Lesson 3 - Using the Grade Center

Introduction
Sandi just finished creating categories, grading periods, grading schemas, and adding grade columns and grouping multiple columns to assess the performance of students during a course period. Now, she is ready to start using the grade center. She starts adding a score manually to the Midterm Exam because she created essay questions that need to be graded manually. She also modifies, reverts, deletes, and exempts/drops the lower grades for certain students. She also runs reports and views grade statistics for all students in her class. Later, she will sort grade center columns or use Smart Views to customize the calculation and views of grade information based on certain criteria she will define.

Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to: Learning Activities
 Changing Grades and Viewing the History Page
Creating Reports
Entering Grades Manually

To use the grade center, please do the following:
  1. View the Entering Grades Manually tutorial link attached above.
  2. View the Changing Grades and Viewing the History Page tutorial link attached above.
  3. View the Creating Reports tutorial link attached above.
  4. Read the Using the Grade Center documentation written in the Blackboard Instructor Manual.
  5. Go to your training course and practice the steps demonstrated in the video and do the following:
    1. Manually enter grades for the Midterm Exam.
    2. Override one of the student's grade and revert it to No Grade.
    3. Delete a student's grade setting it to a null grade from a grade center cell or from the grade Details page.
    4. Exempt a student from a grade/drop the lowest grade.
    5. Add comments to grades.
    6. Create a report to describe the second quarter grades for all students registered in a class.
    7. View the Grade History page.
  6. Post any comments or questions in the Using the Grade Center online discussion located in the Discussion Board area of this workshop.

Conclusion
In this lesson, you learned how to enter and modify grades in the grade center, view the grade history page, and create customizable reports directly form the grade center page. The next lesson will demonstrate how to customize the organization and display of your grade center items, including creating Smart Views to filter the display of grade information based on certain defined criteria.