The calculated value. The way a grade is specified or described. Grade Summary An average of a student's marks for a grading period or overall summary. Grading Period One of two kinds of student average grade that Grade Machine can calculate. A grading period contains one or more assignments in one or more categories.
Every assignment belongs to one grading period.
You can have up to 20 grading periods. The grading scale is a defined list of grade descriptions and their lower cutoffs that determine how a percentage is translated into a grade description on reports. Overall Summary One of two kinds of student average grade that Grade Machine can calculate. Overall summary is an average of two or more grading periods. Overall summaries are typically semesters and final grades.