Navigating the Aspen Student Portal: A Guide to Finding Your GPA and More
The Aspen student portal is a valuable tool for students and parents to stay informed about academic progress. This article provides a comprehensive guide to navigating the Aspen student portal, with a focus on finding your GPA and utilizing other helpful resources.
Accessing the Aspen Student Portal
The first step is accessing the Aspen student portal. Typically, your school or institution will provide you with login credentials. If you are a parent seeking access, you may need to complete a registration form, such as the Taft Aspen Parent Help form. If you encounter any difficulties, several resources are available to assist you:
- CPS Aspen Help: This resource offers a wealth of information to help parents set up and manage their Aspen accounts.
- Aspen Navigation Guide for Parents: This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the features available on Aspen and how to use them effectively.
- Aspen Help Request: If you cannot find the answers to your questions using the above resources, you can submit a help request form for further assistance.
Finding Your GPA
The process of finding your GPA within the Aspen student portal may vary slightly depending on your school district or institution. However, here are the general steps:
- Log in to the Aspen student portal: Use your provided username and password to access your account.
- Navigate to the "Grades" or "Academics" section: Look for a tab or section labeled "Grades," "Academics," or something similar.
- Locate your GPA: Within the grades section, you should find your GPA listed. It may be displayed as a cumulative GPA or a GPA for a specific term or trimester. Middle school students’ GPA is calculated each trimester, including all classes on their schedule.
Understanding Report Cards and Progress Reports
The Aspen student portal also provides access to report cards and progress reports. These documents communicate student progress toward mastering learning standards. Hawthorn District 73 uses the PowerSchool Parent Portal to digitally post report cards and progress reports for both middle and elementary school families. This secure portal provides timely access to current and past report cards, making it easy for parents and guardians to stay informed.
Elementary students receiving intervention support and services receive midterm reports at the midpoint of each academic trimester. Report cards and midterm reports are just one method of sharing student progress with families.
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Aspen University Specific Information
The following information pertains specifically to Aspen University and may not be applicable to other institutions using the Aspen portal.
Grading and Assessment
At Aspen University, research and quality of resources are an integral element of a student’s work and will constitute a large portion of assignment work. To assist in the evaluation process, students are provided with an assignment rubric that is used by faculty to score their assignments. These rubrics are available in each D2L classroom and are specific to the assignment type.
A signature assignment is a student artifact that represents scaffolded learning across a course. It is usually that final assignment of the course, generally in Module 8, e.g. a research paper or a capstone project. As such, the assignment is summative in nature only and directly measures course learning objectives, program learning goals, and university mission-based outcomes for both assignment grading and assessment of student learning purposes. In some cases, students who do not pass the signature assignment also do not pass the course.
The balance of assignments in a course are graded with rubrics designed for specific deliverable types and are not used for university assessment data collection and analysis. Examples include rubrics for a PowerPoint, for an essay, for a journal entry, for discussion questions, for an article analysis, etc. These rubrics reflect the degree level-undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral-and use the same 4 standardized expectation levels described above and appropriate point ranges for each cell. Both signature assignment and assignment type rubrics are scored by faculty and provide a numeric value for an assignment that is averaged in with all course assignment grades to calculate the final grade of the course. At Aspen University, grades are not rounded to a whole number.
Proctored Assessments
Proctored assessments (exams, etc.) at Aspen University have a two-fold purpose. First, they are designed to test a student’s overall knowledge of the learning goals and are administered at predetermined points during a program. Second, proctored assessments are used for identity verification; government-issued photo identification or other means are used to confirm student identity. This helps ensure integrity and academic honesty. The number of proctored assessments and their placement in the curriculum is determined at the program level. Most of the proctored assessments in the online programs are in the capstone or last course of a program.
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In the BSN Pre-licensure program, students are subject to program-specific proctored exam requirements, including the HESI A2, HESI content exams, an NCLEX Predictor exam, and the Computerized Adaptive Test (CAT). All are course-specific and scheduled by cohort.
Course Specific Policies
Field experience hours in N492, N493, and N496 must be documented and approved appropriately prior to course completion to successfully pass the course. Students who fail a dissertation course must retake the course before they can progress in their program. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Pre- licensure Program) are subject to the standard undergraduate grade scale for all general education courses. Students are required to pass previous courses in a topic sequence prior to moving on to the next in the sequence (e.g. Students who withdraw from a course will be automatically withdrawn from any co-requisite courses. Students may retake one failed course with the next cohort that has an available seat and remain with that cohort. Students are permitted to retake a failed course once only for a total of two attempts. For Nursing Core didactic courses with a co-requisite lab or clinical course, students must pass both. Failure of either will result in a failing grade for both courses and both must be repeated. However, this will count as one course failure regarding the policy above. If either of the repeated courses are failed, students will be automatically dismissed from the program. For N455A and N455B, the Seminar course is a co-requisite to the didactic. If the didactic is failed and repeated, the Seminar is failed and repeated. If either of the repeated courses are failed, students will be automatically dismissed from the program. All lab, clinical, and seminar courses are subject to the below nursing grade scale. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Pre-Licensure Program) are subject to the standard undergraduate grade scale for all general education theory courses.
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