Your quarter grade is the higher of two tracks:

① Your work — worksheets 50%, quizzes 35%, Blookets 15%. A lesson's flashcard deck earns its Blooket credit.

② Progress Checks — one per unit, AP-exam-style, retakable until the quarter closes. Your best score counts.

Your grade starts as your Work track. Once Work (with bonus) is at least 40%, your Progress Check score replaces it if it's higher. A low Progress Check never lowers you — either track can reach 100%.

Missing work becomes a 0 13 days after its class day (worksheets and Blookets). The Desk warns you 3 days before. Nothing locks — finish it later and the 0 goes away.

Worksheets stay open: change an answer and Check again. Grade with AI only ever raises your score. Quizzes: miss a question and you get one retry with a short explanation — that answer counts. Still wrong? Talk it through can earn back half credit.

Bonus only goes up. An exit ticket adds +5 / +3 / +1 (E/P/I) to its lesson. Bonus sheets (DOK sheets and unit posters) add +7.5 / +4.5 / +1.5, banked and added at the end of the quarter to whichever track helps you more. A worksheet finished by its class day adds +1 (up to +5 a quarter). Quarters still top out at 100%.

One official grade. Every night your grade is written to Schoology, and the Desk shows that same number marked official. Today's estimate moves as you work, so it's a step ahead of Schoology until tonight's sync. It uses a slightly stricter formula (it also asks for 40% on the Progress Check side, and otherwise is capped at 70% of the better track), so it can differ from the official number until the nightly write. A score Mr. Colson types into Schoology by hand is never lowered by the sync.

The ↑ next to a quarter is your ceiling — the best grade you can still reach if you ace what's left.

Practice never counts: the Review deck, the TI-84 Trainer and Study Break. Candy, keys and games never change your grade.

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