It is important that you backup your gradebook.
Once you are in your gradebook, select the “PRINT” tab at the top.
You have several options once you select this. In the spirit of trying to be “green”, I suggest you use the last option, “export gradebook”

This option will create an excel spreadsheet on your computer.

> Create a folder labeled “2015_16_Engrade_Grades”
> Inside of that folder, create another folder for each of your classes.
> In each class folder, create another folder for each quarter and label them: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4.
> When you export your gradebook, select the class folder that each one should go in.

You can choose to overwrite the spreadsheet every time you export within a quarter or you can have multiple spreadsheets for each quarter.
> At the end of each quarter, export your final quarter grades.

Repeat for each quarter.

You will also notice in Engrade under the print tab, you can print your grade book or you can print a student report. Both of these are also ways to backup your online gradebook. Obviously this is a paper version of your online gradebook.

One final precaution, I would backup your engrade folder to our server, (or to whatever backup you use) at least at the end of every quarter.

Remember if you move the folder to the drive icon on your desktop or the folder on your doc labeled “your name”, you are backing the data up to our server.