What is Grade Passback?
Jupiter grade passback is a feature for organizations with a School & District license that allows teachers to return scores from Formative assignments back to Jupiter.
Automatic vs. Manual Grade Passback
Formative offers two methods to passing grades back to Jupiter - Automatic and Manual.
Automatic Grade Passback is enabled at the assignment level and applies only to formatives that incorporate auto-graded questions only (no rubrics or question types that require manual scoring by the teacher), and it will sends grades back to Jupiter without any action from the teacher once all the required conditions have been met (see below).
Manual Grade Passback applies to all formatives and can be triggered by the teacher at any time once students have launched the assignment from within Jupiter and started working on it.
Below you can find the specific prerequisites for each Grade Passback method along with step-by-step instructions.
Automatic Grade Passback
Toggling on the assignment setting will send grades back from Formative into Jupiter automatically, as long as all the prerequisites and conditions below are met.
Prerequisites for Automatic Grade Passback
There are a few initial steps to ensure the automatic grade passback feature will be available on a formative:
Integration setup prerequisites
You must be a part of your organization's School & District license with Formative
Formative must have been added as an app to Jupiter (please refer to these instructions for LTI integration if this is not the case)
Formative specific prerequisites
The formative must include auto-graded questions exclusively. Any questions requiring manual scoring (to include rubrics) will disqualify the formative from Automatic Grade Passback.
The formative must have been added as an assignment in Jupiter, and you must have given the assignment a points value.
Student access & submission prerequisites
Your students must have clicked on the Jupiter assignment to open the formative from within Jupiter. (They should not log in directly on the Formative website.)
Your students' work must have been fully submitted (either by the student or by the teacher on the behalf of the student)
How Automatic Grade Passback Works
Once the assignment is fully submitted (by the student or via teacher on behalf of the student) and all questions are auto-graded, scores are automatically sent back to Jupiter.
Unanswered Questions
Please note, that the only grades that pass back automatically are the ones fully completed at the time of the initial submission.
Any update to the grade in Formative will require a manual passback to send the updates back into Jupiter, including:
Students left questions unanswered when originally submitting and went back to complete them after submission
Students edited previously submitted responses
Teachers manually adjusted scores for students after submission
Teachers changed either the answer key or the point value of questions the students already submitted answers to
Multiple attempts were taken (only the 1st attempt will pass back automatically)
Manual Grade Passback
As mentioned before, if any part of the assignment requires manual teacher scoring, like an open-ended question, automatic passback will not apply.
However, teachers can use Manual Grade Passback to send the grades back, as long as the prerequisites below are fully met.
Teachers can also use Manaual Grade Passback if any of the students' scores need to be updated after they've already been sent to Jupiter.
Prerequisites for Manual Grade Passback
There are a few initial steps to ensure the passback feature is available on a formative:
Integration setup prerequisites
You must be a part of your organization's School & District license with Formative
Formative must have been added as an app to Jupiter (please refer to these instructions for LTI integration if this is not the case)
Formative specific prerequisites
The formative must have been added as an assignment in Jupiter, and you must have given the assignment a points value.
Student access & submission prerequisites
Your students must have clicked on the Jupiter assignment to open the formative from within Jupiter. (They should not log in directly on the Formative website.)
Use Manual Grade Passback
Ready to get started?
After your students have started responding to questions, follow the steps below to pass the grades back to Jupiter:
Go to grades > update your dropdown to your assignment, or to dashboard > select the assignment you want to passback grades for
Click the attached formative to launch
Select preview
The formative will open in a new tab
From the 3 dot menu at the top right corner, select grade passback
Select Pass back grades to Jupiter
Select the course you’d like to pass back grades to, check-mark the students to pass back grades for, and review the scoring before clicking 'send', please note any students who did not launch via Jupiter will have an error and will need to access the Formative via Jupiter
Back in the Jupiter assignment, your students will have the passed back score listed under 'App'. Click on this score for an individual student, or on 'Apply Scores' to apply to all students in the class - and the scores will copy into the 'Grade' field and will be saved to the Jupiter grade book.
Troubleshooting
Quick Summary
Scenario | Passback Type | What Happens |
Formative is fully auto-graded & submitted | Automatic | Grades sync automatically to Canvas. |
Formative contains open-ended questions or rubrics | Manual | Use Manual Grade Passback after grading. |
Formative was not launched via LMS | — | No automatic passback occurs. |
Assignment is no longer associated with this tool
This can occur if the assignment the student(s) used to answer the formative was removed or changed not to use Formative. You will likely have to manually enter the grades in this case as Formative no longer has the right information it needs to pass grades to the right place in the gradebook.