Homepage in the Portal

Click the Home icon or Pages tab to view your homepage. Often this is your school's Page and contains school news and announcements.

All students and parents automatically see the To Do widget on their homepage. You can do the following (depending on the preferences you set):

• View announcements for your or your student's classes, school, or district.
• View your or your student's recent attendance, conduct, and grades activity.
• Display and use personal school links.
• Display and use links to external websites (such as your school's website).
• Use a calendar.

You might also see the following widgets:

• Published Reports: Provides access to reports such as report cards.
• Student Recent Activity: Displays recent grade, conduct, and attendance activity.
• Tasks: Lets you use a wizard to verify contact information or report a bullying incident.

View Recent Activity

You can add the Recent activity widget to the homepage. Click Edit Page and select Student Recent Activity. It appears in a box on the homepage.

To view recent activity:

1. Select the number of days in the past you want to view:
• Today
• Last 7 days
• Last 30 days
• Last 60 days

  Note: The system remembers the last date range you viewed, and automatically displays information for all areas for that date range.

2. Select the Attendance, Grades, and/or Conduct checkboxes.
3. Next to each student’s name, a number lists how many records meet your search criteria. To view a student’s information, click the arrow next to his or her name. A summary of the record appears.
4. To view specific information for a record, click the record. For example, if a student receives a grade for an assignment, click the record to view the assignment details.
5. In the Search field, enter text you want to search for. For example, if you want to find the latest Latin grade, type Latin. To view all records again, delete the text in the Search field.

Note: You can determine whether you want recent activity to display on your Home page in your user preferences.

Note: If your school does not take period attendance for a course, it will not appear in the Recent Activity list.