🎯 Purpose
Term Conversion lets your district assign custom numeric values to each performance level in a standards-based grading scale. This makes it possible for Otus to calculate scores using the Decaying Average and Mean mastery settings and allows educators to view and report performance as either a term or numeric value.
❗Term Conversion can only be configured by the Main Admin account.
💡 Why use Term Conversion
✅ Enable Decaying Average and Mean mastery setting calculations for standards-based grading across all classes and buildings
✅ Give teachers the ability to toggle between term labels and point percentages directly within the Standards Gradebook view
✅ Allow administrators to display standards performance as terms or percentages
✅ Align numeric grading data with your district’s existing Grading Scale language. The "terms" in Term Conversion refer to the words, letters, or numbers used to identify each performance level in a standards grading scale.
🔑 Key Concepts
Topic/Area | What It Means |
Terms | The labels your district uses for each performance level, such as ABCDF, Exceeds/Meets/Approaching/Not at Standard, etc. |
Left Side | The left side will take a numeric value that falls within the identified ranges and change it to each "term" on the scale. Sets the numeric range that converts into a term label. (e.g., 90–100% = A) |
Right Side | The right side of the term conversion is what is used to calculate the decaying average and mean for standards-based grading scales only. (e.g., C = 75%) |
⚙️ Set Up Term Conversion
Step 1: Locate the Term Conversion option for the selected Grading Scale
Within the Main Admin account, select Control Center on the left-hand toolbar.
You are automatically taken to the Grading Scales page after entering the Control Center. From here, you will see a list of all grading scales.
Click the ellipsis to the right of the Grading Scale and select Term Conversion.
Step 2: Enter your chosen numeric ranges and percentages
When viewing the Term Conversion for a specific grading scale, you will notice two different sections. Both sections must be completed in order to save the term conversion.
The left side will take a numeric value that falls within the identified ranges and change it to each "term" on the scale.
The right side of the term conversion is what is used to calculate the decaying average and mean for standards-based grading scales only.
💡 Tip: For best results, we recommend balancing the left and right sides of the conversion so that the numeric values applied to each term on the right fall also fall within the numeric ranges that convert to the term on the left.
Example 1: ABCDF
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Example 2: Exceeds, Meets, Approaching, Not at Standard
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