Navigating MarkBook
MarkBook has a side menu on the left. The top part is for daily work. Configuration below it is for setting the module up. What you see depends on your role and on which halves of MarkBook your school uses.
The main menu
| Menu item | What it is for | Who sees it |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboard | Your landing page: deadlines, classes with blank marks, unfinished reports, and items waiting on your check. | Everyone with staff access. |
| Grades | The marks grid, with tabs for the Summary, Attendance and Suggestions. | Schools that use the marks half. |
| Learning outcomes | The grid where you judge children against the curriculum. | Schools that use learning outcomes. |
| Timetable | Your week of lessons, read from the school's Activity Calendar. | Everyone with staff access. |
| Reports | Generate, review, approve and publish reports. | Everyone with staff access. |
| Communication | What happened to e-mails sent with reports. | Only people who may publish reports, and only while report e-mails are switched on. |
| Parent view | A preview of what a family sees. | Everyone with staff access. |
| Analytics | Grade distributions, targets and progress across the school. | People with the View analytics permission. |
| Configuration | School setup. See below. | Managers, and staff whose role carries a configuration permission. |
The menu can be collapsed to icons. Use the collapse control on the menu to switch between expanded and collapsed. A Full screen button hides the menu and header so the grid has the whole page. Press Escape or Exit full screen to come back.
Grades
Grades is where most teachers spend their time. It has four tabs:
- Grades by Discipline. The marks grid for one class and one subject.
- Summary. All subjects for a class in one view.
- Attendance. Read-only attendance for the class.
- Suggestions. Comment drafts suggested for you to accept or reject.
At the top of the grid, a row of filters sets what you see: Academic year, Class / Year group, Template, and subject. Pick a class and the page lists the subjects you may open. If a subject is missing, see Common Issues.
Detail on entering marks is in Entering Marks.
Configuration
Configuration is split into seven groups, called drawers. Selecting a group opens its first page, and a row of tabs shows the rest.
| Drawer | Pages | Help pages |
|---|---|---|
| School year | What we use · Academic years · Reporting periods | Academic Years, Terms & Checkpoints |
| Assessment | Markbook Templates · Subjects · Attainment scales · Learning outcomes · Course plans · Judgement scales | Markbook Templates, Subjects, Attainment Scales, Judgement Scales |
| Students | Student targets · Student flags | Student Targets, Student Flags |
| Reports | Report templates · Workflows · Report e-mails · Comment bank | Report Templates |
| Users & Roles | Users · Roles · Permissions · Who leads what · Parents & Students | Roles & Permissions |
| Activity log | A record of configuration changes | |
| Developer | API keys, webhooks and the Activity Calendar connection | Activity Calendar Connection |
Some pages hide behind others:
- Scale conversions is a link at the top of Attainment scales.
- Columns (the column library) is a link at the top of Markbook Templates.
- Standards library is a link at the top of Learning outcomes.
Old bookmarks to those pages still work.
Pages you do not see
A drawer or page is hidden when you lack the permission, or when your school has switched off the half it belongs to. The Developer drawer needs the Developer: API keys and webhooks permission. Hiding a page never deletes its data.
The Dashboard
The Dashboard is built from one request, so it loads in one go. It shows:
- Deadlines for the current checkpoints, with how many marks are still blank.
- Your classes, each with a small grid of squares, one per assessment column, filled in proportion to how much is marked. A hollow square means nobody has started that column.
- Unfinished reports, and reports waiting for you to approve.
- Waiting on your check: columns and comments that teachers have sent for checking. See Checking & Approving Columns.
A year picker in the header lets you look at another school year. The dashboard opens on the current year if it has markbooks, otherwise on the most recent year that does.
Language and theme
MarkBook follows the language of Kinderpedia. English and Romanian are fully translated. Other languages fall back to English.
Getting back to Kinderpedia
MarkBook runs inside Kinderpedia. Use the Kinderpedia menu to move to other modules. The browser's back button works inside MarkBook as you would expect.