Saving and Creating your Gradebook - Fall '05

(for returning teachers)

(one caveat - I made this tutorial on my Mac, so some of the pictures may not quite be the same as you see on your screen...)

Step 1: Save the old

Archive your old gradebook - to do this open the Gradebook program, select File...Backup

Save this file on your computer hard drive- but not in your H: account

**your saved name needs to have no more than 8 characters and not have any spaces!**

Step 2: Delete the old

Now delete the old gradebooks. Before you do this, consider saving one (or more) to use as "templates" for this semester's gradebooks. To delete your old gradebooks, Go to Utility...delete Gradebooks

Select the gradebook(s) you want to delete and delete them

Step 3: Create the New!

Now it is time to create the new gradebooks. You will need to import your rosters - go to Utility....Import Schoolmaster Rosters. If you have your current list of classes handy only select the course id#'s that are for this semester. Alternately, import all the rosters you see (except any zch/hr ones - these are just your chapel homeroom classes), then determine which are your first semester classes and delete the others (using Utility...delete gradebook).

Step 4: Configure the New!

You now have two choices - either copy the configuration from any saved gradebooks, or create new configurations for your imported gradebooks. To do this, go to the tutorial titled "Setting up Schoolmaster Gradebook, located at http://pueo.midpac.edu/teachers/technology/gbintro.pdf