So for the last few weeks I've been trying to figure out how to get our grade program up and running for this school year whenever I had a spare moment. (ha ha) Today, Sr N canceled my two classes I'd have on Thursday, and let me take the whole day to just focus on getting this done. The teachers were getting really antsy.

It took yet another phone call to tech support, where they finally told me a work around to what I'd been struggling with previously. Basically create 4 spreadsheets with the information and sync it. So, that's what I did. About 5 p.m. today I uploaded the third try, and checked out the gradebooks -- it worked! Yay! Now maybe I'll have time to update the rosters in several other programs. On Wednesday I had 8th graders checking out books, and they saw that they are still listed as 7th graders. Oops. It won't be an easy fix because of how the students were all entered. If it had been done differently, I could do a batch update (update a whole slew at once) but I'll have to do it one at a time.

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Tonight we had open house for K - 5 parents. I had quite a few kids and their parents come to the media center. One funny story:

A family walks in (mom, grandma, two daughters) and the mom says "We come bearing gifts to appease the library gods." It turns out that her oldest daughter had lost a library book when she was in the second grade. Her grandma had just found it. The daughter is now in the sixth grade. The book wasn't in our system, although it had a barcode and label with our name on it. It most likely was marked as lost and the file eventually deleted.