Closing the Semester Checklist

Please follow these steps in order to finalize your grade book:

Ensure all grades are posted!  If you see an eye icon with a slash next to student grades or the assignment header, that grade is not posted yet. 

Review each of your grade book headers and ensure that you are not seeing the eye icon.  Click the 3 dots to the right of the assignment name and click "Post Grades"

Navigate to the total grade column for students.  If you still see the eye icon, some class work are still hidden.  

Verify you have entered grades for all assignments. We should see no dashes (-), rocket ships, or paper icons in the grade book. 

If a student joined your class in the middle of the trimester, you do not need to grade unsubmitted work prior to their enrollment start date.  

Verify you have all assignments in the right assignment category

• Review that you have the correct weights per assignment group
  • In the Assignments tab, navigate to the 3 vertical dots next to the "+ Assignment" button.  From there, click "Assignment Group Weight"

• • From here, you can review the weights you set up in the beginning of the semester.  Attendance should not be part of the final grade. Coursemojo Student Surveys are also excluded from the final grade and should have a value of 0%.

• Review that you don’t have assignments in the wrong buckets (ex. A “summative quiz” in the “take-home assignments” bucket)
  • Also in the "Assignments" tab, review all the class work you have under each assignment group.
  • You can move assignments to the assignment group by dragging and dropping the item by clicking on the pictured icon found to the left of the item name.

• • You can also click on the 3 dots to the right of the item name and click the "Move to..." option to select the correct assignment group.

• If you have imported any course content, check that no graded assignments are in the Imported Assignments group.  By default, all imported content will go to the "Imported Assignments" group, which counts for 0% of the final grade.

Verify that all grades meet the district’s requirements

This semester, we were given floors for failing grades (varies per district).  After you finalize your grade book, see if any of the total scores are under the district floor.  You can manually set these to the district minimum by applying a manual override.

Click the "Settings" icon on the upper right corner of your gradebook

Click "Advanced" and check the "Allow final grade override" box.  Click "Apply Settings"

You will now see an override column that will allow you to change the student's final grade to the specified floor for the district.

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