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Creating a Grade Center category
If you're using a weighted total column in your Grade Center, you will probably want to create categories specific to your course. Fortunately,...
Delete a Grade Center column
Deleting a Grade Center Column removes it completely from both the student and instructor view. Grade data is also removed when a column is deleted,...
Download Grade Center as a spreadsheet
To download your full Grade Center in an Excel-readable format, first navigate to the course's Full Grade Center. In the upper right corner,...
Editing a grading scale (schema)
The Grade Center's Grading Schema (also known as a "grading scale"), lets you show students a letter grade that's calculated from a...
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...
Grade Center overview
This video provides an overview of the Blackboard Grade Center, where instructors can enter, edit, and manage grades for a course.
Grading Assignments
There are a few ways to collect and read assignments collected online through Blackboard's assignment tool, then provide students with feedback...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...