Configuring Grading Scales allows you to apply a grading scale to course Gradebooks, the weighted collections and assessments used within Gradebooks.
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Grading Scales Overview
Configuring Grading Scales allows you to apply a grading scale to course Gradebooks, the weighted collections and assessments used within Gradebooks.
When managing assessments, you can optionally allow learners to view their results using a marking scheme (e.g., percent, numeric) and/or a grading scale (e.g., Honors, Pass, Fail). The marking scheme and grading scale are also both displayed to users when entering grades in Admin > Manage Course > Gradebook.
Currently, all grading scales require a corresponding percentage to be stored in the database and no two letter grades can share the same percentage value.
Permissions
Permission to Admin > System Settings > Grading Scales
You must have one of the following permission levels to access this feature:
Staff: Admin
- Navigate to Admin > System Settings.
- Click the name of the organization for which you want to manage the grading scale.
- Click Grading Scales from the left-hand sidebar.
- A default grading scale is provided; it may be fastest to modify the existing scale to suit your organisation's needs. If so, click on the default scale to edit it.
- To add an entirely new scale, click Add New Grading Scale.
- Complete the required information, noting the following:
- Title: Provide a title for the grading scale. If the grading scale applies only to one cohort of learners or is in effect for a specific period of time, it might be useful to include it the title. Users working in course Gradebooks will see the grading scale title when they are specifying a grading scale to use in a collection or assessment.
- Ranges: This is where you enter the grading scale information.
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The system requires that there be a 0 start percentage to be valid, so be sure to include one.
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The information you provide in the Letter Grade column is what will display to learners if you choose to display their results in the Gradebook using a grading scale.
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GPA is not required and currently doesn't integrate with Elentra unless you have a customization.
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Notes is optional and is not seen outside the Grading Scale page.
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Click Add Range to add additional rows.
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The rows will reorder as you add them so that they display in order. You can click the arrow in the Start % column header to show the percentages ascending or descending.
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Note that you do not enter a number to denote the top of the range.
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- To delete a range, click the red X icon in the remove column of the appropriate row.
- A Description for the grading scale can be provided. This is optional and is not seen outside the Grading Scale page.
- When you've added all the required information, click Save. You will get a green success message and be redirected to the list of existing grading scales.
- To edit an existing grading scale, click on its title. Make the necessary changes. Click Save.
- To delete an existing grading scale, click the checkbox beside its title. Click Delete Selected.
