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Entering grades

Use the Enter Grades page to enter, import, and export grades for your users. This area displays your grade book organized by user by default. You can switch between the standard view of the grade book and a spreadsheet view that allows you to enter grades directly into the User List.

Note Customize your view of the grade book using Manage Columns. Select or clear the check boxes beside the items you want to appear, and click Save.

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Deleting grade items or categories

  1. On the Manage Grades page, click Delete from the More Actions button.
  2. Select the check box for each grade item or category want to delete.
  3. Click Delete.
Notes
  • Selecting a category does not select the grade items that reside in it. If you delete a category, the grade items associated with it become independent grade items.
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Creating grade book categories

Use grade book categories to organize and group related grade items into sections. For example, you could have separate categories for Dropbox Submissions, Quizzes, Case Studies, Participation, Discussions, and so on. When grade items are grouped together in a category, you can distribute points equally across all grade items and drop the highest or lowest item in the group.

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Editing grade schemes

  1. On the Schemes page, click on the name of the grade scheme you want to edit.
  2. Make your changes.
  3. Click Save and Close.

NoteYou cannot edit some of the properties of a grade scheme if a selectbox grade item is using it.

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Creating grade schemes

  1. On the Schemes page, click New Scheme.
  2. Enter a Name for the scheme.
  3. Enter a Short Name to display in the grade book.
  4. Define your grade Ranges.
    1. Enter the symbol you want to display for the grade range in the Symbol column. (e.g. “A” or “Excellent” or “4.0”).
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Selecting a grade scheme

A grade scheme enables you to organize users’ performances on grade items into levels of achievement. A grade scheme can include any number of achievement levels. Each achievement level has its own range of acceptable grades and a symbol, such as a numeric value, letter, or text description, to represent it. You can create your own grade schemes or use schemes set up by your organization.

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Grades Setup Wizard

In the Grades tool, if a grade book is not set up or imported for your course, you will see the Grades Setup Wizard page when you first navigate to the tool. You can also click Setup Wizard to open it.

The Grades Setup Wizard guides you through multiple steps that contain set up options you must choose from to create your grade book.

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Selecting a grading system

Selecting a grading system is the first step in setting up your grade book.

The grading system determines how the grade items in your grade book contribute to users’ final grades. There are three options:

  • Grade items can count as a percentage of a final grade worth 100%.
  • Grade items can be worth a certain amount of points that are totaled for a final grade.
  • You can define a custom formula for how grade items contribute to a final grade.

Choose the option that best matches how you plan to evaluate users.

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Understanding grade book

A grade book contains your grading system, grade calculations, grade scheme, grade items, and view and display options. Grade items in your grade book represent all the work that you want to evaluate users on in a course. You can evaluate specific tasks such as assignments, tests, and participation, and you can also create grade items and associate them with course objects such as Dropbox and Quizzes.

You must set up a grade book before you can use the Grades tool. As you plan your grade book, consider:

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Creating image information

Create image information (IMG) if you want to provide supplementary information that relates to more than one question. It is useful to have an image information item if you have several questions that need to reference the same figure or diagram, and you want to avoid repeatedly uploading the same image file for each question.

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