Progress Reports in Aspen

Some teachers have some questions as to what it means to create a Progress Report in Aspen.  So I thought I would clarify what it means to Post Grades or Publish a Progress Report.

Posting Grades as a Progress Report

To post grades, you need only change the visibility type on your assignment(s) in your gradebook.  To learn more, check out my blog entry on visibility types.  

Once you make an assignment PUBLIC, then the assignment is visible on both the student and family portals.  There is no need to publish a formal progress report, because you are updating students and parents on the progress in the class.  

Posting Grades

There is an option to Post Grades under the Option tab on your gradebook page.  This will be used when you Post Quarter grades.  It is not used for progress reports.

Progress Reports

There is an option under the Reports tab for Progress Reports.  This option allows you to print a progress report for a single student OR to print out progress reports for ALL students.  It will not send a progress report to each individual student.