Navigating Schoology: Gradebook Management Module 1

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Module 1: Getting Started

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Set up gradebooks in Schoology using appropriate grading categories and scales with 100% accuracy

Learning Objectives

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Use the Grade Setup area to adjust grade settings for your course. In this area, you can manage your Grading Categories, create scales and rubrics, adjust the weights of your grading periods, and enable Final Grade Settings for your student reports. To access Grade Setup, click Grade Setup from your course.

Grade Setup

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Grading Categories enable you to organize graded items in the course. At least one grading category is required for you to use the Gradebook. Common examples of categories include Classwork, Homework, or Quizzes. There is no limit to the number of categories you can create, and you can weight each according to your definition. To add a new category:

1. Click Add in the Categories area.
2. Enter a Name.
3. Select either Percent or Total Points as the category calculation method.
4. Use Drop lowest to automatically drop the lowest n grades within that category from each student's overall score in the course.
5. Click Create to complete.

Grading Categories

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Please set your gradebook catgeories as following in order for the materials to sync correctly to Infinite Campus.

Required Grading Categories

• Grading Categories cannot be changed throughout the course without impacting all grading periods of the course. For example, changing the grading category weights for the 2nd Quarter will also change the calculated grades in Quarter 1.

• Weights are relative to each other. You can view the Category's actual percentage value of the Weight field. For example, if Weight Categories is checked, and I have four categories with a weight of 100, the percentage of each category within the overall grade is 25%.

• If one weighted category has no graded materials associated with it, then the category's weight is evenly distributed across the other categories.

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After you have created at least one category, you can choose to weight the categories for your course by checking Weight Categories.

Weight Grading Categories

1. Click Copy Settings.
2. Choose to copy Categories, Grading Scales, Rubrics, or all three. Grading Periods and Final Grade Settings cannot be copied.
3. Select the course(s) to which you'd like to copy the grade settings. You can only copy to courses for which you are a Course Admin.
4. Click Copy to complete.

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You can copy these settings to other courses you administer using the Copy Settings button.

Copy Settings

Continue to Module 2

Please refer to the previous pages if you need further assistance.

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Set up you gradebook categories before moving on to Module 2.