Trouble-Shooting Current Assignment Pages

Notes For Parents and Students

Our website features “summary pages” which display current assignment information for groups of classes, such as all third-grade classes. We hope these make it easier to access your student’s assignments each week.

If you find an error in an assignment page, please check with the teacher first if the error seems to be in text which the teacher himself or herself has written. There may also be technical problems, such as a missing assignment, a persistently broken link, or an misplaced assignment (wrong grade level). In such a case, please notify the webmaster at liveoakacademy.org. It is our goal at Live Oak Academy to make these assignment pages a useful tool in managing your student’s weekly work, so we strive to keep them complete and up to date.

You or your student can also view each class assignment separately, by visiting your teacher’s own “teacher folder.” These can be located via the faculty index. Note that each teacher will often have several “class folders” under his or her main folder, one for each class. The names of these class folders mention the class subject, and may also mention the grade level.

If there is apparently no current assignment linked into the summary page, either of the following reasons may apply: (a) The teacher may be giving assignments in verbal or written form, rather than via the web, or (b) there may be a broken link. Each teacher’s folder is under his or her own control, so ask the teacher if you are not sure whether assignments are posted on the web, or to find out how to use the information in the teacher folder.

“Current” assignments are defined as those which are to be carried out this week, starting the Tuesday immediately after the assignment is posted. To review last week’s assignments (which have already been carried out), or assignments from previous weeks, please visit the teacher’s folder, and find the dated or numbered copy of this assignment you want. Each assignment should be marked with its own date (usually the due-date).

If you find the wrong date on an assignment in the summary page, please double-check assignment by looking directly in the teacher folder. A wrong date may be a typo (tell the teacher) or perhaps you are looking in the wrong file.

Some assignments may appear to have garbled characters, especially bullets, quotes, and apostrophes. In such cases, it may help to visit the original assignment by itself, not combined with other assignments. (This is an inherent problem with HTML and its processing of incompatible “character sets”.)

If there is a broken link from a summary page for current assignments, please wait a moment and refresh the page. (The teacher may be in the process of changing the file.) If the condition persists, or if you believe there is a problem reaching your teacher’s assignment page, please contact the webmaster at this website.

Notes For Teachers Posting Weekly Assignments

Please update your current assignment file at the beginning of each week (by Monday before midnight, except for vacations). The current assignment is always for the current week, so that students know what to do Tuesday through the next Monday. The current assignment file (i.e., for the following week) is usually called “Current.htm” or some similar name, in each of your per-class folders.

To avoid confusion between current and previous assignments, be sure to put a date at the top of every assignment. In many cases, if you are asking students to carry out specific actions on specific weekdays, put a date on each day’s work, such as Wednesday, 9/06. It is also good practice to put (at the top of the page) your name, the class name, and the grade level.

When you post your assignment, it is a good idea to double-check it by viewing it from your browser, as if you were a parent looking up the assignment.

When updating your current assignment file, be sure to make a copy with a suitable dated name, like “Week03-920.htm”, so that there is always a complete collection of weekly assignments available to parents and students. Probably the easiest way to do this, depending on your computer, is to do a “Save As” from your word processor to the new file name (e.g., “Week03-920.htm”) and then use your computer’s “finder” or “folder explorer” to (a) duplicate the new file, (b) remove the stale “Current.htm”, and (c) rename the duplicate file to “Current.htm”.

To duplicate a file on Windows, select the file, select “Copy” (from the Edit menu), then select “Paste”. The computer will make a copy with an obvious name, like “copy of Week03.htm”.

It may also work to do a second “Save As” directly to “Current.htm”. If the “Save As” command does not work, save a temporary copy to your computer’s hard drive, and then manually move the file (by dragging and dropping) to your teacher folder.

There are summary assignment pages, such as one for all third-grade classes, which should link to your own current assignment file. Please check this to make sure it works, because parents and students will be consulting these summary pages. If your current assignment does not appear on a summary page, there may be a missing or broken link; please inform the webmaster.

For further hints trouble-shooting your teacher folder, please check this link:
http://liveoakacademy.org/admin/TeacherFolderIssues.html