Science Placement

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Science Placement

• Next Course Recommendations for 8?9 Science

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Overview

• IT has pulled the current class lists for 8th
  grade Science and developed an application to
  assign next years course
• Based on the criteria supplied by the Science
  department, the Recommended Next Courses have
  been calculated
• The Science teachers are to review the criteria
  based assignments and override them when
  necessary
• The revised lists will be pulled into Pentamation
  to load the next courses into the next-year
  scheduling information

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Step 1 Open the application

• On a district computer that you are logged into,
  go to the Gdrive or
• Click on the Microsoft Access Icon
• Click on File/Open
• Click on the down arrow to the right of the
  Look-In box and point to the Gdrive

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(Find the Science Placement application)

• Click on Nasd(GDrive)

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(Find the Science Placement application)

• Click on Scheduling Placement

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(Find the Science Placement application)

• Click on Science
• Double-click on the Science Placement shortcut

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The Application opens to your login verification
screen

• Click on the Go to Class Selection button to
  list your classes for review

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Select Each class to review and make any
necessary changes

• Highlight the class to be reviewed
• Click on the button below the list
• The class list screen will be displayed

• If your classes are not listed, they may not have
  the correct Network login assigned to them.
  Please contact Beth Baur and include your login
  name as shown on the previous screen.

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Update Recommended Next Course (see the next
screen for the example)

• All criteria for placement is displayed
• If you are happy with the calculated Next
  Course, do nothing for that student
• The three columns to the far right show how many
  of the criteria for the non-impact courses have
  been met. A score of 3 is required to get that
  course. A 3 for 4609 supersedes 4509 which
  supersedes 4409. 4409 was assigned if there was
  missing criteria (no ITBS score, etc).

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Sample of Class List

• Note the Original assignment
• Note the drop-down to select the revised
  assignment only use this to change a
  recommended next course, take NO action if you
  are happy with the original
• Note the Criteria Met Count (See the next slide)

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FYI Criteria Met Count

• The Criteria Met Count is shown for each of the
  three non-impact courses. The 3 objective
  criteria (Science Average, Math Average and
  ITBS Math Total) are given a point when a
  students data compares favorably to the
  placement criteria. A score of 3 for a course
  implies the student qualifies for that course
  without needing the teachers recommendation.

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Completing the Process

• Click on the Return to Course Selection button
• Repeat the process for all your sections

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Submit When Complete

• Click on the Submit button when you have
  reviewed all your classes
• If you re-open a class list after submitting, the
  Submission Status flag will be set back to NO
  you will need to click Submit again when you
  are finished
• Press EXIT to exit the application