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Pearson Centerpoint Instructions for Parents

Pearson Centerpoint (formerly known as SiPS) is the system used to track student assignments, grades, attendance, etc. Parents and students can log into Centerpoint through the Watershed web site.

Logging In: From the WHS Website: www.watershedhs.org. Click the Login link. On the login screen, enter your username and password and click the “login” button.

Personal Home Page: After you log in, you will see your student’s personal home page listing their courses, grades, key events, announcements, and links to attendance and other information, etc. Like all pages on the application site, the home page is divided into a header, a main body section, and a footer.

Menu Bar: Located at the bottom of the page header area, below the blue Watershed High School banner, the menu bar displays drop down menus as you pass the cursor over individual tabs. It provides direct access to all available application functions and is displayed on all pages in one form or another.

Site Path: Located in the center of the header area under the words “Watershed Charter School”, the Site Path references the page being viewed in a logical hierarchy relative to the home page. Components of the hierarchy are “hot” and can be clicked to navigate to related pages and functions.

Viewing Attendance: To view your student’s attendance for the current term, move the cursor over the “Attendance” tab on the Menu Bar and click on “View Attendance”. You can view attendance records for other terms by selecting a term in the dropdown menu box at the bottom of the page body.

Calendar: Calendar events are listed on the home page. To view events in a calendar format click the “more” button, or move the cursor over the “Communications” tab on the Menu Bar and click on “View Calendar”. Using the drop down menu at the top of the calendar body section, you may narrow the view selection to school events, course events, or group events your child is part of. The calendar displays different event selections corresponding to your context as referenced by the Site Path.

To Do List: Parents can view tasks in their student’s To Do list, which is generated by the teachers of their courses. Disregard the phrase “no tasks in to do list” and click the “More” button. Only current and future tasks are displayed. Once the due date has passed, the task disappears from the list. The To Do list displays items to your context as referenced by the Site Path.

Course Listing: Parents can view their child’s list of current term courses. The course list is one of the standard items in the body of the main home page. By clicking on the name of the course, parents can view the Class Home page A detailed course listing is available by clicking the “More” button by the Course list on the student home page or by clicking ‘classes” in the site path. Note: All ML courses for the semester are listed. Students are only enrolled in one ML block at a time.

Announcements: Announcements will be displayed according to context (where you are in the site path). At site path: home, you will view school/campus announcements, if the site path displays a course number, you will see announcements for that course.

Viewing Grades: The Gradebook listing on the personal home page displays the overall grade for each course in which your student is enrolled. To see more detail, including individual assignments click on the letter grade for that course

Class Home Page: To see a Class Home Page, click on the underlined course name on the main home page. Class home pages may also be accessed by moving the cursor over the “My Classes” tab on the Menu Bar and clicking on the course name. The information on the Class Home Page pertains only to that class and may include assignments and course documents.

Class Assignments: By clicking on the “More” button to the right of Class Assignments, you can review more detailed information. Only assignments with current and future due dates are displayed. Once the due date has passed, the assignment disappears from the list. To see the grade for an assignment, see the gradebook.

Class Documents: To download documents, click on the More button to the right of Class Documents, or simply click on a folder in which the document is located, then click on the download image or document name. You can open the document or save it to disk. Hardcopies of these documents are handed out once in class.

Groups: To view class groups to which your student has been assigned, move the cursor over the “My Groups” tab on the Menu Bar and click on the group name (if any)..

This will take you to the group home page. Group home pages are similar to class home pages in layour and function. Parents have limited access and functionality within group home pages.

Message Center: Parent Users can receive and post messages to and from their children and to and from their children’s current teachers. If a user has unread messages, a message notice will be displayed at the bottom of the page. Click on the message notice to view the new messages. To access the message center, move the cursor over the “Communications” tab on the Menu Bar and again over “Message Center” sub-menu tab and click on the desired function.. The Message Center should be your first choice of communication with teachers , before email and phone.

Message Center Preferences: Some announcements and personal messages may be sent to and received by parents and students via email as well as being posted online.. To set your preferences on receiving email messages, move the cursor over the “Communications” tab on the Menu Bar and again over “Message Center” sub-menu tab and click on “Edit Preferences”. It is recommended that you specify always receiving messages by email so that you may be alerted of important news in two different ways.

Switching Students:

Other Personal Settings and Options: By moving the cursor over the “Personal” tab on the Menu Bar you can click on the following options.

Change My Password (change password)

Edit Display Thresholds (display more or fewer calendar events, To Dos/Assignments, and or Announcements in the page body. This may also be accessed by clicking the “Edit” link under the Personal Calendar in the main Home Page.)

Change Notification Settings (enter email address(es) and specify frequency of or thresholds for automatic student progress reports and alerts notifying you of low grades, missing assignments, and absences or tardies.

Log Out: Always remember to log out after your session is finished by clicking the Logout link in the lower right corner of the page footer at the bottom of the page.

Forgot Your Password? Call the office. We cannot retrieve your old password, but we can give you a new one of your own choosing.

Problems? Please call the office with questions 612.871.4363