Create teacher grade scales in the gradebook
Your Aspen administrator creates grade scales for your district in the District view. Those grades are available for you and all teachers to use for their students’ assignment and end-of-term grades.
Because the grades in the district grade scales might not fit your personal grading system, you can create your own grade scales and link them to specific class sections, specific assignment categories, or individual assignments.
There are two ways teacher grade scales can work with your district’s grade scale:
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District administrators can define alignment codes for each grade in a district grade scale. Then, you can align each grade within a grade scale you create in your gradebook to the codes in the district grade scale. This way, when Aspen calculates the values in average columns for that section, it maps the grades that you enter to the appropriate grades in the district grade scale. For example, if you create a 1-4 grade scale, you can determine that a score of 3 in your grade scale is equal to a B in the district grade scale. Without doing so, Aspen calculates a score of 3 as a 75 (C) out of 100.
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- You can enter the grades within the scales you create only when entering assignment grades. When Aspen calculates term grades for district post columns, it matches any grades from your grade scale to the appropriate grade in the district grade scale by points.
| Note: If you cannot align your grades with district alignment codes, you must use characters that are not numbers or letters matching any values on the district grade scale; Aspen will not be able to tell the difference between your B (88) and the district B (82). |
You can add colors to grade scales, whether they are created by you or your district, for easy viewing on your Scores page.
| Note: If a grade term is locked, it might prevent you from editing or deleting a grade scale that is associated with it. See "Locked Grade Terms" for more information. |
