Where it is
The ADJ. column sits on the right edge of the class record, between the initial grade and the term grade. Type points into it — positive or negative — and the term grade moves at once. Clear the cell to take the adjustment back; nothing else about the computation changes.
Where it lands
An adjustment moves the term grade, after the transmutation table has been read. The initial grade and the table reading stay exactly as the engine computed them, so anyone reading the explanation later can still see what the DepEd arithmetic said and what your adjustment did on top of it — two numbers, both kept.
It cannot push a grade outside 0–100, and from SY 2027–2028 — when the initial grade is reported directly with 60 as the minimum — that floor holds over an adjustment too: no adjustment can print a grade the rule set says cannot exist.
What it is for
A recheck that surfaced after encoding, a school ruling, a computed grade your principal directed you to move. It is not part of DO 015 — the order has no adjustment step — which is exactly why it is kept visible instead of being folded into a score: the Explain panel shows it, the learner's profile lists it with your note, and every adjustment is audit-logged with who and when.
Writing the note
Write the reason the way you would say it to the parent: "Rechecked essay, item 4 miskeyed." A moved grade with no note is the first thing a records review asks about.
If the column will not take a value
The grading period has been handed in or released. Reopen the period (or take back the release) first — a closed period refuses every change, adjustments included, so nothing a learner already holds can shift quietly.