Communication Updates 9/17/2020

Please see the attached message from Mr. Schultz:

I hope the first day of school went well for everyone and we thank you for your patience as we continue to work together through first few days.  I wanted to share some information with you about Aspen and what you can expect in the first few weeks.  As you know Aspen will replace Jupiter Ed and Ipass.  For many I would assume that you did very little with Ipass over the years as we used Jupiter Grades for communication and grade monitoring.  Many parents have reached out concerned that they may be missing key information because they have been unable to set up their parent portal in Aspen.

At this time, Aspen is a means of communication for parents and to check in on students schedules.  Eventually it will work much like Jupiter Grades did with some additional features.  Some of these features include gradebook and links to teachers pages.  This is not set up at this time but will over the next few weeks.  As we roll this out, we will continue to provide information on how to access these features.  In the meantime its important that your student(s) have access to their teachers Google Classroom and/or Team Pages.

If your child is in Grades 6 and 7, they are part of a team and the teams have set up a google site Team Page, it is important that you and your child has access to that site.

For students in Grades 8-12, teachers predominately use google classroom.  I will send out more specific instructions for parents on how you can keep up to date on your child’s progress in google classroom.

Either way its imperative that students understand how their teachers are communicating with them over these next few days and throughout the school year.  If at any time while we are in full remote, your child cannot access a class or find the correct link, please contact Mr. Martin for grades 9-12, and Mrs. Cabral for grades 6-8 and they will provide access to classes.

Thank you for your patience
Have a great day,
Mike Schultz