# Gradebook

URL: https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/gradebook
Tab: Grading & Reports
Category: Grading
Updated: 2026-10-07

See every grade for a student in one place.

The Gradebook is one student's record for one school year: every course with its grade, credits and hours, the GPA and hour totals, and the student's test results and awards. Open it from the **Gradebook** tab on the student's page.

The picker in the header chooses the school year. **Manage grades** at the bottom of it opens the organizer that puts courses into a year: expand **Unassigned courses** and click **Add to grade**. A course appears here, and on transcripts, only once it is in a year. See [Where's my course?](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/wheres-my-course) if a course is missing.

![A student's Gradebook](https://opensky-public-images.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/supportimages/grades-reports/gradebook-1.png)

## Reading the page

The bar at the top shows **Cumulative GPA**, **Total Credits**, **Total Hours**, and **Core Hours**, **Non-Core Hours** and **Elective Hours**.

Each row shows the **Course**, its **Progress**, **Grade** (a letter, or **—** when there is none), **Credits**, **Hours** and **Tags**. Click a row to grade it lesson by lesson (see [Lessons](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/grading-lessons)). The gear opens Course Settings; the **×** takes the course out of this year but keeps its grades and lessons.

## Hours and tags

Hours come from completed lessons whose completion date falls inside the year. Each lesson logs the course's **Default hours per lesson** (Course Settings, **Display** tab) unless you type a different figure in the grading view's **Hours** column. Skipped lessons log nothing.

The **Tag** chip on a row sets what its hours count toward: **Core**, **Non-Core** or **Elective**. A course with two tags counts fully in both totals, and an untagged course counts only in Total Hours.

## Semesters

Click **Add semester** to split the year into columns, then drag rows between them; click a column's name to rename it. The **⋯** menu on a column has **Add additional credit**, for an outside course, with a **Title**, **Credits** and a free-text **Grade**.

## Activities

An activity gets a row when **Add to parent grading queue** is ticked on it, and belongs to the school year it was added to. Its gear opens **Activity grading settings** for an override, credits and hour tags. The **×** removes it from the gradebook only.

## Tests & awards

Under the columns, **Add** records a **Test result** or an **Award**. For a test, pick a preset (Iowa Assessments, Stanford 10, MAP Growth, PSAT, SAT, ACT and others) or **Custom**, then fill in the **Name**, **Date taken**, **Term** and scores. **Private notes (only parents see these)** and an attached score report go with it. Both kinds print on transcripts, even records that are **Not in a term**.

**Generate portfolio** and **Generate transcript** sit in the header. See [Generating a portfolio](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/generating-a-portfolio) and [Transcripts](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/transcripts).

## Need more help?

Reach out any time at [support@openskyplanner.com](mailto:support@openskyplanner.com) and we will be happy to help.