MemberPress Courses Gradebook

With the MemberPress Course Gradebook add-on, you can grade assignments and quizzes your students submitted.

This document provides details on the MemberPress Course Gradebook and shows you how to grade your students.

Note: This add-on is available with the MemberPress Scale plan only. If you’re subscribed to any other plan, you can upgrade the MemberPress plan to use it.

Installing Gradebook

To add a Gradebook option to your MemberPress Courses, install and activate the Course Gradebook add-on. 

Note: To activate the Course Gradebook add-on, you should first activate and set up the MemberPress Courses add-on.

Next, follow these steps to install and activate the MemberPress Course Gradebook add-on:

1. Navigate to Dashboard > MemberPress > Add-ons.
2. Browse add-ons for Course Gradebook add-on or search for “gradebook“ using the search tool.

3. Once you find the add-on, click the Install Add-on button. This will automatically install and activate the add-on.

Note: If the MemberPress Course Gradebook add-on is not listed, activate your license key in your MemberPress settings.

How To Find the Course Gradebook?

Every MemberPress course on your website will have a separate gradebook.

All assignments and quizzes within the course submitted by your students will be automatically added to the course’s gradebook. 

Navigate to Dashboard > MP Courses > Gradebook, and select the course from the drop-down menu to access its gradebook.

Grading Assignments and Quizzes

When tracking students’ progress, you can use the course gradebooks to preview and grade students’ work. The Course Gradebook shows each student’s submitted quizzes and assignments, assigned grades, and overall score within each course. 

The Gradebook also comes with filter and search options. Use them to narrow the list of students and their submitted work.

Quizzes with only auto-graded question types are graded for you. Quizzes are graded based on the number of correct answers the student submitted out of the total number of questions. This is the base grade for the submitted quizzes.

Assignments and quizzes with manually graded questions, such as essays, need your input. Until you grade them, these items will show the “Ungraded” link in the Gradebook. Also, students will see the “Grade Pending” status next to these quizzes in the course curriculum, instead of a score.

To grade a quiz or assignment, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Dashboard > MP Courses > Gradebook, and select the course Gradebook.
2. Find the ungraded quiz or assignment in the list by browsing through the list or using filter and search options.

3. Click on the “Ungraded” link. This will open the popup for submitted assignments or quizzes.
4. When grading assignments, the popup will provide the Grade field, where you can specify the student’s grade. Here, you should assign the whole number of points out of the total available points for the assignment.

5. When grading quizzes, the popup will show the student’s submitted answers. Each question provides a separate Grade field with its maximum points. For automatically graded questions, this field shows the awarded points, which you can override. Entering more than the maximum points will reset the field to zero.

6. Optionally, you can assign the Bonus Points for both quizzes and assignments. These points will be added to the base grade. This option allows you to assign points above the maximum points specified in the quiz or assignment settings.
7. Also, you can leave your comments for the student in the Feedback field.
8. Click the Submit button to save the grade.

Now, instead of the “Ungraded” link, you will see the grade you assigned for this assignment or quiz. You can update this grade at any time. Click the grade, and make your changes in the grading popup.

The grading popup always shows the quiz questions as they appeared when the student submitted the quiz. Thus, editing quiz questions later will not affect the grading of submitted attempts.