Recommended Method to Enter Final Exams Into Esembler Gradebook

Final Exams Recommended Method To Enter Final Exams into eSembler Gradebook High School (All Classes) and Middle School Algebra and Spanish Classes

Background: The weights of the High School Final Exams vary from course to course. Some courses have either the district or teacher final exam as 100% of the students’ grade, some have both the district final exam and the teacher final exam as 50% of the students’ exam grade, and some have the district final exam as 25% and the teacher final exam as 75% of the students’ exam grade. To find the weight of the exams for your course, contact the subject area coordinator or your C&I Assistant Principal.

Option I:

What if I only give a teacher created final exam and don’t administer a district exam?  Creating the Assignment o Open the class What if I only give a district exam and don’t administer a teacher o Click Add Assignments exam? o Create an assignment using the The recommended method for either of the above situations is the category FINAL EXAM same: o Name: Teacher option Create an assignment and use the category FINAL EXAM. o Points: 100 Whatever assignment you enter will become the student’s final o Multiplier: x 1 exam grade. If you enter more than one assignment, the o Grade Type: Numeric average of the assignments will become the student’s final exam grade.

Option II:  Creating the District Exam Assignment Open the class What if I administer both a district exam and a teacher exam? o Click Add Assignments The recommended method is as follows: o Create an assignment using the Create two assignments: one assignment for the district final o category FINAL EXAM exam and one assignment for the teacher final exam. Be sure o Points: 100 to use the FINAL EXAM category for both exams. (Notice o Multiplier: x 1 that the multiplier will control the weighting.) o Grade Type: Numeric  If the district final exam is 25% and the teacher exam is  Creating the Teacher Exam Assignment 75%, create both exams worth 100 points but use a o Open the class multiplier of 1 for the district exam and a multiplier of 3 o Click Add Assignments for the teacher exam. o Create an assignment using the  If the district final exam is 50% and the teacher exam is category FINAL EXAM (100%) 50%, create both exams worth 100 points and use a o Points: 100 multiplier of 1 for both exams. o Multiplier: x 1 or x 3 (see below) . Use “ x 1” if the district and teacher exam are equally Be careful you choose weighted. the correct multiplier or . Use “ x 3 ” if the district exam your grades will not be is weighted 25% and weighted correctly. the teacher exam is weighted 75%. o Grade Type: Numeric

How do I find the students’ district final exam scores? The students’ district exam grades should be retrieved from the Data Warehouse site at (http://test.collier.k12.fl.us). Teachers should make sure that they use the scaled score (Scale Pct) when entering exam grades into the gradebook. For detailed information on how to retrieve the grades from Data Warehouse, contact Kendrick Knight at [email protected] and ask him to send you a copy of his PowerPoint. This document is also available by going to the eSembler login page and clicking on the link under “HOW DO I DO THAT” then scrolling down to the teacher section and clicking on the link “How to Enter Grades for High School Courses”.