Campus Instruction: Grade Book Basics - Study Guide

The Grade Book allows teachers to create assignments and enter scores for students assigned to their course sections. Additionally, the Grade Book provides a visual representation of student performance. This Study Guide will help you learn how to set up, navigate and begin utilizing the Grade Book.

Grade Book Overview

Understand Campus Grade Book

The Grade Book allows teachers to easily create assignments, enter scores, and track student progress. This document and video contain overview information about Campus Grade Book.

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Grade Book Setup

Grade Book Setup Overview

The Grade Book Settings tab includes tools used in Grade Book setup, a variety of options for displaying student scores, and other Grade Book display preferences. The context of the Grade Book is determined by the options selected in the Campus toolbar and the Term, Section and Task dropdowns above the Grade Book.

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Filtering and Sorting the Grade Book

From the Grade Book, teachers have the ability to filter assignments based on specific criteria, as well as sort the order in which assignments are displayed.

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Establish Assignment Categories

Categories are collections of assignments such as homework, tests, and group projects. Categories must be created before you can create assignments.

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Copy Categories Across Sections

Once assignment categories have been created for a course section, they can be copied to another section using the Category Copier tool. Categories can be copied from any section taught, including past and future sections.

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Create Grading Scales

Grading scales translate In Progress student percentages into letter grades. Scales describe the range of score percentages that earn specific grades. Grading scales may be provided by the school district. Depending on district preferences, teachers may not be able to edit or add additional grading scales.

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Create Assignment Marks

Assignment marks allow teachers to create their own grading thresholds through rubrics, which convert entered scored into percentages that can contribute to a student's In Progress or Final grade.

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Determine Grade Calculation Options

Grade Calculation Options allow teachers to determine how assignments and categories calculate a student's grade based on a grading scale, or their proficiency level on a standard based on an assignment mark.

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Establish Composite Grading

Grade Calculation Options can be used to set up composite grading for a course section using the Grade Book tool. Composite grading is a calculation that allows grades from multiple grading tasks or standards to contribute towards a single grade. For instance, composite grading can be used to set up grading for a semester task that is calculated from two quarter tasks.

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Configure Cumulative Grading

Grade Calculation Options can be used to set up cumulative grading for a course section. Cumulative grading allows teachers to define a starting term for calculating cumulative grades across multiple terms. For instance, an elementary school teacher may want to track students' progress using standards cumulatively graded over all three terms of a school year.

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Curriculum List

From Grade Book settings, the Curriculum List allows users to view all curriculum items and/or assignments created for a course section.

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Copying Curriculum

The Curriculum Copier allows teachers to copy curriculum between any section that they are assigned to teach.

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Enter Assignment Details

Add an Assignment

From the Grade Book, teachers can create new assignments for course sections that they teach.

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Modifying Existing Assignments

Within the Grade Book, teachers can edit existing assignment information and alignment details by clicking the assignment name to open the assignment editor.

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Duplicate Assignments and Resources

Teachers can use Duplicate to create an exact copy of an assignment or resource.

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Enter Assignment Scores and Comments

Score Assignments

Teachers can enter student scores for each assignment in the Grade Book. Additionally, teachers can add assignment flags and/or comments to record more information about student work.

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