Getting to know gradebook (Video Guide)

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• You can see your your students' submissions in the gradebook (via the gradable view and grid view).

• In gradable view, you can see gradable items and students.

  • You can add a new item, a calculation, or attendance.

  • You can move items by using the up and down arrows and sort by date, grading status, or post.

  • To grade, click on the item you wish to grade and you can see all the submissions that need grading.

  • Under students, you can see all the students in the course and sort by category and click on individuals to see their progress and view their assignments.

  • Only in gradable view:

    • You can re-order items in your gradebook.

    • You can post all of your students' grades at once in gradable items.

• In Grid view, you can see gradeable items on the top row, and students in the left column. In this view only, you can filter information (ie: by individual student, groups, gradable item).

• In both views:

  • You can search for submission via a submission receipt number (which students get via email).

  • You can upload and download your gradebook.

  • You can adjust your settings (more on this in the “Overview of gradebook settings” video.

  • (Not featured in video.) You can view the student’s submission in gradeable view when clicking on individual students' names (under students) and in the grid view by clicking on “Grade now”.

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• You can find the gradebook settings (gear icon) in the gradebook in both the gradable items and grid view.

• Grade Schema:

  • The Douglas College letter grade schema can be found here and you can also add your own grade schemas.

  • When setting up an assignment, click on “points” under “Grading” and you can change what grading schema you want to use.

  • Note: There is now a Complete/Incomplete grade schema in Blackboard Ultra.

• Student performance: You can set up activity stream alerts to students based on number of days they are inactive or their grades.

• Automatic zeros:

  • You can choose to set up automatic zeros to students if the deadline passes without submitting their assignments. You can turn off this feature and choose to manually add the zeros in.

  • They are important if you are using overall grade. If zeros are not given to students for incomplete assignments, their grades will appear inflated.

  • However, at this time using automatic zeros can cause glitches in Ultra. There will be further updates by Blackboard to resolve them.

• Overall Grade Notations: You can add an “I”(for Incomplete, or you can choose UN etc) grade to appear for a students overall grade. This will override the student’s grade in the gradebook.

• Overall Grade, Grade Categories and Course Rubrics will be discussed in another video.