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The page is where you organize your gradebook into different tabs for each period, section, or subject, and set some general options for your gradebook. The Subject is the name of each class or subject. If you teach multiple periods of the same subject, do not put the period in the subject name, like "2nd per. World Lit". Instead, put the exact same Subject for each period, like "World Lit". This makes it easier for you to add new assignments to all periods of the same subject if you want, and various other options. Also make sure the Subjects are consistent throughout the year so it can calculate cumulative grades, e.g., "World Lit" in 1st quarter and "World Literature" in 2nd quarter would not be recognized as the same class for the 1st semester cumulative grade. The Tab name is for the tab bar in your gradebook. Students never see this. Typically this is an abbreviation like "Lang" for elementary, period like "5th" for secondary, or section like "101 MWF" for college, but it can be anything you want. Tab names should be different for each class/section, otherwise problems will occur. Make sure your tab names are short enough for all of them to fit in the tab bar, or set the Tab-Bar to "Menu" if you have too many classes to fit. The Period is optional (not available for Adult Education). Standards are used for Standards-based grading. "None" means the class will show just a single grade on report cards, as opposed to a list of objectives/skills. You can Sort your classes/subjects in any order in your gradebook. Just click the triangles next to the class to change it's position. The left side of the page shows options that apply to the whole gradebook: The Color menu sets the color scheme of your gradebook. You can change the Tab-Bar to list your classes in a pop-up menu instead of tabs, in case you have too many classes to fit in the width of the tab-bar. The Format menu specializes your gradebook for Multiple Subjects, Single Subject Classes, or Adult Education. See details The Online options let you select whether or not students and parents can see grades and homework from your gradebook when they login. This affects your gradebook only, so other teachers can have their grades online even if you don't. Note: You do not need to take a gradebook offline after the term ends, unless you don't want students to see previous terms. The "Let students add themselves to this gradebook" checkbox turns on the Self-Enroll feature (your Admin may disable this). A Login Link for students and parents is provided for you to copy into your website. This makes it easier for students and parents to login because they don't need to type the school, city, and state like they do on the generic login page. See also: Gradebooks, Setup Account, Setup Grading Periods Video: Gradebook Setup |
