Overview

To see the current Grading scale click Admin/Grading scales. Here you can set the default grading scale (regular and pass/fail) that every course is initialized with. To set a grading scale to all the courses, click on "Make all courses use this grading scale".

Here it is indicated how many courses use each grading scale.

The default grading scale for a school is A+ => 95%, ..., D- => 40%, F => 0%, and every course starts with a copy of this grading scale.

To change the default grading scale, click Edit under the default grading scale.

Change the scale, then click Save. Note that it can have up to 50 mappings.

The "Extended" grading scale allows you to configure the percentage associated with the special grading remarks "Missing", "Incomplete", and "Absent". By default, they are all assigned 0%.

If your assessments are pass/fail, you can use the standard pass/fail grade map. You can edit the standard map and change the percentages and the name of the grades. Grades don't have to be letters. They can be words like "Good" and "Poor".

To add a new grading scale, click on "Add standard grading scale" in the upper-right corner.

You can choose between "Points", "Numbers", and "Letters" grading scales.

Enter the name and description, then click Save.

Type of grading scales

Letters grading scale

The "Letters" grading scale maps letters to percentages. You can map letters to any percentage you want.

Numbers grading scale

The "Numbers" grading scale maps numbers to percentages. The numbers can be integers like "3" or decimals like "3.5" and you can map these numbers to any percentage you want.

Please note that the grade book will always look for an exact match against the numbers you have in your grading scale, so if you've only added a "3" and a "3.5", if you try to enter a "3.2" it will not be found.

Points grading scale

The "Points" grading scales allow you to associate a description with each number of points.

Sharing grading scales

You can share the grading scale with your organization, business, or network by selecting the appropriate library.

You can see all the shared grading scales in the Resources catalog.

You can add grading scales directly from the Resources catalog to your personal/site library. To add a new grading scale from the Resources catalog, click Add, then select Grading scales from the available options. 

If you have multiple grading scales, when you create a course, you can select the grading scale for the course under the Options tab in the Add course pop-up.

Course grading scale

The Admin/Assessments area of a course indicates which particular grading scale a course is using. Here you can select another grading scale or create a new one.

Also, here you have the possibility to edit the grading scale used by the course. 

Note that if you customize the grading scale used in a course, it affects other courses, and the grades of all courses using that scale will be recalculated.

To make all the assessments use the course's grading scale, click the appropriate button.

Assessment grading scale

You can now set the grading scale on a per-assessment basis. By default, when you create an assessment, its grading scale is "Default", which means it uses its course's grading scale. You can override this when you are adding an assessment.

You can also change the assessment's grading scale via its Grading scale tab. Here you have the option to select a different grading scale, to create a new grading scale, or edit the current grading scale. If you associate an assessment with a points grading scale, its max score is automatically set to the maximum number of points in the points grading scale.

Please note that if an assessment is a quiz or has a rubric, it cannot be associated with a points grading scale since those types of assessments already fix the number of points that they have.

Note that if you customize the grading scale used for grading an assessment, it affects other courses, and the grades of all courses using that scale will be recalculated.

If your assessment is graded using a rubric, then in the Admin/Grading scales/Options area, you can define the ordering of the rubric's cells. By default, rubric cells are ordered from low points to high points. If you want to swap this on site-wide, click the "High to low" radio button.