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How to hide a Grade Center column from students.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After a grade has been changed with the Manual Override command, it can be reverted to the original value.

Each student's exam attempt has a corresponding 'Test Information' page with detailed access/interaction information: total time elapsed, start date/time, and submission date/time. For more details, see the Access Log (accessible from the same menu). This tool includes the date/time of the student's activity in an exam: test start, question saves, submission date/time, and (approximate) time per question.

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.

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.

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.

Steps to give feedback on graded items.

Steps to switch Grade Center statuses.