As the term draws to a close, the office will notify you when it's time to submit course grades. In jmc Teacher, you can easily edit the final course grades for your students, add any necessary comments for the report card, and then send the final course grades to the office. This process brings the current term to a close. Once you have completed the term's tasks, you can shift your focus to preparing for the upcoming term, while the office professionals handle the distribution of report cards to students and families.

To edit final course grades as needed, add comments and send grades to the office, head to Edit > Course Grades in jmc Teacher.

Step One: Select a course from the "Courses" drop-down list to view all students along with their course grades for the selected course.

Fun Fact: jmc will automatically calculate current course grades from the Scores module and/or from the Competency-Based Grading module for teachers using a jmc gradebook option eliminating the need for manual calculation.

Step Two (optional): Select a new course grade for a student using the grade drop-down list under the term column to edit a student's final course grade as needed.

Fun Fact: Once a course grade is selected, the checkbox next to the course grade will become checked indicating this grade is not a calculated course grade.

Helpful Tip: Do you want to give all the kids the same course grade? Select a course grade and click the "Fill Grade Column" link to fill the entire grade column with the selected grade.

Step Three (optional): Click the "Weights" button to edit the weighting used for the term grades or exams when calculating the overall "Year" course grade calculation.

Step Four: Select a comment using the "Comment" drop-down list to display a comment on the individual student's report card.

Helpful Tip: Not seeing the comment you are looking for? Add comments in jmc Office > Grading > Utilities > Edit Comments.

Step Five: Click the "Save" button to update any changes to course grades or comments.

Step Six: Repeat steps one through five for each of your courses to put the finishing touches on all course grades.

Step Seven: Click the "Print" button to print the student grades in the displayed class.

Step Eight: Click the "Send Grades for All Courses to Office" quick link on the right side of the page to submit all course grades to the office.

Helpful Tip: After you have submitted grades for the term, head to File > Preferences and select the upcoming term from the "Current Term" drop-down list to prepare for the next term in the school year.