Define teacher recommendation controls

Before teachers in your school can enter recommendations for their students for next year in the gradebook, you need to define the teachers and dates during which they can enter recommendations.

To define teacher recommendation controls:

  1. Log on to the School view.
  2. Click the Schedule tab.
  3. Click the Recommendation Controls side-tab. A list of controls previously defined appears.
    Note: You must update the dates for each control each school year; date ranges include years and need to be manually updated.
  1. On the Options menu, click Add. The New Recommendation Controls page appears.

  1. Enter the Start and End dates of the date range during which teachers you select can enter recommendations in the gradebook.
  2. In the Number of recommendations field, type the number of recommendations that these teachers can enter for each student.
  3. Select the Allow comments checkbox if you want teachers to be able to enter comments with each recommendation.
  4. At the Selection type field, select one of the following to determine the teachers to whom this control applies:
    • All: The control applies to all teachers in your school.
    • Department: Click Search icon. at the Selection definition field. The Department pick list appears. The control applies to only the teachers in the departments you select.
    • Snapshot: Click Search icon. at the Selection definition field. The Snapshot pick list appears. The control applies to only the teachers in the snapshots you select.
    • Other: Click Define below the Selection definition field. The Recommendation Controls Criteria pop-up appears. Like a query, you can define the criteria a staff member’s record must meet to be included in this control, such as a teacher's last name must begin with the letters A through M.
  1. Click Save.