Grading defaults by curriculum

Setup asks which system a school runs, and the answer changes what arrives already filled in. This page describes the defaults and, more importantly, which decisions they do not make for a school.

What the two systems change

System	What setup proposes
Ghana	Three terms or two semesters, and a naming convention for classes such as JSS 2A
United States	Quarters or semesters, and class naming that reads as a grade before a section

A school whose model fits neither states its own: the custom option exists for exactly that, and the product does not translate a school's year into its own vocabulary.

What the defaults do not decide

The defaults are about shape: how many reporting periods, and what a class is called. They are deliberately silent on the three decisions that matter most:

• which assessments count in a subject's result;
• what each is worth;
• the precision and rounding a result is reported at.

A school states those itself, per subject if it wants to. The default for a subject that states nothing is the year's policy, which is one decision rather than one per subject.

Changing the defaults later

A weight change is a configuration change with a date. Results published before it keep the policy they were calculated under, which is what makes a past term's report readable a year later. Grading policies describes the four decisions in full.