Online Homework and Grades
via School Pathways SIS

Bitney Prep uses a web-accessible system for posting homework assignments and reporting interim gradesz called School Pathways SIS. The system is provided via the Nevada Joint Unified School District. It centralizes all information about a student's schedule, homework and interim grades in a single location, making it simpler for you to access. However, you will need to be assigned a username and password before you can access the system. Once you have your username and password in hand, please follow the instructions below:

1. Click the following link (which you should probably bookmark in your browser):
   Pathways Home Access
2. Enter your Username and Password into first two fields (and leave "bitneycollege" in the third one). Be careful about using the correct case for each letter (e.g., "bG87Et" and "BG87ET" are different passwords.)
3. Click the "Log in" button, and then follow the instructions on the Pathways screens that follow.
4. Once in the Student Portal, the most relevant section for parents and students is the Grades & Comments link on the right. There you may see an overview of your students’ grade or percentage. If you click View Assignments, you will see a break-down of past assignments’ grades, broken down by month, in that class.

CRITICALLY IMPORTANT!
Many parents complain that the grades posted online are "out of date". For example, if a student turns in an assignment, they are surprised that the grade for this assignment does not typically appear in Pathways that evening. This is quite simply an unrealistic assumption. The assignment (and all other assignments turned in that day by all students in this class and all other classes taught by the same teacher) must be carefully reviewed and graded. Finally, the teacher must enter all of these grades into the Pathways system. This represents a significant portion of a teacher's weekly responsibilities, and many of us wait to catch up on grading until the weekend.

This means that grades and assignments displayed online are very rarely completely up to date. Sadly, many parents and students dismiss the Pathways system for this reason. To do so is to miss the point of the system completely! The Bitney College Prep faculty have made a commitment to update their Pathways grades every two weeks. Thus, the interim grades reported by the system should in nearly all cases be within two weeks of being current. This is absolutley essential information if you wish to monitor progress and help students achieve academic success. Compare these online reports with semester grades (or even quarterly progress reports), which are always at least two weeks out of date and (more importantly) are typically reported long after any problems can be remediated.

Simplly stated, the grades posted online via Pathways represent the most current, comprehensive, and accurate picture of student performance that exists in any form. In fact, if you ask a teacher for hard data on how a student is doing in a particular class, that teacher will typically turn to Pathways to provide this information!