Note: In this documentation a "Progress Report" is the same thing as a "Report Card", just with a different grading period and title. To print a report of students' grades and assignments for one class, see Grade Reports.

Print & Email — Admins can print or email report cards for the whole student body or an entire grade level from the tab. Teachers can or complete report cards for their own students (unless your Admin restricts this feature).

Available Online — Students and parents can login anytime to see a report card of all current and past grades (unless you take the gradebooks offline — see ).

Traditional vs. Standards — SnapGrades can generate traditional report cards, where each subject gets just one grade, or standards-based, where grades are shown for multiple objectives within a subject. See details

Citizenship, Effort, Exams — Report cards may include separate grades for Citizenship, Effort, Final Exams, etc. See details

Grading Periods — Admins define the grading columns available for report cards.

When generating report cards, you select which grades to show and hide — e.g., your 2nd six weeks progress report might show subtotal grades for the 1st and 2nd six weeks, with a cumulative total so far for 1st semester; while your report card at the end of the year might show just the semester grades.

Weighted Cumulative Grades — Grading periods and exams, etc., may be weighted, e.g., to set each quarter as 20% and each semester exam as 10% of the year-end grade. See details

Overriding Grades — You may manually change grades on report cards. See details

+/- Signs on Grades — You can allow or remove plus/minus signs on grades, e.g., to allow "B+" on the six-week progress reports, but round it to a "B" for the semester report card. (Note: This option affects Report Cards only, not your gradebook.)

Percents — Report Cards can show either grades/rubrics or percents, or both. Percents may optionally be rounded to the nearest whole percent. (Note that rubric grade scales do not have percents.)

GPA — You may optionally include Grade Point Averages. Note: GPA's are for each grading period, not cumulative across multiple years like what transcripts show. See details

Comments — The Student Comments in teachers' gradebooks are automatically transferred to report cards as comments for each grading period. See details

Title, Intro, Footnotes, Grade Key — You can set the title on report cards to anything, like "1st Progress Report" or "2nd Semester Report Card". You may also type introductory text at the top, and a footnote and grade key at the bottom with optional signature lines. The student's homeroom teacher is shown at the top (unless none is specified on or ).

To format the text, type double **asterisks** for bold, and //slashes// for italic, or use HTML tags for <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i>. To type your grade key as a table, just type three or more spaces to automatically form aligned columns, e.g.:
   A···90%-100%
   B···80%-89%
   etc.

Bilingual — Report cards can be translated automatically to Spanish. See details

Logo — Admins may upload your school or district logo to print on report cards. See . For better print quality, use a high-resolution graphic. (It may not look good on your browser, but it will print nicely. Logos don't appear on emailed report cards.)

Mailing Addresses — Admins may print report cards with addresses for easy mailing. Just fold the paper like a Z and the address will appear through most windowed envelopes. (Teachers do not have this option.) The parent addresses are imported or entered on the page. The return address is entered on the page.

Order of Subjects — Traditional report cards by default show classes in the order of periods, or for elementary schools it shows homeroom subjects before special subjects. Admins can customize that order on the page. For each class enter a number from 1 to 100, where 1 is first and 100 is last in order. (It's okay to have gaps in your sequence, or for several classes to have the same number.)

Standards-based report cards by default show this order: English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, Arts, PE, Technology, Personal/Study Skills. Admins can customize that order on the page. Edit each standard and select a number from 1 to 100. For subjects that do not use standards (i.e., where it shows just a single grade instead of several objectives), enter a number from 1 to 100 on the page. (Note: On this page it is not necessary to enter a number for subjects that do use standards, like Math, because it uses the number you select on the Setup Standards page.)

Customization — SnapGrades lets you change your own report card options and standards anytime, even mid-year, so you don't have to pay for professional services. The trade-off is that you cannot change the overall page layout, just the content and logo.

Exporting into SIS — Admins can export report card grades and comments into a single data file to import into your Student Information System. Or, if your school purchases the integration option, the data is transferred directly to your SIS.

Archives — Report cards are saved for your school as long as you don't delete your gradebooks.


Video: Report Cards