What are the major highlights?
When will the new version be available?
Will this change how the grade book is viewed by parents?
No. The new tools and graphs being added are only available to teachers and are not available on the parent portal.
Can we see some of the specifics?
This is a view of the new grade book that will available to teachers next summer. In this example, a specific student has been selected and additional visual queues are provided to assist with understanding the students progress.
This is known as a box and whisker chart, which display the four quartiles. The area between the top green line and the green box is the 1st quartile, the green box is the 2nd quartile, red box is 3rd quartile, and between red box and bottom red line is the last quartile. In this example, the specific student is the yellow circle, showing that they scored in the 1st quartile compared to the rest of the class.
Teachers will be able to see basic stats for each assignment, including: Mean, Median, Range, Std Dev
Teachers can also view these basic stats by scrolling the mouse over each assignment.
The process will be slightly different for posting grades – there is now a clearer process for deciding WHICH grade gets posted to WHERE.
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