A gradebook that fills itself in
Every live practice, self-practice session and quiz your class does arrives in the Gradebook already marked. Each student gets one grade, worked out by rules anyone can read, and you publish report cards from the same figures.
The teacher's Gradebook is part of class analytics, included with Teacher Plus and the School plan. School admins get the school-wide Gradebook on the School plan.
The problem
The marks already exist, because every practice was marked as it was answered. Turning them into a grade is the slow part: exporting, pasting into a spreadsheet, repairing the formulas, explaining to a student why it says 71, and doing it all again when report cards are due.
One grade, worked out the same way for everyone who looks
The Gradebook reads the results ClassKite already holds. Each practice is a column, each student a row, and the overall grade follows a grading policy written in plain sentences: an average of everything, or categories such as class work, homework and quizzes with the weights you choose, and grade bands if you want letters. Scores come from the practices themselves; they are not typed in or edited in the Gradebook. Work a student has not done is shown as missing instead of being quietly counted as zero, unless your policy says it should count. The teacher's grid, the student's own view, the report card and the Excel file all come from the same calculation, shown to at most two decimal places.
How it works
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Teach and practise as usual
Live practices, self-practice sessions and SBQ quizzes appear as columns by themselves. There is nothing to enter.
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Open the class Gradebook
Choose the reporting period, filter by practice type or result status, group the columns, find a student, and save the view you use most.
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Deal with the exceptions
Mark a result excused or not assigned, or remove a practice that should not count, giving a reason. A removal can be restored.
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Publish report cards
Add your comment, preview, and publish a report card for each student. Download them as PDFs, or the class as an Excel workbook.
In the classroom
At the end of the half term, a maths teacher opens the Gradebook for 8B. Twelve practices are already there. One student was ill on the day of a quiz, so she marks that result excused, and a practice she opened by mistake, which nobody attempted, is removed with a reason. The grades update, she adds a sentence of feedback to each report card and publishes them, and each student finds theirs under My Report Card.
What you get
Fills in by itself
Every practice is a column and every student on the roster a row, including students who have no result yet.
A policy you can read
Average everything, or weight categories such as class work, homework and quizzes. Grade bands turn a percentage into a letter if you want one.
Class dashboard
How many students are in each grade band, category averages against your targets, results over time and a follow-up list.
Individual reports
One student's categories, score history, strengths and areas for practice, with feedback they can read and notes only staff see.
Report cards
Draft, preview and publish. A published card is a fixed record with a version number, and the student can read it and download the PDF.
Excel export
One class or several as a workbook of calculated values, with a summary sheet for each class if you want it.
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Frequently asked questions
Do I have to enter marks?
No. Scores come from the practices themselves; they are not typed in or edited in the Gradebook. What you decide is whether a result counts: you can mark it excused or not assigned, or remove it with a reason.
How is the overall grade worked out?
By the grading policy for the class. To begin with it is the plain average of the practices a student has done, using their best completed attempt. A policy can instead weight categories such as class work, homework and quizzes, or use total points, and can add grade bands. Students can read the policy in plain sentences next to their grade.
Who sets the grading policy?
In a school, the school admins set it for the whole school, for a grade level and subject, or for chosen classes, and decide what teachers may adjust in their own classes. A teacher with a personal account sets their own. Before a new policy is applied, a preview shows which students' grades would change, and an applied policy can be rolled back.
What do students see?
Their own grades, their progress and their published report cards, and only the results you have released, so an SBQ quiz stays out until you release it. They never see another student's results, and there is no class rank.
What is a report card?
A record of a student's grade for a reporting period, with your comment, fixed at the moment you publish it. Publishing again makes a new version. If results or the policy change afterwards, the card is marked as needing revision so you can decide whether to publish a new one.
Can I remove a practice that should not count?
Yes, for the whole class or for one student, with a reason. The practice and the students' answers are kept, so a removal can be restored, and a practice nobody attempted can be removed too. Removed work is left out: it never becomes a zero. A school can decide whether its teachers may do this.
Can I export the Gradebook?
Yes, as an Excel workbook of calculated values, for one class or several, with an optional summary sheet. Report cards download as PDFs, one student at a time or the whole class together.
What does the Gradebook not do?
It totals what ClassKite marked. There are no marks typed in from paper tests, no rubrics and no essay marking. There is no attendance register, no parent login and no report sent by email, and it does not sync with a school information system.
Which plan includes it?
The teacher's Gradebook is part of class analytics, included with Teacher Plus and the School plan. School admins get the school-wide Gradebook on the School plan.
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