Where your work is kept

Your gradebook is on your computer, and it stays there. There is no server behind this app, so there is nowhere else for it to be.

This page covers where your file lives, how backups work, and what differs from one computer to another.

There is no save button

Every edit is recorded the moment you make it, then written into your file a second later.

Because the edit is recorded before the file is written, your work is safe on the computer even when the file cannot be saved. That can happen if the file is open in another program, if the drive it is on has been unplugged, or if the disk is full. The file catches up as soon as it can, and the app tells you when that has happened.

Where the copies are

Your gradebook is kept in up to three places at once, and Settings, under Sync, lists them, says where each one is, and lets you move it.

• In the app, on this computer. This copy is always there.
• A file of your own. On Windows and macOS this is switched on from the first time you open the app, in your Documents folder. On a Chromebook you pick the file yourself.
• Google Drive, which is optional and the one part that costs money, at $14.99 once. It has its own page.

All of these hold the same gradebook. The app keeps them in step for you, and only asks you to choose when the same gradebook has been changed in two places since they were last in step.

Rename your gradebook in Settings and every copy is renamed with it.

Backups

Dated backups are written the first time you open the app each day and again as you leave, never more than hourly.

Say where they go under Saved Backup Location. Your school drive is a good place for them, since a backup kept on this computer goes with the computer if it is lost or replaced.

Restoring is in the same place. You can pick a dated backup from the list, or a file you saved yourself. It replaces everything in the current gradebook, and asks first.

Carrying a class somewhere else

Save a class as a template from Setup, then Class, and open it somewhere else. Teachers use this to carry a course into next year, or to hand one to a colleague.

What differs by computer

On Windows and macOS all of this works without your thinking about it.

On a Chromebook, Chrome may ask once when you come back whether the app may still write to your file. If that file is in Google Drive, turn on Available offline so you can mark without Wi-Fi.

Firefox and Safari do not support giving a web app a file to write to. Your gradebook would live inside the browser on that one computer, and you would have to save every backup by hand. Take the desktop installer instead.

Erasing it

Settings has Start over, which erases the gradebook on this computer. It asks first, and warns you that only a backup file can bring the gradebook back.