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Gradebook, report cards & transcripts

A spreadsheet-style gradebook that ends in real report cards and transcripts — not exports you rebuild by hand.
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Math 5 · Gradebook
Quarter 2 · 4 assignments · grading by category
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All changes saved·Undo·EX excused · M missing

In short

Pearspark's gradebook is a keyboard-first grid with autosave and undo that flows straight into report cards and printable transcripts with GPA. A high school gets weighted honors and AP grade points printed beside the unweighted figure, and graduation requirements measured per student, so "is this senior on track?" takes a glance instead of an afternoon. Weighted categories, drop-lowest and What-If projections are built in — at one price, not per-module.

Type grades like a spreadsheet, keep the safety net

Teachers type directly into cells with full keyboard navigation. Every entry autosaves with one-click undo, supports excused/missing codes, and bulk fill-empty for the whole column. No modal dialogs between a teacher and a stack of quizzes.

Sample data
A class gradebook in Pearspark: one row per student, one column per spelling, math or reading assignment, with scores in each cell. Student names are sample data.
A class gradebook. Type a score in a cell and it saves; each column is one assignment.

Grading policy that matches how you actually grade

Points, per-assignment weights, or weighted categories — per class. Drop each student's lowest N scores automatically (per category in category mode). Students and parents see a What-If view that projects how the next score changes their average, which quietly ends the "what do I need on the final" email.

From posted grades to paper, without retyping

Post term grades once and they become report cards and transcripts. Transcripts compute GPA and credits in whichever credit mode you use — per grading period, or one final grade per year — print cleanly to PDF from the browser, and show graduation or withdrawal dates on their own. Mark a course honors or AP and the transcript prints both GPAs, weighted and unweighted, with a line saying how it was weighted; a college asks for both, and a number with no explanation is not accepted by anyone. A failing mark still drags the average down, which is the point of it, and earns no credit toward a diploma. Which marks pass is your rule, set once on your grade scale.

Sample data
An academic transcript for a sample student, listing transfer credit from a previous school and each year's courses, letter grades, percentages, credits and GPA.
A transcript built from posted grades, with transfer credit from a previous school and a GPA for each year.

Is this senior on track to graduate?

Write down what a diploma costs — four credits of Math, twenty in total — and every student is measured against it. Courses count by subject, including credit earned at another school, so a transfer student's four years of Math count as four years of Math. Courses they are sitting in right now count too, so a senior mid-year reads as on track rather than short from September to January. One page lists whoever will not make it and what each one still owes; a printable sheet goes into the meeting with the family. Requirements are a set, not a setting: revise them for next year's class and the students who entered under the old rules keep graduating under them.

Analytics teachers actually look at

Each class has a summary view — score distributions, per-student trend lines, missing-work tracking — and a per-student drill-down. Copy assignments between classes and export any gradebook to CSV whenever you want your data elsewhere.

What's included

  • Spreadsheet-style grid with keyboard navigation
  • Autosave with one-click undo
  • Excused / missing codes and bulk fill
  • Weighted categories, per-assignment weights, or straight points
  • Automatic drop-lowest per student
  • What-If score projections for students and parents
  • Class analytics: distributions, trends, missing work
  • Report cards from posted term grades
  • Printable transcripts with GPA and credit modes
  • Weighted GPA for honors and AP, printed beside the unweighted one
  • Failing marks earn no credit, on your own definition of failing
  • Graduation requirements per subject, with a total-credits rule
  • One page of students who will not graduate, and what they owe
  • Transfer credit counted toward the requirement it belongs to
  • Copy assignments between classes; CSV export

All of it is part of the one price: $50 a month including 20 students, then $2.50 a student, stepping down as you grow (see the bands). Nothing on this page is a paid add-on.

See it done in 60 seconds

All 25 videos

Real screen recordings, one task a minute.

Set up grading categories and drop-lowestTeachers
Add an assignment to the gradebookTeachers
Enter grades in the gradebook gridTeachers
Copy assignments from another classTeachers
Project a student's grade with What if…?Teachers
Post term grades for a grading periodTeachers

Common questions

Can teachers grade without clicking into dialogs?
Yes — the gradebook is a grid. Click a cell (or arrow-key to it), type the score, and move on. Everything autosaves, and a one-click undo reverses the last change. Excused and missing are one-keystroke codes.
Do report cards and transcripts cost extra?
No. Posted grades flow into report cards and printable transcripts with GPA at no extra charge — there are no per-module fees anywhere in Pearspark.
Does it handle high-school transcripts — weighted GPA, credits, graduation requirements?
Yes. Courses can carry an honors or AP weighting, and the transcript prints the weighted and unweighted GPA side by side with a note explaining the difference. Credits follow your grade scale, so a failing mark earns none while still counting against the average. Graduation requirements are written per subject plus a total, and every student is measured against them — including credit earned at a previous school. What Pearspark does not do: class rank, and dual enrollment as a category of its own. A college course is imported as transfer credit attributed to the college that issued it, so it prints on the transcript with that college's name beside it and counts toward the graduation requirement for its subject — what is missing is the separate "dual enrollment" label, not the credit.
A student transferred in with three years elsewhere. Does that credit count?
Yes, and it says where it came from. Imported courses carry the school that issued them, print on the transcript as transfer credit attributed to that school, and count toward the graduation requirement for their subject. Two schools' "Algebra I" in one year stay two records rather than merging into one.
Can we import our existing gradebook?
Yes. Pearspark imports rosters, historical transcripts, and assignment-level gradebooks from CSV exports, with a dry-run preview so you check every row before anything is written.

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