The Gradebook Maintenance Screen and Features

Modified on Wed, Feb 21 at 9:37 AM

The Gradebook>School Setup>Maintenance tab contains 4 subtabs.

You should review this each year before the start of the school year to make sure everything is as the district wants it to be.


TABLE OF CONTENTS


Gradebook Maintenance Configuration Options

The Gradebook>School Setup>Maintenance>Gradebook Maintenance tab contains Grading Related Options, Gradebook Configuration Options, and various functions and tasks you can run for your school's gradebooks.

Here is a list of these options and their functionality:

Parameter

Description

Show "Update all Grades" link on Post Grades Screen

This controls whether a teacher has the "One Click" ability to update a student's Report Card grade based on the Gradebook grade.

Allow "Update all Grades" link on Post Grades Screen to update Final Grade

This allows the "One Click" ability to update a student's Report Card Final Grade based on Gradebook final grade.

Show Gradebook Projected Final Grade

This option controls whether the GB final grade is displayed on the "Post Grades" screen.

Calculate Projected Final Grade using posted MP grades and gradebook grades

If this option is set to yes, then the projected final grade will be calculated using posted MP grades and the Gradebooks grades that have not been posted. Any grade below the minimum will be automatically converted to minimum grade for the MP.

On Post Grades screen for alpha grading, display QP's calculated for final grade projection


Show District Projected Final Grade

This option controls whether the projected district final grade is displayed on the "Post Grades" screen.

Show 'Update All Subject Grades' button on Elem. Post Grades Screen


Allow teachers to configure which grade to push when clicking 'Update all Grades'

If this is set to Yes, then a new option will appear for the teachers in their profiles Preference screen. The field that will appear is "The 'Update all Grades' link will push this Grading Type".

Allow Marking Period and Final grades to be changed for the previous school year (201X-1X)

If set to YES, if the users change the school year at the top of the screen to the previous year and access Gradebook, any changes made would be saved for that gradebook in that school year. Only turn this on if you want to allow changes to be made in previous school years.

All assignments created by a teacher should be for Parents Module

This option controls the "For Parents" flag when assignments are created. If this is set to Yes, then all assignments are marked for Parents Module and the teacher will not be able to overwrite this.

Show merged gradebooks on Post Grades screen

If you switch this to Yes, then students from gradebooks merged with the selected course will appear on the Gradebook -> Post Grades and will be able to be graded

Letter grade to post when student exam is marked as exempt

Allows the school to select a letter grade that will post when the teachers hit Update All Grades and an exam is marked as exempt

All assignments created by a teacher should be for Parents Module

Setting this to YES will force every assignment in that school to be displayed in the parent module. This overrides the Default setting in the profile. Selecting NO will let the teachers choose yes/no for each of their assignments.

Allow Marking Period and Final grades to be changed for the previous school year

Allows grades to be updated/recalculated for the prior school year.

Allow teachers to post comments to Parents Module

This option allows teachers to post comments to the Parents Module from the Grade Assignment screen.

Actions display for discipline screen

This controls how or if the actions for Student Discipline incidents are displayed on the Gradebook.Gradebook.Student.Discipline screen.

Treat a Trimester course like a Cycle course (Trimester courses will include all assignments in grade calculation)

If set to Yes, this option will have the gradebook calculate trimester course grades based on all grades in a gradebook. (Ex. T1 course grade would be based on all assignments from MP1 and MP2)

Treat a Semester course like a Cycle course (Semester courses will include all assignments in grade calculation):

If set to Yes, this option will have the gradebook calculate semester course grades based on all grades in a gradebook. (Ex. S1 course grade would be based on all assignments from MP1 and MP2)

Class Attendance total to show on Post Grades screen

This option allows you to show the Current Marking Period attendance or both the Current Marking Period and Year to Date attendance totals.

Allow attendance to be taken on past and future dates

If this is set to No, then teachers in the Gradebook will only be allowed to take attendance for the current date.

Show * Extra Credit * category for assignments

This option will suppress the * Extra Credit * category on the Add and Modify assignment screens.

Automatically make assignments available to Parents if all students have a grade (Runs nightly):

This option enables a Genesis process that runs nightly in the System Maintenance.  This process goes through all assignments in teacher's gradebooks.  Each assignment is analyzed and checked to see if all students have been given an assignment grade or flagged with a special grade (ie. Absent).  If so, the assignment will be updated to be shown in parents module. 

Have a popup appear for teachers when one of their students has checked into or out of a turnstile event

Set this to yes to allow for the popup.

Allowed minutes for Turnstile Event

When a checkin is created in the gradebook, this is the amount of time until a student is automatically checked out. Set to 0 if you do not want the students to be automatically checked out.

Allow teachers to update students location for Turnstile events

This allows teachers to update a students location based on events setup for the gradebook

Allow school assignments to be propagated to gradebooks


Allow document upload for assignments from Parents/Student Module


Document Type for uploaded documents

Must be a course section document type to appear in list

Only show marking periods that a course is graded in

This option controls what marking periods are displayed for a gradebook. If this is checked, only marking periods where the gradebook gives a grade will be displayed for the gradebook.

Text to appear above teacher IEP signature box

This text will appear above the teacher signature box when signing an IEP

Text to appear above teacher I&RS signature box

This text will appear above the teacher signature box when signing an I&RS

Text to appear above teacher 504 signature box

This text will appear above the teacher signature box when signing a 504

Default value for 'Display note on Student Data -> Notes screen'

If this is set to Yes, then the check box for 'Display note on Student Data -> Notes screen' on the Student Note screen will be defaulted to checked when adding a new note.

Allow assignments to be a fixed percentage towards the MP Grade

This option is only available in gradebooks that calculate their MP grades using Total Points. By checking this potion, an assignment will be able to be configured to be worth a fixed percentage of the MP Grade.


Gradebook Maintenance Tools

There are additional tools and functions you can run for Gradebooks, if applicable, on the Gradebook>School Setup>Maintenance>Gradebook Maintenance tab.



Gradebook Profile Maintenance

The Gradebook>School Setup>Maintenance>Profile Maintenance screen is where you will push out your gradebook profile (or parts of the school profile) to all teachers in your school.



Please review this guide if you have not pushed the school profiles out or if you have never done this task before.


Basic Steps to Pushing Out the Gradebook Profile Before the Start of School


  • Copy School Profile(s) forward and/or Create a New Profile for the new school year - (Gradebook>School Setup>School Profiles)
  • Review profile setup/preferences - (Gradebook>School Setup>School Profiles>Modify)
  • Initialize Gradebooks - (Gradebook>School Setup>Maintenance>Gradebook Maintenance)
  • Push Out Profiles - (Gradebook>School Setup>Maintenance>Profile Maintenance)
  • Activate Gradebooks for Teachers - (Gradebook>School Setup>Maintenance>Gradebook Status)

Gradebook Status

The Gradebook>School Setup>Maintenance>Gradebook Status screen allows you to enable/disable the Gradebook for your users.

Options in the dropdown are:

  • Active for All Users
  • Inactive for All Users
  • Only active for users with administrative rights: The 'Only active for users with administrative rights' will open the gradebook for only sysadmin users

MP Grade Lock

The Gradebook>School Setup>Maintenance>MP Grades Lock screen gives the ability to lock the gradebook's marking period grades. (You typically won't need to do anything with this at the start of the school year.)

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