Grading students can be a hard and time-consuming task when you are teaching a lot of different classes and evaluating multiple assignments and tests. Furthermore, tracking your grades manually or by memory often leads to mistakes or unnecessary piles of documents. As a result, many teachers are opting to use online gradebook templates because of their ease of use and accuracy.
The education sector is gradually moving towards more digitalisation in many of their processes. Indeed, the benefits of having online tools availables are many. Besides reducing the amount of work administration departments have to deal with, teachers benefit from using a template that is easy to use and designed for their needs.
The lion share of teachers are no strangers to using spreadsheets. Therefore, Sheetgo’s gradebook management template in Excel is the ideal tool to track their grades and evaluations. Read on to discover the benefits it provides.
The benefits of using Microsoft Excel to manage gradebooks
- Flexibility: Excel spreadsheets can be modified and changed according to your school’s needs and requirements. As such, there is no need for complicated software solutions or appointments with your school’s IT department.
- Accessibility: Whether you are working from a tablet, a desktop, laptop or smartphone, teachers and people with access to the workflow can always access their gradebooks when they need to.
- Compatibility: Microsoft Excel is easily compatible with other software that your school might be using. Therefore, data is easily imported into Excel spreadsheets.
- Ease of use: Many teachers and administrators are familiar with spreadsheets and if they are not, it is easy to train them. Indeed, using an Excel-based template is ideal for beginners and advanced users alike.
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What you get with this template
When you install Sheetgo’s gradebook management template in Excel, four Microsoft Excel files with pre-built Sheetgo connections are saved to your preferred cloud-based account:
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How to use the Gradebook management template in Excel
Step 1: Set up your grading scale
Open the Gradebooks management master sheet by double clicking it in the workflow view. In the Instructions tab, set up your grading scale as you wish. The Gradebooks management template assigns letter-based grades based on a percentage score. If you prefer working in the Excel application, open the template in Excel by clicking Open in Desktop App.
After you have changed the grading scale, go back to the workflow view, open the Classes spreadsheets and repeat this process. It is important that every Class file has the same grading scale for correct evaluations.
Step 2: Share the Class spreadsheets with teachers
In the workflow view, double click the Classes folder. A new tab will open in your chosen cloud-based account with the 3 Class files.
Share each of the Class spreadsheets with the correct teacher.
Step 3: Enter student data
The Class spreadsheets contain sample data to demonstrate how the template works.
In the Gradebook tab, overwrite the data in Column A with the correct list of students.
In Row 1 , enter the names of assignments, exams, and tests.
Start tracking student grades in all your classes
Congratulations!
Your automated gradebooks management template in Excel is now up and running!
Check out the dashboard in the gradebooks management master sheet to see the latest metrics from across the school or department.
Add your school logo to the dashboard to customize the template.
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