Over the course of the year I have been asked a few times about how to see a student's current grade using Portal. Since the list of work & scores do not show up in the most obvious of places, I figured I would pass the information along to all of our families....
1st - Log in to Portal
2nd- Select the link titled "schedule" (on the left side); a frame should appear with your student's schedule. Each class listed has a little icon that looks sort of like a miniature notebook - this is actually a link.
3rd- Click on the notebook icon. You should now be able to see your student's recent progress report grades, their current grade (shows up as second semester - this is the up-to-date, cumulative grade for the semester so far) AND a list of all assignments the teacher has entered into the grade book so far
4th- Repeat the process of going back to "schedule" and clicking on the icon for each class.
Note: Teachers can enter an assignment without entering the scores (usually the assignment was either recently assigned or collected & will be entered later .... usually the case if the "score" column is empty, the teacher has yet to enter the assignment.
Also .... Some teachers are recording missing assignments as 0 (zero points), others are marking the assignment as missing ... either way, the assignment counts against the student. If an X is in the box, it means the student was excused from the assignment and it will not count against them.