How do I setup my gradebook?

Within gradebook options choose the:

• Passing score
• Grade scale
• Course grade view

Within multi-outcome scoring select:

• Color of outcome
• Weight of outcome
• Percent of outcome
• Delete an outcome
• Add an outcome

Note: Double-check your activities if deleting an outcome, as deleting an outcome assigned to activities will affect the gradebook and scores.

Grading categories can be used by teachers to classify assignments into types or groups. For example, assignments could be grouped into tests, homework, and classwork. This can give teachers additional insite into student performance, allow them to set up category weighting, or to drop lowest scores in a category

Note: If the Grade Categories panel is not visible, it may have been turned off in your domain to simplify the interface. Check with your Echo Administrator about turning this feature on.

It's important to remember that when the MOS is enabled, the traditional grading categories are not used when calculating the course grade. The outcome weighting of the MOS is used instead. The grading categories feature can still be used to sort items in the gradebook or to drop the lowest scores in the grading category.

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To use the Grading categories feature, find the Grading categories panel in the course settings. On the panel:

1. Enable grading categories by checking the box
2. Click Add Grading Category to create a new category or click an existing category to edit.  This will bring up a new window with several options.
3. Add or edit the category name
4. Select how you want the category grade to be displayed
5. Select the number of lowest scored activities to drop from the category grade
6. If the category will be used for extra credit, enable that using the check box
7. Click Done to save your changes.

Within objective mastery select:

• Objective mastery threshold
• Grade scale
• Minimum number of questions for a formative assessment
• Minimum score able to receive on a formative assessment
• Minimum number of questions on a remediation assessment
• Minimum score able to be received on a remediation assessment

Within grade scales:

• Adjust the different grading scales needed for this course
• Delete grading scales that are not needed
• Add custom grading scales

See this article for more information on how to set up grade scales.

Now the course gradebook has been set up. Select Save located in the top toolbar.

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