Parent Portal

The Parents Portal allows parents or legal guardians to check on their young person’s attendance and progress at DCG.

To log in, you will need to know your young person’s ID number.

This is the number on the student’s college ID card.

Enter this number into the username box, followed by the letter P for Parent.

In the password box, enter the young person’s date of birth in the format DDMMYYYY.

For instance, if the date of birth is 24th May 2008, you would enter 24052008.

If your login is successful, your young person’s profile should now be visible.

Click on the profile to enter the portal.

Here on the front page you have access to your young person’s attendance and their target goals, which are teacher or student set targets related to things like their work, personal development, careers and work experience.

We can see further details by clicking on more, but let’s look at the menu over on the right.

Here in the menu you can see that you again have access to the attendance and target goals, but also the progress logs, which are a termly report of the student’s progress on their courses.

Let’s look at the attendance page first.

On this page you can see the student’s attendance summary for each of their registers through the week.

It also includes information on punctuality.

Let’s now go back to the menu and look at the progress log, which is a termly report of the student’s progress on their courses.

The first progress log usually appears around mid November.

Further progress logs are added in late January, early March and the end of April.

The expected course performance is an overall target grade for the course set by the college.

There is a general grade for attitude and effort and then a current course performance grade which is based on the student’s average assessment results to date and compares them to the target grade.

Below that is a statement which summarises progress on the course and records the course attendance at that point.

Finally, let’s look at the target goals page.

Target goals can be set by staff members or the students themselves and might relate to their academic work or other goals they need to achieve, such as work placement, goals related to attendance, careers advice and other college business.

These should be reviewed and updated or marked as complete.

Targets that are waiting for review will be colour coded blue, while completed targets will appear in green.

Clicking on More Detail will show you any progress notes for the target.

Finally, you may wish to change your password from the date of birth default.

To do this, click on your child’s name at the top of the screen, go to the Manage Password tab and reset it to something of your own choice.

For further help and guidance, please refer to the Parent Portal page on the DCG website.

Thank you for watching.

video on parent portal covering what it is and how you can access it parent portal is a system for parents and carers to easily get some information about how the student is doing at college it shows current attendance and punctuality levels provides details to the targets that have been formally set for the student across the year and how they are currently doing and also gives access to progress logs which are formal statements about the effort and achievement taken at a few set points in the year to access parent portal visit the college website at www.derbycollege.ac.uk hover over the parents heading then click on parent portal this information page tells you how you can log in along with answering some faqs scroll down to cvs and to get to the link where you click to log in to log in you will need the college id number for the student and their date of birth enter the college id number as the username followed by a lowercase p as in the example the password will be the date of birth of a student in ddm yyyy format but this can be changed after you’ve logged in for the first time if you are having any trouble logging in check the hints on screen now or use a contact email listed on the parent portal information page for more assistance when you successfully log in to parent portal you will see percentages for attendance and punctuality with more information available when you click the more button in the relevant box progress logs can be accessed here by clicking the more button in this box if you click student irp in the top corner that’ll give you both these options plus one to see about targets that have been formally set for the student if you aren’t sure about anything you see on parent portal or you want to discuss what you’ve seen with someone please contact the personal tutor for the student or book an appointment at one of our parents evenings which are held regularly throughout the year