Categories are used to group items together in the Gradebook and Overall Grade column. Assignment, Test, Discussion, Journal, Attendance, Exam,...

When working with grades, you may want to either make a backup of the Gradebook at a specific moment, or to edit the data offline. You can accomplish...

This page describes the options on the Gradebook Settings page in Blackboard Ultra: Grade Schemas, Automatic Zeroes, Grade Categories, Course...

This page describes the process of grading Assessments (both Assignments and Tests) and Posting grades in Blackboard Ultra. Grading Assessments...

Calculations are a new feature of Blackboard Ultra, replacing several column types from the Grade Center. They can be used to add bonus points to an...

Items are the Ultra Gradebook equivalent to the “Create Column” feature in the Blackboard Classic Grade Center. An Item is unattached to...

This page describes the Overall Grade function in Blackboard Ultra, used to provide a weighted grade total. The first time you open the Gradebook...

The Blackboard Ultra Attendance tool allows you to track daily attendance in Blackboard, and automatically updates an Attendance score in the...

From time to time a student will have an issue turning in a test or assignment and you’ll want to give them another opportunity to submit their...

One column in the Grade Center is always marked as the External Grade. This column cannot be deleted and is used as the primary grade displayed in...

The downloaded grade history includes the IP address for the person who last edited any grade center column. This means, if you download the grade...

Grades listed in Blackboard are an excellent guide to help you track your performance in a course. They should always be taken as a guide, rather...

Depending on how you've set up your Grade Center, you may find it useful to collect some number of columns into a single total column. You...

Color-coding grade center cells can make it easy to tell at a glance how your students performed on an assessment and quickly identify those who may...

To create a Grade Center column, navigate to the Grade Center and click the Create Column button in the upper left. The first step in creating...

The Grade Center's Weighted Total column lets you provide "percent of total" values for both stand-alone columns and columns collected...

If you're using a weighted total column in your Grade Center, you will probably want to create categories specific to your course. Fortunately,...

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,...

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,...

The Grade Center's Grading Schema (also known as a "grading scale"), lets you show students a letter grade that's calculated from a...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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