How nuSkor works

The big picture

nuSkor is two things wearing one name. The public side — that is, everything you can reach without an account — offers free calculators and guides to any student anywhere. The private side is a course portal: courses that choose to use it run their marks workflow there, and their enrolled students get a live view of their own results. No course, no portal — the public tools work regardless.

When a course opts in, a teaching assistant or instructor becomes the workflow’s driver. They define the course structure once — the assessments and their weights, the evaluation periods, the sections they teach — and from then on the system does the bookkeeping. There are no spreadsheets to reconcile, no totals to recompute by hand, and no group-chat archaeology when someone asks what the deadline was.

Step by step: the staff side

1. Set up the course. Assessments are created with names, totals and weightages — quiz 5%, assignment 10%, midterm 25%, whatever the outline says. This is the only place those numbers need to be typed.
2. Enter marks. Results go in by hand for small assessments, or through CSV import when a spreadsheet already exists — with validation catching typos before anything is saved.
3. Publish. Marks become visible to students at the moment of publishing, not before. Staff can verify quieter, correct faster, and answer fewer frantic messages.
4. Run evaluations. Slots are opened for the evaluation period; students book them; the roster assembles itself on the booking grid.
5. Announce. Deadline changes, room swaps and revisions land in the course feed once, for everyone.

Step by step: the student side

1. Sign in with Google. If your course uses nuSkor, signing in lands you in your own dashboard — your sections, your courses.
2. Watch the marksheet. Every published assessment appears with its weight and your marks, alongside class statistics: the average, the range, your position. See the marksheet page for the mockup.
3. Check the leaderboard. Your rank, computed from weighted published marks, with everyone else anonymised — context without exposure.
4. Book your slot. Evaluation slots are claimed with one tap, and the grid guarantees no double-bookings.

A typical week, in one paragraph

Monday: a quiz is graded and published; the marksheet updates, and the leaderboard quietly re-sorts. Tuesday: evaluation slots for next week open, and the grid fills through the day. Wednesday: a deadline moves — one announcement, no confusion. Thursday: a sessional’s spreadsheet is imported in two minutes. Friday: someone wonders whether a 71% is enough for their target grade, and lands on the final grade calculator to find out. Nothing needed a group chat. That is the goal.

What nuSkor never does

• No official records: nuSkor can never replace your university’s results process, and it does not try.
• No ads on private pages: sign-in, admin and portal pages carry no advertising scripts, cookies or units — at all.
• No data browsing between students: database rules, not UI choices, decide who can read what.
• No invented numbers: every example and mockup on the public site is clearly fictional sample data.