Grade Book Setup

Setting Assignment Weights, Dropped Scores, and Default Points

On the Assignment Weighting tab, select from the Change Class: dropdown. If you plan to set up all of your classes the same way, select any class.

Select Only Show My Types, if you have created your own assignment types and do not want to use the district default assignment types.

OR

Select Add My Types to the District Types, if you are using any of the district assignments types in conjunction with your own assignment types.

Set the Weight (%) for each assignment type. The sum of all the weights must equal 100%. If you do not use weights, enter 0 for each assignment type.
Set the Drop Scores allowed for each assignment type. This is the number of scores to drop (exclude) from the final grade calculation. For example, enter 2 for Homework if you want to drop the two lowest homework scores. Enter 0 if you do not want to drop any scores.
Set the Default Possible Points for each assignment type. For example, enter 10 for Homework if most of your homework assignments will be worth 10 points; you can override this value when creating assignments. Enter 0 of you would prefer the system to default to zero.
At the bottom of the screen, under Also apply the above weighting settings to the following classes, select any other classes to which you would like to apply these assignment weights.
Click . A message appears indicating your updates are complete.

Grade Book Settings

Rounding Class Percentage

You can specify the type of rounding you want for the overall scores used when displaying the class percentage.

Set the Class Percentage rounding to Rounding On or Rounding Off.
Select Whole Number Only, 1 Decimal Place, or 2 Decimal Places. The setting applies automatically.

Setting the Default Grading Period for New Assignments

Select one of the following options:

Assignment Due Date - Places new assignments into the grading period in which the assignment due date falls.

Assignment Date - Places new assignments into the grading period in which the assignment date falls.

Current Period in Grade Book - Places new assignments into the current grading period in Grade Book.

My Last Selection – Places new assignments into the grading period based on your last selection.

District Grade Book Settings

Some districts create a District Grade Book for the different grade levels at their school. The district can add assignments to each grade level’s District Grade Book, and any assignments added to this Grade Book are pushed down into the teacher’s Grade Book from the district level.

The District chooses whether to make their assignments mandatory for teachers to inherit, or to allow teachers to choice to inherit them. To choose to inherit your district’s non-mandatory District Grade Book:

In the District Grade Book Settings, check Inherit Assignments from the District Grade Books. District-created assignments display in your Grade Book.

District Grade Book entries can be removed if they're not marked mandatory by a district administrator. Click Remove District Grade Book Entries to remove entries from the currently selected class.

Class Notifications

Class notifications alert you to any changes in Grade Book or remind you when new setup is needed.

Alert me when students are added displays a Grade Book alert any time a new student is added.
Remind me to delegate new students applies to teachers who delegate students to other teachers for Report Cards.
Remind me when a custom report card is setup alerts you when your district has created a new report card.
Remind me to set final grade config for new students reminds you to configure the final grade setting for a new student.

Interpretation Scale

Report Card Score Type Used for Interpretation Scale: An Interpretation Scale allows you to minimize the effects of low grades (or any grades) in the grade book.

By turning this feature on, you can tell the system "even though a student got 0/15 treat it as 55% of points possible.

Standards

Select Standards Proficiency

Select a calculation method to determine the Standards Proficiency. The options include:

Use District Value – uses the district-defined value for the selected standard.

Power Law – Marzano’s Power Law is a statistical formula that predicts what the student’s next score will be based on their previous scores.

Highest Score – is based on the student’s highest score for the standard.

Last Score – is based on the student’s last score for the standard.

Mean – calculates the average of the scores. The sum of all the scores is divided by the number of scored items.

Median - calculates scores by sorting all scores in ascending order and determining the grade in the middle.

Mode – uses the most commonly occurring value as the score.

No Aggregation – will not calculate any overall score

Calculate Final Grade by Standard

You can determine if the overall grade from the standard is calculated from the current grading period or from the current school year.

Select which assignments and standards to include in the final grade calculation. The options include:

Grade Book Setup

Before setting up your Grade Book, it is important to note any default settings your school district has set up in the Grade Book for teachers. There may be defaults set for Assignment Types, Subjects, Grade Book Score Types, Report Card Score Types, and Grade Book Comments.

NOTE: Districts have the ability to customize TeacherVUE. The name of a screen and/or the location of a screen may differ from the name and location described on these help pages. In addition, some of the options available on a screen are determined by school district administration.

Tabs

Setting Assignment Weights, Dropped Scores, and Default Points

On the Assignment Weighting tab, select from the Change Class: dropdown. If you plan to set up all of your classes the same way, select any class.

Select Only Show My Types, if you have created your own assignment types and do not want to use the district default assignment types.

OR

Select Add My Types to the District Types, if you are using any of the district assignments types in conjunction with your own assignment types.

Set the Weight (%) for each assignment type. The sum of all the weights must equal 100%. If you do not use weights, enter 0 for each assignment type.

Set the Drop Scores allowed for each assignment type. This is the number of scores to drop (exclude) from the final grade calculation. For example, enter 2 for Homework if you want to drop the two lowest homework scores. Enter 0 if you do not want to drop any scores.

Set the Default Possible Points for each assignment type. For example, enter 10 for Homework if most of your homework assignments will be worth 10 points; you can override this value when creating assignments. Enter 0 of you would prefer the system to default to zero.

At the bottom of the screen, under Also apply the above weighting settings to the following classes, select any other classes to which you would like to apply these assignment weights.

Click . A message appears indicating your updates are complete.

Rounding Class Percentage

You can specify the type of rounding you want for the overall scores used when displaying the class percentage.

Set the Class Percentage rounding to Rounding On or Rounding Off.

Select Whole Number Only, 1 Decimal Place, or 2 Decimal Places. The setting applies automatically.

Setting the Default Grading Period for New Assignments

Select one of the following options:

Assignment Due Date - Places new assignments into the grading period in which the assignment due date falls.

Assignment Date - Places new assignments into the grading period in which the assignment date falls.

Current Period in Grade Book - Places new assignments into the current grading period in Grade Book.

My Last Selection – Places new assignments into the grading period based on your last selection.

District Grade Book Settings

Some districts create a District Grade Book for the different grade levels at their school. The district can add assignments to each grade level’s District Grade Book, and any assignments added to this Grade Book are pushed down into the teacher’s Grade Book from the district level.

The District chooses whether to make their assignments mandatory for teachers to inherit, or to allow teachers to choice to inherit them. To choose to inherit your district’s non-mandatory District Grade Book:

In the District Grade Book Settings, check Inherit Assignments from the District Grade Books. District-created assignments display in your Grade Book.

District Grade Book entries can be removed if they're not marked mandatory by a district administrator. Click Remove District Grade Book Entries to remove entries from the currently selected class.

Class Notifications

Class notifications alert you to any changes in Grade Book or remind you when new setup is needed.

Alert me when students are added displays a Grade Book alert any time a new student is added.

Remind me to delegate new students applies to teachers who delegate students to other teachers for Report Cards.

Remind me when a custom report card is setup alerts you when your district has created a new report card.

Remind me to set final grade config for new students reminds you to configure the final grade setting for a new student.

Interpretation Scale

Report Card Score Type Used for Interpretation Scale: An Interpretation Scale allows you to minimize the effects of low grades (or any grades) in the grade book.

By turning this feature on, you can tell the system "even though a student got 0/15 treat it as 55% of points possible.

Select Standards Proficiency

Select a calculation method to determine the Standards Proficiency. The options include:

Use District Value – uses the district-defined value for the selected standard.

Power Law – Marzano’s Power Law is a statistical formula that predicts what the student’s next score will be based on their previous scores.

Highest Score – is based on the student’s highest score for the standard.

Last Score – is based on the student’s last score for the standard.

Mean – calculates the average of the scores. The sum of all the scores is divided by the number of scored items.

Median - calculates scores by sorting all scores in ascending order and determining the grade in the middle.

Mode – uses the most commonly occurring value as the score.

No Aggregation – will not calculate any overall score

Calculate Final Grade by Standard

You can determine if the overall grade from the standard is calculated from the current grading period or from the current school year.

Select which assignments and standards to include in the final grade calculation. The options include:

Only Assignments/Standards results from the current grading period

All Assignments/Standards from the current school year

NOTE: Do not select more than one period when adding assignments when you have all assignments for the school year selected.

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