Steps to assign columns to a grading period in the Grade Center.
How to overwrite an existing grade in a Blackboard course (available to Instructors, Teaching Assistants, and Graders). When a grade is changed, the new data is automatically incorporated into existing weighted, total, and calculated grade columns — and an entry is made in the grade history.
In Blackboard, every gradable item has a corresponding column in the Grade Center. To delete columns, the matching items must also be deleted. Alternatively, instructors can temporarily hide columns from themselves (in the Full Grade Center) and/or from students (in My Grades). Please follow these steps to change column visibility.
The weighted column generates a grade based on the result of selected columns and categories, and their respective percentages. When you create a weighted column, you can include regular/automatically-created columns, other calculated columns, and other weighted columns.
Steps to change column(s) categories.
Steps to course copy Grade Center from one course to another.
How to create a Grade Center category.
You can create grade columns for activities that took place outside of class, such as a science fair or a juried art show. Or, you may assign credit for participation or attendance at an event. For manually added items, no submissions exist. The column is populated when you assign the grades.
You can create grading periods to group Grade Center columns together by a period of time, such as terms, semesters, or quarters. You can also create grading periods to group columns together by a shared characteristic, such as all the gradable columns for a group project. To create a date range grading period, you can select a setting to automatically associate all existing columns with due dates that occur in the date range.
You can create printable reports for your courses and students. You can also create a progress report that contains grades from a particular grading period for a defined group of students in a class. You can only choose students within one section to appear in a report. You must run a separate report for each section.
Steps to delete a grade in the Grade Center.
Deleting a Column is a final action and cannot be undone.
The item itself must be deleted from the Content Area. The column then will be removed automatically from the Grade Center.
Steps to download multiple files at once for grading.
To eliminate potential double entry of Grade Center data, you can perform offline grading and import grades into the Grade Center. You can also upload grades from external sources such as an Excel spreadsheet or a comma-separated values (CSV) file. You must format data specifically to upload correctly and to synchronize with existing Grade Center data.
You can also use Grades Journey to save and share grade information for individual courses and assignments if your institution uses this featu
On the Grade Details page, you can view a student's attempts and grade history, assign and edit a grade, and clear and exempt grades.
Assigning a grade can be done directly in a Grade Center cell or from within the Grade Details page.
Students can be Exempted from a grade from the Grade Center or the Grade Details page. Exempted grades are not added into any statistical or total grade calculations, Blackboard treats it like they were never assigned that assignment.
Missing Grade Center scroll bars are a symptom of the default font size on your computer being set too high. The following instructions show you how to always display Grade Center scroll bars.
Steps to give feedback on graded items.
Grade Schemas allow for the use of non-standard values in Grade Center. Values could include, but are not limited to, Pass, Fail, Excellent, Poor, Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory.
How to hide a Grade Center column from students.
Steps to hide rows and/or columns in the Grade Center.
If you have a heavy grading workload, the Needs Grading page can help you determine what needs attention first. You can view all items ready for grading or review.
If a grade was changed using the Manual Override function in Blackboard then there will be a small orange triangle next to the score in the Full Grade Center.
Steps to organize columns in Grade Center.
A smart view is a focused look at the Grade Center that shows only the columns that match a set of criteria. The view is saved for continued use. When the Grade Center includes a great number of students and columns, you can use smart views to quickly find data. Several smart views are available by default, but you can also create your own.
Steps to switch between Grade Center categories.
Steps to switch Grade Center statuses.
In the Grade Center, three types of columns appear: user, calculated, and grade. Each column has a menu with options. The options that appear vary depending on the type of column.
After a grade has been changed with the Manual Override command, it can be reverted to the original value.
On the Grade History page, you can view all grade actions within a course and export the information. You can view all the data for grade submissions for the course within a set date range.
Whenever you want to add another layer of fairness and impartiality to your grading, you can use the anonymous grading feature. You won't know who made the submission, so you aren't unduly influenced by a student's previous performance, class participation, conflicts, race, gender, or perceived student aptitude. This practice can also contribute to the student-instructor relationship because students are assured that grading was unbiased.
Steps to view and grade by question from the Grade Center.
When you create an assignment, you can enable the SafeAssign originality detection service. When you assign grades, you can access an originality report with pertinent information about the sources used.
This article explains the different types of feedback available in Blackboard and provides a walk-through of how students can access them.
You can run several types of course reports to view information about course usage and activity. You can view summaries of course usage such as which course areas are used most frequently and course access patterns for specific students.
How to view two students side-by-side in Grade Center.
Blackboard Grade Center has an export/import feature which will produce a downloadable, specially-formatted spreadsheet that can be used to work on grading while you are offline. When you are finished editing the grades in that local file (using Excel), you can save your changes and import the document back in to the Grade Center in order to sync your updates/edits from offline over to the online Grade Center.