Zangle Index

Connections

• To connect to Zangle! https://zangle.asdk12.org (must be inside the district firewall)
• To connect to Zangle Training: https://zangle.training.asdk12.org (use lastname, firstname) and password of ______________

For Parents

• News on Parent Connection (parents accessing grades)
• The Assignment selection

Specific Help Pages (teachers)

• The Parent Connection from the Teacher's Perspective
• Connecting Zangle News to Sitebuilder (NEW, IMPROVED, and MUCH EASIER!)
• Printing Progress Reports to the Konica
• Change from one quarter to the next - change your dates
• Quarter 1, Quarter 2, and Semester 1 - how grades are calculated
• Strategy for posting assignments daily
• Printing partial sets of assignments in progress reports
• Showing Comments on Assignments
• Help in using Zangle Scoring Options
• Incomplete and Complete Assignments (also Scoring Options)
• Show Category Grades in Progress Report
• Categories – Total Points vs. Assigned Weights
• Linear Grading - why you might give 50% for a 20% test
• Weighted Tasks - converting a 56 question assignment to 5 points in the gradebook
• Extra Credit
• Transfer Students
• Shared Assignment Information
• Converting Rubrics to Zangle
• Backup strategies
• Trouble-shooting - a gazillion points are showing

PDF files (on this site)

• 4 page Introduction (passed out at in-service)
• Sample Reports (shown at in-service)

Help Sites:

• ASD Moodle site: moodle.asdk12.org - sign on, then look at the Zangle! class at the bottom.
• ASD Zangle Training Page https://home.asdk12.org/newsis/manuals/ (must log into District Connection)
• San Diego Unified School District training site: http://www.sandi.net/zangle/readandlearn/elearning/gradebook/index.asp

Various suggestions:

• Day 1: Print CheckList Rosters - Zangle Reports / Teacher Connection / Class Rosters. Select Class Checklist Rosters. Note that it will allow you to do all of your classes at once. (This is also the report used to populate the Missing Books spreadsheet, a totally optional thing...)
• Mac users should use Firefox, version 3.0.10. Dell users should use Internet Explorer or Firefox. Talk to us if you have an older version...
• If you are not able to enter scores down the column in the spreadsheet view, make sure the "Edit assignment scores on Spreadsheet Tab:" selection is turned ON shown in the Gradebook Setup / Teacher Preferences.
• Can't see all of your students in the 'spreadsheet'? Type Ctrl (open-apple) - or + to change the display size.
• On Macs - if you have an endless choice of 'random' numbers to select from when you are entering data, check your Firefox settings. Under Preferences, Privacy tab, uncheck the "Remember what I enter..."
• The Parent Connection is not yet live. It is hoped that they will be able to connect within 3-5 weeks from the start of school. The Student Connection is hoped to be implemented later in the semester.
• I do not recommend keeping a second copy of your gradebook in Easy Grade Pro. I believe that you will be able to 'ground-truth' Zangle satisfactorily. (You could import names and IDs as a text file from the Missing Books spreadsheet to EGP, but I would not go there and am not supplying support for that.)
• To remove the old link to your posted EGP grades on your Sitebuilder page
• I'd still keep a hand-written gradebook.

Missing Books Excel spreadsheet:

• This spreadsheet will also supply your students, ID numbers, and grade level in a form that you can then use electronically as you wish. Download here. (vers 1.4)

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