What standards-based grading settings are available?

The "Standards-Based Grading" section of the Settings page (Setup>Settings) is where you determine how SBG will function at your school. These settings apply only to schools who grade based on standards, and can be ignored if your school determines grades traditionally (based solely on assessment scores).

Below are details about each standards-based grading setting you'll see.

• Calculate Bucket Scores First: If you've made separate grading buckets in your methodologies (generally uncommon for SBG), do you want standards to be separated and calculated by methodology bucket category (i.e. homework, classwork, quizzes, etc.)? "No" is the recommended way to use this setting, as it results in only one mastery score for each standard.
  
• Use Standards-Based Grading: Do you want courses to be set to SBG automatically?
  • This can be overridden at the course level to have certain courses be exceptions to the rule.
    
• Limit Grades to Assessed Standards: If a student has not yet been assessed on all skills and standards, should his or her grade be limited by the percentage of skills on which he or she has been assessed?
  
• Number of Most Recent Assessments: For your SBG system, how many of the most recent times that a standard has been assessed do you want to include in your course grades? Leave blank to include all assessments.
  • For the purposes of this setting, "recent" means the latest date. If there are multiple assessments on the same date, Schoolrunner will use whichever assessment was the last created (regardless of when score updates were made).
    
• Weight of Most Recent Assessments: This controls the percentage value of the number of assessments indicated above. If you use the "Number of Most Recent Assessments" setting, you must enter a value here. For example, entering 100 makes the number of assessments entered above count for 100% of the grade. Entering 60 here makes the above assessments count for 60% of the grade, with the other 40% being made up of all older assessments.
• Standards Performance Display: This how you control if a grade is displayed by score, level, or both.
• Standards Roll-up: Do you want sub-standards displayed individually on report cards? If so, leave blank. If you want them rolled up into parent categories, indicate the level up to which you want them rolled. Entering 1 here rolls sub-skills into the top-most level of the standard tree, 2 to the second level, etc.  More here.