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Standard calculation

Last edited 93 days ago by Prerna Singh.

Standards-based grading helps you evaluate students on specific learning standards.

Teachers can rate students on standards through tasks (learning goals or standards-based rubrics) or directly in the Standards gradebook, using the grade scale(s) mapped to the relevant standard set.

Since students may be evaluated multiple times on the same standard over time, you can define how those ratings roll up into:

a final grade for each individual standard (horizontal calculation), and

a roll-up grade for parent standards (vertical calculation).

These calculation rules are configured at the standard set level and apply across all subjects/courses where that standard set is used.

What can I do on this page?

Use this page to set up how standard grades are calculated for each standard set in your school.

Choose whether to include ratings from earlier grading periods in the academic year when calculating standard grades.

Configure horizontal calculation (how multiple ratings roll up for an individual standard).

Configure vertical calculation (how child standards roll up into parent standards).

Set decimal and rounding preferences.

Use Bulk apply to apply the same calculation rules to multiple standard sets.

Things to keep in mind

Calculation behavior may differ slightly depending on whether the grade scale is Numeric or Alpha.

Alpha grade scales

Ratings (such as A, B+, Proficient) are always converted into their corresponding grade values defined in the grade scale.

The selected calculation method is applied to these grade values, and the final result is then mapped back to a grade using the scale’s cutoffs.

Numeric grade scales

You can choose the calculation method while setting up the grade scale:

Numeric value – calculations are applied directly to the raw numeric ratings (for example, 2, 3, and 4 average to 3), without any conversion to grade values.

Grade value – numeric ratings are first converted into the grade values defined in the grade scale.

Calculations are applied to those grade values, and the result is then converted back to a grade using cutoff percentages.

If you update a calculation method for a standard set from anywhere, it applies wherever that set is used.

Bulk apply typically replaces existing calculation settings for the selected standard sets.

To learn more about how to set up standards-based grading, check out

this article⁠

To learn more about how teachers can evaluate students on standards, check out

this article⁠

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