To grade students on standards, first your Admin must customize standards for your school/district, then you can select standards for your gradebook:
Setup
To select which standards to use in your gradebook:
| 1. | Go to the page. |
| 2. | Set the Standards menu for each of your subjects. For subjects that have just a single grade on report cards instead of multiple objectives, like P.E. or Music, set the Standards menu to "None". Note: Each subject tab can have only one set of standards, so if you teach a combo class, like 3rd & 4th grade math, you'll need separate subject tabs for Math 3 and Math 4. Non-academic grades, like study skills, also need a separate subject tab. |
| 3. | Go to the page to customize the rubrics or letter grades to use for each subject. If you uncheck "Apply to all classes", you can define different grade scales for different subjects, such as 4321± for core subjects and ESN± for study skills. Note: Objectives use the same grade scale as the subject totals, so if, e.g., you want to grade objectives as 4321 but show totals as ABCDF, you'll need to manually override grades for the report card. |
Entering Grades
Each assignment can be aligned with one or more objectives, so whenever you enter grades, it automatically tracks students progress toward the standards, and no extra steps are required for report cards. To align assignments with objectives:
| 1. | Go to the page to add or edit an assignment. |
| 2. | Check one or more checkboxes for the objectives. |
| 3. | If you check the checkbox "Score objectives separately", you can give each student a different score for each objective. Otherwise the same score is used for all selected objectives. |
Analyzing Student Progress
To monitor your students' progress on each objective, go to the page. Click a student to see their grades for each objective in each grading period, alongside a "Class" column for the class average. Click "Show Class Average" to see the class average in detail. Click any objective to see all assignments aligned with that objective, and a distribution graph of grades.
Grade Calculations
| • | All grades are weighted according to how many points each assignment is worth, so some objectives may count more than others. |
| • | If an assignment has no objectives selected, it does not affect the report card, but it does still affect the overall grade in your gradebook. This lets you give students a general grade with incentives like late penalties and extra credit, while using the report cards just for skills assessment. In other words, the report cards may show a slightly different grade. |
| • | If you are using Weighted Categories, any cumulative grades (like Year average or Semester average) are calculated using the "Weighted average, precise" method for standards-based report cards, but it uses the method you select for the overall grade in your gradebook, so the grades may be slighly different. See Cumulative Grades for details. |
See also: Customize Standards, Report Cards, Report Standards/NCLB
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