Using the Grade Book

The Grade Book is accessible only through the Teach tab.

  

 


Using the Grade Book you can:

  • View, enter, and manage grades for all students.
  • Enter descriptive data about students. For example: names, addresses,telephone numbers, and areas of interest.
  • Grant or deny access of certain columns to the studentsŐ Grade Book.

 

  

Default Columns

    

User-related columns: Last Name, First Name, User Name

  • These columns cannot be modified in Grade Book.

  

Grade-related columns: Midterm and Final

  • These columns cannot be deleted

  

Quiz and assignment columns

  • When quizzes or assignments are created in the section, a corresponding column will be automatically created.
  

 

Columns You Can Add

Text columns

  • allow you to enter text only. You could use a text column to add comments about each student.

Numeric columns:

  • allow you to enter numbers only. You could use a numeric column to insert grades for an offline assignment and other interim grades.

Calculated columns:

  • allow you to specify a formula similar to Excel formulas, to come up with a numeric value.

Selection list columns:

  • allow you to specify one or more text values that can then be selected. You could use a selection list column to describe a Student's overall term effort (fair, good, excellent).

Letter grade columns:

  • to calculate a letter grade based on the numeric values of another column.
 
Column Views

The Grade Book is divided into four tabs. These tabs present different groups of data

columns to give you a different view of all entered information for members:

Grades

  • displays all default columns and any created columns that are grade-related. This tab is used to view, enter, or override grade-related information.

Members

  • displays columns that are not grade-related

View All

  • displays all columns, grade-related or not.

Custom View

  • use it to create your own "custom view" of member information.

Besides helping you grade and describe students, you can also determine which columns are released to students in the My Grades tool (if added to the Course Toolbar). Students will not be able to view other students' grades.

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