Blackboard: Using the Grade Center
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This section is organized around the life cycle of assessment in a course, beginning with exploring the features of the Grade Center, continuing on to Planning Assessment and Using the Grade Center, and ending with Saving and Reusing the Grade Center | |
Grade Center Main Features and Navigation | |
Describes the interaction of the Grade Center with other Blackboard features and provides an overview of how the Grade Center features work. | |
Cells in the grid contain data specific to corresponding students. All cells and column headings contain menus for various actions. The user can access information, or navigate to other pages to interact with the Grade Center | |
Describes how to organize and customize the Grade Center by filtering, sorting, freezing panes, and hiding and revealing data | |
Describes how to create and save Smart Views, which are custom made views of Grade Center data that is pertinent to ongoing grading activities. | |
Instructors may share Grade Center data and other information with Teaching Assistants (TAs), Graders, Students, Observers, and other interested persons. The role of these users will determine what access they have to the Grade Center and Grade Center data | |
Setting up the Grade Center and Planning Assessment | |
Gradable items that are added to the Course Content such as an exam or test, automatically generate a column in the Grade Center. Gradable items that are not added from the Course Content need to have a column created manually in Grade Center. | |
Once created, Grade Center columns can be modified to reflect any desired changes. Columns added to the Grade Center from an external file must be modified from a text column to another type and have a number of points possible entered in order to be used to calculate grades. | |
How to create and edit grading schemas to display grades to students | |
How to use existing categories for grades, such as tests, surveys, assignments, discussion board; and how to create Instructor defined categories | |
How to divide the Grade Center into Grading Periods, such as semesters, quarters or other delineations | |
How to populate the Grade Center with student data | |
How to use the Grade Center to communicate directly with Students and Observers using Email | |
Using the Grade Center | |
How grades are entered into the Grade Center including automatically scored grades, multiple attempts, uploading grades from an external source, and manually entering grades. | |
How to add comments to any grade entry in the Grade Center. | |
How to change recorded grades, including overriding grades. | |
How to use the Grade History to view all grades that have been modified and by whom. How to download the Grade History file. | |
How to delete a grade, revert a grade back to an ungraded state and null a grade. | |
How to exempt students from grades. | |
How to upload Grade Center items into the Grade Center from an external file. | |
Instructors have the ability to download Grade Center data as a delimited file that can be used in other applications such as Spreadsheet programs or statistical analysis programs. Instructors can select specific data to download, or download the complete Grade Center data set. Downloaded files can be saved on a local computer drive | |
How to use different formulas to calculate grades including how to weight grades and calculate total points. | |
How to create and print grade and progress reports from the Grade Center. | |
Describes the statistical information available in the Grade Center and how to share it with students. | |
Saving and Reusing the Grade Center | |
How to download the Grade Center data | |
Explains what settings will be retained when courses are archived and copied | |
Document Overview
Tags: Blackboard , grades , gradecenterSubjects: Blackboard
Audience: Everyone
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