1. Proficiency Based Grading (PBG)
Information Systems
Granite School District

2. Setting Up Your PBG Course in Gradebook
Once you have determined exactly which course/courses you are going to setup for Proficiency Based Grading (PBG), and created the concepts you will teach (ELEMENTARY ONLY – Secondary courses are created by the Master Scheduler at your school),
Log in to your Gradebook
Click on the wrench
Select Gradebook Setup

3. Setting Up Your PBG Course in Gradebook
Your courses should appear when you select Gradebook setup. If your courses do NOT appear, you will need to:
ELEMENTARY: setup your concepts before you can continue, or
SECONDARY: contact your master scheduler or administrator who sets up your courses before you can continue.
Select the course you want to work with by clicking the hyperlink/underlined Course-Section for that course.

4. Setting Up Your PBG Course in Gradebook
Once you have selected the course you wish to make a PBG Course, this window will open. This is where you will be choosing the Category entitled Proficiency Based Grading (all Grade levels) and the Grade Scale entitled District K-6 PBG (Elementary) or District PBG (Secondary), and then you will SAVE.
This will activate PBG for the selected course, add the appropriate standards to your course, and give you the STANDARD STAR in your Gradebook toolbar.
SECONDARY:

5. A Successfully Set up PBG Gradebook Toolbar
Standard Star: The place you will do your work on a PBG course in Gradebook.
Assignment Standards: The place you will attach the Standards for your Assessment.
Standard Score: The place where you enter student scores for the assessed standards.
Mastery View: The place where you will see calculations for standards that have 3 entries.
Learning Activity: An optional tool that creates a checklist for Learning Practice Tasks.

6. Steps to follow in Gradebook for PBG Success
1. Create an assignment/assessment paying particular attention to the DUE DATE! – The Due Date is what determines the percentage used for the decaying average. SAVE!
Click on the Standard Star, select Assignment Standards, and choose the standards you want to assess for each created assignment/assessment. SAVE!
Click on the Standard Star, select Standard Score and add your students’ scores for each of the standards being assessed for this new assignment/assessment. SAVE!
NOTE: Students with no score entered (due to absence or refusal to assess) will automatically be populated with a Zero for the assessment once the due date passes.

7. *If there are only 3 entries, the 3rd entry =12%
Creating an Assignment/Assessment:
Fill in the areas outlined in RED,
pay close attention to the DUE DATE field; it determines the percentages for the decaying average.
The Blue outline is optional, but if you decide to populate it, make sure you are entering ONLY a 4. It defaults to 0.
AVOID populating the Yellow areas; they will be changing on the new +Add Assessment screen once it is developed.
Select the Proficiency Based Grading Category
Decaying Average:
Most current entry/score = 65%
2nd most recent entry/score = 23%
3rd most recent entry/score = 8% *
All other entries/scores = 4%
*If there are only 3 entries, the 3rd entry =12%

8. Attaching Standards to a Created Assessment:
Once an assessment (assignment) is created…
Return to the Standards Star
Click on Assignment Standards – the 2nd drop-down choice
Locate your newly created assignment in the Assignment Title area
Check each of the Standards that will be included in this particular assessment.
When finished selecting Standards…SAVE!!!

9. Steps to follow in Gradebook for PBG Success in Entering Scores
Do NOT post scores beneath the Gradebook Icon;
PBG courses enter ALL SCORES through the Standard Star icon and the Standard Score screen.
The Standard Score screen can now be accessed by clicking on the Class List Page and then clicking the Standard Star to the Right of your PBG course or by Clicking on the Standard Star on your toolbar and selecting the 2nd drop-down entitled Standard Score.

10. Scoring an Assessment:
NOTE: Once your assessment (assignment) is created and saved, has standards selected and saved, you are ready to enter student scores.
Return to the Standards Star
Select Standard Score – drop down #2 beneath the star
Selected standard(s) will each display in a separate column for score entry
Clicking on the Assessment title will yield the FILL option Populate scores (1-4 including decimals to the tenths place)
SAVE
NOTE: NO modifiers (example: m=missing)

11. Re-calculating Scores…
To Re-calculate a course:
Go to Gradebook Setup
Select the course you want to re-calculate by clicking on the hyperlink beneath the Course-Section column
When the new screen opens (see pic below), click the Recalc Avg button at the bottom left to activate a re-calc
NOTE: You will receive a SAVE SUCCESSFUL green bar at the bottom of the screen once your re-calc is complete!
Re-calculating a course should occur when:
*An assessment has been deleted (after all of the scores for that assessment have been deleted, too)
*Due Dates are altered and scores were present prior to this change
*Scores seem to be inaccurate

12. Mastery View…calculated scores by Course

13. Mastery View…calculated scores by Standard

14. Mastery View…calculated scores by Student

15. Learning Activities: An Optional Tool For Teachers
Drop-down #4 beneath the Standard Star
Optional – simply a choice
Checklist – no scores attached
Teacher tool - for assigned tasks & learning opportunities NOT part of the student grade
MUST be PRINTED for parent/student – not visible in parent/student portal

16. Learning Activities: How they display in the PBG Gradebook
Drop-down #4 beneath the Standard Star
Checklist – no scores attached
Simply Check for complete
Leave blank if not completed

17. Continuing a Standard across Grading Periods
In PBG, grading periods don’t signify an end to a standard if it is taught across more than 1 grading period…
SO…if you have 2 assessments/scores in 1 grading period, and then you add a 3rd assessment/score in a different grading period…the student’s mastery score will include all of the scores for the school year for a particular standard!
Additionally, if you enter 3 assessment scores for a standard in 1 grading period, and then you enter other scores in a different grading period for that same standard, ALL scores for that standard will be included in the calculated score that displays for that standard!
A Mastery Score for that Standard
1 grading period = only 2 scores/assessments on a standard
1 grading period = 1 additional
score/assessment on that
same standard

18. PBG Reports: GSD PBG Teacher Worksheet

19. GSD PBG Assessments by Section – all students
PBG Reports:
GSD PBG Assessments by Section – all students
GSD PBG Assessment by Student – individual student
Special Features…

20. PBG Reports: GSD PBG Student Learning Activities Report

21. Posting Grades in a Proficiency Based Course
Grades will be posted by clicking on the Grades Icon and selecting Grades…however, grades can NOT be overridden any longer; if a grade needs to be altered, the standard scores must be altered to generate the correct grade.

22. PBG Grading Scales for the 2018-2019 School Year
ELEMENTARY:
SECONDARY:

23. Parent/Student Portal

24. Parent/Student Portal Expanded PBG View
Parents/Students will need to click Standards for PBG courses
PBG courses will also appear beneath assignments with non-PBG courses, but they won’t expand there!

25. Teacher Resource Documents:
Happy Scoring!
Teacher Resource Documents: