K12Portal | Online Gradebook and Student Management

K12Portal Gradebook FAQs

1) What are the main features of the k12portal Gradebook?

The k12portal Gradebook includes the ability to manage your classroom by easily creating assignments and entering scores for students.
Final grades are automatically calculated based on the gradescales and grading calculation that have been setup.
K12portal handles category and/or assignment weighting, multiple reporting periods, and can calculate final grade based on weighting of reporting periods.

2) How much work is required to set up the k12portal Gradebook?

The k12portal setup has been designed to minimize the time and effort required to setup the teacher gradebook.
The Setup wizard can be used to create a section with a minimal amount of steps.

3) What type of grading does the k12portal support?

K12portal supports traditional grading through the creation of assignments that may be points, letter grade, or percentage based.
Standards-based grading will be supported in the future and we welcome feedback on it.

4) Can I take my Gradebook home to enter student scores?

K12portal is a web based application and as such requires only a connection to the internet and a web browser.

5) Do parents/students have the ability to view student progress using k12portal?

Parent and students will be able to create their own k12portal accounts and have a view into their own student progress.
They will also be able to take advantage of the powerful Calendar and Address Book functionality for powerful collaboration with teachers and other parents.

6) Can I take attendance using the k12portal Gradebook?

Version 1 of k12portal does not support attendance taking.
However, look to future releases for this functionality to be added.


K12Portal Gradebook FAQs 1) What are the main features of the k12portal Gradebook? The k12portal Gradebook includes the ability to manage your classroom by easily creating assignments and entering scores for students. Final grades are automatically calculated based on the gradescales and grading calculation that have been setup. K12portal handles category and/or assignment weighting, multiple reporting periods, and can calculate final grade based on weighting of reporting periods. 2) How much work is required to set up the k12portal Gradebook? The k12portal setup has been designed to minimize the time and effort required to setup the teacher gradebook. The Setup wizard can be used to create a section with a minimal amount of steps. 3) What type of grading does the k12portal support? K12portal supports traditional grading through the creation of assignments that may be points, letter grade, or percentage based. Standards-based grading will be supported in the future and we welcome feedback on it. 4) Can I take my Gradebook home to enter student scores? K12portal is a web based application and as such requires only a connection to the internet and a web browser. 5) Do parents/students have the ability to view student progress using k12portal? Parent and students will be able to create their own k12portal accounts and have a view into their own student progress. They will also be able to take advantage of the powerful Calendar and Address Book functionality for powerful collaboration with teachers and other parents. 6) Can I take attendance using the k12portal Gradebook? Version 1 of k12portal does not support attendance taking. However, look to future releases for this functionality to be added.