Standards based Grading

null  Audience: Teachers with School and District subscriptions

As teachers review student work, they have the ability to grade standards. This data is rolled up for their class and viewable in the Gradebook which can be used to monitor progress across standards at the class level or the student level.
New to Standards? Get started with our Standards overview!

Feature Overview
  • Seesaw recommends grading when you are approving work to save time.
  • Students and family members don't see the tagged standards or the rating.
  • Standards and grading are visible to teachers and Admins only.
  • Track student progress from the Standards View in the Gradebook.

Note: If a Standard is added to an Activity during creation, but the Activity is assigned to a class in a different grade level than the Standard is connected to, The Standard(s) will need to be added back to the Activity during the assign flow. 

How to Grade Against Standards
1. Tap Review at the bottom after student work is submitted.
Displaying the red bar at the bottom of the screen, which populates when there are student posts to review.

2. Listen and review student learning before approval.
3. Grade the standards that were tagged to the Activity.
A list of standards tagged to the post with open stars that can be selected to grade the skill for that post.
How to Change a Grade
1. Tap the graduation cap icon in the post of the journal.
2. Select a different star grade or select Clear.
The new grade will be reflected in the Gradebook.
 
Archived and out-of-date Standards

Seesaw will systematically update Standards as new and updated Standards become available. These updates occur when Standards are out of date due to the adoption of newer standards or are no longer being utilized by the state/country. Users will see a small red triangle with an exclamation point in it if a Standard has been archived.

Additional Notes:

  • The standards that were previously connected to activities will remain connected to those activities; they just can't be connected to any new activities moving forward.
  • These archived standards will no longer appear in the standards tagging flow.
  • Activities with archived standards that have already been assigned can still be graded using the scale that correlates to the standard.
  • There is an explanation at the top of 'Tagged Standards' that explains these standards are out-of-date and the user should go to 'All Standards' to find the current, up-to-date list to use instead.
  • When clicking on 'All Standards' across the top, there will be a helpful box to highlight which of the standards on that activity are 'Out of Date'.
  • Hovering over the standards allows you to read the standard, which could help with identifying the new replacement standard. To remove a standard from the activity, click the X next to it; this will remove it from the activity.
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