Determine what appears on your Scores page

You will see the following at the top of the Scores page, depending on your view.

Traditional Gradebook:

Top of Scores page Traditional Gradebook

Standards-Based Grades:

Top of Scores page Standards-Based Gradebook

Use the following table to determine the information that appears for each class:

Field/Drop-down

Description

Students

All is the default. If you created a group set or group from this class roster, you can select it from the drop-down. Then, the Scores page will only display those students in the selected group set or group.

Example: You create two group sets called Red and Blue. The Blue group set consists of two groups, B1 and B2. The Red group set consists of two groups, R1 and R2. If you select Blue at this field, the students in the Blue group set (composed of the B1 and B2 groups) appear. You could select B2 to only display that group of students. To see all students in the course section, select All.

View

If the current class you are working on has any reporting standards (rubrics) on the Reporting Standards side-tab, you can select Traditional or Standards view.

Note: If this class does not have any reporting standards, the Scores page defaults to the Traditional view.

View field

Select Traditional to view traditional grade columns; one column appears for each assignment, in which you enter an assignment score.

After you select Traditional, the Grade Columns drop-down appears, and you can select to view columns for the following:

All assignments within the term you select
All assignments within a specific assignment category you created for this class (such as all homework assignments or all tests)
End-of-term post columns only
Progress post columns only
All grade columns; including assignments, progress, and end-of-term averages

Scores page, Grade Columns drop-down

Note: The Grade Columns setting will default to your most recent selection from the Class List’s Scores page. For example, if you selected Category: Hmwk the last time you were on the Scores page, the Grade Columns would still be set to the Category: Hmwk grade column set.

If the grade columns in the menu do not contain what you want to see, click to create a new grade column set. Grade column sets are only available for the classes in which you create them.

Select Standards to view standards columns. This way, you can view columns and enter scores for each reporting standard (rubric) aligned with your assignments. You can also view averages and trends for each standard you score in this class.

After you select Standards, use the Standard drop-down to select to see columns for the following:

A specific standard to see scores for any assignment aligned to that standard
Standards traditional term averages
Standards trend term averages, using the Power Law calculation
End-of-term post columns or Progress post columns

Scores page Standard drop-down

Term

Select the term you want to view grade or standards columns for.

Note: If you select All, Aspen will not save that selection when you log off. When you log back in, the Term reverts to your last selection before All.

Display

Defaults to Grade.

-Select Color if you have associated colors with grade scales or rubric rating scale ratings, and would like to see them in the grading cells. When Color is selected, appears, which you can click to show or hide some or all of the colors. No colors appear in Grade view.

Note: If an assignment is not associated with a grade scale, no color will appear.

-Select Due Date to see class and daily attendance codes in the grading cells. Hover your cursor over the code to view a description of the absence.

-Select Grade Change to highlight cells in which an administrator has changed a score. Then, click in a cell and press CTRL+H to view details in the Change History pop-up. You set the number of days that cells are highlighted at the Grade change tracking days Gradebook preference.

Status

Select Enrolled to view scores for students currently enrolled in the class, or Withdrawn to view scores for students who have withdrawn from the class.

Class

Use the drop-down to ‘turn the page’ of your Gradebook, or view another class’ scores.

Update Post Columns

Appears if Grade Columns is set to Averages, Post Columns - Term or Post Columns - Progress. Click Update Post Columns to copy your term averages to the district and school office-defined and -owned post columns.

Note: This field only appears when your school's grading window is open.

Post Grades

If your post columns are complete, click Post Grades to post the term or progress grades for this class to the office.

Note: This field only appears when your school's grading window is open.

Add Assignment

Appears if the Grade Columns field is set to All or an assignment category (such as Category: Quiz). Click Add Assignment to see the New Assignment page.

Color Filter

Appears when Color is selected at Display. Click Color Filter, and a pop-up with the colors that you associated with grade scales (Traditional view) and rubric rating scale ratings (Standards view) appear. Defaults to Select All, so all colors will appear. Click Clear All to hide all the colors. To only display some of the colors, select Clear All, then select the checkboxes next to the colors that you want to see.

Note: Next to each student’s name, the medical, legal, "other" alert, or IEP symbol might appear, if allowed by your Gradebook preferences. Click the symbol to view details. For example, click Medical Alert icon. to view details of the student’s medical alert.