WESPaC - viewing what a student or family sees in Educator Access

Teachers can see the same information presented to their students and their students' parents in WESPaC through the Educator Access Secondary Gradebook module they have.

To do this, the teacher needs to first log into Educator Access
Then click on Teacher Access, then My Gradebook
The teacher can then click the Secondary or Standards Gradebook link for the class that the student is in
Then click the small icon that looks like a child's head, in the column to the left (shown below)

After you click that icon, you will get a pop-up view of another set of information.  Choose either the option for "home" under Family Access Display, or "home" under Student access display to show the WESPaC information available to parent/guardians or students, respectively.

This may be helpful in giving more detailed instructions to either students or parents about how to find the information you're sharing via WESPaC.  You can also share the WESPaC Parent/Guardian manual with parents, to help them get started or find out more about Family Access.

eVAL and Principal Self Assessments - creating a focused vs. comprehensive evaluation

For principals, when using eVAL to start your own self-assessment using the AWSP framework or state 8, if your evaluator has set you to a focused evaluation before you start your self assessment, you may have trouble creating a self assessment that isn't "focused" on whichever criteria they chose.

The checkbox is easy to miss, and if your evaluator has switched you from comprehensive to focused for the new school year, it's turned on by default now.

When you click the Assess menu, and then Create new self assessment, on the small window that pops up, where you give it a name, there is a checkbox that says something about "Create a focused self assessment".

It seems that this is turned on for most of you, but you do not want it to be.  Please uncheck it and then create a new assessment.

If you already started a self assessment, i couldn't find a way to turn this off after the fact.  Just go through the steps to create another new one, and watch for the checkbox.