Setting Up Grades

Entering grades in the Staff view in Aspen IMS provides your teachers with a one-stop application for managing their classroom content and tracking their students' progress.

Before teachers can enter grades for students, you need to set up grade information that is specific to your district, and each school in your district.

Do the following:

1. Create the school year.
2. Create grade term definitions.
3. Define grade scales.
4. Create transcript definitions.
5. Create qualification lists (optional).

Then, you can enter grades, and set up report cards and transcripts.

Or, your entire district, or specific schools within your district might use standards-based grades in Aspen.

Note: Follett advises against modifying grade terms, grade scales, and transcript definition columns once your school year begins. Making changes after teachers have entered assignment data in their Gradebooks, or schools have generated grading reports (progress reports, report cards) can cause unexpected issues. If you must make any changes to grade terms, grade scales, or transcript definitions, increased testing of all reports and views that use transcript data is strongly recommended.