Setting Up the Gradebook

Before you begin to use the gradebook Online version of a paper book where teachers enter and track assignments, assignment grades, and term grades. If you are searching for this term, consider a more targeted search string like "Entering Grades.", complete the following steps:

Create grade scales.(optional)

• Create your own grades to enter for your assignments.
• Example: Enter a 1, 2, or 3 for a homework assignment. Your district’s standard grade scale might not contain those values.

Calculate averages.

• Understand how to calculate an average.

Define assignment categories.

• Define the categories of assignments you assign in your classes.
• Examples: Projects, homework, tests, and quizzes

Create assignments.

•  Create assignments for ones you planned for and will be grading.

Set gradebook preferences.

• Set gradebook preferences to determine how the Scores page appears, how you calculate averages, how many decimals you want to calculate for calculated averages, and if you want to show studies.

Create special codes.(optional)

• Create special codes to determine if an assignment is either exempt from a student's score or counted as zero.
• Example: Code CH = cheating and counted as zero.

Create footnotes.(optional)

• Create footnotes special notes that teachers can add to scores on the Scores page to add to assignment grades to make notes regarding a grade.