The Gradebook tile opens a spreadsheet with one row per student and one column per assessment or sub-part. It shows every score recorded in ZenGrader, synced from a linked ProfDesk Quiz, or typed into the grid. Use the class grid to work across everyone, or the student gradebook to work through one student's assessments as a list.
Finding and ordering
Search by roll number, name or login ID to jump to a student.
Sort students by Roll number, Name, Login ID, or a Custom drag-and-drop order. A custom order is saved for the course with Save Order.
Sort assessments by due date, oldest to newest or newest to oldest, or keep Category order, which is the default. Undated assessments appear last. An assessment with separate submission deadlines uses its earliest sub-part deadline and keeps its columns together. Your choice is saved to your account for each course, so it follows you to any browser or device. Sorting changes the on-screen grid only; exports keep their existing order.
Published assessments only hides draft assessments from the grid while you work. It is a view filter, so nothing changes for students.
The minus button on an assessment's header collapses its part columns, leaving the assessment total; it turns into a plus that brings them back. This keeps a wide grid readable, and the grid remembers which assessments you collapsed in that browser.
Entering and changing scores
Typing a score: enter a mark in the cell. With Enable Auto-Save switched on, which is the default, each change saves as you type. Switch it off to save everything at once with Save Grades.
Clearing a score sets the cell back to not graded, shown as --, and returns the work to your To Grade queue. Entering 0 records a zero.
The allowed range is 0 to the sub-part's maximum marks. When the course allows extra credit, a score can go above the maximum by the course's extra-credit allowance, shared by the assessment's parts. A score outside the range is not saved, and the message says how much is left.
Linked ProfDesk Quiz scores arrive automatically. You can type one only for a student who has not taken the quiz, for example after a make-up on paper; if they take it later, the quiz result replaces it. Once a student has taken the quiz, their score is read-only and tagged FROM QUIZ. Select the tag to open their attempt and use Change mark there, which keeps your mark through every re-mark (see Quizzes). Each quiz cell has a Results button that opens the quiz results.
Students with several attempts: once a student has uploaded two or more attempts, their mark comes from the assessment's attempt rule (Highest, Latest or Average) and is read-only, tagged with the number of attempts, for example 2 ATTEMPTS. Select the tag to change it in ZenGrader, where each attempt is shown. With one attempt the cell stays editable, and a mark you type is also saved on that attempt, so it still counts if the student resubmits.
Rubric-marked scores are greyed out and cannot be typed over. Change them in ZenGrader, where the rubric and the submission are open together. The ZenGrader button beside the cell opens that student.
Change history: the information icon beside a score shows who last changed it and when.
Before Sync to Gradebook replaces anything, it shows what it will do: how many students' scores will be replaced, how many of those scores were typed in by hand, which excused students keep their status, and which attempts are still waiting for review and will not sync. Nothing is written until you confirm. See Quizzes & Question Banks.
Extra credit
To give scores above the maximum, for example 11 out of 10 on a quiz with a bonus question, switch on Allow scores above the maximum under Course Settings › Grade Scale › Extra Credit and save. It is off for every course until you switch it on. Beside it, Maximum extra-credit marks per assessment sets how many marks above the maximum you can give. It starts at 100 marks. It is a number of marks, not a percentage.
How high: a score can go above the assessment's maximum by up to the allowance. With an allowance of 5, a 10-mark quiz accepts up to 15. With an allowance of 100, a 100-mark test accepts up to 200. Changing the allowance never changes a mark already given; you choose every bonus.
Shared by an assessment's parts: the allowance is for the whole assessment, for each student. If one part already has 4 extra-credit marks and the allowance is 5, the other parts can share 1 more. A part below its maximum does not make room on another part. On a ProfDesk Quiz the questions of one attempt share it the same way, and each new attempt has its own.
Bonus-only assessments worth 0 marks: an allowance of 5 lets you give up to 5 bonus marks on an assessment worth 0, for example Extra credit for the 10/1 quiz. In a course graded by categories, those marks add to the category's earned marks without adding possible marks, so a student who gets no bonus is not penalised. A student with 8/10 in a category weighted 60% and 40/40 in one weighted 40% has 88%; a 3-mark bonus on a 0-mark assessment in the first category lifts them to 106%. Do not make a bonus assessment worth 1 mark instead: everyone who does not earn it would then score 0 out of 1.
Where the bonus counts: a 0-mark bonus counts once its category has graded work worth marks, and only if the category's weight is above 0%. A category named Extra Credit with a weight of 0% counts nothing, whatever its name; put bonus assessments in a category that carries weight. A course that weights each assessment by its own percentage cannot give extra credit on a 0-mark assessment, because it has no percentage; give the bonus on an assessment that is worth marks.
Course grade: extra credit counts in full, so a category or a student's course grade can finish above 100%. A course grade above 100% gets your top letter grade.
CLO and PLO attainment: each score counts as at most 100% of its maximum, so a bonus on one question cannot hide a weak result on another. A 0-mark bonus adds nothing to an outcome. Students' Focus Areas follow the same rule.
Rubric scores stay at the rubric's total, and so do AI grades, which are always rubric grades. Automatically marked quiz answers stay at the question's points.
Labels: a score above the maximum is tagged EXTRA in the class gradebook and Extra credit in ZenGrader, the other gradebooks and on the student's own pages. In ZenGrader a bonus you have typed but not saved yet says so.
ProfDesk Quizzes:Change mark on a student's quiz attempt, and a typed mark on an essay, accept marks above the question's points within the allowance. Rubric-marked essays stay at the rubric's total. For a quiz that grades an assessment, the allowance is in that assessment's marks: if a 20-point quiz grades a 100-mark assessment and the allowance is 10, the attempt can carry 2 quiz points of extra credit. A quiz that grades a 0-mark assessment cannot carry extra credit. The bonus counts if that attempt is the one the attempt rule keeps: under Highest or Latest the student's course page shows Extra credit too, while under Average the bonus is averaged with the other attempts.
Several attempts: for a student whose mark comes from their attempts (see above), give the bonus on the attempt, in ZenGrader or with Change mark, so the attempt rule keeps it. Each attempt has its own allowance; bonuses on different attempts are never added together.
Lowering the allowance or switching it off leaves scores already given as they are, and they still count. You can keep or lower such a score, but not raise it while the assessment is over its allowance.
Re-teaching a course keeps its extra-credit switch and allowance on the new copy.
Excused grades and the Exclusions tab
An excused score is left out of that student's final grade and CLO attainment instead of counting as zero. In the grid, an excused cell is yellow with an EX tag, and its score cannot be edited. You excuse a student in ZenGrader. The Exclusions tab lists everyone who is excused from what, and Lift for this assessment removes an exemption. For how excusing differs from ungraded and dropped scores, see Excused, Ungraded & Discarded.
Gradebook: every student's score on every assessment, with search and sort controls.
View and edit one student's gradebook
Choose Student gradebook above the class grid, or click a student's name. Search for a student by name, roll number or login ID, select them and choose Open student.
That student's assessments and sub-parts appear as a vertical list, each with its due date, a score field and a grade status of Graded, Not graded or Excused. A count above the list shows how many items match the current filters.
Find assessment searches assessment names, sub-parts and categories.
Show assessments narrows the list to published work or drafts.
Grade status shows only graded, not graded or excused items.
The two date fields set an inclusive due-date range. Dates include the student's extensions, and undated work is left out of a range.
Sort assessments orders the list by due date, name or category. Your choice is saved to your account for each course.
Clear filters shows all work again.
Type scores into as many rows as you need; each changed row is marked Unsaved. Nothing is saved until you choose Save changes, the floating button at the bottom right, which turns teal while changes are waiting. Clear a score to mark it not graded; entering zero records a zero.
If a score is outside the allowed range, or a save fails, that row says why and keeps your entry while the other scores still save. Choose Save changes again to retry. Opening another student, following a link or closing the page with unsaved changes asks before you leave.
A quiz score can be entered only for a student who has not taken the quiz; once they have, the row links to their attempt, where you use Change mark. A student with two or more uploaded attempts links to ZenGrader instead. Rubric grades are read-only here and link to ZenGrader. An excused item links to where it can be lifted. “Not graded” means no score has been recorded; it does not necessarily mean the student has not submitted.
The student gradebook is read-only for a student who is no longer active, for a course that has ended or is locked, and for administrators.
Exporting
Format
Use case
Export to PDF
A clean, printable results sheet.
Export to Excel
Full spreadsheet for further analysis or institutional reporting.
Export Questions / Sub-parts (CSV)
Per-question detail rather than just assessment totals, useful for outcome analysis or external gradebooks.
Exporting one assessment
Choose Assessment gradebook above the class grid and pick an assessment. Its Export PDF and Export Excel buttons download that assessment for the class.
What you see is what you get: the file holds the students shown on the page, in the order shown. To export part of the class, search, filter or sort first. The file says which filters were on.
Labels: each score keeps the page's labels, such as Excused, Missing, Dropped, Extra credit, and Complete or Incomplete. The PDF explains them under its statistics.
Statistics: both files include the summary figures, each part's statistics and the score distribution. These always cover every active student, even when the list is filtered.
Excel: scores, totals and percentages are numbers you can sort and add up. An excused or ungraded part is left blank, and the Notes column says why. Roll numbers and login IDs stay exactly as typed.
Save first: the file holds saved scores only, so Save changes before exporting.
Names in other scripts: the PDF shows letters such as Arabic or Urdu as question marks. The Excel file keeps every name exactly.
Only the course owner can export. Co-instructors can open the Assessment gradebook but have no export buttons.
Results & Outcomes
The Results & Outcomes tool applies your Course Settings › Grading Scheme (absolute cutoffs or bell curve, see Courses & Settings) to every student's weighted total across all assessment groups, and shows:
A Final Grade Distribution chart, a quick visual of how the class performed (how many A's, B's, etc.).
Each student's weighted total, Letter Grade, and GPA side by side.
If Attendance is enabled as a weighted category, the same total includes each student's attendance percentage at the instructor-set weight.
Results & Outcomes: class summary, distribution, attainment exports, and student results.
Releasing grades to students
Grades stay hidden from students by default at both the child-question level (toggle in Manage Assessments or ZenGrader) and the assessment level, so you can finish grading everyone before anyone sees a score. Once you release an assessment or the final grade, the corresponding student notification/email can go out (see Messaging for notification opt-outs).
