Important Grading Instructions

Logging into SERS

  1. From the SERS home page (http://sers.techprepwa.org/), click on Teacher Log In.
  2. Log in using the user name and password provided to you by the person who created your account.
  3. If you don’t have or have forgotten this information, enter your email into the Forgot Your Log In Information? field and click the Submit button. The information will be sent to the email address in your User Profile. Note that your user name is generated by SERS and cannot be changed; however, you can change your password at any time.
  4. Click the Login button.
  5. The Tech Prep Teacher Home Page appears. The navigation menu on the left lists the SERS functions.

Finding Your Class

The two most common functions you will perform in SERS are:

  1. Assigning grades.
  2. Tracking a student’s status in a class.

To assign grades and status, you must have been assigned a role of Teacher.
To perform these functions, you must first find your class. To do so:

  1. From the Home Page, click on Class Roster/Assign Grades.

The Search for Classes screen appears. The default Academic Year is the current academic year. The High School drop-down field includes all the high schools associated with the articulations you are associated with.

  1. Select the information you want to search on. To include inactive classes in your search, check the Include Inactive checkbox.
  2. Click the Go Search! button.

The results appear below the search form.
To sort your results, click on the column title.

  1. To view a class’s details, click on Details for that class. The articulations the class is associated with appear. To hide the details, click on Close.
  2. To view a class roster, click on the class’s name.

The Class Roster screen appears. You can now assign grades and manage class status.

Recording Student Grades

You cannot modify a student’s grade or status unless the grading window is open. Tech Prep staff establishes the dates for when a grading window will be open or closed.
To record student grades:

  1. From the Search for Classes screen, click on a class name.

The Class Roster screen appears. The grading window’s status appears under the class roster title.
When a student registers for your class, the student’s class status appears as “In Progress.” You can manually change the status. Alternatively, when you assign a grade to the student, the status will automatically change to “Completed.”
The Transcribed column indicates whether the college registrar has transcribed the student’s completed articulation. Registrars cannot transcribe a student’s completed articulation until you have entered a grade for the student, and, if necessary, assigned variable credits.

  • If you do not have a grade for the student, leave the Grade field blank and select the appropriate Student Class Status.
  • When done, click the Save Changes button.