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# Assessments & Grading

> Set up grading scales, build assessment plans, enter marks in a grid, and publish results. Learn how published results notify guardians automatically.

Assessments capture how students perform. You define how marks convert to grades, plan each assessment, enter marks, and publish results. When a result is published, guardians receive a clear grade card automatically.

## Roles and responsibilities

| Role                  | Responsibility                                       |
| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| **Education Manager** | Defines grading scales and assessment groups         |
| **Academics User**    | Builds assessment plans and oversees marks           |
| **Instructor**        | Enters marks for their batches and publishes results |
| **Student**           | Views their own grades under My Grades               |

## The grading building blocks

| Building block          | What it is                                                                  |
| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Grading scale**       | The rule that turns a mark into a grade (for example, 90+ = A)              |
| **Assessment group**    | A named grouping of assessments (for example, "Term 1 Exams")               |
| **Assessment criteria** | The components a mark is broken into                                        |
| **Assessment plan**     | A specific assessment for a batch and course, with a date and maximum score |

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flowchart TD
  GS[Grading Scale] --> AP[Assessment Plan]
  AG[Assessment Group] --> AP
  AP --> MG[Marks Grid]
  MG --> R[Published Results]
  R --> PC[Progress Cards]
```

## Creating an assessment plan

<Steps>
  <Step title="Set up a grading scale">
    From **Grading**, create the scale that maps marks to grades. Reuse it across assessments.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create an assessment plan">
    From **Assessments**, create a plan: choose the batch, course, assessment group, date, and maximum score.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open the marks grid">
    The plan opens a grid listing every student in the batch, ready for marks.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bizaxloptimizationsllp/images/placeholder-tuition-marks-grid.png" alt="Marks entry grid with students in rows and score columns" />
</Frame>

## Entering marks and publishing

<Steps>
  <Step title="Enter each student's score">
    Type each student's mark into the grid. Grades are derived from your grading scale.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save the marks">
    Saving records the marks against each student.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Publish the result">
    Publishing finalises the result. At this point guardians are notified.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Automatic guardian grade cards

When a teacher publishes a result, the student's guardians receive a styled, per-criterion grade card by email. Results that came from an online quiz are deliberately excluded from this notification, so parents are not flooded every time a child takes a short quiz. See [Online Quizzes](/education/tuition-centre/online-quizzes) for how quiz scores are handled.

## Assessment result field guide

| Field               | Purpose                             |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| **Student**         | The learner being graded            |
| **Assessment plan** | The assessment the score belongs to |
| **Score**           | The mark entered by the teacher     |
| **Grade**           | Derived from the grading scale      |

## Upstream and downstream dependencies

* **Upstream**: an assessment plan needs a [batch](/education/tuition-centre/batches-and-enrolment), a course, and a grading scale.
* **Downstream**: published results feed [progress cards and hall tickets](/education/tuition-centre/exam-outputs), the student's **My Grades** view, and the guardian grade card notification.

## Best practices

* **Define grading scales once, reuse them.** Consistent scales keep grades comparable across batches and terms.
* **Enter a full batch before publishing.** Publishing partway means some guardians get a grade card while others wait.
* **Double-check the maximum score.** Grades derive from the mark against the plan's maximum; a wrong maximum skews every grade.