1. Product Support - Darek Sady Gradebook: BlackBoard 6

2. Product Support - Darek Sady Gradebook Features Covered: Manually Add Items Manage Items Sorting Gradebook Working with Tests Assigning Categories Set Grade Range Value Weight Grades Displaying Grades Set Grade Range Value Downloading Grades Uploading Grades

3. Product Support - Darek Sady Manually Add Items You can add Items to the gradebook. These will create a column in the grade book for you to enter grades

4. Product Support - Darek Sady Calculation Options Items in the Gradebook can be exempted from grade calculations – this will affect your totals Items in the Gradebook can be blocked from showing up to the students

5. Product Support - Darek Sady Manage Items You can choose the order of the items in your Gradebook Move items that you are working with closer to the names so that you don’t need to scroll

6. Product Support - Darek Sady Sorting Gradebook You can click on the arrow above any column to sort that column. Click the arrow again to sort in reverse

7. Product Support - Darek Sady Working with Tests When you administer a test in BlackBoard, a column gets created for you BlackBoard can grade the test (If it is Multiple Choice or True/False). !

8. Product Support - Darek Sady Working with Tests BlackBoard will let you grade the test by clicking on the ! Make sure that you click the View Button to see your students work Sometimes a student will need to retake a quiz – the attempt can be cleared by clicking the “Clear Attempt” button for that students attempt.

9. Product Support - Darek Sady Working with Tests For manually graded items the gradebook allows the instructor to view the electronically collected submission and assign a grade This can also be done to override Blackboard graded submissions

10. Product Support - Darek Sady Assigning Categories You can assign gradable items to categories This helps with weighting and organization

11. Product Support - Darek Sady Weight Grades You can weight grades by category or type You can assign categories or choose from those already listed

12. Product Support - Darek Sady More on Grade Weighting If grade weighting is used, any entry without a grade is considered a 0. This will significantly affect the weighted grade that the student sees Usually, the weighted grade will not be correct until the end of the semester – when all grades have been entered.

13. Product Support - Darek Sady Displaying Grades You can choose how grades are displayed in your gradebook You can choose letter, score, percentage or text

14. Product Support - Darek Sady Set Grade Range Value If you choose to display your grades as letter, you can define the grade range

15. Product Support - Darek Sady Downloading Grades You should always backup your grades You can download a copy of your gradebook from BlackBoard to your Computer It will be an Excel file

16. Product Support - Darek Sady Uploading Grades Gradebook entries can be made by uploading a modified gradebook spreadsheet. The spreadsheet must be a modified version of a previously downloaded gradebook *.csv file. You can use this to easily troubleshoot gradebook issues