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One ",[418,461,462],{},"Save"," writes the lot, and a count of unsaved boxes appears as soon as there is one.",[406,465,466,469],{},[418,467,468],{},"Leave a box empty for a pupil you have not marked."," An empty box is not a zero:",[471,472,473,480],"ul",{},[474,475,476,479],"li",{},[418,477,478],{},"No mark"," is left out of that pupil's average entirely.",[474,481,482,485],{},[418,483,484],{},"A 0 you type"," is a mark, and counts against them.",[406,487,488],{},"That distinction runs through everything below, including the report card, so it is worth knowing\nbefore a class of sixty is filled in.",[406,490,491],{},"Admins can enter marks for any class and subject. Class teachers can enter any subject for their own\nclass, and subject teachers their own subjects for any class: the same rule as ordinary grades.",[410,493,495],{"id":494},"publishing-a-week","Publishing a week",[406,497,498,499,502,503,506,507,510],{},"A week goes out ",[418,500,501],{},"once for a class, across every subject at once",", rather than each teacher\nnotifying families as they finish. ",[418,504,505],{},"Grades → Publish"," does it either a class at a time or for the\nwhole school in one press. It opens on the whole school for anybody holding the publish permission;\nsomebody who may only lock a week opens on ",[418,508,509],{},"One class",", and is not offered the scope that would\nrefuse them.",[406,512,513,514,517],{},"It works the same way on the phone: ",[418,515,516],{},"Weekly Grades → the send icon"," opens the same list of classes\nwith the same one button, for staff who hold the publish permission. Reviewing one class subject by\nsubject stays on the web, since that is a table.",[519,520,522],"h3",{"id":521},"the-whole-school-at-once","The whole school at once",[406,524,525,528,529,532],{},[418,526,527],{},"All classes"," lists every class that grades weekly with how many marks are in, which subjects\nnobody has marked, and whether the week is already out. Tick the classes you want and press\n",[418,530,531],{},"Publish all",". The confirmation names the classes that are only part-marked before anything is\nsent.",[406,534,535],{},"Nothing goes out silently. A class with no marks at all is skipped rather than sent empty, a locked\nclass is left alone, and both are reported back by name afterwards, so a run of eighteen classes\nnever leaves you checking each one by hand to find the two that did not go.",[406,537,538],{},"Clicking a class name opens that class on its own, which is where the missing pupils are named.",[519,540,542],{"id":541},"one-class-at-a-time","One class at a time",[406,544,545,547],{},[418,546,509],{}," shows every subject the class grades weekly, how much of each is entered, and the\npupils still missing by name. It is the right scope when one class's marks are in and the rest are\nnot, and the only one that names who is missing from which subject.",[406,549,550],{},"An incomplete week can still be published, since a school whose Music teacher is away should be able\nto send the other eight subjects. Those missing marks are simply absent from the week; they are never\ncounted as zero. The confirmation says which subjects are short before you send it.",[406,552,553,554,557],{},"Publishing notifies each pupil's parents (and pupils who have no parent on the system), in the app\nand by whichever channels you have chosen under ",[418,555,556],{},"Settings → Notifications",".",[406,559,560,563,564,567,568,572],{},[418,561,562],{},"Telling families at all is itself a setting."," Under ",[418,565,566],{},"Settings → Weekly Grades",", ",[569,570,571],"em",{},"Tell families\nwhen a week is published"," is on by default; switch it off and publishing a week sends nothing on any\nchannel, whatever the channel matrix says. The week still becomes visible to families on their own\npages the moment it goes out, so this is the setting for a school that would rather publish quietly\nthan not publish at all.",[406,574,575,578],{},[418,576,577],{},"There is no WhatsApp for this one",", and its box in that matrix is greyed out with the reason on it,\non the web and in the mobile app alike. Families are told in the app, by push and by email instead.\nThis was costed and decided against rather than left unfinished, for three reasons. WhatsApp gives\nthe whole platform a shared daily allowance of business-initiated conversations, and one school of\ntwenty classes publishing a week would use it up in an evening, taking every fee reminder and exam\ntimetable queued behind it. A week published up to fifteen times a term is by a wide margin the most\nfrequent notice the platform sends, and that frequency on a family messaging app is what earns the\nblocks that damage delivery for every school. And it would carry less than the email already does,\nsince the message names the week rather than the marks, so it could only say \"sign in to read this\"\nbeside a free push that opens the screen directly.",[406,580,581,584,585,588],{},[418,582,583],{},"What goes out names the week, not the marks."," The push and the email both say which class and which\nweek, and send the reader to the screen; neither carries a score, and ",[418,586,587],{},"the email has no PDF attached",".\nA lock screen is not the place for a child's marks, and nine of them emailed fifteen times a term is a\nreport card sent every week. The PDF is a download on the week itself, once the reader has signed in.",[406,590,591,592,595],{},"Submitting ",[418,593,594],{},"Publish"," twice publishes once and notifies once.",[519,597,599],{"id":598},"withdraw-lock-unlock","Withdraw, lock, unlock",[471,601,602,608,614],{},[474,603,604,607],{},[418,605,606],{},"Withdraw"," hides a published week from families again. Nothing further is sent.",[474,609,610,613],{},[418,611,612],{},"Lock"," freezes a published week so its marks can no longer be changed, once you consider it\nclosed.",[474,615,616,619],{},[418,617,618],{},"Unlock"," reopens a locked week for correction.",[406,621,622],{},"A published week still accepts corrections, so a teacher who finds a transcription error on Monday\ncan simply fix it. Locking is how you say the week is finished.",[406,624,625,626,629,630,633,634,637],{},"Lock and unlock are on the phone as well, on the class itself: each published class in ",[418,627,628],{},"Weekly\nGrades → the send icon"," carries a ",[418,631,632],{},"Lock week"," action, and each locked one an ",[418,635,636],{},"Unlock week",".\nLocking asks you to confirm, because it stops the teacher who has just spotted a wrong mark;\nunlocking only hands that back, so it does not ask. Withdrawing a week stays on the web, beside the\nreview that says what the families were sent.",[410,639,641],{"id":640},"what-parents-and-pupils-see","What parents and pupils see",[406,643,644,645,648],{},"The most recent published week also appears in the ",[418,646,647],{},"weekly parent digest",", the Sunday email, under\nits own heading beside the term grades. Only published weeks are ever included, so a week a teacher\nis still working through never reaches a family by email.",[406,650,651,652,654,655,658],{},"Parents open a child's record and tap or click ",[418,653,392],{},"; pupils have their own ",[418,656,657],{},"Weekly\nGrades"," page. Both show only weeks the school has published, most recent first, with:",[471,660,661,664,667],{},[474,662,663],{},"every subject's mark for the week,",[474,665,666],{},"the same subject in the previous published week, and",[474,668,669],{},"whether it moved up or down.",[406,671,672],{},"The comparison is the point: nine marks on their own say very little, and beside last week's they\nanswer the question a parent actually has. Each week can also be downloaded as a branded PDF.",[406,674,675],{},"A week you have not published is invisible to families everywhere: on the web, in the app, in the\nPDF and in the notifications.",[410,677,679],{"id":678},"on-the-report-card","On the report card",[406,681,682,683,686],{},"Weekly grades can carry a figure onto the term report card. This is ",[418,684,685],{},"off until you switch it on",",\nso enabling weekly grading changes nothing about your existing report cards.",[406,688,689,690,693,694,697],{},"Under ",[418,691,692],{},"Settings → Weekly Grades on the Report Card",", switch on ",[418,695,696],{},"Include weekly grades on the\nreport card",", set what it is worth (20 marks by default), and give it whatever heading you use for\nit. That is the whole of it: the section appears on your card straight away, below the subject table\nand the traits.",[406,699,700,703,704,707],{},[418,701,702],{},"One switch, in one place."," The Report Card Designer no longer has an on\u002Foff control for this\nsection, because it used to have to be switched on there as well and nothing said so, which left\nschools looking at unchanged cards after enabling the setting. The designer still decides ",[569,705,706],{},"where","\nthe section prints and what it shows, and it says where the switch is.",[406,709,710],{},"The figure is the average of the weeks actually recorded, converted to the marks you configured. Four\nweeks averaging 7.5 out of 10 gives 15 out of 20. Weeks with no mark are left out of the average; a 0\na teacher entered is included. Each subject's own average is printed under the total, so the figure\ncan be checked by hand.",[406,712,713],{},"Weekly grades print as their own section. They are never added into a subject's total, so no figure\nyour report cards already carry changes.",[519,715,717],{"id":716},"changing-your-mind-later","Changing your mind later",[406,719,720],{},"Two things are protected, and it is worth knowing why:",[471,722,723,729],{},[474,724,725,728],{},[418,726,727],{},"Changing what a mark is out of never restates a mark already entered."," Every weekly mark keeps\nthe maximum it was recorded against, so moving Maths from 10 to 20 in January leaves December's\n8\u002F10 as 8\u002F10 rather than silently turning it into 8\u002F20.",[474,730,731,734],{},[418,732,733],{},"Once you have issued a report card, its weekly-grades figure is fixed."," Saving a card or\ngenerating a class's PDFs records the figure as it stood, so raising the contribution next term\ncannot change what a card you handed out last term said.",[410,736,738],{"id":737},"on-the-phone","On the phone",[406,740,741,742,746,747,750],{},"Both halves are on the ",[743,744,745],"a",{"href":230},"mobile app",". Staff record a week under ",[418,748,749],{},"More → Weekly\nGrades"," by picking a class, a subject and a week, and publish from the same screen. Because marking\nfollows the school's current term, a school between terms is told so rather than shown an empty sheet.",[406,752,753,754,757],{},"Families read the published weeks on their own side: a parent opens ",[418,755,756],{},"Weekly grades"," on a child's\nrecord, a pupil finds it in their own portal. Each week is a card giving the week's dates, the total\nout of what was available, and every subject with its mark, the previous week's mark and the movement\nbetween them. A subject with no mark that week is absent rather than counted as zero, which the screen\nsays in as many words, and each week can be downloaded on its own.",[759,760,766],"screenshot",{":phone":761,"alt":762,"height":763,"src":764,"width":765},"true","The 1410SMS Android app Weekly Grades screen for a child: a note that a subject with no mark that week is left out rather than counted as zero, then a Week 6 card for 25 to 31 May 2026 totalling 36 out of 50, listing Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics and Further Mathematics with each mark out of ten, last week's mark and the change, followed by a Week 5 card",1600,"\u002Fdocs\u002Fweekly-grades\u002Fmobile.png",720,[406,767,768],{},"A published week as a family reads it, with each subject's movement since last week.",[410,770,772],{"id":771},"who-can-do-what","Who can do what",[774,775,776,789],"table",{},[777,778,779],"thead",{},[780,781,782,786],"tr",{},[783,784,785],"th",{},"Action",[783,787,788],{},"Permission",[790,791,792,801,809,817,825,833],"tbody",{},[780,793,794,798],{},[795,796,797],"td",{},"See weekly marks and how complete a week is",[795,799,800],{},"View weekly grades",[780,802,803,806],{},[795,804,805],{},"Reach every class, not only your own",[795,807,808],{},"View\u002Frecord weekly grades school-wide",[780,810,811,814],{},[795,812,813],{},"Enter and correct marks",[795,815,816],{},"Record weekly grades",[780,818,819,822],{},[795,820,821],{},"Publish or withdraw a week, one class or all of them",[795,823,824],{},"Publish a week",[780,826,827,830],{},[795,828,829],{},"Lock or unlock a week",[795,831,832],{},"Lock a week",[780,834,835,838],{},[795,836,837],{},"Choose what each class grades weekly",[795,839,840],{},"Manage weekly grading setup",[406,842,843],{},"Publishing is separate from recording on purpose: releasing a week to every family in a class is not\nsomething the first teacher to finish marking should do on the school's behalf. The seeded Principal,\nVice Principal and Academic Coordinator roles can publish; Teacher, Class Teacher and Subject Teacher\nrecord.",{"title":845,"searchDepth":846,"depth":846,"links":847},"",3,[848,850,851,856,857,860,861],{"id":412,"depth":849,"text":413},2,{"id":452,"depth":849,"text":453},{"id":494,"depth":849,"text":495,"children":852},[853,854,855],{"id":521,"depth":846,"text":522},{"id":541,"depth":846,"text":542},{"id":598,"depth":846,"text":599},{"id":640,"depth":849,"text":641},{"id":678,"depth":849,"text":679,"children":858},[859],{"id":716,"depth":846,"text":717},{"id":737,"depth":849,"text":738},{"id":771,"depth":849,"text":772},false,"md",{},true,null,{"src":868,"alt":869,"width":870,"height":871,"caption":872},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fweekly-grades\u002Fweekly-marks.png","The Weekly marks tab of the Grades workspace, showing week 7 of First Term for JSS 1A Biology: a column of marks out of 10 down the class register, with one pupil's box left empty and another's recorded as a nought",1832,1698,"One mark per pupil for the week. 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