1. 6/2/11 IT-Client Support & Services

2.  Collect and grade work ◦ Assignments ◦ Tests & Quizzes  Distribute and view grades ◦ Gradebook ◦ Post’Em

3.  Students can use this tool as an electronic dropbox to submit their work  Instructors can electronically ◦ mark up students’ work ◦ give overall comments ◦ grade submissions ◦ allow students to resubmit work  Assignment grades can be forwarded to the Gradebook

4.  Instructors can ◦ return comments to a student without a grade ◦ attach a file to each student's grade  completed rubric  marked-up copy of the student's work ◦ post a grade without an online submission ◦ allow students to resubmit their work ◦ can keep students' grades private until all are graded  Students can ◦ see grade and comments (if released) ◦ resubmit revised work (if allowed)

5.  Grades for Assignments can be ◦ added to the Gradebook  a student's full record including tests and other grades are in one place ◦ associated with an existing Gradebook Item  grades can be posted in Assignments with detailed comments and posted in batch through the Gradebook ◦ downloaded to create local folders for each student  to organize and make an archive

6.  Questions can be of various types  Pending Assessments ◦ enter questions ◦ choose settings related to delivery, availability, timing  Published Assessments ◦ available to students to take

7.  Grades can be included in the Gradebook  Test grades can only be entered via Tests & Quizzes  An Adjustment can be made on the entire test or individual questions

8.  Grades for Forums, Topics or individual Postings can be sent to existing Gradebook Items

9.  Gradebook ◦ Students can only see their own grades collected from Assignments and Tests ◦ Students can see other numeric grades posted by the instructor along with comments ◦ Final grades can be translated to letter equivalents  Post’Em ◦ Students can see textual information and grades posted by the instructor

10.  Gradebook Items not added by Assignments or Tests can be imported  Results of calculations performed outside of Sakai can be imported  Review/archive ◦ Can export Gradebook data to build a local copy ◦ Can view entire record for individual students ◦ Can see individual's record as student sees it  Can import grades from Scantron tests

11.  Course Grade ◦ ◦ Missing values are not included so Course Grade can be used to show current status Missing values are not included  blank ≠ 0 points  blank items are not counted in the course grade

12.  Grades ◦ Each item has a maximum value for determining percentage. ◦ Grades can be included or not in the course grade calculation. ◦ Values can be entered as points or percentages. ◦ Items can be grouped and weighted.  Planning helps! ◦ How do you want to determine a final grade? ◦ Would Sakai's Gradebook more or less cumbersome?

13.  Weight grades for activities ◦ Points for all items add up to 100 Points for all items add up to 100 ◦ Maximum for each item is 100, use weighted categories Maximum for each item is 100, use weighted categories  Drop lowest test grade ◦ Export to Excel ◦ Calculate average test grade ◦ Import to Excel ◦ Only include average test grade in course grade Only include average test grade in course grade  Include extra credit ◦ Add extra points to existing item

14.  TAs must be assigned to one or more sections (even if there is only one section)  In Assignments  give TA role grading permission  In Gradebook and Assignments, TAs will only see students in their sections by default

15.  Instructors can ◦ Upload textual information for all students ◦ Can put multiple columns in one file ◦ Can have multiple files ◦ Can update individual files ◦ Store information not visible to students ◦ See when students have viewed their records  Students can ◦ See only their own information (if released)

17.  Sakai@UD Support & Training ◦ www.udel.edu/sakai/training www.udel.edu/sakai/training  IT Support Center ◦ www.udel.edu/help www.udel.edu/help ◦ 831-6000 ◦ consult@udel.edu

18. (25+20+10+9+7) 75 = (18+25+20+10+9+7) 100 =

19. Totals88100