• WHEN USING SYMBOLS beyond a number or letter (such as the "+" sign in "B+"), use only plus and minus signs.
• DO NOT use the following at all:
• Spaces (for example, do not use "A +" when you mean "A+" or " B" when you mean "B").
• Underscores (for example, do not use "C_" when you mean "C-")
• Equals signs (for example, do not use "B=" when you mean "B-")

Getting in Touch with TSS

• During the school week, the Help Desk is the best place to call or email about any report card question or update. We prefer email because it has no busy signals. While it is always OK to email me, most times I will redirect weekday email to the Help Desk.
• During the weekends and at night, I monitor both my email accounts (chill @wappingersschools.org and charles.hill @wappingersschools.org) regularly and can answer most questions or fix most problems fairly quickly. It is definitely OK for staff to email me directly at either time.

• Instructions for logging in
• Download the ESRC Specials Manual for screen shots of the different report card pages plus lists of all possible comments.
  
• To log in, look on the left side of this page, where it says Report Card Entry, and click on the appropriate link.
  
• Lists of comments [all in pdf format]: Art | General Music | Band | Orchestra | Physical Education |
  

• WERCS replaced a report card system based on MS Word forms at the start of the 2005-6 school year.
• WERCS incorporates standards-based performance indicators specific to each grade from kindergarten through fifth, Bridge (a K-1 transitional program), and three special education programs (Aging-In, Self-Contained 1, and Self-Contained 2). It has multiple faces: a web side that makes it easy for teachers to enter grades and comments and a printed report card side that makes it easy for parents to understand student progress.
• WERCS was crafted by a committee of teachers and administrators, chaired by Dr. Lloyd Jaeger, and reviewed by members of the district’s PTA
• WERCS was developed by Charles Hill, using FileMaker Pro.
• WERCS benefits greatly from ongoing support and suggestions from the DoIT Help Desk staff, clerical staff from throughout the district, and elementary school teachers.

• On the left side of this page, where it says Report Card Entry, click on the link to your grade level's report cards.
• Up comes a popup security box that is looking for a user name and password. Each grade has its own. Get this from the main office or through your computer lab TA. This is not your personal ID.
• If you enter a correct ID and password, you will see a page with the WCSD logo. Just below that is a yellow box that says, in black letters, Enter Your User Name Here, followed by another box with the words, And Your Password Here. This is the place to enter your personal ID and password.
• Entering your ID and password will take you to your class.

• You can see (but not edit) comments from previous marking periods by clicking in the "Comments from other quarters" box in the upper right hand corner of any comments page.
• Your report cards will work best if you use the following maximum for comments:
  
• Reading and language arts: up to 8 in the left-hand column and 8 in the right
  
• Math: 6 and 6
  
• Science and social studies: 4 and 4
  
• General comments: 150 words

• Return to the Index page for your class and click Exit. This will allow other teachers to log on more easily.

• At the close of the report card entry period, the Help Desk will turn off rights to make report card changes (teachers can still view their report cards, however).
• Help Desk staff will print report cards to networked copiers at each elementary school. The copiers will store the print jobs until that school's main office clerical staff initiate the actual print order.
• About a week after printing, the Help Desk will prepare a CD for each school containing Adobe Acrobat copies of the school's report cards.
• If a teacher needs to make a report card change after a marking period has ended, the request must be made by email from the school principal to Dr. Hill.