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Parent Guide

Ascend SMS User Guide

Table of Contents

1. Logging In2. Ascend SMS Screen Layout3. Home Tab 4. Attendance Tab5. Progress Tab6. Snapshot Tab7. Homework Tab


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• From an internet browser, go to your school’s Ascend SMS website• https://yourschool.ascendsms.com/

• Log In using the credentials given to you by your school’s Ascend SMS Administrator

Logging In

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• Upon first login, you will be required to change your password.Logging In

This is the password that was given to you by your school.

This is the password that you create.


• Also upon first login, you will be required to update your profile.

• Be sure to update under the correct tab.

• If Marital Status is divorce, please contact the school to have an additional parent account created if required.

• The information entered will be used for the permanent record cards as required by the Archdiocese.

Logging In


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• If Marital Status is marked as divorced or single, the other parent profile will not be required.


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Accept the UserLicense Agreement

• Check “I accept end user license agreement.”

• Click


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Additional Parent Account Letters?

• Please repeat the registration process for each child. Your accounts will sync upon completion.


Ascend SMS Screen Layout

• Across the top displays your school logo – which is hyperlinked to your school website – together with your school name and address.

• Clicking on the ASCEND SMS logo always brings you back to this “Home” screen .

On All Screens


• This blue tabbed menu bar appears on all screens.

• Each tab may have a

sub menu.• The viewing area

allows you to change which student you are viewing - should you have more than one child enrolled at this school.

• Clicking the allows you to quickly send a message to the school’s AscendSMS administrator.

On All Screens



On All Screens


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• The left hand side displays the SECURE AREA , which describes the current date, term, and user login information.

• User can also select to• manage

accounts, • edit profile,• change

password, or to • logout

from any screen.Ascend SMS User Guide

Parent Home Tab

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• The first screen you see after logging is the Home Screen

• Your child’s most recent assignment grades are shown

• Each column can be sorted by clicking the button. Clicking the same column a second time will sort the column in opposite order•Clicking on an individual assignment pulls up performance information about that assignment (see next slide)


Class Performance Screen

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• The class performance screen for a particular assignment is shown here.

• The assignment name is listed here.

• Click to close the performance screen.


Parent Attendance Tab

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• The attendance tab shows all absences, tardiness, and early dismissal information


Parent Progress Tab

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• The Progress tab shows your child’s progress measured against the class average and/or the top performer.

• Click here to select what term, which course, and which month to view your child’s progress.


Parent’s Snapshot Tab

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• The Snapshot tab shows your child’s grades in each subject.

• Click here to look at past term snapshots


Parent’s Homework Tab

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• The Homework Tab has 2sub menu’s:• Email alert• Homework Calendar



Email Alert

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• Email Alert:• Ascend SMS allows

parents to be alerted often or as little as you like via:• Grade Alerts• Assignment

Alerts• Email

Preferences


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• Grade Alerts:• Click which subjects

for which you want to be notified, then• Select which

assignment types you wish to be notified• Tests• Quizzes• Homework• Other

In this example, the parent wants to be

alerted for only quizzes and tests in

subjects Religion and Language Arts, but wants be alerted for all assignment types

in Mathematics.


Email Alert


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• Assignment Types:• Alternatively,

you may wish to be notified when anassignment is scored less than or equal to a set percentage.

In this example, the parent will be alerted for all subjects where

student receives a grade of less than

90%.


Email Alert


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In this example, the parent will be alerted “as it happens,” i.e.,

immediately after the grade is posted

• Email Preferences:• You can select

how often you wish to be alerted:• As it happens

(immediately after grade is entered)

• Summary• Daily• Weekly• Monthly

• Here is where you enter your email address(es) for your computer and/or mobile phone


Email Alert


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• The Homework Events Calendar screen shows:• The number of homework

tasks assigned that day• By clicking on the

number beside the category pulls up more detail (next slide)


Homework Calendar

This example, school was not in session

November 21, 22, 23therefore, no homework

was posted.Ascend SMS User Guide

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• The Homework Listing screen shows:• homework assigned

by all your student’s teachers that day

• Items your student was asked to take home

• Items your student was asked to bring to school the next day

• Messages from the teacher to you

Parent’s Homework Homework Calendar

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