Aspen SIS

Check the box next to a student’s name in Aspen. Click on the Documents tab on the left hand side of the screen. Click on the IEPs tab. Find the IEP that is labelled Active and click the blue LASID numbers ... [Read More]

Here’s a simplified workflow on account creation at Chelsea Public Schools.

Parents and guardians, want Aspen to automatically notify you by email when an attendance record is added for your student, and/or when a grade below a particular threshold is added for your student? You can set this up in Aspen ... [Read More]

Common grade posting errors include: Posting empty post columns by not updating post columns in Aspen before posting grades. Be sure to follow posting instructions correctly to avoid this error. Not giving your mentor students grades. Remember that mentor students ... [Read More]

Are you using extra credit in Aspen and not seeing the numbers you expect? It may be that you are not familiar with the different flavors of extra credit in Aspen, as extra credit can be interpreted as an entire ... [Read More]

Ever wondered if one of your students has attendance issues or E grades in another class, or if they excel in Geometry or if they struggle in English? As their teacher, you have access to much of this information in ... [Read More]

If you are a staff member or a middle school student having trouble logging into Aspen, please contact Ms. Torres or Mr. Reyes. If you are a Chelsea High student having trouble with Aspen, please ask one of your teachers for your ... [Read More]

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Students need to have a grade posted for Capstone in Aspen 4th quarter. This should be done during or shortly after the Capstone process and is done earlier than other quarter 4 grading. The steps are easier than typical posting ... [Read More]

Should you need to request a grade change, please use the official grade change request form, and please be sure to completely fill out the pertinent information on the form. You must be logged in with your district Google account ... [Read More]

If your Aspen Conduct Referral workflow is missing from your Aspen homepage widget area, you should check to make sure that your tasks are checked on in your preferences. Click on your name at the top right of Aspen, go ... [Read More]

Please see the following informational video on using Aspen for student conduct referrals. Needs volume. PDF of Conduct Codes: (High School Conduct Codes | Browne Conduct Codes).

If you log into Aspen and click the “Academics” top tap, you will see a list of your student’s current classes, teachers, and teacher email addresses. You can also contact your student’s teachers through the “Options” menu on this page ... [Read More]

You can change much of the language used in Aspen to Spanish by changing your “locale” under your preferences. Log into your Aspen account, click on your name near the top right, and select “set preferences.” This will pop open ... [Read More]

There are 3 basic lengths of courses at CHS: quarter, semester, and full year. Quarter length courses end every quarter and need both quarter and final grades during each grading quarter. Semester 1 courses end at the end of quarter ... [Read More]

There are 3 basic lengths of courses at CHS: quarter, semester, and full year. Quarter length courses end every quarter and need both quarter and final grades during each grading quarter. Semester 1 courses end at the end of quarter ... [Read More]

STEP 1. Click on the Gradebook tab. Select a course by checking the box and then clicking the Scores side tab to open the Scores view shown below. If you don’t see the recommendation columns click Set Preferences on the ... [Read More]

Yes! Yes you can! If you wish to print schedules for only one class, you can go to your Gradebook, pick a class, go to roster, select all the students, and then run the same report on the current selection ... [Read More]

There are 3 basic lengths of courses at Chelsea High School: quarter, semester, and full year. Quarter length courses end every quarter and need both quarter and final grades at the end of EVERY grading quarter for which they run. ... [Read More]

ELs who are at proficiency levels 1-3 take most of their core classes in the Bridge Academy (with some exceptions such as Algebra 2 or Chemistry, which do not have ELL sections).  Students who are levels 3-5 generally are in SEI ... [Read More]

Posting grades for summer school is a simpler process than for terms 1-4. Since summer school classes are Pass/Fail, you’ll want to have your final grades (FnlGrd column) be filled in with either P’s or F’s when you post; you don’t ... [Read More]

Please read these instructions carefully as they have some significant changes to how we normally post grades in Aspen (see the CHS grading policy here). Here are the changes we need to make for QT4 grade posting due to the distance-learning ... [Read More]

Entering Progress Report Grades and Comments in Aspen is very similar to updating post columns and posting grades for the end of a term, so the procedure should look familiar to you if you have posted grades in Aspen. Go ... [Read More]

Parents and guardians can view electronic (pdf) versions of Chelsea High School progress reports and report cards for a limited time (approximately 2 weeks) whenever these reports are published in Aspen. For example, if Quarter 1 progress reports are published ... [Read More]

This is a brief overview of the major steps involved in creating the CHS schedule for the build (the next) school year. This process should begin basically after the current year is committed.

Here are some additional documents covering various aspects of using the Aspen Gradebook like setting up grades, taking attendance, printing grading/seating charts, etc.: Checklist for setting up gradebook at start of school year Basic Gradebook Advanced Gradebook Averages Don’t Add ... [Read More]

When a student withdraws from your class, their grades up until the withdrawal remain in your gradebook. Just change your status radio button to be on “Withdrawn” rather than on “Enrolled.”

What is MyTrack? MyTrack is the name students picked for the Aspen student portal several years ago. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE between Aspen and MyTrack aside from the type of user account used (student versus teacher versus administrator etc.). ... [Read More]

Students can select elective courses (follow the link to see available elective courses) for the following year beginning with 8th grade… so 8th graders can select 9th grade courses for the upcoming school year, and 9th graders can select 10th ... [Read More]

As of the 2019-2020 school year, there is a new system for handling student passwords. Previously students set their own passwords for Aspen and Google, and they had static trivial passwords for AD, the desktop computer login. Moving forward, the ... [Read More]

Aspen tallies all student absences and tardies, so students can easily see if they are violating the attendance policy and thus in danger of receiving E grades. Class attendance is probably more useful to check, but here is how to ... [Read More]

You can run a report to help determine if any of your assigned students are in danger of failing any of their classes. The image below shows where to find the report. When you run it, choose the High School ... [Read More]

To enter class attendance in Aspen: Log on to the Staff view. Click the Attendance tab, Class side-tab. Select the checkbox next to the class you want to enter attendance for. On the Class side-tab, click Input. Mark students absent ... [Read More]

If you do not see any classes in your Aspen gradebook, this usually means that you are outside the date range of when a class takes place. Be sure to change your filter to be “this year’s classes” if you ... [Read More]