Pinnacle+tips

Access Pinnacle from Home
Teachers, please follow these very important instructions **before** you attempt to use the Pinnacle webgrading system from home. If you don't, you won't be able to use Pinnacle at home. Here's what you need to do **first**...

Open Pinnacle Gradebook at school and click **Pinnacle/Change WGBA Password**. If you haven’t set a WGBA password this year then the old password should be left blank and a new password entered. You will need to enter that password again to verify it. Make sure you receive a message stating **“Your password has been changed”**. If not, this process did not work.

[|**https://webgrades.cfisd.net**]

Copy & Paste Assignments
This will explain how to copy and paste your assignment from one class to another.

After you have typed the assignments in for one class: Click on **Define**, then **Assignments**, then Hold the **SHIFT** key and highlight the assignments you want to copy. Click on **COPY**

Open your other class. Click on **Define**, then **Assignments** Click on the **PASTE** key... watch the hours of typing in assignment fly by!


 * But BE CAREFUL!** It also copies categories. So instead of having 4 defined categories, you will end up with 8. Make sure you go and delete the extra categories and make sure you linked the assignment (otherwise, it won't count).

Creating New Files
Open gradebook through Novell at the bottom of the screen. Click on **Pinnacle Gradebook**. Type in your **employee number**. Leave your password blank and press **Enter**. You will be prompted to enter a NEW password (must be minimum of 6 characters, must contain letters and at least one number. The password can be the same as last year if you want.) At the Welcome screen, click on **OK**.

To create the class file wizard, follow these steps... Click on **ONE** class at a time. Click **Next**. Leave class name the same (you will rename it later... **DON’T NAME NOW!!** See below for details) Click **Next** Highlight **One Class**. (Math, Reading, etc.) Click **Cy-Fair Default**. (LARGE GROUP -- Click Cyfair Large Group) Click **Finish**. Click **Yes**. (wait a few moments while it collects all the kids) Screen will go back to Class File Wizard. Repeat steps for all classes until it says, **"That was all your sections."** Click **OK**.

Rename Classes
Open one class. (remember subject, and look at students to know which class it is) Click File, then Untitled. Click on **Set Class Title**. Rename to whatever. (Math-Schlarmann) Click **OK**. Repeat for all classes.

Rename Subject
Click on **Define**. Then click on **Subject**. Highlight **Untitled**. Click on **Edit**. Change to Math. (or whatever you are wanting to change the subject to) Click **OK**.

Print Grid Sheets for Recording Grades
Go to **Reports**. Click **Custom**. Click **School**. Click **Cy fair 2**. Click **Grid for recording grades Large Spaces**

Sort Students Alphabetically
Click on **Utilities**. Click on **Sort**. Click on **Ok**.

View Assignments
Click on **Assignments** -- OR -- Click on Icon at top of page. Click on **View**.

Edit Assignments
(same as last year)Double-click on the **Untitled Replace...** part at the top -- OR -- Click on **Define**. Click on **Edit**. Rename **Untitled**. Link Category if needed. (see below to set up categories) Click on **Add** for more or **OK**.
 * LEAVE ALL OTHER NUMBERS THE SAME**.

Edit Categories
(same as last year, and MUST BE DONE FOR EACH CLASS)(Example: weighting Daily Grades 90%, Spelling Test 10%) Click Define. Click Categories. Click Daily Grades. Click Edit. Change Category Weight to 9 for 90%. (for example) Click Add. Change Description to Spelling Test. (for example) Change Category Weight to 1 for 10%. (for example) Click Ok. Click Recalculate NOW. Go to next class and do the same thing if needed.

Copy & Paste Assignment Titles
This will show you how to copy and paste assignments from one class to another. (if all of your Math classes have the same assignment names and you don’t want to type them over and over) After you have typed all of the assignment names in, hold the **Ctrl** key down and click on all of the assignments. Click on **Copy**. Then click on **OK**. (assignments will load on that class) Open another class. Click on **Assignments**. Click on **Paste**. Click on **Replace** (if you want to replace all assignments) OR click on **Append** (to add to the existing assignments)