Forum Discussion
Teacher Gradebook in Teams
- That feature is not a gradebook, it is just the scores and feedback from one assignment. Teachers want to be able to see the scores for all of the assignments to compare the progress that pupils are making. The feature did exist for a short while but was removed. The assignments were added to a single table but there was no logical order to the tasks (not date or alphabetical)
Hi Justin,
Thanks for picking up on this. Below are a few ideas that I've thought of, I'm sure however that others will have far more insightful ideas than me!
I think it would be really useful when setting up assignments to be able to select individual assignments to auto populate a grade book page within teams. At the moment we have to export an individual excel file for each assignment. It is important that assignments can be selected to be included or not of this as I assign both formative and summative tasks and I don't want my formative assignments to count towards the final semester grade.
The integration of Microsoft Forms would be really useful, so I can make quizzes in Forms, assign that quiz to a class and those grades could then also be automatically added to the grade book.
Within the grade book it would be useful also if we could add a weighting for each assignment so a small quiz isn't worth the same as a large multi week project.
The grade book tab should be visible and editable by all teachers assigned to the class so we can all collaborate and input grades.
Finally, it's important to be able to share grades and comments with students and parents to allow them to learn effectively from their experiences. So a student should be able to access their own grade book. Within the students grade book the grade could be displayed but if the student wishes to see the comments or the copy of the work submitted then that could be accessed directly by a link or expandable tab without them having to go back through the assignments tab to find their original work. The students could then be offered the ability to respond to their grade or the final comments given by the teacher by entering a comment. This would facilitate a grading conversation that can then be used by the teacher and student to really give personalised feedback.
In terms of sharing grades I also find it very useful at a parents evening to be able to show the parents the grade book. So the ability to hide or obscure the grades of other students in the class would be really useful. Maybe a right click function on a students name saying 'hide all other students'. This would mean I can then show students or parents their child's grades without sharing the whole class data.
So for me its more about having the features in Teams rather than integration with other platforms, although ultimately that would be great too.
Many thanks
Tom
I agree whole heatedly with you. We are using a CMS and would much rather use Teams and have it integrate grades back to PowerSchool. Currently we have all our class enrollments going into TEAMS. (So each teacher and student are enrolled in TEAMS based on the classes they are enrolled in via PowerSchool.) Not to have GRADES from TEAMS --> PowerSchool. We would be SET!!