Aldine ISD Establishes At-Home Learning Grading and Attendance Guidelines

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Aldine ISD has established grading guidelines for students who have opted for at-home learning to begin the 2020-21 school year

Students enrolled in at-home learning will follow the same grading guidelines as in-person students.

Aldine ISD teachers will receive support and guidance in both instructional models. Teachers will be expected to measure student progress by grading at least two assignments per week (daily grades) and one assessment or project per three-week (major grades). Grades will be posted by teachers on a weekly basis.

Courses taken as Dual Credit or Dual Enrollment will be subject to the grading policies of the Institution of Higher Education (IHE) issuing the college credit.

Additional information on grades: 

• Grades will be taken during each grading cycle of the 2020-21 school year.
• All 9-week cycle grades and semester exams, as applicable, will be used in the calculation of the average for any class.
• Semester exams will be administered for all secondary school courses.
• Teachers will be recording grades, which will be available for parents and students to access through the Home Access Center (HAC).
• Considerations for grading homework will be finalized.

Attendance Guidelines: At-Home Learning

At-home learning students will be assigned a second period/homeroom. Student attendances will be recorded at 1 p.m. in the homeroom course. Students are by default recorded present. Teachers will mark a student absent if the student fails to log into their Schoology second period/homeroom by 1 p.m.

Students who are engaged in daily at-home learning as defined below will be considered “present” and will not be marked absent:

• Participation in Schoology, the Aldine ISD Learning Management System (LMS), or completion of independent assignments.
• Interaction with the teacher via Google Meet as part of live or small group instruction. When unable to submit via Schoology, students can submit assignments via emails, photos, phone conferences or other forms of documentation.

Parents and students will receive absence notifications via Blackboard Messenger after 3 p.m. each day and will be reminded of the opportunity to resolve the day’s absence if the student engages in learning before 11:59 p.m. of the same day.

Any absence recorded, but resolved by the student logging in to Schoology by 11:59 p.m. on the same day will be automatically reconciled based on login records of Schoology. If the student engages in daily learning with a teacher, but not in Schoology by 11:59 p.m. that same day, the teacher will notify the attendance office the next work day to resolve the previous day’s absence.

Aldine ISD reminds parents and students that it is imperative that students log into Schoology during second period/homeroom every day of instruction.

If a student is engaged in remote learning and completes the entire week worth of learning activities on Monday, but does not log in for the remainder of the week, the student will be marked “present” on Monday only and counted “absent” for Tuesday-Friday.

Per state law and Aldine ISD policy, students are required to attend at least 90% of their classes to receive credit and to be promoted. Remote attendance will count in the same manner as on-campus (face-to-face) attendance in satisfying this requirement.