How to report grades and evaluation comments in the Grade Center?

  1. Be sure that Edit Mode is ON (top right of course screen)
  2. In the right-side menu, open and inspect Full Grade Center (it is near the bottom of the menu)
  3. Select Student View (icon with two arc arrows and a dot on top right of course)
  4. Use Student View to inspect My Grades; this is where each students sees the grades and comments registered in the Full Grade Center
  5. Colck on Exit Student View
  6. The Full Grade Center has two alternate summarizing columns: Total (equal to sum of points) and Weighted Total (equal to percentages taken from each grade, all grades issued in the scale 0 to 100)
  7. Decide which one is is your summarizing column, it cannot be both. Use the context menu of the column (arrow next to the column title) to Set as extenal grade. It means the grade to be transferred to PeopleSoft. The external grade column has a green checkmark and it can be only one column with this mark.
  8. You can delete the column that you do not use for summarizing, either Weighted or Total
  9. If you will input all your grades manually, use the Create Column menu to set as many columns as you need to grade activities. All columns must be created to allow the Grade Center to report correct grades. If a column is missing the grade is not reliable.
  10. If your students will do some assessments online, do not create the columns yourself; let the columns instead be created by the assignments, tests, or graded discussions. Each one of these creates automatically a grading column.
  11. In the Full Grade Center, use the Manage-->Column Organization menu to determine that all columns have correct points and are right order. You can grab columns by the double arrows on the left and move them up and down
  12. When all individual grade columns are ready, you can set-up your summarizing column, either Total or Weighted. In the context menu of the colum, click on Edit Column Information. The set up form must show one panel in the left with the name of the columns and one empty panel on the right. You select columns from the left and, with a little arrow in the middle, move the columns to the right. If these panels are not visible (i.e. editing the Total column), you need to check the option Selected Columns and Categories instead of All Columns and Categories
  13. If you are editing the Weighted Column, you will put the percentages that each of the other columns is worth and the sum must be 100%
  14. Optionally, you can use rubrics in columns to simplify your grading.
  15. When your Grade Center is appropriatelly set-up, you can proceed to grade by entering scores in the columns
  16. If some graded activities are done by the students directly in Blackboard, you will go instead to the menu option Needs Grading and apply in-line grading. The student submission will show in a view panel, you may add comments and use a rubric. For each student, you need to hit Submit the grade.
  17. After grading, it is convenient that you use again Student View to verify that the students see all elements in your Grade Center
  18. Grades can be exported as an Excel file, using the menu Work Offiline-->Download located at extreme right of the Full Grade Center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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