Finding Help in Aspen

Online help is available in Aspen in the form of user guides, quick reference guides, and videos.  

To access help, login to Aspen and select a top tab (for example, Gradebook).  
The new screen will have a Help option (see below).

• The Online Help option will open the help screen in the topic that is associated with the specific screen that you are viewing.
  



Aspen Online Help

• User Guides option include help in the form of a user guide on a specific topic.  Examples are taking attendance, managing grades, and basic navigation in Aspen.

• Quick Reference Cards include a shortened help guide on a specific topic.  Examples include Attendance, Gradebook, and Grade Management.

• Videos and Training Tools include step-by-step guides and videos that will help on specific topics.  For example, selecting the Teacher Gradebook option includes 8 topics (Finding Your Way Around Aspen, Setting up your Aspen Gradebook, Managing your classroom, Creating Assignments, Entering Scores, Using Standards-based grades in the Gradebook, Entering and Posting End-of-term grades, Advanced Aspen Gradebook).  

After selecting a topic (for example, Teacher Gradebook), you will be given a list of subtopics and have the choice of Lesson Plans (great if you are going to teach others how to use Aspen), Org (written help guides by topic), and Video (video help guides by topic).