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SIS 2000+ Gradebook

Sec. 1, Introduction 

The Gradebook application is an implementation of a teacher's grade book with connectivity to the Master Schedule and student schedule information in SIS 2000+. The Gradebook is an electronic tool for the definition of classroom tasks (assignments), entry and maintenance of the scores students receive in the completion of these tasks, and the computation of the overall mark (grade) for the class. Completed scores can be posted from the Gradebook to the Mark Reporting module.

Gradebook organizes Tasks into groups called Categories, and Categories in turn are grouped into Subjects. A Subject is a broad course of study for a particular class. Each subject area will typically have distinct groups of activities (such as homework assignments, quizzes, projects, and tests). A task is an individual class activity, function or assignment for which an assessment (or score) will be collected for each student. See Sample Grade Book Structures diagram below (Fig. 1 - Elementary and Fig. 1 - Secondary).

Sample Gradebook Structures

In an elementary school, each class may have several subject areas corresponding to the areas of instruction appropriate for each grade level (such as math, science, spelling, and conduct):  

Elementary Gradebook
Class:	Miss Ungaretti--Grade4
Subjects:	MATH		SCIENCE		READING
Category:	Homework	Quizzes	Homework	Projects	Readings
Tasks:	Chap 1 Chap 2 Chap 3 Chap 4	Ch 1 & 2 Ch 3 & 4	Insects Stars The Pond Dinosaurs	P1 P2	Book 1 Book 2 Magazines Newspapers

Fig. 1 - Elementary

For a secondary class, there will usually be a single subject matching the broad topic for the course; this is typically the department under which the course is defined (for example, an algebra class may have single subject of math).

Secondary Gradebook
Class:	Period 6--Algebra 1
Subject:	MATH
Category:	Homework	Quizzes	Reports	Tests
Tasks:	Chap 1 Chap 2 Chap 3 Chap 4	Chap 1 Chap 2 Chap 3 Chap 4	R1 R2	MidTerm1 MidTerm2 Final

Fig. 1 - Secondary

For each class, Gradebook permits the definition of an unlimited number of Tasks, in an unlimited number of Categories, for an unlimited number of Subjects. Categories may be weighted relative to each other to reflect their importance, complexity, or difficulty; and individual Tasks within a Category may also be weighted to the other Tasks within the Category.

View Sample Grade Calculations

Gradebook also permits each subject to have its own grading scale, which equates computed percentages with traditional letter marks defined in Mark Sets. The grading scale may consist of all or a subset of marks in a mark set, and the percentages may be fully editable. Teachers are not permitted to define new marks outside of the mark set.

Once defined, subjects, categories, and tasks can be easily copied between classes. New tasks may be defined at any time during the duration of the class; tasks are always arranged chronologically by the associated task data (the date on which the task is performed or due), not by the date on which the task was defined.

Task scores may be entered and displayed as either the number of points received for the activity or as the equivalent letter grade based upon the grading scale. Task entry may be by task (column based) or by student (row based). A comment and a grading option may be associated with each score. The comment may be up to 256 characters. The grading option comes from a school or district-based set of predefined grading option codes. The options (which may be all or a subset of the option codes) are identified with the subject, along with how the option modifies a student's score, and the color with which the score is displayed in the Gradebook task grid. Three user-based preferences specify the width of the task columns, whether tasks due later than the current date are included in the computation of the students' final grades, and if default (but editable) percentage values are assigned to marks in the grading scale.

Gradebook contains six integrated reports:

• The Class Summary Report prints all students with their final computed marks. This report will selectively print student names and/or IDs, making it appropriate for posting.
• The Task Summary Report prints all students with the score recorded for a specific task. This report will selectively print student names and/or IDs, making it appropriate for posting.
• The Student Progress Report prints a single page for each student showing every task and the recorded score.
• The Missing Scores Report lists all students and the task descriptions for which no scores have been posted.
• The Score Collection Report is a class list suitable for manually recording scores prior to entry into the Gradebook program.
• The Spreadsheet Report creates an Excel spreadsheet of the current class and subject, which can be used to archive the grade book data or produce other reports and graphs.

1.1 Opening Gradebook
From the SIS 2000+ Main Menu, click on the Gradebook icon button. The graphic below shows the main Gradebook screen. 

1.2 Gradebook Main Form screen layout

Hover your mouse pointer above the numbered boxes to see what each area of the Gradebook screen is.

Fig. 2 - Main Form