Set default marking settings for teachers in your districts

Supported editions for this feature: Education Plus. Compare your edition

As an administrator, you can set default marking settings in the Google Workspace Admin console for your teachers' classes. When a teacher creates a new class in Google Classroom, these default settings are populated for the class. This saves teachers' time and helps ensure consistency across classes in your school.

You can set default settings in the following areas:

• Marking periods: Set marking periods and their dates. 
• Mark calculation and categories: Set a marking system, determine how marks are calculated, choose whether overall marks are shown to students and add mark categories. 
• Marking scales: Set marking scales for all classes.

Teachers can still edit or delete these settings for their classes if they so choose. 

If any of the settings need to be changed or deleted, you can quickly do so by making your updates in the Admin console. But note that any changes that you make to default settings will apply only to new classes in the future, not existing ones. 

Set default marking periods

You can set default marking periods based on organisational units. If you create a marking period at a parent organisational unit, it will propagate to the child organisational units. 

1. Sign in to the Admin console.
2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  Apps Google Workspace  Classroom.
3. Click the Default mark settings section.
4. From the menu, click the name of the organisational unit for which you want to set the marking period. 
5. Click Marking periods. 
6. For Marking periods, select On.
7. Enter a name for your marking period. Marking period names must be unique.
8. Enter your start date and end date. Start and end dates for marking periods can't overlap.
9. To add additional marking periods, click Add marking period.
10. Click Save.

You must manually update your marking periods before each school year.

Set default marking scales

You can set default marking scales based on organisational units. If you create a marking scale at a parent organisational unit, it will propagate to the child organisational units.

1. Sign in to the Admin console.
2. In the Admin console,  go to Menu  Apps Google Workspace  Classroom.
3. Click the Default mark settings section.
4. From the menu, click the organisational unit for which you want to set the marking scale. 
5. Click Marking scales.
6. For Marking scales, select On.
7. Select a Marking scale. 
   • Choose from three preset scales:
     • Proficiency
     • Letter marks
     • 4-point scale
   • Create a custom scale. To create a custom scale, click Create marking scale.
8. For Level, enter the making level.
9. For Min. %, and Max. %, enter whole numbers.
10. To add an additional level, click Add level.
11. Click Save.

Set default mark calculation and categories

You can set default marking systems and categories based on organisational units. If you create a marking system at a parent organisational unit, it will propagate to the child organisational units. 

1. Sign in to the Admin console.
2.  In the Admin console, go to Menu  Apps Google Workspace  Classroom.
3. Click the Default mark settings section.
4. From the menu, click on the organisational unit for which you want to set the marking system and categories. 
5. Point to Mark calculation and categories, then click Edit .
6. For Mark calculation, select On.
7. Select a Marking system.
   • You can choose No overall mark, Total points or Weighted by category.
     • No overall mark is the default setting.
     • If you choose Weighted by category, the categories must add up to 100%.
8. (Optional) To Show overall mark to students, click On.  
9. For Grade category, enter a name for your grade category.  
10. For Default points, enter a whole number.
11. To add another grade category, click Add grade category.
12. Click Save.