Teachers can use the Post Standard Grades feature to post all necessary grades for students per marking period, such as Quarter 1, Progress Report 1, etc.
1. Click the Final Grades menu, then click Post Standard Grades.
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You also have the option to click the Portal alert. Clicking the Portal alert will open the posting window for the selected course. Note: Once grades are posted, the alert will disappear; however, grades can continue to be updated during the marking period window as needed.
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2. Select the correct marking period by clicking the corresponding tab.
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Directly below the marking periods will be descriptive information regarding the posting window. In this case, the posting window is currently open and will be available until Jun 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM.
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3. If in detailed view, click Switch to Simple View.
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4. If you need to post standard grades for inactive students, select the Include Inactive Students check box.
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5. Upon posting grades, you can click Use Gradebook to pull grades directly from your gradebook instead of posting each individual grade. Note: Grades can be altered as needed after they have been inserted from the gradebook.
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6. Click Copy Standard Grades from the Last Marking Period to copy grades given during the last marking period into the current marking period
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7. To enter standard grades, select the grades from the pull-downs.
8. Click Mass Update to mass assign grades for one standard at a time.
a. To mass update a column of grades, select the standard column from the pull-down. Enter the grade in the provided text box. Once all information is selected and entered, click Run Mass Update.
Hover over the standard title to view the standard description.
9. When all grades have been entered, click Save.
1. Click the Final Grades menu, then click Post Standard Grades.
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You also have the option to click the Portal alert. Clicking the Portal alert will open the posting window for the selected course. Note: Once grades are posted, the alert will disappear; however, grades can continue to be updated during the marking period window as needed.
![Portal](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/007/541/786/original/4d7c8bce-49d6-4d08-8209-11cf56fadc97.png)
2. Select the correct marking period by clicking the corresponding tab.
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Directly below the marking periods will be descriptive information regarding the posting window. In this case, the posting window is currently open and will be available until Jun 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM.
![Post Standard Grades](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/007/541/790/original/e2752eb5-d840-4252-b931-6ac8892edf46.png)
3. For additional options regarding standard grades and marking periods, click Switch to Detail View.
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Upon clicking the Switch to Detail View link, additional options will display, such as Display Standards Info and Display Other Marking Periods.
4. To display additional details regarding students and students' grades, select the check boxes listed in the Display Standards Info section, such as Subject Area, Grade Level, Strand, Cluster, Standard Title, Short Name, or Description.
5. To display additional grades from other marking periods, select the check boxes listed in the Display Other Marking Periods section, such as Full Year, Semester 1, Semester 2, 1st 9 Weeks, etc.
6. If posting standard grades via the detailed view, to view additional information and grades for a specific student, click the gray arrow next to the student's name.
7. To post standard grades for inactive students, select the Include Inactive Students check box.
8. To enter standard grades, select the grade from the pull-downs.
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9. While in the detailed view, click the gray arrow in the Gradebook Grade column to view the assignment and standard earned.
You also have the option to click Use Gradebook to pull assignments and grades where the standards have been attached to the assignments. Note: Grades can be altered as needed after they have been inserted from the gradebook.
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10. Click Copy Standard Grades from the Last Marking Period to copy grades given during the last marking period into the current marking period.
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11. If enabled, enter Longer Course Comments in the provided text box.
a. To Mass assign longer course comments, click the corresponding button.
i. Enter the mass comment in the provided text box, then click Replace or Append.
Replace: Replaces everything in all comment boxes with the entered text.
Append: Place the comment before the existing comment(s).
12. If enabled, select Report Card Comments from the corresponding pull-down.
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You can select up to six comments from the Report Card Comments pull-down; if you try to select more than six comments at a time, the pull-down turns red and data cannot be saved.
a. Click Comment Codes for detailed information about report card comments.
13. Click Save.
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If the district has enabled the system preference Add Letters and Sounds to Standards posting, the district can select applicable courses where the Letters and Sounds Knowledge table should display when you and other teachers post standard grades. The table displays options for Identifies letter, Knows letter sound, and Writes letter for sound given for each letter of the alphabet, as well as any other customized options.
1. Click the Final Grades menu, then click Post Standard Grades.
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You also have the option to click the Portal alert. Clicking the Portal alert will open the posting window for the selected course. Note: Once grades are posted, the alert will disappear; however, grades can continue to be updated during the marking period window as needed.
![Portal](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/007/541/827/original/43723a88-35ab-493c-8f80-c9f608513f6f.png)
2. Select the correct marking period by clicking the corresponding tab.
![Post Standard Grades](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/007/541/829/original/045f6bd8-ccfe-4ffc-9c96-1b009642f54a.png)
Directly below the marking periods will be descriptive information regarding the posting window. In this case, the posting window is currently open and will be available until Jun 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM.
![Post Standard Grades](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/007/541/831/original/047a40d6-0f6c-4c98-bff3-6b5b6809cc81.png)
3. For additional options regarding standard grades and marking periods, click Switch to Detail View.
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4. If the district has enabled the Letters and Sounds Knowledge table, as explained above, click the gray arrow next to a student to display the table and record skill levels.
5. Select the applicable check box for each letter depending on the student's skill level.
Additional skill options may display depending on whether the district has added additional skill options, such as "Can write uppercase letter."
6. Click Save to save grades.
For information on adding standard grades and comments, see Posting Standard Grades: Detailed View and/or Posting Standard Grades: Simple View.
Click the floppy disk icon to export the listed data to an Excel spreadsheet.
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You can sort data by clicking on any of the headers. Click once for ascending results; click twice for descending results.
To make the list full screen, click on the expansion icon (four arrows) next to the Search text box. Once in full screen mode, click the icon again to exit full screen.
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If looking for specific information housed within the resulting students, type the information in the Search text box provided and press Enter.