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Genesis Overview

Ted Malin

Teacher of Computers

Hackensack Middle School

Link to Ted’s Genesis Tutorials

Theola’s Video

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Genesis is our SIS (Student Info System)

Your main Hub for student records, grades, attendance

This has been our SIS forever. Maybe we’re switching soon? (OnCourse)

How you use this program depends on your building and grade level.

Look for it on our “Staff Resources” page along with many other important Technology Links.

Genesis is a bit old fashioned and clunky, but it works (most of the time!).

Don’t confuse the SIS with “School Fi” which is the employee portal.

Even after 20+ years using Genesis, whenever I watch another teacher using it, they click on things and use things I’ve never seen before!

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“Staff Resources”

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Genesis Employee Portal is different. It’s further down on this page.

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Student Data

tab

Any info you need about a student is probably here.

Note: You get more info from the “Student Data” tab, compared to if you click on a kid’s name from another screen! Also, some info is only from other tabs. Why? I don’t know!!

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Seating Charts

Open the class from the list,

Then find “Seating Chart” tab on the bottom.

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Setting up your Seating Charts

Click on “Change Seating” to move students around.

**Don’t forget to click “Save Seating Chart”** or else your changes will NOT be saved!

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Attendance from Seating Chart

I recommend using the seating chart for attendance, not the “Attendance” tab.

I can not make a screenshot because the class doesn’t meet today.

Demo it live.

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Student Data tab: Conferences

Admin usually asks that we always add a “conference” entry when you take an action with a student.

Called parent- put it in conferences
Met with the student about their grade, put it in conferences
Talked to student about behavior issue, put it in conferences.
The more that goes into conferences, the better the picture everyone has about the student.

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Behavior “write up”

Check with HHS, but at HMS the way we “write a student up” is with Genesis.

Note: not from “Student Data” tab (for some reason).
Find the student in your class roster (Gradebook Tab)
Create the incident under “Discipline”.

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Grading Assignments:

Google Classroom Note: It’s possible to link your classes with your Google Classroom classes. This can make moving grades from Google Classroom into Genesis very easy. Stay tuned for more on this in the near future.

Add Assignment:

Live Demo this in

Genesis….

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Grading Categories Setup

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I’m not sure if we can still change this. Check with admin and other teachers.

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Lesson Planner tab

It’s not opened yet.

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“School Fi” is the Employee Portal

Note: This is a different portal with a different login. It happens to be from the same

Company (Genesis).

This is where you will do

things related to your

employment.

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