Grading

Our district uses Infinite Campus as a student information system that tracks grades, attendance, behavior, and many other data points. The district has set the following goal for the high school level:

Our PLC decided to use this year to experiment with aligning our grade books to this goal. You can see elsewhere on this site how we utilize Google Forms. We have adapted this Form, our Wind Rubric, and our Percussion Rubric into the current constraints put on us by Infinite Campus. It is our understanding that there is both a standards-based version of Campus as well as a planned integration with Google Classroom. We currently do not have access to either of these features. This page is meant to show how we are able to make standards-referenced grading work within our constraints.

From the Google Form, Wind Rubric, and Percussion Rubric, we pulled the following Categories and Assignments:

Each assignment has an inactive (formative) 6 Week, 12 Week, and 18 Week iteration. The assignments in Categories 2-11 also have an active (summative) Overall iteration. Teachers will use their discretion and information from the 6-, 12-, and 18-Week assignments for the Overall assignment. Here are some screenshots from Infinite Campus:

Pros to this Approach

• We can sort the grade book in a few different ways:
  • Sequence/Category: in order displayed above
  • Due Date: puts 6-Week assignments together, then 12-week, 18-week, Overall
• Communicates progress to teachers, students, and parents
• Better aligns with standards-referenced grading practices
• Infinite Campus CAN accept input from multiple teachers simultaneously

Cons to this Approach

• Many more Categories (8 vs. 1) and Assignments (57 vs. 3) then previous years
• Difficult to copy all Assignment information across classes in different buildings
• Need to export data to Excel and in to Google Sheets to use AwesomeTable