This weekend, I had a major meltdown related to technology advancements in this county. I wrote the following notice to the help desk and have YET to receive a response which makes everything all the more stressful. Not to mention that grades are due on Friday and today we have a half-day due to snow with the possibility of being off tomorrow. This whole new gradebook is consuming my attention, thoughts, and entire being at this moment. I decided to blog about this matter as one entry in the hopes that someone else out there may have feedback to any experiences that they have had with our new program. If for no other reason, at least I feel better just by sharing the experience.
Dear Help Desk,
I am trying my best not to panic at this moment, but I am not sure what to do at this point. I have somehow managed to erase ALL of my S.S. grades for the year while trying to copy a homework assignment from reading that was S.S. based into my S.S. Gradebook.
I followed the directions I learned awhile ago and unchecked all docs except the one I wanted. When it first copied, it said there was a conflict with the gradebook and it only copied the assignment and not the scores, so I thought I did something wrong or was rusty. I couldn't recall if it even did copy the grades as well as I haven't had much practice copying assignments. Nevertheless, I returned using the back button and decided to cancel, but accidentally hit a different button. When my gradebook came back up, the empty assignment was all that was left.
I have spent a very long time trying to "search" like a mad woman for my missing grades. I had not entered anything since progress reports in this subject and it still has my average grade at that point in the grade section, yet no assignments to show in the gradebook.
I am unsure as to what to do next and am CC-ing my tech specialist as well on the matter. Should I average in the last few grades with the one at the time of progress reports? Do I have to reenter all of my assignments for the year? If so, that would take FOREVER! I always have many more grades than are required and I don't know what I would do if I had to reenter them.
I was having trouble with the system before as well when entering the rest of my reading grades. It took me hours today to get that section done because even though I clicked save changes, whole assignments or grades wouldn't be there. When it said I was about to log off, I clicked for it not to by saving changes as it suggests. Then, I would try to go to another grade page or column and the screen would flash. At one point when it came back on, I had double to 8 times an assignment in the gradebook. It would either not record the grades at all or rerecord the grades over and over. Once that was finally settled, I moved on to S.S. and have now ended up with an empty gradebook for that whole subject area.
I am so sorry to complain, but I consider myself fairly computer-literate. I have used electronic gradebooks for the past ten of my 11 years, and never had such problems - ever. I am at a loss. Please, please, tell me there is a way to retrieve my S.S. grades. Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.
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