Hi Paul,
There are different ways to record grades in the system, given it’s flexibility, so there isn’t necessarily one answer to your question.
- The Markbook is a place where you can see all grades for a student or for a class, per year. Marks are stored in the markbook per class.
- The Formal Assessment module also lets you store grades for students by class. These are generally intended more for fixed, recurring assessments (eg: IB, GCSE, CAT, etc).
- The Reports module is flexible and allows criteria by Year Group, Form Group or Class. This just depends on how you setup the reporting cycle.
Form groups do tend to be logical subdivisions of year groups, so having one year group and multiple form groups is the norm. I guess it comes down to figuring out what works best for your use case. You do not necessarily need to sync form groups to classes, you can also enrol students manually.