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Grade a simple item

Blackboard's Grade Center offers a number of approaches to posting grades and navigating the grade center. For simple columns -- columns...

More on Grade a simple item Updated 3/20/18 by R. Davidson
Grade Center overview

This video provides an overview of the Blackboard Grade Center, where instructors can enter, edit, and manage grades for a course.  

More on Grade Center overview Updated 8/3/17 by R. Davidson
Grading Assignments

There are a few ways to collect and read assignments collected online through Blackboard's assignment tool, then provide students with feedback...

More on Grading Assignments Updated 12/2/20 by R. Davidson
Grading with rubrics

Once you’ve set up a rubric and associated it with a column in your Grade Center, using it to grade that column is pretty easy. Load up your...

More on Grading with rubrics Updated 8/3/17 by R. Davidson
Grouping columns by Grading Period

Grading Periods are an efficient way of managing your Grade Center so you only see certain groups of columns at one time. This can be particularly...

More on Grouping columns by Grading Period Updated 8/3/17 by R. Davidson
Grouping students from merged courses in the Grade Center

Merging courses to consolidate announcements and content into a single course can be incredibly useful. Unfortunately, it can also result in a very...

More on Grouping students from merged courses in the Grade Center Updated 1/5/18 by R. Davidson
Hide a column from student view

Hiding a column from student view allows you to work with a column — record grades, etc — without students seeing the column or your...

More on Hide a column from student view Updated 8/3/17 by R. Davidson
Hide a Grade Center column from Instructor view

Hiding a column from Instructor View can make your Grade Center page easier to manage. Some faculty hide columns they’ve finished grading (such...

More on Hide a Grade Center column from Instructor view Updated 8/3/17 by R. Davidson
Optimizing Grade Center for the student grade view

When students view their grades on Blackboard they use a tool called My Grades. The My Grades page is quite different than the Grade Center used by...

More on Optimizing Grade Center for the student grade view Updated 8/3/17 by R. Davidson
Review and change category for a number of columns at once

Grade Center categories, when used in combination with the Weighted Total column, are a powerful way to collect and evaluate student performance in a...

More on Review and change category for a number of columns at once Updated 1/29/18 by R. Davidson
Submit midterm/final grades to My Portal

This video, created by Information Technology Services and the Registrar’s Office, walks you through the process of posting grades to My...

More on Submit midterm/final grades to My Portal Updated 10/11/19 by N. Blume
Tracking attendance (and blogs and journals)

Let's take a couple minutes to talk about recording scores for assessments where we're likely to have bunches of columns. Most commonly, this...

More on Tracking attendance (and blogs and journals) Updated 3/23/18 by R. Davidson
Upload grades from a spreadsheet

Sometimes it's more convenient to record student grades in Excel, or the spreadsheet program of your choice, then transfer those scores to...

More on Upload grades from a spreadsheet Updated 8/19/19 by R. Davidson

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