8th Sakai Conference4-7 December 2007 Newport Beach Sakai Gradebook Tool Michelle Wagner Indiana University

2 Overview General Gradebook overview Transition of development from UCB to IU Enhancements for 2.5 Major new features –Student summary view –Percentage and letter-based grading –Categories and weighting –Uploading an entire spreadsheet of grades –Grader permissions

3 Gradebook Overview Allows instructors to record, calculate, and communicate grade information Students may view grade information that has been released by the instructor

4 Transition from UCB to IU Originally developed by UC Berkeley Indiana University retiring legacy system –Needed to achieve functional parity with legacy gradebook tool IU has now taken over development

5 2.5 Enhancements: Terminology and Navigation

6 2.5 Enhancements: Updated “All Grades” View

7 2.5 Enhancements Null grades no longer count toward course grade –“Calculate Course Grades” feature allows instructor to replace all nulls with 0

8 New Features in 2.5 Student Summary View –Ability to view and grade on a per student basis –See what the student sees

9 Student Summary View

10 Student’s View of Grades

11 New Features in 2.5 Percentage and letter-based grading –Set grade entry type for gradebook Points, percentage, or letter –All grades will display and require entry according to this setting

12 Setting Grade Entry Type

13 Grade Entry By Letter

14 Grade Entry By Letter

15 New Features in 2.5 Categories and weighting –Set gradebook to support categories with or without weighting –If weighting enabled, will apply to category –Assign category to gradebook item –Filter gradebook items by category

16 Set up categories without weighting

17 Set up categories with weighting

18 Calculate Course Grade with Weighting Course grade = (total points earned / total points possible for cat 1) * cat 1 weight + (total points earned / total points possible for cat 2) * cat 2 weight + …

19 Gradebook items with categories

20 New Features in 2.5 Upload an entire spreadsheet of grades –Download existing gradebook, edit grades, re- upload –Add new gradebook items with grades via the same spreadsheet

21 Import Grades

22 New Features in 2.5 Grader Permissions –Default grader privileges for users with “section.role.ta” function –May override default grading permissions on a per category and/or section basis –Ability to restrict to “View”

23 Grader Permissions

24 Questions?