You may use letter grades (ABCDF±), numeric rubrics (4321±), letter rubrics (ESN±), Pass/Fail, or any variation of those. You may use the same grade scale for all classes/subjects, or edit them separately for each class/subject. Select a system from the Templates menu, then modify it as needed.

Percent Grades

If you check "Use percents", it shows the percents with grades, plus other statistical information such as Total points and Impact on grade.

The "Round grades" option means an 89.5% will count like 90% to determine if the student gets an A, for example. When you generate report cards you also have an option to show rounded percents on report cards. Regardless of these settings, other reports and your gradebook always display percents to the tenth, so students don't have to ask, "How close am I to an A?". (Technically, grades are first calculated to several decimal places, like 89.4629410021%, then rounded to a tenth, like 89.5%. If you select the rounding option, then it is rounded again to the whole percent, like 90%. So in this example 89.45% is needed for an A- with rounding, or 89.95% without rounding.)

Rubric Grades

If "Use percents" is unchecked, it calculates averages based on the order of your grade scale. For example, if E is the highest grade, E- is worth one grade below that, then S+, S, S-, N+, and N. So if one assignment is an E and another is an S-, it determines the average is the grade in between, which is S+. Note: This does not support decimal grades, like 2.7. This closest is 4321±, like "3-".


Notes:

Your grade scale is independent of how you score assignments — e.g. whether you're using ABCDF± or 4321±, you can still score your assignments like 18/20 or 90%. See Scores

If using Percent Grades and you enter scores on assignments as Grades, like "B+", it calculates the grade as the midpoint of its percent range (except for A+ and F, shown below). Examples of default values:

To make an exception to these default values, add the letter grade in the Special Marks column, e.g. to make "F" worth 50% instead of 0%.

For numeric rubrics like "2+" and "3", space your grades evenly. For example, if you have "3 3- 2+ 2 2- 1+ 1 0", notice that "2" is three grades below "3", and "1" is three grades below "2", but "0" is only one grade below "1", which means it is effectively calculated like "1-". This is because rubrics are read as symbols, not numbers. Insert the other grades so it's spaced evenly, like "3 3- 2+ 2 2- 1+ 1 1- 0+ 0".

"Rubrics" and "Standards" are usually used together, but they are not the same thing. Rubrics is the type of grade scale, and Standards means each subject is graded on multiple objectives — so it is possible to use letter grades on Standards-based report cards, or Rubrics on traditional report cards.

Some schools have a tradition of calculating totals as letter grades, but use check/plus/minus or 4321 for the objectives, with no mathematically defined relationship between the different grade scales. To do this in Jupiter, define the grade scale you want the totals to be calculated as (typically letter grades), then manually override the grades to fill in the report cards for each objective. But if you want Jupiter to calculate all the grades for you, it must use the same grade scale for the totals and the objectives. But each subject may still use different grade scales, such as 4321± for academics and ESN for character & study skills.


See also: Curve, Adjust, Override Grades, Scores
Video: Grading Options
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