| Grade Scales & Rubrics |
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The page is where you customize your grade scale for your gradebook. You may use letter grades (ABCDF±), numeric rubrics (4321±), letter rubrics (ESN±), pass/fail, or any variation of those. You may use the same grade scale for all classes/subjects, or edit them separately for each class/subject. Select a system from the Templates menu, then modify it as needed. Percent Grades If you select a grade scale based on percents, like ABCDF± or Pass/Fail, it shows the percents with grades, plus other statistical information such as Total points and Impact on grade.
The "Round percent" option means an 89.5% will count like 90% to determine if the student gets an A, for example. When you generate report cards you also have an option to show rounded percents on report cards. Regardless of these settings, other reports and your gradebook always display percents to the tenth, so students don't have to ask, "How close am I to an A?". (Technically, grades are first calculated to several decimal places, like 89.4629410021%, then rounded to a tenth, like 89.5%. If you select the rounding options, then it is rounded again to the whole percent, like 90%. So in this example 89.45% is needed for an A- with rounding, or 89.95% without rounding.)
If you select a rubric grade scale, such as 4321± or ESN±, it does not use percents. Also missing work is ignored, rather than counted as zero, since rubrics are typically used for skills assessment, and a missing assignment cannot be assessed. "Rubrics" and "Standards" are usually used together, but they are not the same thing. Rubrics is the type of grade used, and Standards means each subject is graded on multiple objectives — so it is possible to use letter grades on Standards-based report cards, or Rubrics on traditional report cards. For Standards-based report cards, it uses the same grade scale for objectives as for total grades. Some schools have a tradition of calculating totals as letter grades, then manually filling in check-plus-minus on each objective, or something similar, with no mathematically defined relationship between the different grade scales. Since SnapGrades calculates the grades for objectives, the same grade scale is used for the total. But you may still use different grade scales for different subjects, such as 4321± for academics and ESN for personal skills. If you do want to use a different grade scale for objectives, you can always manually override the grades.
Your grade scale is independent of how you score assignments — e.g. whether you're using ABCDF± or 4321±, you can still score your assignments like 18/20 or 90%. See Scores |
