Keywords: Grade Setup, Elementary Grade Setup, Grade Set Up, Elementary Grade Set Up, Schoology Aliases:  Please use this document to guide you in understanding your options for Grade Set up using the Gradebook in Schoology in a way that compliments current practices for Elementary Progress Reports. Elementary Schoology Grade Set Up and Gradebook Use Options  <s grade. For example, if you are using grading groups for differentiated learning, and students move to a different group in the middle of a grading period, all graded items they completed from the first group still apply to their final grades and display in all grade reports.

Keywords: Assessment Schoology Aliases: Test Quiz CREATE A FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT THAT DOESN’T COUNT AGAINST A STUDENT’S OVERALL GRADE Formative assessments inform educators on how to support student learning by providing practice and feedback for students. Generally given before and during a unit of study, results are not used for grading. Here are a few examples of how educators are leveraging formative assessments in the classroom: Ticket-out-the-door Homework Projects Benchmarks Graphic Organizers Check for Understanding The Assessment material type in Schoology offers the ability to create technology-enhanced question types to assess student understanding without impacting a student's overall course grade. Assessments can be Individually Assigned (Enterprise only) to students and/or grading groups to support differentiation. Assessments in Schoology will generate a report that you can analyze to help drive instructional decisions. You can use any of the following methods to prevent the assessment score from calculating into the overall grade or gradebook grade: Set the total points of the assessment to 0. Change the grading category to ungraded (no category). If you use weighted categories, create a category for formative assessments weighted to 0.

Keywords:Sync Grades Sync Gradebooks Schoology PowerTeacherPro  Syncing Aliases: PoweverTeacher Pro Please see this additional help file about Grade Setup first. Click on the image below for guided directions showing each step you need to take based on your choices for category weighting, total points, and linked sections. SYNCING GRADES WITH THE POWERTEACHER PRO APP Because Peninsula School District uses PowerSchool provisioning app, teachers can use the PowerSchool grade passback app in Schoology courses to sync grades to the PowerTeacher Pro gradebook. This article addresses the following questions: How do teachers configure the app in their Schoology courses? What information is transferred from Schoology to PowerSchool? What are FAQs and known limitations to the Schoology-PowerTeacher Pro integration? Overview The PowerSchool grade item passback app is installed in your Schoology course so that you can sync materials and grades from your Schoology gradebook to your PowerSchool gradebook. You can use the PowerSchool app in your course to determine which categories in your Schoology gradebook correspond with the categories in your PowerSchool gradebook. System Admin cannot configure the app or sync graded items on behalf of the teacher.  Important: If you'd like the overall grade in Schoology to match the overall grade in PowerSchool, make sure you set the PowerSchool Teacher Traditional Grade Calculation to match: The categories in Schoology mapped to appropriate categories in PowerSchool.  The same weighting on categories in Schoology as in PowerSchool.   The Calculated by setting grading categories set to Total pts in Schoology and Formula Type set to Category Weighting with the Actions edit icon in PowerTeacher Pro.   and Formula Type set to Category Weighting with the Actions edit icon in PowerTeacher Pro. The factor for all assignments set to 1. For other considerations when matching PowerSchool grades to Schoology grades, you can refer to this Grade Passback Discrepancy Checklist. How do teachers configure the app? Open the PowerSchool app on the left-hand side of your course. When the app is launched, first save settings in the Configuration tab of the app. Map your Schoology grading categories to one or more PowerSchool grading categories. Depending on the grading categories in the course, teachers can map more than one Schoology grading category to a single PowerSchool grading category. Configuration Notes: If you've linked your sections in Schoology, you must configure the PowerTeacher Pro app in each of the sections. To do this, open the app from the left menu of the course profile. Once you have configured the first section, click Save, and then click the Section dropdown menu to toggle into a different section and continue configuration. Depending on the settings in place for the PowerTeacher Pro app, only Course Admins (instructors) may be able to launch the app from the course. System Admins cannot configure the app or sync graded items on behalf of the instructor. In order to sync items with PowerTeacher Pro, the corresponding category must be mapped in the Configuration area. We recommend checking the box in front of 'Automatically shorten assignment titles' If the lead instructor is changed in PowerSchool, this may remove the category configurations. The new instructor will need to configure categories from the PowerTeacher Pro App. What information transfers from Schoology to PowerSchool? Once the configuration settings are saved, teachers can view the status of graded items and grades from the Sync Status Log in the app. The column on the left displays the Title of the graded item. The column in the middle displays the date the item was most recently synced successfully. The following information is sent to PowerSchool: The name of the graded item. The max number of points for the graded item. The due-date for the graded item. The grading category mapped by the teacher in the Configuration area of the app. The raw score a student received on the graded item. Whether the grade item has a status of Published or Unpublished. If there has been an error in the sync, a red message icon will appear. Hovering over the icon displays a message that details the error. Note: If you are using PowerTeacher Pro in linked sections and you are planning to sync grade items yourself, you will need to do so from the one-click sync button in each of the sections' Schoology gradebooks. Visibility Settings You may want to Hide the overall grades in student grade report and Hide grading period grades in student grade report if you will be adding additional grading items to PowerSchool directly as the Schoology Gradebook will calculate an overall grade if you have any graded items.  This would show a different overall grade and potentially confuse students and parents .  Hide overall grades in student grade report excludes an overall score from student reports and the students' Grades tab in the course. This may be a suitable option if your school does not report overall grades for the course across multiple grading periods. Hide grading period grades in student grade report excludes grading period scores from student reports and the students' Grades tab in the course. You cannot customize which grading period grades you hide or display. Hiding the grading period grade from student reports also hides the category-level grades from the student report. Hide total points achieved in student grade report excludes total points achieved from student reports and the students' Grades tab in the course. Note: If you hide the overall grade, the student does not see any overall grade in your course. Students see neither the calculated grade nor the score you enter in the override column when you select Hide overall grades from student reports. This also applies to hiding and overriding grading period grades. FAQs and Known Limitations The integration does not currently allow mapping of attendance. If you make changes to the assignment name, due date, total points, or description in Schoology AFTER the assignment has been created and passed to PowerTeacher Pro from Schoology, you may see unspecified sync errors. Please delete in PowerTeacher Pro and resync the item in Schoology. The integration does not support percentage-based calculations. All scores in PowerTeacher Pro calculate as Total Points. Please keep this in mind when configuring category weights in Schoology. If an item is ungraded in Schoology, the item will not sync with PowerSchool. Unpublished items may cause discrepancies in matching gradebooks.  Error messages: In general, the best practice is to attempt a re-sync event if the status of the sync is Error. If you continue to see a sync error, you can delete the item in PowerSchool. Return to Schoology and add a small change to the title of the Schoology assignment and then let the system wide sync take place. The sync is a one-way direction; from Schoology to PowerSchool only. If you add something to PowerSchool it will NOT sync back to Schoology and the overall calculated grades will NOT match. If you manually add a grade in PowerTeacher Pro to an assignment that was passed to PowerSchool from Schoology, future syncs from Schoology may no longer work. If you need to delete an assignment, do it in PowerTeacher Pro and then Schoology. Deleting in Schoology will NOT delete the assignment in PowerSchool Time to Sync: The Sync All icon in the gradebook can typically take up to several hours. The best practice is for teachers to re-sync individual assignments as desired only if they see the red notification icon in the Schoology Gradebook: The integration currently does not support syncing PowerTeacher Pro Standards-Based Grading data in PowerTeacher Pro. If the lead instructor is changed in PowerSchool, this may remove the category configurations. The new instructor will need to configure categories from the PowerTeacher Pro App. For more information about the Sync Status Log: https://psd401.freshservice.com/support/solutions/articles/6000023757-schoology-powerschool-sync-status-log Click on the image below for guided directions showing each step you need to take based on your choices for category weighting, total points, and linked sections.

Keywords: Print Printing Grade Reports Schoology Gradebook  Aliases:  Print Grade Reports Print Grade Reports for students in your course. From the Gradebook, click on the 3 dots more to see the Print Reports option. Select the specific grading period(s) you want to include. Select individual students or all students. Click Generate Report. These steps will create a report of each of the students you selected.  You can then use your browser to print the report. Follow the Print instructions for your browser/operating system.  

Keywords: schoology gradebook, resubmitted assignments, students submissions,  Aliases: assignments,  To see which students have re-submitted an Assignment, you can check the Remind area or Viewing menu in the Gradebook. Illustrations of both are shown in the video and described below.  *Note: If the assignment includes a Google Drive Assignment you will need to use the View Menu in the Gradebook directions. &amp;lt;span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; Reminders to see which students have submitted or re-submitted Assignments Under the Reminders heading you will see a list showing how many ungraded assignment submissions and re-submitted assignments you have in this course. You can choose between viewing the Ungraded assignment submissions and the Re-submitted assignments from the dropdown menu. You can choose which Assignment to view: Depending on whether the Assignment uses the Submit Assignment button or the Google Drive Assignment button, you will have different options for viewing re-submitted assignments. Submit Assignment Button For Assignments that students will submit something using the Submit Assignment button, you will see a small blue paper icon to indicate the student has re-submitted something for the assignment.   Google Drive Assignment Button For Assignments that students will submit something using the Google Drive Assignment button, You will want to go to the Gradebook and use the View menu options. View Menu Options in Gradebook For Assignments that use the Google Drive Assignment button, you will need to open Gradebook and use the View menu, HIGHLIGHT CELLS. Choose Graded with New Submission to highlight the cell with re-submitted assignments which are 'new submissions' for Google Drive Assignments as there is no Re-submit button. Highlight Cells You can also choose from a number of selections that highlight cells in the Gradebook that fit the selected criteria; the number to the right of each option indicates the total number of items matching the criteria. Marked "Excused" Highlight all Gradebook items that you've marked excused, indicated by a green hexagon in the table cell: In the image at the top of this article, for example, Justin Gonzalez's 8-point Energy Essay and 60-point Science in the... assignment are marked Excused. Marked "Incomplete" Highlight all gradebook items that you've marked incomplete, indicated by a half-filled orange hexagon in the table cell: In the image at the top of this article, for example, Margaret Flores's 55 Point Group Assignment and 60-point Science in the... assignment are marked Incomplete. Marked "Missing" Highlight all gradebook items that you've marked missing, indicated by an empty orange hexagon in the table cell: Note: Items marked Excused or Incomplete register as blank, null values in the gradebook and are not factored into student grades. Marked "Missing"  Highlight all gradebook items that you've marked missing, indicated by an orange outlined hexagon icon in the table cell: Marked "Missing" with Submission Highlight individual cells that you've marked missing, for which students have made a submission. Tip: After applying the view filter, click the item icon to directly open the new submission. Graded With New Submission Highlight all graded items for which the student subsequently turned in another submission, included Google Drive Assignments that were unsubmitted and 'returned' to the student. Needs Grading Highlight all past-due gradebook items that still need a grade. Not Submitted Highlight all past-due items for which students still need to submit their work. Materials with factor 0 Highlight the columns of items with a factor of 0—that is, items that you don't want to be factored into student grades. For example, selecting Needs Grading from the menu adds a border around each cell in the Gradebook that is past due, but has not yet been given a grade:

Keywords: schoology test/quiz, convert, assessment Aliases: test, quiz, assessment, You can convert any test/quiz in Resources to an Assessment by using the test/quiz conversion tool. Converting a test/quiz to an assessment creates an assessment in a specified destination. The newly created assessment is a copy of the original test/quiz with the following information: Instructions Test-level settings Question stimulus and responses Embedded images and rich text content Question-level settings Text blocks Question order Rubrics (on Short Answer/Essay questions) Aligned learning objectives Important Notes: All assessment attempts are resumable and allow students to review answers before submitting. All assessments display one question per page. If a test/quiz with page breaks is converted to an assessment, those page breaks will be removed on the assessment. Assessments do not support language keyboards. If a test/quiz with a language keyboard is converted to an assessment, the assessment will not have a language keyboard. Assessments do not support unlimited attempts. If a test/quiz with unlimited attempts is converted to an assessment, the assessment will be set to 20 attempts. If a test/quiz contains a set of random questions from a question bank, those questions are not included on the converted assessment. Multiple choice question on a test/quiz. Multiple choice question on an assessment converted from a test/quiz. Converting Existing Schoology Test/Quiz templates to Course Assessment templates: To convert a specific test/quiz to an assessment, locate the test/quiz in your Resources and perform the following steps: Click the gear icon to the right of the desired test/quiz. Select Convert to Assessment from the drop-down menu. Choose a destination collection and/or folder for the assessment in your Resources. Click Convert. For larger tests, you can view progress in Transfer History. Click the title of the assessment from your Transfer History area to navigate to the new assessment template in the chosen Resources collection and folder. To convert more than one test/quiz to an assessment at the same time, find the test/quizzes in Resources and perform the following steps: Click checkbox to select one or more test/quizzes. Note: Selecting a folder will not convert all test/quizzes within that folder. To convert multiple test/quizzes within a folder, open the folder and click the checkbox at the top to select all materials within the folder. Any materials selected that are not test/quizzes will be skipped. You do not need to deselect these before converting. Click Edit at the top. Select Convert to Assessment in the drop-down menu. Choose a destination collection or folder for the assessments in Resources. Note: All test/quizzes converted in the same operation must have the same destination. If you would like to convert a group of test/quizzes and place them in multiple destinations, group the test/quizzes based on destination or move the assessments once they have been created. Click Convert. You can view progress in Transfer History. When multiple test/quizzes are converted in the same operation, you will receive an email notification when all test/quizzes have been successfully converted to assessments. Click the folder in your Transfer History area to navigate to the new assessment templates in the chosen Resources collection and folder. Test-Level Settings Comparison Test/Quiz Assessment Notes Instructions Instructions A converted assessment has the same instructions as the source test/quiz, including images and any uploaded audio/video files. Time Limit Assessment has a time limit A converted assessment has the same time limit as the source test/quiz. Attempt Limit Number of attempts student can submit A converted assessment has the same attempt limit as the source test/quiz, unless the source test/quiz has unlimited attempts. An assessment converted from a test/quiz with unlimited attempts will default to 20 attempts. Grade by Final grade is determined by A converted assessment has the same grade setting as the original test/quiz when the test/quiz is set to "Grade by Highest score" or "Grade by Last score". If the test/quiz was set to "Grade by Average score", the converted assessment will default to "Grade by Highest score". Paging N/A A converted assessment will display one question per page, regardless of the setting of the source test/quiz. Language Keyboard N/A A converted assessment will not display a language keyboard, regardless of the setting of the source test/quiz. Randomize Order Assessment questions are randomly ordered A converted assessment has the same randomization setting as the source test/quiz. Question Review N/A A converted assessment will allow students to review all questions before submitting, regardless of the setting of the source test/quiz. Resumable N/A A converted assessment will be resumable, regardless of the setting of the source test/quiz. View Submissions Allow students to view results after an attempt is submitted A converted assessment has the same setting to view submissions as the source test/quiz. Hide Point Values Show possible points for each question during the attempt A converted assessment has the same point value setting as the source test/quiz. Question-Level Settings Comparison Download our comparison sheet for more details on how each test/quiz question type converts into the corresponding assessment question type:

Keywords:  Schoology Gradebook, sync error, PowerTeacher Schoology sync, Schoology grade setup, grade passback, troubleshooting, grade discrepancy Aliases: Gradebook sync, passback error,  There are a number of overlooked settings or missed steps that can lead to Schoology and PowerTeacher Pro gradebooks being out of alignment. As these steps are done on an infrequently basis, it is easy to miss one.  Please use support materials to double check yourself as you are setting up, checking grading, or troubleshooting.  When all settings have been correctly configured and matched, assignments are added correctly and graded only in Schoology - grades should align.  If you have checked all of the items on the checklist for possible missed steps and are not finding one, please reach out to the help desk for support at x3711 or contact a digital coach. Please open the document below for guidance and illustrated look-fors to troubleshoot gradebook discrepancies. Grade Sync Troubleshooting Checklist

Keywords: Schoology, Quiz Bank, Question Bank, Create Resources Aliases: Question Banks (Test/Quiz) Question Banks are separate from Item Banks for Course Assessments in your Personal and Group Resources. You may convert a Test/Quiz Question Bank to a Course Assessment Item Bank. Create Question Banks in Resources Question banks allow you to create a repository of test questions that you can then use within Tests/Quizzes. You can create Question Banks in Personal and Group Resources. To create a question bank, follow these steps: Click Resources and choose Personal or Group Resources. Click the Collection or Group in which you'd like to add a Question Bank. Click Add Resources. Select Add Question Bank. Enter a name for the Question Bank, and click Create to complete. To add questions from Resources, follow these steps: Click the Question Bank in your Resources. Click Add Question. Select from the following question types in Schoology: True/False Multiple Choice Short-Answer/Essay Questions Fill in the Blank Matching Fill out the question form. Emojis are not supported in tests/quizzes. Click Create Question to complete. Questions added to tests/quizzes from question banks are copied, not linked. Any changes made to questions within question banks will not update the copies in tests/quizzes. Create Question Banks from Within a Course If you already have a test/quiz with questions in a course, you can add these questions to question banks. To create question banks from within a course, follow these steps: Click Courses on the top menu, and select a course with tests/quizzes. Select a Test/Quiz whose questions you'd like to save in a Question Bank. You can add all questions to a Question Bank by clicking Options. Select Add Questions to Bank. To add individual questions to a Question Bank, click the gear to the right of the question. Select Add to Bank. To create a new Question Bank to house the question(s), choose New Question Bank. To add the question to an existing Question Bank, select the bank as it appears in the list. Click Add Questions to complete. If the questions you're adding were already taken from a question bank, you won't be able to add them to another question bank. Add Questions from a Question Bank to a Test/Quiz Once you have a question bank in Schoology, you can build tests/quizzes with questions from the banks. You can add individual questions from a question bank, or you can add a random selection of questions from multiple question banks when you create your quiz. To add individual questions from one question bank to a test/quiz: Create a Test/Quiz, or select a Test/Quiz which you'd like to add questions. The option to create a Test/Quiz is not available on Schoology Basic. In the Questions tab, click Add Question. Select From Question Banks. In the Import from Question Banks window, select Individual Questions. Select the Question Bank from which you'd like to import questions. Check the box next to the question(s) you'd like to import. To import all questions, select the box next to the Auto-select button. To insert a set number of randomly selected questions from the bank: Click Auto-select. Enter the number of questions you'd like to add to the test. Click Select. When you use the Auto-select feature, the selected number of questions are added to the test/quiz, and all students in the course receive the same set of questions. Enter a value in the field to the right of each question to set the number of points it’s worth. To set a consistent point value for each question, click Set Points and enter a value in the Points Per Question field. Click Add Questions to complete. To add a random selection of questions from one or more question banks to a test/quiz: Create a Test/Quiz, or select a Test/Quiz which you'd like to add questions. The option to create a Test/Quiz is not available on Schoology Basic. In the Questions tab, click Add Question. Select From Question Banks. In the Import from Question Banks window, select Random Questions. In Select Question Banks, select one or more of your question banks to pull from. You can select as many as you’d like. Click Select Question Banks. In Add Random Questions, enter: The number of questions that you want to generate from each bank. How many points each question is worth. Click Add Questions to complete. Each quiz will contain the determined number of questions from the selected question banks. Each student in the course receives a unique set of questions. Even if students receive a few of the same questions, they will appear in a different order, so no assessment is alike. This is helpful in maintaining the validity of your quiz results. Having a Question Bank strategy and strict labeling system can separate good assessments from great ones. Think about how your random Tests/Quizzes might turn out if you organize your Question Banks by lesson unit, question type, learning objective, or even learner type (e.g., visual, auditory, etc.). Add Test/Quiz Questions to a Question Bank If you have created questions directly on a test/quiz in your course using the Add Question button, save the questions to your resources to use again later or on a different test/quiz, such as a midterm or final. To save questions to a question bank, follow these steps: Open the Test/Quiz. Select Questions. Click the Options drop-down and choose Add Questions to Bank. Select the questions you would like to save or check Select All. Select an existing Question Bank from the dropdown, or select New Question Bank. Click Add Questions to complete. If your test/quiz includes short answer/essay questions that are aligned with rubrics, the rubrics will not stay with the questions when added to the question bank. If you choose to add the short answer/essay question from your question bank to a test/quiz later on, you will need to re-attach the rubric to the question. Question Tracking When creating a new question bank, you'll see the option Enable Question Tracking. This feature allows you to track each question in the question bank after they are added to a test/quiz in a course. Tracked questions are assigned an Associated Question ID, which means that the question is associated to a question in a locked question bank. This Associated Question ID is available when exporting question stats. When the question is used in multiple course tests/quizzes, the Associated Question ID for the question will remain the same in each test/quiz, allowing you to analyze information for test/quiz questions across courses. When a question bank has the Enable Question Tracking feature enabled, the question will become locked once you use it in at least one test/quiz. You will not be able to edit the question within the bank or within the Test/Quiz. This feature helps guarantee accurate tracking of questions used in tests/quizzes. Analyzing Tracked Questions You can export Test/Quiz responses for questions in a particular test. Navigate to a test/quiz for which you'd like to analyze results. Click the gear on the upper right corner of the test/quiz and select the option Export Stats. Select the users and information you'd like to see exported. The following export options are available. The export will also designate an associated Question ID for each question: Submission Summary: A brief summary of student submissions and question data. Export Last Submission Export All Submissions Question Data: Overall stats for each question in the test/quiz. Student Submissions: Students' attempts and responses for each question in the test/quiz. Click Export. When the file finishes exporting, download the file from Transfer History. Once the file is downloaded, use the information in the file to analyze data for each question. Disable Question Tracking Question Tracking can be disabled on the question bank if none of the questions inside of the bank have been used in a course test/quiz. Click the gear to the right of the question bank. Click Disable Question Tracking. You cannot disable question tracking or delete tracked questions once questions in the bank are being used in a test/quiz. FAQs I created a Test/Quiz using questions from a Question Bank. I want to make changes to the questions in the Question Bank. Do those changes automatically update the questions in the Test/Quiz? When you copy a question from a question bank to a test/quiz you are making a copy of that question. Changes made in a question bank do not automatically update in the test/quiz. Delete the question in the test/quiz and re-copy the question from the question bank after you have made your changes. When is Question Tracking Useful? Consider using tracked questions for the following scenarios: The school, department, or course would like to prevent teachers from changing test/quiz questions or answers after the question is used in a test. The school, department, or course requires instructors to use a standard bank of questions for certain tests/quizzes. The questions in certain tests/quizzes must be evaluated by exporting question results. Question Tracking Best Practices & Solutions Carefully check the questions in the question bank for any errors. Once the question is used in a test/quiz, it cannot be edited. Advise instructors to use questions from locked question banks only after you've given them permission to use the questions. If you notice a mistake in a locked question, advise the teacher to manually override the grade to the question in the test/quiz where the question is used. Then, create a new version of the question with the correct information. If you've created a locked question bank by mistake, create a new question bank without Enable Question Tracking enabled. Copy the questions from the locked bank into the new bank. How do I know when a question is being used? When at least one question is being used in a question bank with the Enable Question Tracking feature enabled, you'll see an icon that indicates that the question bank is now locked. When a question bank is locked, the Enable Question Tracking feature cannot be disabled. Locked Question Bank Instructors using a locked question in a test/quiz will also see an icon that indicates that the question is tracked. The content of these questions cannot be edited, but some other options of the test/quiz question may be available for adjustment (e.g. the ability to allow partial credit). Question in Test/Quiz How do I know where a question is being used? In Resources, navigate to the question bank. Click the question bank. Click the link that displays the number of instructors and tests/quizzes using the question. Can I import Question Banks from other systems? Yes, importing a course from another system may also import question banks.

Keywords: Schoology Assessments, Schoology Assessment Aliases: Schoology Quiz, Schoology Test, Schoology Quizzes, Schoology Tests As of late Summer, 2017, Schoology has added a really neat expansion of their assessment types. See the list of types of questions that now can be used below. And below that are basic steps and some help guides. Here are the basic steps: Add Materials Add Assessments (turquoise puzzle piece) Name it, due date it, pt value it, categorize it, etc. hit Create In the first tab called SETUP add the basics - descriptions, and settings. In the second tab called QUESTIONS pick your types. In the third tab called STUDENT ATTEMPTS you can see and allow attempts, etc. Here's more help info: GUIDE TO SCHOOLOGY ASSESSMENTS https://support.schoology.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006774247-Guide-to-Schoology-Assessments SCHOOLOGY ADVANCED ASSESSMENT TOOLS https://support.schoology.com/hc/en-us/articles/115010513887-Schoology-Advanced-Assessment-Tools

Keywords: Superscript, Subscript, Schoology, Assessments Aliases: How to use Subscript and Superscript in Schoology Assessments