PGGP Preferences allow teachers to customize the way PGGP handles standards.

Clicking Limit Standards to One makes PGGP require standards to be used only once each reporting period.   While this may not work well for many situations, it does allow for some interesting grading techniques.   If you teach Kindergarten and must keep track of many assessments given through out the year, this may be the setting for you.  You could put in the most likely assessment results you normally keep in binders full of check marks.   Let's use vowels for instance.  If your students are to learn 5 (main) vowels during the first grade period, you could put this as an assessment and a standard and give it a rubric capability of 5.   As you assess the stuents, you would enter the number of vowels each has learned.  Later if a student is reassessed and has learned more, you would alter that student's score.   Printing out grade book pages will make a splendid recording sheet.  Because PGGP can carry settings forward, it is easy to set up for the next year.

Clicking True Standards causes PGGP to use the "Drivers License" technique to look at the final grade for a subject.   PGGP always looks at each of the standards assessed in a subject.   It normally averages these and attempts to give a final grade for the subject.   The average is not rounded up. The "Drivers License" setting will cause PGGP make the final grade is the result of the lowest grade of the standards assessed.   This may seem odd, but the thinking here is the student cannot be "Proficient" in Writing if the student has even one Writing standard that is not at the Proficient level.

By clicking Use Latest Assessment, PGGP can only look at the last time a standard was assessed.   This way you have all the assessments of a given standard, but PGGP only uses the latest assessment for the standard.   (This puts PGGP in compliance with Hawaii DOE documents on standards-based grading.)