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Teachers have a Gradebook and Quick Grade in the Grade section. The Gradebook is where teachers view student scores or coins for each week for the entire class. The Quick Grade page is where a teacher can grade all submissions that require grading by a teacher. To learn about each option click the tabs below.
From your Studies Weekly Online account and within the desired Classroom Card, click the Grade button.
The Gradebook is a convenient place for teachers to see all student scores or coins earned all in one place. To access the Gradebook you must first choose a Publication and week in the Table of Contents dropdown.
- Publication: Dropdown to alternate between publications.
- Week: Dropdown to select a week within the chosen publication.
- Filter By: Sort by All, Activity, Article, Customized Content, Vocabulary Review, or Weekly Assessment. Teachers can also organize by Coins or Points.
- Students: The student rows will display all of the students enrolled in the selected classroom. Teachers may need to scroll down to see all the students or type a student name in the search box. Selecting a student name will open a Weekly Review* modal.
- Each Item in the Week: The selected week's content will display in columns. It shows the icon relating to the item type and the name of the item. Teachers may need to scroll right to see all the assigned content for the week.
- Print or Export the Gradebook
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*Weekly Review
Selecting a student name from the Gradebook list will open a Weekly Review modal. The modal will show the student’s responses. Use the scroll bar on the right side of the modal to view all the answered content for the week.
Article Comprehension Questions will be numbered sequentially and have the following symbol options for each enrolled student:
Progress Bar: The actionable progress bar at the top of each column shows the student count for Not Turned In, In Progress, Needs to be Graded, Teacher Graded. Hovering over the bar with your cursor will give the totals. Clicking the progress bar, will open the Grade modal for that item.
Not Started: The student has not started the item.
In Progress: The student has begun the item but has not completed it.
Completed: The student completed the article questions. Article Comprehension Questions are designed as formative assessments for reading comprehension and give students unlimited chances to select the correct response. Reports reflect this and provide teachers with better feedback of student progress toward completion of the weekly activities.
Retake Allowed: Shown in the upper left corner if the teacher has allowed additional attempts of the item. Teachers may click this button to cancel a retake for the selected content.
Retake Not Allowed: The retake button will be grayed out if the teacher did not allow the student to repeat the item. Teachers may click this button to allow the student another attempt for the selected content.
Number of submissions: This will show the total number of attempts on an item. When you click the number in the Gradebook you will see a pop-up modal with the date and time of each submission. When you click a submission, you will see the Grade modal that displays the questions and students responses.
Activities, Assessments, Customized Content, Crosswords, and Misspilled will have the same options as above plus the following for each enrolled student:
Student score: The student has completed the item. If the student’s score is orange, it needs to be graded by the teacher. Click the score to open the Grade view for that item.
Comments available: The comment bubble will be visible in the upper right corner if a student or teacher added a comment to the item. When you click the comment bubble, a Review window will appear that includes the comment(s).
Time: Time in which Misspilled was completed.
Student submissions that require teacher grading can be found in the Quick Grade tab.
Additional Filters may be selected using the Filter button on the right side of the screen. The default view is Needs to be Graded. Teachers can use the dropdown box to view Teacher Graded, to see which items have already been scored.
Each column in Quick Grade can be sorted by clicking the arrow next to the name of the column.
When teachers select the blue Grade Now button, a modal containing each completed student’s submission for the assigned content will open.
A. Teachers can see All Questions associated with the content.
The default view is Needs to be Graded.
B. Student responses are organized by question number.
Teachers can score questions in any order by selecting from the list or scrolling down.
C. Teachers can use the Select Student dropdown or scroll down the list of students.
D. Select Incorrect,
Partially Correct, or
Correct.
E. Selecting a student name, changes the modal to display only their responses.
Use the back arrow to return to the class
a. Select Student dropdown.
b. The option to allow the student to retake the Assessment.
c. View the Submission date, number of Submissions, Coins, and Score.
d. To view multiple submissions, click the submission count and select a specific entry.
e. If multiple questions needs graded the Next Question button will be available.
f. Once finished, select the Save and Close button.
Any questions that have been graded will move to the All Questions tab. The Print option is only available when an individual student has been selected.
When viewing submissions for the class, the Progress Bar shows teachers how many students still need to be graded for the selected question. In this example, Victor has been scored, showing there are an additional 8 students remaining. The Progress Bar remains visible when scrolling down the list of students.
After students have submitted their Rubric offline, teachers can leave comments and score them in the Rubric tab of the Grade section. Students can also leave comments or ask questions within the Rubric in their Table of Contents.
The Rubric page will show:
- Publication dropdown menu.
- Rubric dropdown menu.
- Search for a student.
- List of students in the selected classroom. Selecting a student name opens the rubric to score and leave comments. Clicking the three dots to the right of a student name, allows the teacher to Edit the student account or Log In As the student.
- Criteria for the Rubric and point value of each (example shows 1).
- Comment bubbles, scores, and total points for each student.
- Print button.
To begin scoring or leave comments, select a Publication, Rubric, and student name.
Teachers and students can communicate in both the Not Yet! and For Sure! columns of the rubric before, during, and after the submission and scoring process.
To send an individual comment, select a student name from the list and type in the comment box. Click the Paper Airplane when you are ready to send. Selecting Save, Next Student or Previous Student will send all comments that have not been individually sent.
Students will get a teacher comment alert in their Notification Center every time their teacher leaves a comment. When a student selects the comment, the Rubric will open in the Table of Contents.
Teachers will get a student comment alert in their Notification Center every time a student leaves a comment. When the comment is selected from the list, the Grade page will open to the Rubric.
Teacher's may edit or delete their saved comments at any time by hovering over the comment. To save an edited comment, click the blue Save button.
Teachers can award full or partial credit for each criterion by typing the value in the Score boxes. Scores can be edited any time or left blank until full credit can be awarded. Students will get a Rubric Grade Alert in their Notification Center each time their teacher clicks the Save button.
When a teacher Saves a score for each criteria in the Rubric, the content will show as completed on the student’s Table of Contents. Visit the Rubrics article for additional information.
Teachers can leave a comment for the student when grading. Students can then view and reply to those comments.
- At the bottom of the question block, select Comments.
- Click where it says Add Comment.
- Enter your comment.
- Click the Paper Airplane button located to the right of the comment text box to send it to the student. Once sent, you can also hover over the comment to edit or delete the comment.
To learn how to let students retake submissions, see the How to Allow a Student to Retake a Submission article.
All the steps are the same, just look for updated modal designs with new button placement and refreshed icons. We added a Student Status dropdown giving users the option to view Active and Dropped student scores.