From the navigation bar, under Setup, click Define grading scales for faculty to use. The Grading scales page appears.
Grading scales translate non-numeric grades, such as letter or check mark grades, to numeric grades. Grading scales are for assignment grades only.
If teachers plan to enter any assignment grade as a letter or symbol, they must associate the assignment’s category with a grading scale. You can define scales for teachers to use. You can also restrict teachers to use only supervisor-defined scales or allow teachers to use your scales and define their own grading scales. If teachers enter only numeric grades, they do not need grading scales.
Tip: We recommend you decide whether to require teachers to use only supervisor-defined grading scales or to allow teachers to create their own grading scales before you give teachers access to an academic year. If teachers define their own grading scales and you later require teachers to use supervisor-defined grading scales only, they can still use their grading scales but cannot edit them. If you do not follow this order, you cannot be sure that teachers use the required grading scales.
You cannot use the characters M or X in a grading scale because teachers use these characters to indicate missing or exempt assignment grades in grade entry.