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Setting up your Gradebook
Setting up your Gradebook
Login to PowerSchool
Open PowerTeacher Pro
Go to Settings
Choose Traditional Grade Calculations
Y1 Grade Calculations
Y1 Grade Calculations
Locate your Y1 Reporting Term
Elementary School Courses are the only courses that assign Y1 Grades. You will set up Y1 Grades the same way MS and HS set up Semester Grades. See below.
MS and HS Courses need to make sure Y1 Grades are turned off.
Click the Edit Pencil and follow directions below.
Elementary Only
Depending on your school policy, your S1 Grade Calculation will either be set up as Total Points or Term Weighting.
Total points will tally all the points in S1 and S2 and add them as total points. If one grading period has a lot more points than the other, that grading period will weigh more heavily on the Y1 grade.
Term Weighting will average S1 and S2 as you weight them (most typically 50/50).
Exact Value Earned will average their percent to the decimal
For K-12 Exact Value Earned is preferred.
Term Weighting Points will average their letter grade (A=4, B=3)
Not common in K-12
Turning Off Y1 Grade Calculations
Turning Off Y1 Grade Calculations
HS/MS: You will need to turn off Y1 Grade Calculations so that the students do not see a grade in that reporting term. This can be very confusing to parents and students if it is left active.
HS/MS: Where you see the Calculate Overall Class Grade, Click to Uncheck
Then click Save
Setting up S1 Grade Calculations
Setting up S1 Grade Calculations
Click the Pencil to Edit
Depending on your school policy, your S1 Grade Calculation will either be set up as Total Points or Term Weighting.
Total points will tally all the points in G1 and G2 and add them as total points. If one grading period has a lot more points than the other, that grading period will weigh more heavily on the S1 grade.
Term Weighting will average Q1 and Q2 as you weight them (most typically 50/50).
Exact Value Earned will average their percent to the decimal
For K-12 Exact Value Earned is preferred.
Term Weighting Points will average their letter grade (A=4, B=3)
Not common in K-12
Setting up Q1 Grade Calculations
Setting up Q1 Grade Calculations
Depending on your personal grading practices, you should either set up your grades to be weighted as Total Points or Category Weighting.
Total points will just average all the assignments evenly based on the number of points assigned.
Most commonly used if you weight your assignments manually with points. More Points = Weighted More
For example: Tests: 100 pts; Quiz: 40 pts; HW/CW 10 pts
Category Weighting will average all the assignments in the specific category and then multiply it by the weight assigned to the category.
Most commonly used if you don't want to pay as close attention to the number of points per assignment, quiz, test, etc. because they will be averaged and multiplied by the weight of the category anyway.
If you want to weight grades by category, but you want to customize your category types:
Click this Plus Sign to add your own unique Categories.
Copy the Setup for Q2, S2, Q3, and Q4
Copy the Setup for Q2, S2, Q3, and Q4
Click the Settings Gear
Click Copy Traditional Grade Calculations
Select Within A Class
Choose the Reporting Term that you wish to copy to others
Then check the Reporting Terms that you wish to copy to.
Repeat for Semesters
Once you have an entire course set the way you like it, you can copy the entire course grade setup to all your other courses.
At the top click To Another Class
Select the Term as the whole school year if you have the whole school year set up
HS/Some MS courses may choose just the semester
Choose the class you would like to copy that has been previously set up.
Then select the term and all classes that you would like to copy to.
Click Validate to Finish
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