. After this time, the grades are purged. For students, personal scores are purged 30 days after the subscription end date.

Accessing the Gradebook

Grade Tracker offers two methods of accessing a gradebook: Browse and Find. Having used one, you can return to the home page later to switch to the other. Both options appear when you click on the Grade Tracker tab in the upper right hand corner of your screen, or when you click the Grades button in class manager.

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Either of these options will result in the screen shown below:

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The Browse feature on the left provides a general search method to find a group of grades or students with similar characteristics. The Find feature on the right, however, is a method of searching for a specific student or activity.

Note: When you download grades from your gradebook, only the results of your most recent Browse or Find action will be downloaded.

Using Browse

You can browse results that match any number of the following criteria:

1. All students, or students whose last names begin with letters in a range (for example, "Last Name P-R").

2. Activities from all content areas of the site, or from specific areas (for example, "Grammar: Diagnostics" or "Writing: Process > Revising"). You must scroll to the bottom of this list to select All Content.

3. The results for activities submitted by students, or all activities regardless of whether there have been any submissions.

4. Activities that have been completed within a certain range of dates.

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After you click Go, your results display on a Browse tab as shown below.

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From here, you can perform additional Browse operations, using the search menus described in Using the Gradebook on page 19, or click Home to return to the gradebook homepage and perform a Find operation.

Using Find

You can find results by student last names and activities with titles containing specific letters.

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After you click Go, your results display on a Find tab, as shown below.

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As with the Browse tab, you can perform additional Find operations or click Home to return to the gradebook home page and perform a different operation.

Using the Gradebook

The following is a sample instructor gradebook with information about the gradebook columns and entries, and descriptions of the gradebook menus and buttons. It shows a Browse tab, which in some cases, as shown on the previous page, may be replaced by a Find tab.

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For detailed information about an individual student (but not specific scores) from either the Browse or the Find tabs, click on his or her name in the leftmost column.

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The same can be done with individual scores for specific activities. Click on the grade displayed next to a student's name.

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4. Highlight All Dates to see activities completed at any time.

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Decide how many different students and activities you want to see on each results page.

Students' averages on scored website activities are available for easy reference.

All the activities available on the site can be accessed from the gradebook. Click any activity to preview it or try it out yourself.

Students’ results are recorded after work is submitted. A green checkmark signifies a completed activity that is not automatically scored, while a red triangle signifies that an activity is only partially automatically scored. A blank box signifies an incomplete activity.

When students join your online class, they are automatically included in your gradebook.

Download your students’ scores for easy manipulation in spreadsheet applications (like Excel). Only the grades included in your most recent search will be downloaded.

You can also see a detailed, question-by-question view of your student's results by clicking View in the detailed score chart shown above.

Using the Browse tab, quickly refine your choice of students and activities to view.

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Decide how many students and activities you want to see on each results page.

Type the name of an activity to see only one specific quiz score.

Type a student’s name to see just his or her grades.

3. Highlight Results to see only activities that have been completed by students.

1. Highlight All Students to see every student’s grades.

2. Highlight All Content to see all activities.

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