Level up your assessment: easy excel tool for evaluating

Dear readers,

Here you can see an example of how to assess a term or unit with its different items in Excel. It is very practical, as now you only need to enter the students’ grades and Excel will do the necessary calculations for you.

I hope it is useful and that you can make good use of the template.

Thank you for reading this blog, and I hope my content continues to entertain you.

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