INFINITE CAMPUS YOUR TOOL FOR SUCCESS!

INFINITE CAMPUS ? YOUR TOOL FOR SUCCESS!

Infinite Campus is your portal for taking attendance, accessing student information, and creating and maintaining assignments in your gradebook. Since you will be accessing Infinite Campus on a daily basis, I would suggest you make a quick link to it in your browser. Just click and hold on the icon and drag it to this area of your web browser, and release the mouse click.

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Infinite Campus is entirely web-based, so it can be accessed from any computer that has an internet connection. The Technology department prefers that you always launch Infinite Campus from the Staff Portal Webpage. That link will always be up to date. However, if you desire a shortcut on your desktop this is how you create one. If you have trouble viewing your Gradebook on another computer, make sure the latest version of Java is installed.

Creating a desktop shortcut - Right click anywhere on your desktop. You will see a

dropdown of options. - Hover the cursor over "New", and another set of options

will appear. - Click on the "Shortcut" option.

- In the dialog box that opens, type in or copy-paste the web address of Infinite Campus.

- Click "Next".

- Type in a name for the shortcut. - Click "Finish".

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IMPORTANT NOTES

You should have been given a user name and password to access Infinite Campus. One important note is that after five successive incorrect password attempts, your account will be disabled. You will need to contact the technology office at 556-1570, or by sending an email to Carey Brock at cbrock@ceres.k12.ca.us

Auto Log-off: Infinite Campus will automatically log you out of your account after 60 minutes of inactivity. A dialog will appear asking if you want to stay logged in.

SAVE, SAVE, SAVE: I can't stress this enough. Whether you are finished taking attendance, creating assignments in the gradebook using "Lesson Planner", or inputting scores into the "Gradebook", always remember to click on the button to save! Often you will be warned that your work is not yet saved, but it is easy to accidentally click the wrong answer if you are in a hurry. Trust me on this one!

Gradebook for K-2: The kinks are still being worked out for K-2 teachers, so you will not be required to use this gradebook this year, but you are welcome to try it out! Gradebook for 3-6: Instructions that follow for gradebook are geared towards Grades 3-6 Gradebook for 7-12: Instructions will be similar to that of Grades 3-6. However, you will need to create and maintain your gradebook for each section you teach. You must select the appropriate section (period) of class you wish to work in. If multiple classes have the same assignment, there is a way to copy assignments from one section to another ? and that will be covered in this manual.

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TAKING ATTENDANCE

For elementary teachers, this will need to be done only once first thing in the morning. 7-12 teachers will need to take attendance at the start of each class period. There are two places you can click to take attendance:

1) The Process Inbox will list each period remaining for attendance to be submitted. 2) Access attendance from the Index Outline.

Three bubbles will be shown next to each student name. Attendance defaults to the first bubble, with everyone marked as Present, or P. The second bubble should be selected for any student who is Absent, or A. The third bubble is for students who are Tardy, or T. - When finished taking attendance, make sure to click Save to submit the attendance.

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SETTING UP TEACHER PREFERENCES

Each teacher has the option of setting his/her preferences for how information is displayed in Campus. To see your options:

1. In "Index", click on "Admin"

2. Click on "Preferences"

HIDE DROPPED STUDENTS will remove the student from a teacher's view in the gradebook. Normally, a student who has been dropped will appear in red. The scores are preserved "behind the scenes" in case the student returns to class. SHOW STUDENT NUMBERS includes the student ID in the attendance tools SHOW STUDENT PICTURES displays the student's picture for attendance INVERT SEATING CHART displays the names from the bottom up USE SEATING CHART FOR ATTENDANCE sets the default attendance view to the Standard Seating Chart USE CANNED COMMENTS allows teachers to choose from ready-made comments when posting grades (NOT APPLICABLE AT THIS TIME) TEACHER WEBSITE: if you have a class website, enter the address here. It will display for parents in Portal.

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LESSON PLANNER ? SETTING UP YOUR GRADEBOOK

An analogy to help you understand Lesson Planner: The Lesson Planner is like your Filing Cabinet. Inside the "filing cabinet" are the blue links for the subjects and corresponding trimesters, and these links are like the drawers. Inside each drawer we need to create subgroups, which are like the folders in a drawer of a filing cabinet. Finally we are ready to create assignments, which are like the papers that go in the folders in the drawer in the filing cabinet. Make sense? The first thing to do is set up your assignment and test folders for each subject.

1) Choose Lesson Planner from the menu on the left hand side.

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2) Click on the subject name for the appropriate trimester. You must set your grading scale for each Subject/Standard. We suggest "Elementary 3-6". Make sure to click on save after each step.

3) Create sub-folders for "Assignments" and "Tests" under each Subject/Standard. The name of your folders can be named whatever you would like. Your assignments will go in these folders.

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4) You must assign a Standard to the folder. For example, for Reading sub- folders, you would choose the Reading Standard.

5) You will need to make folders for each subject, so repeat this step for each subject. For secondary teachers who teach multiple sections of the same class, turn to page 13 for instructions on copying folders and assignments from one section to another.

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