Why not make your marking easier?
In this 2-part video series, we dive deep into Classter’s Academic Module, breaking down the essential marking features you need to streamline grading. Whether you’re dealing with numeric or descriptive marks, you’ll learn how to set up marking periods, create criteria, and customize marking ranges for your classes. Plus, you’ll discover how to configure marking scenarios and assessment types that fit your academic needs perfectly. Don’t miss this walkthrough—it’s packed with practical tips to make your work easier!
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Transcript
00:00
Welcome back. Today we will continue with the marking scenarios. Last time we saw how to make the changes we wanted.
00:08
Today we will take a closer look at its marking scenario. So, let’s get started. Let’s take a closer look at its marking scenario.
00:18
First of all, from this point we are going to go here to Academic Tasks, Marking, and let’s go to the first option, Gradebook.
00:29
You can record or edit student marks for the selected classes, units, and marking periods from here. You can record or edit student classwork, exams, and personal assessment marks.
00:41
From this, you will have the student’s overall grade calculated according to the selected marking scenario. Uh, okay, let’s see an example now.
00:51
Uh, we can select Year 6B, uh, subject, let’s choose, uhm, Mathematics. And we have first term here, and let’s see.
01:04
Here is a list, uh, with, uh, the results.
01:17
Here you can see the photo of the child, first name, the last name. Uh, classwork, uh, mark, exams mark, uh, to-do-at-home mark, the suggested, uh, OM, overall grade, as we said before, uh, the final overall mark, and here you can see the second term, third term and so on.
01:41
So you can see, it’s for all, uh, the children. You can also export this, uh, here if you wanted to download in a CSV, you can download this in Excel, uh, export to PTF and so on.
02:00
You can also, recalculate the final mark, uh, if something gets, uh, wrong. Here, for example, for another subject, for science 2.
02:13
You can also add a comment here if you want to, if something gets wrong. Mark is important. And that’s all.
02:25
So easy. Now let’s go to descriptive marking. You can record or edit students’ descriptive marking, uh, for example, effort grades, strengths, weaknesses, and so on.
02:38
Use the filters here to manage results per student, per descriptive category, or per marking period. Um, for example, here we have per student.
02:49
If you want to view results by descriptive category or by marking category, select the method by which you want to see the results and choose the corresponding filters, uhm, you prefer.
03:02
Here, for example, at, uh, descriptive, uh, category, you have to select the marking criteria you want to see, per marking period, it’s here, and per tuned in.
03:17
Let’s see an example, at year 6b, uhm, let’s choose mathematics, at, uh, Francesca Crixti, and let’s see.
03:29
So, you can see all the categories for first term, second term, and third term, and exams, uh, it’s blank here.
03:41
You can also modify it if you want. You create, uh, you click on save, and it’s ready. Then we have the marking results.
03:55
Here you can, uh, show students marking results. And you can print reports con-concerning, uh, student marks and assessments. Uhm, for example, let’s choose, uh, first term, uhm, uh, year six again, uh, marking criteria.
04:18
Let’s, uh, let’s choose exams.
04:36
And let’s see. You can always select the filters you want. If you want to make a more specific search, choose more filters.
04:48
You can also use the advanced filters from here. And now you can see the results we have. The full name, the registration number of child, the marking period, the level, the year, the stream, the class, the subject, the category, and so on.
05:09
So we can make it more specific. I’m going to put classwork now. Uhm, if you made it per student, So you can see here we have the full name of the child, uh, the subject is Mathematics Year 6, uhm, and you can see all, uh, all the marking you want to see.
05:53
You can also see the subject. Submission user, when the last change, uh, happened, and so on. Then we have the gradebook analysis.
06:04
You can show mark analysis for the selected marking period and the selected subject students are enrolled in. Uh, use the course, unit, and marking period.
06:15
Use your filters to display the results. Uhm, results are available in a graph presenting the percentage distribution of students who have obtained a specific grade.
06:27
Uhm, for example, let’s choose here six, uhm, science, first term, and show, uhm, as we said, as I said before, results are available in a graph here presenting, uh, the percentage distribution of students who have obtained a specific grade.
06:54
For example, here, we can see that 40.7% of the students had the excellent to this, uh, class. Uhm, others were very good, and others were at average.
07:09
Uh, next to the graph, the results are shown. The are further broken down into the number of students that obtained each grade, uhm, for example, 11 students were excellent, uh, one, uh, was at average, and no one was at fail, and so on, and, uh, additionally, you can see the overall unit average, uh
07:31
, uh, mark up here, subject average, it’s, uh, this one, uh, in the marking list right here, you can view the Bye!
07:51
student you want. Here we have, uh, 90 for her, uhm, she was average, uh, her suggested, and so on, or you can see for old students.
08:13
Then we have the descriptive mark analysis, uh, here you can show students’ marking analysis, uh, for example, grades, strengths, weaknesses, uhm, and more.
08:27
You can, uh, search per student per distribution of answers over time. For growth, uh, per criteria, uhm, let’s see per student for now, uh, you can show students’ descriptive marking analysis, uhm, okay, year 6, class 6B, uhm, first term, and, uhm, science, for example, and let’s see.
09:05
Here you can see that student, uhm, the descriptive, uh, marking, and, uh, the answer from, uh, the teacher.
09:16
Uh, you can also use, uh, the filters to select the grade, uhm, the subject, and, uh, so on. You can also use advanced filters.
09:28
Again, and then we have the overall annual result. Here you are able to view the result of a student’s performance throughout the academic year.
09:42
Use the filters by choosing the, uh, the level here, uh, the year, uhm, and, and so on, uhm, uhm, let’s, uh, choose here middle school, year six, uh, promoted, uhm, uhm, and let’s see.
10:14
We can see all the information we want. We can also edit it, delete, uh, or remove the overall progress from this specific period.
10:24
Uh, you can see the name of the student, uh, that, uh, the registration status, the year, uh, if it, uh, if the student was promoted, uh, you can see the mark, uh, the absences, uh, whatever you wish in, uh, in this page, you can also export copy or print the returned list of students by clicking on
10:52
the export or print buttons next to the bulk actions, uh, button here. You can print it, uhm, export to Excel, export to CSV and so on.
11:05
Using the bulk actions button, you can perform several bulk, uh, bulk operations, uh, such as bulk change students’ promotion or, uh, annual results, for example, or you can change status or, uh, remove the overall progress, uh, from this period.
11:25
As we saw before, that was all really easy and very helpful for a teacher, for an admin, or for a parent.
11:37
Hope all these were helpful for you. See you at the next video. Bye!
FAQ’s
Classter streamlines marking with automated tools for numeric and descriptive grading, customizable marking periods, and scenarios, allowing educators to focus more on teaching than administration.
Classter offers numeric marking and descriptive marking. Numeric marking uses scores, while descriptive marking focuses on qualitative feedback for students.
Under Configuration > Academic Settings > Marking Settings > Marking Ranges, you can create new ranges, define the start and end values, set decimal preferences, and assign colors for easy identification.