In Faculty Access for the Web, if your administrator allows, you can set up your own grading scales. In some schools, administrators may create the grading scales for you to use and restrict the use of any new scales.
You only need to set up grading scales if you plan to use letters or symbols, such as check marks, for assignment grades. Grading scales translate non-numeric grades to numeric grades for calculations. After you set up grading scales, we recommend you associate your assignment categories with grading scales. For example, you use check marks for the homework category.
You define grading scales per academic year. On the Home page, to set the academic year and session, in the My Classes grid, click Settings.
To access the Grading scales page, from the navigation bar, under Gradebook, click Add grading scales. The Academic Year displays at the top of the page for you to verify for which year you want to add a grading scale. In the Scale field, select a scale to review. If a scale is in use on a class, “In use” appears above the Grading scales grid.
Note: Grading scales in Faculty Access for the Web translate assignment grades only from non-numeric to numeric grades. In Registrar's Office, administrators set up translation tables for marking column grades.
“System Scale” appears for a supervisor-defined grading scale. You cannot edit a supervisor-defined grading scale.