Aspen Gradebook - Visibility Types

Aspen offers three visibility types: Private, Public, and Public -- no grades.  As you create an assignment for your students, you will be asked to set an initial status for the assignment.  The choice is up to you.  

What do each of the Visibility Types mean?

	Private	Assignments do not appear in the Student or Family portals
	Public	Assignments and grades appear in the Student and Family portals
	Public -- no grades	Assignments appear in the portals, but grades do not.

How can I see the Visibility Type of an assignment?

When viewing the Scores page of your gradebook, you will see privacy icons associated with each of the assignments located on the last line of the assignment.  

How do I change the Visibility Type Status?

Clicking on the icon allows you to toggle between the three visibility types.

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.