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# Foundation/higher marksheet design tool
This type of sheet is typically used where students are sitting past papers from courses that offer foundation and higher tiers, where UMS marks are not available or not applicable. Each assessment within the marksheet can offer a different range of grades. Either marks or grades can be recorded for the assessments; if marks are entered they are converted into grades. The best grade in the sheet is then used in calculations for the overall grade. It is worth noting that this approach does lose some sensitivity in the sense that a student with 50% may get a 5, as may a student with 59%; in both cases the result carried forward for them is simply the fact that they got a 5. If more detail is required the standard marksheet can be used with the grading scheme using advanced scaling.
The top section allows the sheet's name and weighting to be adjusted. If a sheet is given a weighting of zero it does not contribute to the overall grade. You can also set a sheet to be **private**, meaning it is not visible to students and parents, by default this will set the sheet weighting to zero, you can change this, but it can lead to parents and students seeing discrepancies when they see an overall grade. You can flag the sheet to use the residual scheme for the subject, as well as change the marksheet grading scheme. Finally, you can set the assessment/marksheet visibility settings for the student page as well as in the markbook/marksheet.
The central section is read-only and indicates that any marks/grades entered will be compared, and the best grade will be selected.
The bottom section allows you to add columns to your marksheet for recording marks or short notes (up to 200 characters in length). Each of the items you add can have a name, due date and can be given a colour coding which affects the background colour of the label when the marksheet is viewed in the markbook. You can also **lock** columns which prevents their contents being changed. The sequence of the items can be changed using the arrows on the left-hand side, and items can be removed by clicking the **X** button on the right. You can change most aspects of a marksheet at any time, but some aspects will be locked if marks have been entered into the marksheet.
The **Edit** buttons highlighted in red above provides access to the grading scheme editor for each assessment. This allows you to set up a foundation assessment that offers grades U - 5, and a higher assessment that offers grades 4 - 9. As marks/grades are entered, the best grade of the two (or more, depending on how many assessments are created) will be used for calculating the overall grade.
Understanding the behaviour of notes and marks:
- Notes fields (up to 200 characters) always have a weighting of zero, and **never** have an impact on the grade calculated for a marksheet even if they hold text that looks like a number or grade.
- If you are adding a mark-entry item, you can specify how many marks it is out of. You can change this until marks have been entered by staff.
- By default, missing marks are simply ignored in the calculation of the overall grade for the marksheet, but you can treat them as a zero if you use the **=0** tick box
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