| Cumulative Grades |
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Cumulative grades are defined by Admins on the page. Here you define grading periods (like "1st six weeks"), cumulative totals (like "1st Semester"), and possibly other grades (like "Final Exam" or "Citizenship"). The page is where teachers specify how the cumulatives are to be calculated. (This is not available if no cumulatives are defined, such as four Quarters with no Semester totals.) There are three calculation methods: Unweighted cumulative sum simply adds the grading periods together, e.g. where the Semester is the total of assignments in all three six-week grading periods. Weighted average, precise lets you specify the weight of each grade, e.g. to set each quarter to 20% and each semester exam to 10% of the year-end grade, or to set each quarter to an equal weight of 1. (Weights are relative and do not need to total 100.)
Weighted average, by grade is the same as above, except it averages just the grade marks, not the percents, e.g., the average of A- and B is B+. Like a GPA calculation, it doesn't matter if the student has a high A- or low A-, so this calculation method is not as precise. Most schools prefer the precise calculation above.
Note: Standards-based grading does not support "Weighted average, by grade", and if you're using standards with Weighted Categories it does not support "Unweighted cumulative sum" either. In these cases the report cards are calculated using "Weighted average, precise" instead, while the overall grades in your gradebooks use the method you selected, so the grades may be slightly different on report cards.
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