A grading scale turns a mark into the grade a parent reads. It belongs to a department, not to an exam set: the same scale grades every set's marks, so O-Level can run A–E while primary runs 1–9 in the same school.
Find it at Dashboard → Assessment → Grading. The tabs across the top are your school's departments.
A scale with marks behind it
Primary, O-Level and A-Level grades each cover a range of scores. The strip above the table shows the coverage of the department you are looking at, and tells you when something is wrong with it.
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Min score / Max score | The whole-number range this grade covers, from 0 to 100. |
| Grade | What prints — 1, D2, A. |
| Comment | Short prose printed beside the grade on the report card, up to 32 characters. |
A department's grades must cover 0 to 100 with no gaps and no overlaps, and no two grades may share a label. Overlaps and duplicates are refused outright; a gap is shown as a warning while you are still editing, because a half-finished scale is a normal thing to be looking at.
Nursery: letters, not marks
Nursery is different, and the screen is different with it. A four-year-old is not marked out of 100 and is never ranked, so the nursery tab has no scores at all — just the letters, best first, and what each one says on the report card.
- Open the Nursery tab.
- Use Add Grade to add a letter and its comment. It joins the bottom of the list.
- Use the up and down arrows to put the letters in order, best first.
How many letters you choose is the only decision: YoShule works out where each one falls internally, so a nursery scale can never have a gap or an overlap. Teachers pick the letter directly when entering nursery marks — see Entering student marks.
Adding, removing or reordering a nursery grade restates the letters already entered for nursery classes, so that every child keeps the grade their teacher chose. Nothing is regraded — but the change reaches marks that are already in.
What happens if a department has no scale
The screen offers a sensible starting scale for the department — the PLE 1–9 bands for primary, A–E for O-Level, A–D for nursery — which you can change before or after saving. None of them is a rule; they are what most Ugandan schools already use.