Creating Custom Grade Scale

Overview

You are a teacher and need to create new summary grades that will be visible for students and parents on Progress Reports instead of the traditional ones (A-F), or you need to use the same grades but with a different floor percentage values (e.g., A starts from 95% instead of 90%).

Prerequisites

You are a teacher and you have courses assigned to you.

Solution

1. Log in to your School Loop account.
2. At the top-right corner of your portal, click Settings.
   
   
   
3. Select a Gradebook in the Gradebook Settings section.
   
   
   
4. Under the Grade Scales section, click Go.
   
   
   
   
5. Click Create New Scale.
   
   
   
   
6. Enter the Name for new the new scale. 
   
   
   
7. Remove all grades that you don't need by clicking Delete next to the grade.
8. To add a new grade, click Insert and follow the instructions given below. 
   
   1. Enter the Grade Label; you can use a single letter, abbreviation, or words.
   2. Enter Floor Percent for the grade. 
      For example, if B grade is between 80 and 90, enter B as the grade Label and 80 as Floor Percent.
   3. Click Submit.
      
      
      
      
9. Repeat step 8 to add all desired grades.
   Make sure to set Floor Percent for the lowest grade on your scale to 0%.
10. Click Submit.
    
    
11. To make the grade scale active, select the newly created scale and click Submit.
    
    

Confirmation

1. After completing step 11, the gradebook settings page is opened. Click on the gradebook name to open it.
   
   
   
   
2. The newly created grades are displayed in the gradebook.
   
   
   
   

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