Answers to commonly asked GradeQuick questions

As we near the halfway mark of the high school's first quarter, I thought I would share some answers to some commonly asked GradeQuick questions.

Weighting your Course

Weight Terms

• When changing the weight of TERM, remember to click Change.
• Year Long
• Each Term is worth 20%
• MIDTERM is worth 10%
• FINAL is worth 10%
• Semester
• Each Term is worth 40%
• FINAL worth 20%
• Courses with no Midterm or Final
• Year Long - 25%/term
• Semester - 50%/term

Weight Categories

• Categories are teacher-defined groupings usually determined by your syllabus description of how you will grade your course.
• Examples are Test, Quiz, Participation, Project, Attendance, or Preparation
• As you add columns to your gradebook, you can define new categories.
• After you define a new category, the weighting screen will appear and ask you to weight the category.
• Categories can be reused for similar assignments.
• Remember to click Change when adding a percentage.
• For easier calculation, have your categories total to 100.

Weight Tests

There are very few instances where you would ever want to weight tests.  Weighting tests will tally for the entire year not resetting on new terms.  Please make sure that this box is not clicked.

Gradebook to Gradebook Copy

1. Edit -> Gradebook to Gradebook Copy
2. Copy From … Select the class that you have added Test columns and weights.
3. Copy To… Select the classes you want to add the tests/weights.
4. Copy What… Test Descriptions
5. Redo steps 1-3, Copy What… Weights

Student Info Columns

Access via View -> Student Info

• C1 - Comment field
• GS - Grade Scale.  
  For most classes, this should be set to 1.  If you teach a Pass/Fail class then set this to 2.
• Student Gmail - gives the students wpsstudent.com email address
• Grade Level - student grade

Progress Reports

• Remember to save file under the same name (e.g. Progress Report Q1) everytime you post grades to Edline for the quarter.