The gradebook
Assignments with due dates, weighted categories, retakes and extra credit, linked to your planner, with grades by grading period sent to the report card and transcript.
Open Grades on My Homeschool, then a child. Each school year has its own gradebook.
Add a course
- Choose Add a course. Name it, pick the subject, and, if the book is in the planner, link it.
- Set the categories and their weights. The starting set is daily work 30%, quizzes 20%, tests 40% and projects 10%. Rename, add or remove any of them. Untick Weight by category to count every point the same.
- Under More, set a late penalty, choose whether missing work counts as zero, drop the lowest scores in a category, or set a mastery target.
Add assignments
- Add lessons from the planner: pick a range of lessons. Each becomes an assignment due the day the planner has it, and you can add a test every few lessons. Lessons already in the gradebook are skipped.
- Repeat weekly: a spelling test every Friday for 12 weeks, say, skipping breaks on your school calendar.
- Quick add at the bottom of the list: type a name and press Enter.
- Assignment opens everything: due date, category, points, the planner lesson, a link to an online lesson, and notes.
Enter scores
Type a score and press Enter to move to the next one. Change the points possible beside it. Use the status for work that is late, missing (counts as zero), excused (left out of the grade), turned in but not graded yet, or to be redone.
- Retakes: open the assignment and add earlier tries; the best score counts.
- Extra credit: tick it on the assignment. Its points add to what was earned without adding to what was possible.
- Mastery: with a mastery target set, a score under it is marked Redo, and the best try counts.
See where things stand
Each course shows the grade so far, each grading period, every category and a line of the grade over time. What do I need? works out the score needed on an assignment that isn’t graded yet (a final exam, say) to reach an A, B, C or D. Past-due and missing work shows on My Homeschool under each child.
Grading periods
Assignments count toward the period their due date falls in. Choose Grading periods to switch between quarters, semesters and trimesters or change the dates. Grades use the scale in Settings.
Send to the report card and transcript
Choose Send to report card & transcript, tick the grading periods (and the final grade, at the end of the year), and match each course to its course in Transcripts, or let it be added. Grades go in as percents; your scale turns them into letters. Nothing is sent until you choose to, and you can change any grade in Transcripts afterward.
Print grades prints a grade report for the child. A course’s Print lists its assignments and scores.