PE Grading Software for Schools
eFit is K-12 physical education tracking software built for the teacher who runs six periods a day with 40 or more students in each one. Activity is graded automatically, fitness assessments are scored against age and gender norms, and grades export to your gradebook as a file you can import.
The Paperwork Load in a K-12 PE Department
A high school PE teacher with six sections of 40 students carries roughly 240 student records. Every one of those records needs a participation mark, a pre-test score in the fall, a post-test score in the spring, and a defensible grade at each reporting period. Done on clipboards and spreadsheets, that is several hours of transcription every week and a weekend lost at the end of each term.
eFit records activity from the device a student already carries, scores the fitness battery for you, and keeps the whole year in one place. Across our partner institutions, the published average is an 80% reduction in time spent on grading, and grades export into the gradebook and LMS a building already runs.
- Participation minutes captured automatically, all period, every period
- Pushup, crunch, one-mile walk, VO2MAX and BMI results scored on entry
- Pre and post comparison for every student, in raw numbers and percentages
- Grade exports for Schoology, Canvas, Blackboard, D2L Brightspace and Moodle
- No license fee for the school or the district, with student access at $59 per semester
A district that already did this
Central Valley School District brought eFit into its high school PE program across 2,000 students and measured a 35% increase in student activity.
Schoology is fully supported through PowerSchool, so K-12 buildings that already run their gradebook there can import eFit grades the same way they import anything else.
98% partner renewal rate
Read the case studiesOne Gym, One Teacher, 200 Students
Here is what a 48-minute period looks like when the grading runs itself.
Bell rings
Students come out of the locker room with a phone or a band already on. You take attendance the way your building requires and start the warm-up. There is no roll sheet to fill in for activity credit.
Activity block
Movement is recorded by the student's device and syncs through Google Health or Apple Health. You coach, you referee, you deal with the kid who forgot shoes. The record builds while you teach.
Last three minutes
Open the analytics dashboard on the one laptop in the office and glance at the period. You can see who has logged nothing this week before that turns into a failing quarter grade.
End of the quarter
Pick the grade type, pick the date range, download the file, import it. The export runs the same way for every section you teach. Automated email reminders have already chased the students who fell behind.
See the mechanics in Activity Tracking and LMS Integration.
Fitness Assessment Cycles Across a School Year
Fall pre-test, spring post-test, and a progress story you can show a parent or a principal.
The battery
Pushup test, one-minute crunch test, one-mile walk test, VO2MAX and BMI. The walk test derives VO2MAX automatically from time, heart rate, weight, age and gender, so nobody is doing that arithmetic on the gym floor.
Scoring by norms
Results are scored against age and gender norms, which matters when a single middle school section spans three grade levels and a wide range of physical maturity.
Progress reporting
Pre and post results sit side by side with the absolute change and the percentage change, plus visual charts, class-wide analytics, and comparison across terms.
Weight is optional
Weight can be left out of the battery. Departments with a body-image policy, or families who ask for it, can run the assessment without a weigh-in.
Export the scores
Assessment data exports to CSV or PDF, separately from activity grades or combined with them. The PDF is what you hand to an administrator who wants the building summary on paper.
Year over year
Cross-term comparison lets a department head look at a cohort from sixth grade to eighth without rebuilding a spreadsheet each August.
Full detail on the battery is in Fitness Assessment Tracking.
Adaptive PE and Modified Participation
Every roster has students on an IEP or a 504 plan, students cleared for limited activity after an injury, and students with a medical note that lasts a semester. A grading system that only counts laps fails all of them.
eFit gives you components you can weight to match a student's plan. Growth is measured against that student's own baseline through pre and post comparison, so a student who improves from a low starting point earns credit for the improvement. Assessment items that a plan excludes can be left out of the battery, weight included.
- Activity minutes from any pace, including walking
- Walking Journey goals with rewards for students building a habit
- Weight training logs for students on a strength-only plan
- Nutrition tracking and the interactive eBook for non-participation days
- PocketAI Journal entries as written evidence of engagement
- Custom date range exports that skip a long medical absence
Building a grading scheme around a specific plan is a conversation worth having before the term starts. Write to sales@efit.software or call 346-222-3348.
Accessibility of the software itself
The student interface is designed to meet WCAG 2.2 AAA, and eFit is ADA compliant. Students using a screen reader, larger text, or high contrast can work through the same journal, logs and eBook as everyone else in the section.
For a district accessibility review, our published statement covers the standards we build to and how to report a barrier.
Accessibility statementStandards, Privacy and the Reality of Devices in a Gym
The three questions a K-12 department head asks before the demo is over.
Evidence for standards alignment
eFit is an independent product and carries no endorsement or certification from SHAPE America or any other standards body. What it produces is the evidence your curriculum documents ask for.
National and state PE standards generally ask a student to demonstrate regular participation in physical activity, to achieve and maintain health-enhancing fitness, and to value activity for health and enjoyment. Activity minutes speak to the first, the pre and post fitness battery speaks to the second, and journal entries plus nutrition logs give you writing that speaks to the third. Your department decides how those map to the standards your state publishes.
Student data and talking to parents
eFit is FERPA compliant. Student data is encrypted in transit and at rest with 256-bit SSL, and the servers sit in SSAE-16 certified facilities with 24/7 monitoring and biometric access controls.
For back-to-school night, the honest description is short: students log their own activity, teachers see the class, and the fitness numbers exist to show growth over the year. Weight can be left out. If your district needs a signed data agreement or a specific parental notification process, send the paperwork to sales@efit.software and we will work through it with you.
Phones, shared tablets, one laptop
eFit runs in a browser, so a shared gym tablet or the single laptop in your office is enough on the teacher side. Nothing has to be installed on a district image.
On the student side, a smartphone app is enough on its own. Wearables work too: Fitbit is the recommended device, and Apple Watch, Samsung Galaxy Watch, Garmin, Xiaomi Mi Band and Fossil smartwatches all sync, along with anything that reports to Google Health or Apple Health. Buying hardware is optional. The PocketAI Journal covers students who prefer to record work by hand.
Rostering, Grade Export, Subs and District Rollout
Setting up a course takes about 15 minutes. You create the section, students complete the registration process, and the section is live. Onboarding support is free, and training webinars run every semester, which gives a second or third building in the district a practical way to get started.
Grades leave eFit as a file formatted for your system: choose the LMS, choose the grade type, download, import. Schoology through PowerSchool, Canvas, Blackboard Learn in Original or Ultra view, D2L Brightspace, Moodle 3.x and 4.x, and SAP Litmos are all fully supported. Districts whose gradebook lives somewhere else import the CSV the same way they import any other grade file. If you do not see your system, ask us, because we can likely support it.
Substitute coverage is the quiet advantage. Activity credit accrues from student devices, so a sub who has never opened eFit costs the class nothing in lost records. Automated email reminders keep going out. The regular teacher comes back to a complete week.
On the purchasing side, your district pays no license fee for the software. Student access is $59 per student, per semester. School bookstores are uncommon in K-12, so most districts either let families purchase access directly from eFit or cover students with a bulk purchase, which puts every building on one invoice or purchase order with a single renewal date for the term. Bulk pricing is quoted per institution. Details are on the pricing page, and sales@efit.software handles quotes and district paperwork.
A sensible district sequence
- One building, one willing teacher, one semester as a pilot
- Free onboarding call to set up the first sections
- Mid-term progress export to check the gradebook path early
- Semester training webinar for the rest of the department
- Post-test data at year end as the evidence for expanding
Questions about a multi-building rollout: contact us or call 346-222-3348.
See It With Your Own Roster in Mind
The interactive demo needs no sign-up. Walk through a section, run an export, and decide in ten minutes whether this fits your gym.
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K-12 Questions We Get Most
Privacy, devices, standards, exports, rollout and cost.