The ClassKite Gradebook: Grades That Add Themselves Up
Every practice in ClassKite is marked the moment a student answers. Until now, turning those marks into a grade was still your job: export the results, paste them into a spreadsheet, fix the formulas, and do it again at report time. The new Gradebook does that part for you. This guide shows what it collects, how the grade is worked out, and what you still decide.
Nothing to enter
Open Gradebook in the menu and choose a class. Every live practice, every self-practice session and every SBQ quiz is already there as a column, and every student on the roster is a row, including students who have no result yet.
Scores come from the practices themselves; they are not typed in or edited in the Gradebook. That is deliberate: the number a student sees is the number they earned.
A blank is never quietly turned into a zero. Each result is shown as what it is: scored, in progress, not started, missing, excused, not assigned or removed.
One grade, worked out by rules you can read
Each class follows a grading policy. To begin with, it is the simplest one possible: the plain average of the practices a student has done, using their best completed attempt. Work that was not done is shown as missing and does not lower the grade.
A policy can do more when you want it to:
- Weighted categories. For example class work, homework and quizzes, each with its own weight.
- Total points. Points earned divided by points possible.
- Grade bands. Turn a percentage into a letter.
- Missed work. Decide whether work missed after a practice closed counts as zero.
Students read the policy in plain sentences next to their grade, so "why is it 71?" has an answer on the page. Every figure is shown to at most two decimal places.
If you teach in a school, the school admins set the policy and decide what teachers may adjust for their own classes. With a personal account you set it yourself, and a preview shows whose grade would change before you apply it.
When a result should not count
You cannot change a score, but you do decide whether it counts:
- Excused or not assigned, for one student. Neither counts for or against them.
- Remove a practice for the whole class, or one student's result, giving a reason. You see what will change before you confirm.
Removing never deletes the practice or the students' answers, and removed work never becomes a zero. A practice nobody attempted can be removed too, and anything removed can be restored. One thing is not possible: removing a single attempt of a retake, because ClassKite keeps a student's best completed score for a practice, not each run.
The class at a glance, and one student in depth
The Class Dashboard shows how many students are in each grade band, category averages against the targets you set, results over time and a follow-up list. The Individual Report shows one student's categories, score history, strengths and areas for practice. You can add feedback the student reads with their results, or a private note that only staff see, and preview exactly what the student will see.
The Gradebook does not replace your reports. A report is still where you read one session in detail: who took part, what was right first time, who left the page. The Gradebook is where those sessions add up.
Report cards
When a reporting period ends, write a comment for each student, preview the card and publish it. A published report card is a fixed record with a version number. If results or the policy change afterwards, the card is marked as needing revision, and publishing again makes a new version instead of rewriting the old one. Download cards as PDFs, one at a time or for the whole class, and export the Gradebook itself as an Excel workbook.
What students see
Students get their own My Grades, My Progress and My Report Card. They see only their own results, and only results you have released, so an SBQ quiz stays out of their view until you release it. There is no class rank.
What the Gradebook does not do
- It does not take marks from paper tests, and it has no rubrics.
- It does not send reports to parents, and there is no attendance register.
- It does not sync with a school information system. The Excel export is how grades leave ClassKite.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to set anything up?
No. The first time you open the Gradebook, every practice the class has done is already in it, under a policy that averages them.
Does a retake change the grade?
The student's best completed attempt counts unless the policy says the most recent one should. A retake that is still in progress never replaces a finished result.
Can students see a quiz I have not released?
No. Until you release an SBQ quiz, students see neither the result nor its effect on their grade.
Which plan includes it?
The teacher's Gradebook is part of class analytics, included with Teacher Plus and the School plan. The pricing page shows what each plan includes.
Read more on the Gradebook page, or see how a school sets one grading policy for every class.
Open your Gradebook in ClassKite — the practices your class has already done are waiting in it.