Setting up and using the Infinite Campus Grade Book

The Settings tab of the Grade Book includes tools used in Grade Book setup, a variety of options for displaying student scores in ways that can help teachers focus on student performance, and other Grade Book display preferences. Use ALT G to expand and collapse the settings menu.

The context of the Grade Book is determined by the options selected in the Campus toolbar and the Term, Section and Task dropdown lists above the Grade Book. The Grade Book remembers where you were and opens to the same Term, Section and Task as your last visit.

Assignment Defaults allow teachers to create templates for assignments, with options for Section Groups, Date, Grading Setup, and other assignment elements. Defaults help teachers save time when creating assignments with options that they use often.

A teacher can have multiple defaults set. One default can be set to apply automatically whenever assignments are created.

Assignment marks allow teachers to create their own grading thresholds, which convert scores entered into percents. Assignment marks are applied to a single assignment at a time. This tool could be useful in instances when you want to create a custom set of scores for an assignment that should have a numeric effect on student score. Teachers also have access to sets of Marks created by their district. Ownership of marks is indicated in the list.

For example, an art teacher may want to score projects with a letter grade rather than a point value. The assignment marks would then convert that letter grade into a numeric percentage for grade calculation.

Categories are like the folders that assignments are sorted into, collecting related assignments. 

View a list of all assignments in the class selected in the Grade Book.

Filtering options determine which students and/or assignments display in the Grade Book.

Sorting options change the order in which assignments display in the Grade Book. Additionally, each column in the Grade Book has double arrows in the header, which can be used to sort the Grade Book by that column (alphabetically by student name or numerically by score or grade).

The grade calculation options are the preferences you select to determine how the Grade Book calculates In Progress grades and proficiency estimates.

Grading scales translate In Progress percentages into letter grades. Scales describe the range of score percentages that earn specific grades.

The grading scales list includes all scales you've created and all district scales, regardless of the Year or School selected in the Campus toolbar. The district may provide all the grading scales you'd like to use, but you could create your own scales if, for example, you wanted a more rigorous scale for an advanced class that required a higher percentage to earn a standard grade letter.

Section Groups allow a teacher to group similar sections together in a single grade book view. Groups make scoring assignments easier by combining matching assignments into shared columns in the grade book.

Selected groups apply to the grade book view only. However, all calculations and graphs (for Traditional Grading and Standards-Based) presented in the grade book view do cover all students in a section group.