Part A: Setting Up Your Gradebook for a New School Year

1. Sign in to PTP Gradebook

2. Review “What’s New” in PTP

3. PTP Dashboard Navigation - Overview

4. Changing the Class Name in PTP (Optional)

5. Setting up Traditional Grade Calculations - Required for each course ✳️⚠️

6. Category Set-up ✳️⚠️

7. Hiding unused Categories (optional)

🕵️What to look for: Settings ⇒ Traditional Grade Calculations

The setup must be exactly as in the image below.

❑ Type = Category Weighting

❑ Attribute = Summative 5-8*

❑ Weight = 100 (or 1)

* As of 2025-2026, categories are labelled as 

⇒‘Summative 5-8’ instead of ‘Summative’

⇒‘Formative 5-8’ instead of ‘Formative’ 

These new categories allow most of the appropriate default settings to be set at the division level.