Standards-Based Gradebook - Instructors

After materials are aligned to objectives and submissions are graded, use the standards-based gradebook to evaluate students based on skill mastery and measure student learning while assessing the efficacy of instruction.

Mastery is not supported in courses containing more than 10,000 members.
The number of learning objective levels available depends on your district's custom mastery setup.
The mastery grading scale is set at the system level. Contact support for more information on the grading scale set at your school.

Use the standards-based gradebook

Select Courses and choose a course.
Select Mastery to display the Class Overview.
Review the highest-level parent learning objectives to which course materials are aligned along with average student mastery scores.
Optionally, select a parent objective to display overall student mastery details.
From the details, review the individual learning objectives aligned with the parent objective and the student’s mastery scores for each objective.
- Review the individual learning objectives aligned with the parent objective and the student’s mastery scores for each objective, depending on your district's mastery grading scale.
  - You cannot sort course members in an alternative order.
  - A blank cell indicates the student has not been graded for that item.
  - The student’s point values or proficiency levels for each objective are based on the Mastery Grading Scale set at the system level.
- Choose a learning objective to display a list of course materials aligned to that objective. Course materials are listed in the order they were graded. The materials cannot be reordered.
- Select View Details to display the class average mastery score and a breakdown of students based on their mastery achievement level.
- Choose a course material to review the details.

Mastery achievement level calculations

In the standards-based gradebook, mastery achievement levels are calculated using the district-level mastery grading scale. The student’s proficiency score for each learning objective is based on this scale. For example, Rachel Smith scored 12 out of 16 points across four learning objectives, so the district’s 4-point mastery scale determines her score for each objective.

In contrast, the traditional gradebook calculates a total score by averaging the mastery points and converting them into a numeric score. In Rachel's case, her 12 out of 16 mastery points translates to 75 out of 100 in the traditional gradebook.

Course materials with multiple submissions

For course materials that accept multiple submissions, you can determine which score is used in the standards-based gradebook from the material's Settings.

Assessments

Choose whether the grade is determined by Highest Score or Last Score.

Test/Quiz

Choose whether the grade is determined by High score, Last score, or Average score.

Final grade settings	Traditional gradebook display	Standards-based gradebook display
Highest	The highest score	The highest observation across all submissions
Last	The score of the most recent submission	The observation of the most recent submission
Average	The average of all submission scores	The average of all learning objective scores for a given learning objective

Frequently Asked Questions

Question	Answer
Can I copy course materials aligned with learning objectives to another course or to Resources?	Yes. You can move course materials with aligned learning objectives between Resources, Groups, and Courses and retain the alignments.
I previously used Mastery. Can I use materials aligned with learning objectives from Mastery in another course using District Mastery?	Yes. You can copy the materials to a course, but any aligned learning objectives and rubrics that don't match the mastery library of the destination course will be removed. After copying the material to another course, you must align learning objectives from the designated mastery library.
Can I edit the mastery grading scale?	No. The district mastery grading scale is administered at the system level.
How do I enable the Mastery view for students and parents?	For students to access their mastery within the course, you must enable the View received mastery grades permission at the system level. Reach out to your Support Contact to confirm if this permission is enabled for your district. After activating that permission, enable the Allow members to view student mastery details permission from the Grade Setup area of your course. Students can access Mastery from the course menu. Parents can review their child's mastery when they access their child's course via Child Activity.

Student Mastery Details is currently not supported for organizations using Standards Grade Passback. Also, the final grade calculation differs between District Mastery and PowerTeacher Pro. PowerTeacher Pro calculates the grade for each objective and associated grading period or reporting term. District Mastery calculates each objective's grade for the entire course. As a result, the final grade in District Mastery and PowerTeacher Pro may not match. Direct students and parents to the PowerSchool SIS portal to review final grades or direct students to review scores for each learning objective via the rubric grader on the material's page.