Patriot Plot

West Carteret has purchased software where our teacher gradebooks are kept on the Internet.  The teachers login to a secure server and post grades instead of keeping static copies of grades in a manual gradebook or even software located on our local server.  Now one may ask why do I care about this change?  Well let me share the biggest advantage for students and parents alike…you can ALSO login to this secure server and see your grades at ANYTIME.  Even in its infancy, we have found students and parents to be exceptionally receptive to this new software.  We call the software PatriotGrades and it can be accessed at anytime from our school website www.wcpatriots.com then you click on the PatriotGrades tab across the top.

This will also save paper when it comes time to send home Interim/Progress Reports.  The only interim reports that will eventually be printed is for those parents/guardians that do not have access to the Internet.  In that case, it will be the student’s responsibility to print a copy of the progress report(s) from the media center or computer lab before leaving for home on progress/interim report day. 

Parents, please provide an email address and your student’s teacher can easily email you a progress report on interim/progress report time.  This way even if you don’t have time to go and see your student’s grades, you will easily receive a progress report in your email.  Also, please remember to contact the school anytime your email changes. 

If you have problems logging in to PatriotGrades, please call me (Mike McKay) at 726-1176 ext. 13 or email me at mike.mckay@carteretk12.org or Amy McKay at 726-1176 ext. 38 or email her at amy.mckay@carteretk12.org

Please take a moment to post a comment here as to your thoughts about PatriotGrades once you have had an opportunity to check out the site.