2. What the gradebook won’t
do…
Mark work for you
Make your students more organised
Make you more organised
Replace your paper markbook
Make your students cleverer
Guarantee better exam results
3. What the gradebook can do
Allow students to quickly and easily
review their progress and see the areas
they need to concentrate on
Allow you to organise your grades
Allow you to see trends and patterns
Allow you to quickly look back over
grades and comments given to a
particular student
4. Strategy
In order to make the most of any tool
you need a clear idea of why you’re using
it.
The gradebook needs to fit in to your
department’s assessment policy
Assessment for learning
Differentiation
Department gradebook
5. Categories
What should your categories be?
Some examples
◦ Time based – Term 1, Term 2
◦ Topic based – Weather, Volcanoes
◦ Tutor based – ELA, PPA, BVE
◦ Type based – Coursework, homework, tests
◦ “Essentialness” based – Core, voluntary
You can have nested categories, but it
can get confusing!
