Skyward Gradebook

Basics
Gadsden County, FL
NEFEC - ETS Application Support

Security
Never write down your credentials and store near your
computer.
Never allow students to log-in and enter scores or do
work through your credentials.
Always click the EXIT button when you are finished.
Never leave a computer that is logged in to Skyward
unattended. Always take the time to exit.
Never share your password/username with anyone.
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Goals
Teachers will understand how to post
daily attendance.
Teachers will understand how to
establish their score
method/categories.
Teachers will understand how to
create and score an assignment.
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Post Daily Attendance

Teachers will post attendance
online, through the gradebook,
every day (elementary) or
every period (secondary).
There is a cutoff time for
attendance in which teachers
will not have access to edit the
days attendance (4 p.m.).
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Post Daily Attendance

Secondary teachers, posting
attendance at the beginning of
each period lets all stakeholders
know where a student is or is
not.
Always edit and re-save your
attendance should a student
enter the class tardy, rather
than absent.
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Post Daily Attendance

A teacher may begin from the home page.

Additionally, a teacher
may access
attendance options
from the main screen
of the gradebook.
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Post Daily Attendance

There are two options for posting
attendance:
By Name
By Seating Chart

Attendance

By Name

These links navigate

the user to the same
attendance - by name screen.
Mark students tardy or
absent.
Save.

Attendance By Seating
Chart

These links take you to

the same attendance by seating chart screen.
Mark students tardy or
absent.
Save.

Notes on Attendance
The front office will handle the notation
of excused/unexcused absences.
Remember, just because attendance
has been saved, a teacher may edit
their attendance up until the cutoff
time.
Posting attendance earlier rather than
later benefits all connected to the
system.
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Assignments Establishing
the score method/categories

The first thing that must be

done at the start of every yearlong or semester-long course is
to establish the score method
of each gradebook.
The score method directs how
the gradebook calculates
grades.
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Score Method
Beginning on the main
screen of the gradebook,
click on the Categories
menu tab.

Click the Change Score Method button.

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Score Method

There are two ways to calculate grades:

By total points 1400/1500 = 93%
By weighting categories within the gradebook Homework = 20%, Test =
50%, Classwork = 30% (The sum of all categories being 100%)
It is advised that if you wish to use weighted categories, you choose to Base grades on
percents assigned to categories by Grade Period in case you need to make course
corrections in current and future grade periods.

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Score Method
Click these links
(dependent upon your
score method selection)
to add/edit your
categories.

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Modifying Categories
If using total points, check
the boxes next to the
categories you wish to include
in your gradebook.
If using weighted categories,
check the box and include the
percentage points.
Make sure the percent
allocated equals 100%
Save

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Adding An Assignment
Can be done many ways all
beginning under the Assignments
menu tab in a gradebook (main
screen).
Deleted assignments can be restored
through the Display Options menu
tab (restore deleted assignments).
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Adding Assignments
Under the Assignments
menu, click Add
Assignment.

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Adding Assignments
Fill out the form.
Assignment
Group is not
required.
The Actual
Due Date is
something that
can be
changed later,
should the
assignment
due date have
been pushed
back (storms,
need more
time, etc.)
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Adding Assignments continued

Make sure to
Post to Family
and Student
Access
(checkboxes)
If you are
going to use
this
assignment in
multiple
gradebooks,
check the
boxes on the
bottom of the
form to clone
this
assignment to
the other

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To navigate to the scoring

screen
After creating an
assignment, you can
click the Save and
Score button.

Or, from the main screen of a

gradebook, click on a score or
asterisk (*).

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Scoring an Assignment

Simply follow the prompts on the screen. Teachers can always edit
assignments/grades right until the cut-off time for grade posting.
Items marked as No Count do not average in to grade calculation.
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Scoring Tips
Dont be afraid to play with the Mass Assign Options. It can save you
time. You can always choose to not save scores or edit.
You only have to write a comment once. They save in an assignment
comment bank. Try it out.
Assignments marked as missing will be highlighted in the
student/family access.
After entering scores for students that turned in work, use the button to
mark all unscored assignments as 0 and missing another time saver.

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Quickscoring
Clicking on the
Quickscoring button,
while on the main
screen of a gradebook,
opens up all cells for
all assignments in the
current term.
That makes for fast
data entry of scores.
All changes will be
shown as green.
Dont forget to Save.

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