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# Use the Gradebook to See Every Grade in a Classroom

> One grid of every student and every assessment or graded activity in a classroom, with categories and weights, class averages, and CSV export for your district gradebook.

The **Grades** tab on a classroom shows every student and every assignment in one grid: each linked assessment and each activity with Graded Mode on. Cells show the score, a category subtotal sits after each group, and a weighted average ends every row. Two CSV exports take the whole thing to your district gradebook.

<Note>
  The gradebook is part of the **Plus** and **Premium** plans and is rolling out gradually. If the Grades tab isn't on your classroom yet, it isn't switched on for your account.
</Note>

## What appears in the grid

* **Students** — everyone enrolled in the classroom, one row each.
* **Assessments** — every assessment linked to the classroom that is published or closed. Drafts aren't assignments yet, so they stay out.
* **Graded activities** — every activity in the classroom with Graded Mode on (maps, timelines, graphs, diagrams, flash cards, fill-in-the-blank).

Columns are ordered by due date. Live quizzes don't keep per-student results, so they never appear.

## Reading a cell

| Cell                                | Meaning                                                                                                                                        |
| ----------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **85%** with a letter               | Fully graded. The letter is the one you gave; assessments also show the percent from every scored question                                     |
| **85%** with a small amber dot      | Graded, but the results haven't been sent to the student yet                                                                                   |
| **Needs scoring**                   | The student submitted, but a written question still has no score. Click through to score it; the percent appears once every question is scored |
| **Submitted** / **In progress**     | Work handed in and waiting for a grade, or still being worked on                                                                               |
| **Not submitted** / **Not started** | Nothing yet, and the due date hasn't passed                                                                                                    |
| **Missing** / **Missed**            | Nothing submitted and the due date has passed. An assessment whose missed-work setting is "count as zero" scores 0 once its late window closes |
| **Not assigned**                    | You unassigned this student from that assignment; it doesn't count                                                                             |

Clicking any cell opens the submission or the activity's grading panel. Grades are entered there, never in the grid.

<Tip>
  Assessment percents are worked out from the points on every question, exactly as the student's results page shows them — so a teacher-scored essay counts, and a half-scored assessment never shows a misleading percent.
</Tip>

## Averages

* **Student average** — the number at the end of each row, with a suggested letter under the common US scale. Unscored, missing-without-a-zero-rule, and not-assigned cells are left out, and "n of m" tells you how many assignments counted.
* **Class average** — the footer row, per column and overall.

## Categories and weights

Click **Categories** to create groups such as *Tests · 60* and *Classwork · 40*. Weights are relative, so they don't need to add up to 100. Then use the small tag under each column header to put that assignment into a category.

Once any category exists:

* the grid groups columns by category and adds a **subtotal** column after each group;
* the student average is the **weighted** mean of the category subtotals;
* a category with nothing graded yet is left out of the average rather than dragging it to zero;
* uncategorised columns are still shown but don't count. Assign them, or delete all categories to go back to an equal-weight average.

You can have up to 12 categories per classroom.

## Exporting

* **Export grid** — one row per student, one column per assignment with the percent, category subtotals, and the average. A second header row carries the points possible, and a column is marked `[unreleased]` while any graded result in it hasn't been sent to students. Pastes straight into most district gradebooks.
* **Export detailed** — one row per student and assignment with the state, points earned and possible, percent, letter, whether results were released, and when it was submitted. Best for spreadsheets and records.

Both include every student in the roster, including those with nothing graded yet.

## Frequently asked

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Can students see the gradebook?">
    No. Students see their own released results on their results pages, exactly as before. The grid is a teacher view, and it shows you grades whether or not you've sent them yet — the amber dot marks the ones students can't see.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="A student submitted an assessment twice — which one counts?">
    The most recent submission. Open the assessment's submissions list to see both.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Does the gradebook still work on an archived classroom?">
    Yes. Archived classrooms keep their Grades tab and exports, so end-of-year records stay reachable.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Why is an activity missing from the grid?">
    Only activities with **Graded Mode** switched on appear. Open the activity's Edit Details, turn on Graded Mode and set a due date, and it joins the grid.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>