Feature Overview

Computers, browsers, internet connections, and filters all differ between machines. Use these settings to troubleshoot or adjust to your preferences. These settings are saved locally to your machine (not to your account), so you can have different ones set up for your work computer and your home computer.

⚠️ All other Advanced Settings pages are auto-saving except for this one. Remember to click 'SAVE' at the top of the page to activate your customizations.

Where is this feature?

Custom Overrides is part of GradeTransferer's Advanced Settings, which can be accessed by first clicking the hamburger menu. See below.👇

Force Clear

Did you play with the settings and mess things up and now want to reset? This is your button. If it doesn't fix your issue, you can remove the extension from your Chrome profile (right-click and select 'Remove from Chrome') and add it again. There will be a shortcut link at the top of the page that pops up after you remove from Chrome).

Alert Preferences

The pop-up alerts are intended to help you transfer data by confirming what's been grabbed, filled, rounded and scaled. If you find it more efficient to turn them off, you can!

Progress Alerts

The progress alerts are there to help users better understand what's happening with the data they're transferring and to have an extra level of verification readily available for troubleshooting. If you don't like seeing these 'Grab' and 'Fill' summaries, you can turn them "OFF" using this setting. Don't forget to save your newly set customizations using the 'SAVE' button at the top of the page!

Turn popup summaries (like the one below 👇) ON or OFF using this setting.

Scaling & Rounding Alerts

GradeTransferer's built-in linear scaling and rounding features come with supporting notifications to help guide users by default. Once you get the hang of these features, you can turn "OFF" these supporting notifications with this toggle switch. Don't forget to save your newly set customizations using the 'SAVE' button at the top of the page!

Turn notifications (like the one below 👇) ON or OFF using this setting. To learn more about the Scaling Feature, look here! To learn more about the Rounding Feature, look here!

Platform Specific Settings

Depending on the platform you are using, and your specific machine, network, or district gradebook, there might be some settings that require adjustments to optimize how you grab and fill data.

Auto-detect Platform

Most of the time, you want this feature toggled ON so that the service can automatically detect the gradebook you are trying to grab from and fill to. If your district has a configuration that makes it difficult for GradeTransferer to accurately auto-detect your platform, see the related error page linked below.

• Error 14 - Unsupported Platform

• Error 17 - Undetected Platform

  

Canvas Auto-Scrolling Time

On the 'Gradebook' view in Canvas, when grabbing data, GradeTransferer will auto-scroll the page to load all of the information to be grabbed. If some students are not grabbed, especially those at the bottom of the class, it's possible that your internet connection is too slow or your classes are too large for your browser to fully load the data in time before grabbing.

To fix this issue, adjust the Canvas auto-scrolling time. For larger classes (or slower internet connections) INCREASE the time, save, and try again.

If grabbing is taking longer than you'd like, you can decrease the time, save, and try grabbing for a faster experience, as long as all students are grabbed successfully.

To learn more about filling and grabbing in Canvas, look here!

Google Classroom Grab Overall Grade Column

If you have your Google Classroom class settings configured to show the Overall Grade Column, you can use this setting to grab from it. When it is toggled ON, the overall grade column will be grabbed in Google Classroom if a specific assignment column is not selected. The pop-up summary will notify you when this data is grabbed. When OFF, the overall grade column will not grab. Make sure to save in Custom Overrides after adjusting the setting for it to take effect.

*To learn more about grabbing in Google Classroom, look here!

Infinite Campus Auto-Scrolling Time

On the 'Gradebook' view in Infinite Campus, when filling data, GradeTransferer will first scroll to the bottom of the page for a few seconds so all student rows populate on the page so it can then input the data quicker.

If you have very large classes or a slow internet connection, it might be useful to INCREASE the time allotted for scrolling the page. You would know that you need to make this adjustment if the bottom part of your roster is never filled or certain students are consistently skipped despite their names matching between gradebooks. By changing the auto-scroll time to be something longer, your browser will have more time to load all the students onto the page so GradeTransferer can then process all the student rows.

If you have very small classes or a fast internet connection, it might make sense to DECREASE the time allotted for scrolling the page. This would save you a few seconds every time you 'fill' data, which can add up over time. If you start seeing that the bottom of the roster is left blank and not getting data transferred into it, adjust the setting to a higher number and try again.

To learn more about filling in Infinite Campus, look here!

PowerTeacher Pro Filling Delay

GradeTransferer's filling speed in PowerTeacherPro can be sped up in case your internet connection and computer can handle the faster fill scripts, this can make your transferring even more efficient. To do so, decrease the delay, save, and try transferring again. If your transfer is complete, you can continue with the faster speed!

If some student grades are not filling, despite the fact that their names match accurately between gradebooks, your machine or internet connection could be slower and therefor needs GradeTransferer to fill more slowly. You can increase the delay to make the fill script slower, save, and then try transferring again.

In conclusion, you can adjust the delay so GradeTransferer fills at a speed that works well for your network and machine so it is efficient and complete in PowerTeacher Pro. To learn more about filling in PowerTeacher Pro, look here!

The first 4 minutes of this video will walk you through this feature.

SchoolsPLP & Agilix Page Targeting Workaround

This is just a workaround to try in case your district embedded your SchoolsPLP or Agilix gradebook into their site more deeply than would be expected. Don't forget to click 'SAVE' at the top of the page after turning this setting ON or OFF so the changes can get applied.

If turning this setting on doesn't resolve your grabbing issue, turn the setting back OFF, save, and then submit a support ticket with a screen recording so we can better assist you.

Name Matching Algorithm Settings

GradeTransferer was intentionally designed with a flexible name matching algorithm to help you transfer between platforms where names might be formatted differently.

By default, GradeTransferer would view Dan Lee as a match for all of the following: Dan Kim Lee, Lee Dan, Danny K. Lee, Lee Daniel K, Dan Lee, and Dannie Lee.

If you need to make the matching algorithm stricter, you have 3 options...

Rigid Character Match

When ON, the algorithm will require that the amount of characters in a name match.

Ex: Dan Lee will not match to Danny Lee or Lee Daniel K

Ex: Dan Lee will match to Dan Kim Lee and Lee Dan

Troubleshooting Use Case: When a student has a very short and/or common name that is identified in other names, the extension can have trouble making the right identification. For example, the student "Al" might be identified as the student "Allison". At this point, the extension will stop filling because it can not apply both Al's and Allison's grades to Alison. Sometimes, both student's scores will be filled into the same cell, for example a 10 and a 10 will fill as 1010 for one student.

Rigid Segment Count

When ON, the algorithm will require the amount of segments in a name match.

Ex: Dan Lee will not match to Dan Kim Lee or Danny K. Lee

Ex: Dan Lee will match to Danny Lee and Lee Dan

💡Enabling both Rigid Character Match and Rigid Segment Count would only allow Dan Lee to match to Dan Lee and Lee Dan. If you need to restrict matching further, see Absolute Match in the next section.

Absolute Match - In the Name Discrepancy Fixer

If you need to restrict matching even further, you can setup an Absolute Match in the Name Discrepancy Fixer by adding a rule that the grabbed name will only match to exactly itself by adding an asterisk at the end.

Like this:

Dan Lee Kim ➝ Dan Lee Kim*

This helps GradeTransferer understand that these are especially similar cases and need more stringent evaluation.

Tip: Ensure the order of first, middle, and last name in your rule matches the exact order that appear in your grabbing gradebook (left side of rule) and filling gradebook (right side of rule).

Tip: Remember to leave commas out of naming rules as they are intentionally filtered out by the service.

🎯 Remember to always review transfers for accuracy and completion. The GradeTransferer service can significantly speed up the transfer process and cut down on errors. However, just as with manual grading, it is the teacher's responsibility to verify that grades are correct within their gradebook.