Skyward Develops Online Assignments Feature

By: Portage County Gazette Staff
Portage County Gazette

September 26, 2008

Skyward, the industry-leading K-12 school management system located in Stevens Point, announced the availability of a new feature, Online Assignments, a paperless alternative for creating homework assignments, quizzes and tests.

Online Assignments provides the teacher and the student with the tools to streamline and simplify creating, completing and turning in school work, while reducing paper waste. With Online Assignments, a teacher creates an assignment, posts it online and the assignment is automatically available to all students in the designated class. The teacher then designates a time-frame for the assignment to be completed, and the assignment is available for students via Skyward’s Student Access during that time-frame.

The assignment can be manually scored or teachers can choose to have the assignment autoscored and grades auto-posted to their grade book. Teachers can also modify student scores and add comments on a question-by-question basis when scoring the assignment, even if the assignment is auto-scored.

Once the assignment is scored, the assignment results can be viewed in real-time by the student via Student Access, and by the parents or guardians via Family Access. Students can view completed online assignments that have been graded through Student Access to study for upcoming exams.

In addition to their corporate headquarters located in Stevens Point, Skyward has nine regional offices located throughout the country.