2006 Grading Cards
For ecological and land judging cards and plant ID cards, you have to allow pop-ups to see the 'Official Input Card'.  You may or may not have this problem according to your browser settings.


If you have this bar at the top of the browser, you must get rid of it by

clicking on it and then choosing 'allowed blocked content' and answer 'yes' to the confirmation box.

Land Judging Cards

To grade land judging cards, you will use 2 forms: the 'student card' will appear on the screen and then the pop-up 'official card' will appear over that.

Open Grading Cards

Stay within the pop-up box labeled 'official' while you enter the 'official information'. 

the 'reset' button is on the official form only if you need to 'start over'

to practice this:
Open Practice Land Official
             print the official
            
(it will either print out on one legal size or 2 pieces of 8 1/2 by 11)


While working with the 'official card', you will:
     1. Input Practice Official. 
     2. In the upper half of the card for each category, put in the point value and check the correct answer(s).
     3. In the lower half, put point value in the correct answer squares; all other squares will have zero values.
     4. Each field must total 75 for a total of 300 points before the official will let you grade.   With all correct answers marked, press 'Click Here When Ready To Grade'.

 

When working with the 'student card', you will:
     First, input the official card answers to make sure it adds up to 300; this will double check your input answers. If you need to re-enter the official, click 'REFRESH'
(this will BLANK the pop-up 'official card' and let you start over)
 If it adds to 300, then press 'reset' so you can begin grading the contestants entries.   DO NOT REFRESH (only reset the form between each contestant).
     1. Type in contestant name and contestant number.
     2. Input contestants 'marked contest answers'.

     3. Push 'press to get score' button.

     4. Press 'edit', 'select all'.

     5. Press 'edit', 'copy'.

     6. Open your 'word processor' software.

     7. On your 'word processor' page, press 'edit', 'paste'.

     8. Set page setup for legal paper and set all margins to one-half inch.

     9. Print

Ecological Cards 

To grade ecological judging cards, you will use 2 forms: the 'student card' will appear on the screen and then the pop-up 'official card' will appear over that.

Open Grading Cards   

Stay within the pop-up box labeled 'official' while you enter the 'official information'.                                           

the 'reset' button is on the official form only if you need to 'start over'

to practice this:
Open Practice Ecological Site Official
             print the official
            

While working with the 'official card', you will:
     1. Input Practice Official. 
     2. With all correct answers marked, press 'Click Here When Ready To Grade'.

 

When working with the 'student card', you will:
     First, input the official card answers to make sure it adds up to 600; this will double check your input answers. If you need to re-enter the official, click 'REFRESH'
(this will BLANK the pop-up 'official card' and let you start over)
 If it adds to 600, then press 'reset' so you can begin grading the contestants entries.  

 

DO NOT REFRESH (only reset the form between each contestant).
     1. Type in contestant name and contestant number.
     2. Input contestants 'marked contest answers'.

     3. Push 'score' button.

     4. Choose 'edit' from the toolbar, then 'select all'.

     5. Choose 'edit', 'copy'.

     6. Open your 'word processor' software.

     7. On your 'word processor' page, choose 'edit', 'paste'.

     8. Set page setup for landscape and set all margins to one-half inch.

     9. Print

 

  Plant ID

To grade Plant ID cards, prompt boxes will ask for plant ID official numbers (the form automatically knows the characteristics of that number).

Open Grading Cards  

to practice this:
Open Plant ID Official

             print the official

While working with the 'official prompts', you will:
     1. Input Plant Number and press 'OK' for each of the twenty plants (if less than twenty plants, just continue to click 'OK' through prompt for plant number twenty). 
   2. Now you are ready to input student's answers.  After inputting their answers, press 'score'.


3. Upon grading the first student's card, double-check your official plant ID number with the 'red numbers' on the student's card.  If one of the official plant ID numbers do not match your printed official, you must refresh the form and enter plant ID numbers again.   If they do match, then do the following.

 



     1. Type in contestant name and contestant number.
     2. Choose 'edit' from the toolbar, then 'select all'.

     3. Choose 'edit', 'copy'.

     4. Open your 'word processor' software.

     5. On your 'word processor' page, choose 'edit', 'paste'.

     6. Set page setup for landscape and set all margins to one-half inch.

     7. Print

While entering students answers, DO NOT REFRESH (only reset the form between each contestant).