Zangle Index

For Students and Parents

• The Assignment selection
• FAQ for Students

Specific Help Pages (teachers)

• Displaying information
  • Shared Assignment Information
  • Check the Student Profile to see what others see (and change your settings)
  • Showing Comments on Assignments
  • Show Category Grades in Progress Report
  • Visits and Referrals
• Class News & Links to the Other Parts of the Web
  • How to post News, Links, and Files in your Class News section
  • Connecting Zangle News to Sitebuilder
• Specific 'How-To's'
  • Problems emailing from Contacts (Windows users only)
  • Help in using Zangle Scoring Options
  • Incomplete and Complete Assignments (also Scoring Options)
• Extra Credit - two ways to assign extra credit
• Transfer Students - how to add a transfer student
• Weighted Tasks - converting a 56 question assignment to 5 points in the gradebook
• Look at / Print Health Concerns
• Backup strategies - how to make a pdf backup file of your entire gradebook
• Archival Gradebooks - how to turn in your gradebook at the end of the year
• Printing
  • Printing Progress Reports to the Konica
  • Printing partial sets of assignments in progress reports
• Specific Troubleshooting
  • Trouble-shooting - a gazillion points are showing
• Changing quarters and semesters
  • Change from one quarter to the next - change your dates
  • Quarter 1, Quarter 2, and Semester 1 - how grades are calculated
  • Transition from 1st to 2nd semester - concerns in changing categories and weights
• Overall Strategies
  • Converting Rubrics to Zangle
  • Strategy for posting assignments daily
• Linear Grading - why you might give 50% for a 20% test
• Categories – Total Points vs. Assigned Weights

Help Sites:

• ASD Moodle site: moodle.asdk12.org - sign on, then look at the Zangle! class at the bottom. This site has a number of pdf instruction files.
• 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...)
• 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..."
• 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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