This article is for teachers. Marking can only be set up on a computer.
For your marking system, you can choose Total points or Weighted by category marking. In both, marks are calculated for you and you can let students check their overall mark for the class. If you don't want to use a marking system, you can choose No overall mark. Marks won't be calculated and students can't check their overall mark.
You can also organise classwork with mark categories, such as Essays, Homework and Tests. For example, if your class has four essay assignments, you can organise them in an Essays category.
Marks are calculated for the duration of the class. If you want to begin marking again for a new term, you have to create a new class. For details, go to Copy a class.
Tips:
- Select customers can export marks directly from Classroom to their SIS. Learn more.
- To submit past due assignments, manually mark them as 'Missing' or 'Complete'.
About the marking systems
To have marks calculated for you and an option to let students check their overall mark, use Total points or Weighted by category marking.
Total points marking
| Essay category | Test category | Student points/Points possible | Overall mark |
| Essay 1: 90/100 | Test 1: 95/100 | 185/200 | 92.5% |
Weighted by category marking
- Finds a student's average for a category.
- Multiplies each category's average by its weight (as a decimal), giving category scores.
- Adds the category scores for an overall mark out of 100%.
| Essay category: 50% of mark | Test category: 50% of mark | Overall mark out of 100% |
| Essay 1: 70/100 | Test 1: 90/100 | |
| Essay 2: 80/100 | Test 2: 100/100 | |
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| Category score = 37.5% | Category score = 47.5% | Overall mark: 37.5 + 47.5 = 85% |
The table shows Weighted by category marking. In the Essay category, the student averaged 75. Multiplied by the category weight, 0.5, this gives 37.5% for Essays. In the Test category, the student averaged 95. Multiplied by the category weight, 0.5, this gives 47.5% for Tests. Adding the category scores (37.5 + 47.5) gives the student an overall mark of 85%.
Tip: Assignments with a mark set to 'Excused' are removed from a student's mark calculation. For example, if a student has five assignments with a score of 100%, but doesn't hand in one assignment that's set to 'Excused', the student will still keep an average mark of 100%.
Set up a marking system
After you select a marking system, you can add mark categories. Mark categories are required with Weighted by category marking, but can also be used with Total points marking or No overall mark.
Note: If you use SIS mark export, your Classroom mark categories don't transfer to your student information system (SIS).
Select a marking system
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Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [email protected] or [email protected]. Learn more.
- Click your class
Settings
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- Next to Overall mark calculation, select one:
- No overall mark – Marks aren't calculated for students. Students can't see an overall mark.
- Total points – Divides total points earned by total points possible. You can let students see an overall mark.
- Weighted by category – Adds the scores across categories. You can let students see an overall mark.
- (Optional) To make the overall mark visible to students on their profile page, click Show
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Note: This option isn't available when mark calculation is set to No overall mark. - In the top right-hand corner, click Save.
Create mark categories for No overall mark or Total points marking
For these options, you assign default point values to the mark categories that you create.
Note: You can only create mark categories in the web version of Classroom.
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Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [email protected] or [email protected]. Learn more.
- Click your class
- Next to Overall mark calculation, select No overall mark or Total points from the menu.
- Under Mark categories, click Add mark category.
- Enter a mark category.
- Under Default points, enter a whole number.
- (Optional) To add another mark category, repeat steps 4–6.
- In the top right-hand corner, click Save.
Create mark categories for Weighted by category marking
For this option, you assign percentages to the categories you create.
Note: You can only create mark categories in the web version of Classroom.
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Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [email protected] or [email protected]. Learn more.
- Click your class
- Next to Overall mark calculation, select Weighted by category from the menu.
- Under Mark categories, click Add Mark Category.
- Enter a mark category
- Under Percentage, enter a whole number.
- (Optional) To add another mark category, repeat steps 4–6.
- In the top right-hand corner, click Save.
Note: To save your settings, the categories must add up to 100%.
Remove a mark category
You can remove mark categories. Removing a mark category:
- Removes the mark category from the corresponding classwork.
- Doesn't delete the classwork itself.
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Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [email protected] or [email protected]. Learn more.
- Click your class
- Next to the mark category you want to remove, click Remove
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- For weighted by category marking, adjust your remaining categories or add a new category to equal 100%.
- At the top, click Save.