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Finding your way around the Edit Table Structure window

The Edit Table Structure window is where a gradebook's setup lives: its categories, their parts and columns, how much each one counts, and how marks are entered. This guide labels every control once, then walks through the three things teachers do here most: starting from a template, adding a new grading part, and reusing a setup in another class.

Open from Class Gradebook → Edit Structure Changes save only on Save Changes
Anatomy

What's in the window

One category ("Exams") is shown with one part unfolded ("Written Tests", marked in points) and a second part folded away. Numbers on the diagram match the list on the right.

Edit Table Structure ✕
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✨ Start from a template ⬇ Download this setup as a template
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Operation Mode
Semesters (2) Trimesters (3)
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Grading Settings
Active Grading Scale
Austrian 1–5 Numeric
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Evaluation Groups & Column Setup
All categories together: 100%
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Group Name
Exams
Color
Weight (%)
60
▲▼
🗑
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Part name
⊟ Written Tests
Weight (%)
2
Entry mode
Points
Recorded every lesson
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Midterm Test
1
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Group Default
Semester 1
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＋ Add Column
Part name
⊞ Oral Exams
Weight (%)
1
Entry mode
Direct grade
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2 column(s) hidden
＋ Add a part
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＋ Add Group
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Close
Save Changes
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Templates

Start from a template offers ready-made setups for a teaching style. Download this setup as a template saves your categories and columns as a file, with no grades and no student names in it.

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Operation Mode

Semesters or trimesters: how many grading periods this gradebook uses.

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Active Grading Scale

The scale the whole gradebook grades on by default: letters, numbers, or one of your own.

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Running total

Category weights are simply percentages. This one line adds them up, Participation included, and turns amber if they don't come to 100%.

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Category

A main area like Exams or Homework: its name, its colour, its share of the final grade, and up and down arrows that move it earlier or later in your gradebook.

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Part

A part inside a category, like Written Tests: its weight next to the other parts, how marks are entered (Direct grade, Percentage, Points, or a scale), and "Recorded every lesson" for marks that come from the calendar. Click ⊟ / ⊞ to fold its columns away or show them.

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Column

One graded column: its name, its weight inside the part, Max points (only for a part marked in points, empty means out of 100), an optional scale, and which term it belongs to.

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Add Group

Starts a brand-new category at the bottom of the list.

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Save Changes

Nothing reaches the gradebook until you click this. Close throws every change away.

Walkthroughs

Three common tasks

Task

Start from a template

  1. Open the class gradebook, click Edit Structure, then Start from a template.
  2. Pick a teaching style: Exam focused, Continuous assessment, Project based, Practical work, Language skills or Two exams, marked in parts. Or upload a template file a colleague sent you.
  3. Check Categories you would get: each category and its share of the final grade.
  4. Click Use this template, type REPLACE and confirm. The new setup is laid out in the window, but nothing has changed yet.
  5. Adjust anything you like, then click Save Changes. Close keeps your old setup instead.
Task

Add a new grading part

  1. Open the class gradebook and click Edit Structure.
  2. Find the category you want (e.g. Exams) and click + Add a part underneath it.
  3. Name the new part, e.g. Oral Exams, and give it a Weight (%) next to the other parts in that category.
  4. Pick an Entry mode: Direct grade, Percentage, Points, or one of your own scales. For Points, each column gets its own Max points box.
  5. If it should fill from the calendar's Class Session panel, tick Recorded every lesson.
  6. Click + Add Column inside the part to give it its first column.
  7. Click Save Changes. If the change removes a column or part that already has marks in it, the window asks you first.
Task

Reuse this setup in another class

  1. Get one gradebook's categories, parts, weights and scales the way you want.
  2. Above that gradebook, click Use this setup in another class.
  3. Under Copy into, pick one or more classes and subjects.
  4. Choose Add what is missing, keep what is already there, or Replace the other class's setup completely.
  5. Click Copy setup. Replacing asks once more, since it can remove parts the other class already has.
Tip

Share your setup with a colleague

  1. In Edit Table Structure, click Download this setup as a template.
  2. Send the file to a colleague who teaches the same subject. It contains only the shape of your gradebook: no grades, no student names.
  3. They open Start from a template and choose Upload a template file a colleague sent you.
  4. It's also a simple way to reuse your own setup in a new school year.
Good to know

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