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New in Aspen! See Only Classes You Want in the Student Tab!

The Math Department, CCHS Tech Leaders,  and Nicole Bloomfield (Ripley  IT) have collaborated over the past year to make improvements to Aspen based on teacher feedback.  Thanks to this work and to Brian Miller's leadership we can now batch print IEP's and 504's for our classes!

Productivity:

As part of this process, teachers identified a productivity issue.   Students in their academic courses were co-mingled with students in their Advisory or Directed Study while in the Staff View>Student top tab.  Teachers use the Student Tab to gather information for course recommendations, writing recommendation letters, and other tasks.  The students in their Advisory or Directed Study (non-academic courses) just got in the way.

To resolve this issue, we have enabled the My Groups feature in Aspen.  Navigate to the Student tab in Staff View, and click the filter. 



You now have a 'My Groups' choice.  When you click My Groups, you will see a list of your academic courses.


You can now select any of your courses, and only students in the selected courses will display.  (Aspen will combine two sections of the same course into one option.)



These groups are DYNAMIC, meaning that the group roster changes automatically as students enter or leave your class!

Now you can click on a student, and navigate to the next student in the course easily
by clicking the arrows!


We hope you find this time-saving change helpful!



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