An Introduction to the Gradebook Available for this Web Site as of August 16, 2003

What do you need to do to get started? Create your own personal “class” by clicking on the Class Manager button.

Fill out the “Create a New Class form” with basic class information.

Create several different “classes” if you would like to maintain separate gradebooks for different sections of the same course.

Give your specific Class ID to your students. They will need this to enroll in your class.

Students self-enroll in your class and automatically appear in the class roster. You can remove students from the class at any time.

Inform your class about the tutorials and quizzes available on this Web site.

Each tutorial consists of interactive lessons and exercises to help your students understand the concepts being taught.

Students log-in to the site and work through the instructional tutorials and quizzes. Students determine whether the results of their tutorial work will be sent to your class gradebook.

When students complete tutorials, their exercise results are tallied and displayed, and a green checkmark appears in the student Results Reporter and in your class gradebook to indicate completion. Checkmark in gradebook. Summary of tutorial results.

When students complete quizzes, their quiz answers are scored, and their score is sent to the student Results Reporter and to your class gradebook. Student quiz. Quiz score in gradebook.

To see their scores for completed work, your students click on the “Results Reporter” in the navigation bar.

The student Results Reporter shows information for all completed problem sets. Student can click the score to see more details or change their view using filters in top panel.

If student is enrolled in a class, and elects to send results to the gradebook, you will see their results in your class gradebook. To view the class gradebook, click “Gradebook” in the navigation bar.

Before viewing results, decide whether you want to: --Search for a specific student or activity. --Constrain results by viewing a subset of students or activities, or eliminate activities with no student scores.

Your requested data is then displayed, and you have the ability to modify what is displayed at any time via controls in the top panel.

For quizzes, the gradebook indicates student score as percent correct. For tutorials, gradebook indicates student completion with green checkmark. Quiz score Tutorial Completion

Click on a quiz score in the gradebook to see more detail of a student’s work on that activity. Data for five separate attempts on this particular activity.

From detail window, you can also click on “View” to see actual completed activity with student answers vs. correct answers.

You can also click on a student name to see more details about that particular student.