Faculty - Accessing and Understanding the Blackboard Grade Center
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Faculty - Accessing and Understanding the Blackboard Grade Center
The Blackboard Grade Center is where you will go to input student grades and/or view work students submit to you. This article will provide you directions on how to access the Grade Center and how to understand what you are looking at an using in the Grade Center space. |
1. Go into the course in Blackboard where you want to view the Grade Center. | ||
2. Under Course Management, click Grade Center. Then click Full Grade Center. |
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3. You will now see your full Grade Center. You should see a list of students enrolled in your course as well as some Grade Center management icons located at the top of your Grade Center. |
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4. By default, you will have a Total column and a Weighted Total column.
For directions on how to setup your Grade Center Total or Weighted Total columns, please view the following articles: Faculty - Setting Up your Grade Center: Total Video Faculty - Setting Up your Grade Center: Weighted Total Video |
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5. The management tabs located at the top of your Grade Center will allow you to do the following:
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6. Below the tabs you will see additional management icons. They are located above the actual Grade Center. Starting from left to right:
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7. Full Screen Grade Center View allows you to expand the viewing area of your Grade Center. Click the icon that looks like four arrows pointing outwards to open Full Screen Grade Center View. Note: This feature will open in a pop-up window. Please be sure you allow pop-up windows in your browser. |
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8. Below these icons you will see a Grade Information Bar. The Grade Information Bar will show you a breakdown of the assessment information when you place your mouse over the name of the column. For example, in the image to the right you see information on a Video Assessment. When the computer mouse was placed at the top of the Video Assessment column, the assessment information appeared at the top. Information includes the Points Possible, the type of assessment, the name of the assessment, and the number of students that have submitted thus far. |
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9. Below the Grade Center in the lower right corner you will find the Icon Legend button. The Icon Legend will provide you descriptions of the icons you could see in the grade center that is associated with student work. |
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