Gradebook: Scoring Assignments
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You can enter grades directly into the gradebook; from an assignment scoresheet; or from a student scoresheet.
Gradebook by period
You can enter grades for an assignment.
1. Select the Gradebook
2. Click on the period number on the Summary Page
3. Choose Edit All/Show Empty (it toggles between these two). If you select Show Empty, you will only be able to enter scores in the empty cells. If you select Edit All, you will be able to edit all scores including those with Es.
4. Enter grades
5. Click Save
Assignment Score Sheet
Each assignment has it's own scoresheet.
1 Access the scoresheet
from the assignment list on the course page
from the gradebook itself.
1. Click on the name of the assignment
2. Enter scores and comments
3. Click Save
Work Turned in via the "Turn It In" link
All assignments have a Turn It In link and students are able to submit work this way..
Any work that has been turned in via the Turn It In link, can be found on the assignment scoresheet . There is also a time and date stamp to indicate when the work was turned in.
Each student has a record of what has been turned in online and this can be found in the student's Drop Box.
Student Score Sheet
You can access a student's scoresheet and enter scores for several assignments:
1. In the gradebook
2. Click on the name of a student on the summary page or in a period
3. Enter scores and comments for that student
4. Click Save
Extra Credit:
Without Weighting
1. Create periodic assignments called Extra Credit that are worth zero points so they don't count against students who don't do it. Leave all the cells blank except for those students who earn the extra credit.
Or
2. Add extra points to an assignment.
Or
3. At the end of the term, total the number of points possible in your gradebook, decide the percentage of extra credit you want to be possible. Then create one assignment at the called Extra Credit again worth zero points and give students whatever percentage of the total points that you consider appropriate. Example: If there are 750 points possible, and you want to give a student a 10% bump, then give them 75 extra points.
With Weighting
At the end of the term
1. Within the highest weighted category (do NOT create an Extra Credit Category), create an assignment called Extra Credit and make it worth 0 points.
2. Calculate the number of points needed to have the net effect you want. If you want up to a 5% bump, divide 5% by the weight of the category, and multiply the result by the number of total points available in the category. Add that many points or less to students as extra credit.
For example, say the category is worth 20% and there are 300 total points. To give a 5% overall bump, .05/.2 = .25. 25% of 300 = 75. So to give a student a 5% overall bump, give them 75 extra points in that category.
We apologize for this complexity. Weighting is very complex mathematically. We will work on creating a simpler workaround.
NOTE: Do not create an Extra Credit Category. This will not work.
TIPS:
Auto Fill: You can enter a score and click Autofill. It will fill all empty cells and replace the default value with whatever you enter.
Comment Codes: You can post a key on the course site to which students and parents can refer as they review the progress reports. Then you can enter the key codes (such as 1=late) in the comments area of the score sheets. These will appear on the progess reports.
Differentiated Grading Scales for groups of students within a course : While there isn’t a direct way to customize scales for specific groups of students, here is an idea that might help.
Teachers can create a separate assignment called “modified grade points” make it worth zero points, exempting all students except that group of students (i.e. RSP) and giving each of the selected students the points that would bump them up on the grade scale. (ie. If the total possible is 520 points for the class and the IEP allows a 10% boost as a modification then the teacher would give the RSP student 51 points.)