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School-level feature — managed within your school portal at yourschool.deandesk.com.

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Video walkthrough

This walkthrough uses the real DeanDesk interface with the fictional Northstar Academy demo school and a calm, AI-generated English voice. Payments and outside services are not connected in the demo.
The Gradebook tab is the gradebook for the course you’re in. Only course staff (the instructor, assistants, and admins) see it. It’s the same gradebook admins open from Academics → Gradebook, but it opens straight to this course, so there’s no course to pick. This page covers day-to-day grading as the course teacher. For grading settings, weighted categories, and grade items, see the full Gradebook guide.

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Read the gradebook

Open a course you teach and choose Gradebook in the course sidebar. The Grades tab shows:
  • One row per student, sorted by last name.
  • One column per assignment, with its total points under the title. In weighted grading, each column also shows its category.
  • Total, the student’s running result with a letter grade from your school’s grading standards. Items with no score yet are left out of the total until you score them.
  • Final Grade and Comments, for the official course grade.
  • A Class Average row at the bottom, and counts of students and assignments below the table.
Use Percentage or Points to switch how scores are shown and typed. This only changes the display. How totals are calculated is set on the Settings tab.

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Enter scores

1

Click a cell

Click the student’s cell in an assignment column. A dash means no score yet; zero means zero.
2

Type the score

Type the score in points or percent, matching the display you chose, and press Enter. Press Escape to cancel the edit.
3

Save

Changes are pending until you click Save in the header, which shows the number of pending changes, for example Save (3). Save before leaving the page.
Late submissions are highlighted. Hover a scored cell to see the score in the other format and any feedback.
Scores you give while grading a submission on the Assignments tab appear here too.

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Edit an assignment

Open the menu on an assignment’s column header and choose Edit Assignment. You can change the Assignment Title, Total Points, and Weight (%), then click Save Changes.
Changing Total Points scales every student’s score for that assignment proportionally, so their percentages stay the same.

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Record final grades

1

Choose a final grade

In the student’s Final Grade dropdown, choose a letter. Choose — to clear it.
2

Add a comment (optional)

Type an optional course comment in Comments.
3

Save

Click Save. The final grade also appears in the Grade column of the Students tab.

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Other tools

  • Add Category creates a category column in points-based grading. In weighted grading, categories are managed on the Settings tab.
  • Full Screen gives the gradebook the whole window. Click Exit Full Screen to return.
  • The refresh button reloads the latest scores, and the download button exports the gradebook as a CSV file.
  • Gradebook — grading settings, weighted categories, and grade items.
  • Students — record a final grade for one student and manage enrollment.
  • Attendance — take attendance for this course.