With New Students

If you are entering a new term or new school year with brand new students in your classes, it may be easiest to simply start a new gradebook. Login to www.thinkwave.com, click on Account Management, and then click on Create a New Gradebook. The setup wizard will take you through the first four steps of setting up your new gradebook.


With Existing Students

On the other hand, if you are starting a new term that will include most of the same students as from the previous term, then it is easiest to add another term to your existing Gradebook file. To do so, login to www.thinkwave.com, click on the appropriate Gradebook resource, and then click on Options. Under the Terms tab, you can click on Add to create your new term and to set its starting and ending dates. Remember to click on Save.

Next, go to Classes Info, select the new term from the Term filter (upper right corner), and click on Add. Once you have selected the parameters for the new class in the new term, click on Save, and then go to Students. Click on the Student Enrollment tab and then choose All Terms for the term filter. You should then be able to check the appropriate boxes for recently created classes in the new term in which to enroll students. After doing so, be sure to click on Save. If you have new students enrolling in classes for the new term, click on the Personal Info tab and click on Add to create their records. Be sure to choose either All Terms or the appropriate term from the Term filter. Remember to click Save.

After creating the classes and enrolling the students, you can begin to create announcements and assignments, mark attendance, type up lesson plans, view student results, etc. Just make sure to always select the appropriate term and class from the filters in the upper right corner.