The Push to Sections option moves the grading setup from a course to its sections. Districts should exercise caution when moving changes to sections once classes are in session, as changes may affect grade calculations.
Push to Sections
Before you start
- When a category pushed from a course and a category created by the teacher in the section have the same name, the teacher's category is appended with (1) to distinguish it from the category from the course.
- Categories pushed to sections are locked from editing by teachers.
- Changes made to calculations in Grade Calc Options and Composite Grading may result in changes to students' grades once classes are in session.
- This option is NOT available when the course is a mapped Cross-Site Enrollment course.
This option requires Read rights to the Push to Sections subright. See the Course Information Tool Rights article for details.
Course information is the core reporting information unless the Section is populated. This means:
- Values populated in the Section Information fields take precedence over the values populated in the Course Information fields.
- Section Information fields appear blank unless they are populated manually.
- Section Information fields should only be populated when the values need to differ from the Course Information fields.
See the Locked Fields on Course Information and Section Information explanation on the Course Catalog article for details.
Push to Sections
- Click Push to Sections.
- In the pop-up that opens, Categories, Grade Calc Options, Composite Grades and Weights, and Advisory are automatically selected. Remove the checkbox for any course data that should not be pushed.
- Mark Overwrite Categories when any categories at the section level should be overwritten with course-level data.
- Review the list of sections and assigned teachers that will be updated with this push.
- Mark the I understand and wish to continue checkbox to indicate that the changes have been reviewed.
- Click Push to update sections with grading data from the course.
