Grading in Blackboard (How-to)

The Gradebook is where instructors can track student performance, grade assignments and assessments, change column order, set the midterm or final grade running total or weighting by categories, edit or erase a student’s attempt, and undo or change a grade.

About the Gradebook

• Gradebook overview
  • View gradable items
  • View each student with the Student overview
  • Send a reminder to students
  • From the student view send messages to students
  • Add Accommodations for individual students
  • About Grade columns
• Grading
  • Grading assignments
  • Grade assignments with Flexible grading
  • Grade tests with Flexible grading
  • Give the student an exception on due dates, testing times, etc.
  • Working offline with grading data
• Assessment Data
  • Question analysis

Setup the Gradebook

• Update gradebook settings (Scroll down to "Settings" heading)
  • Grading schemas
  • Overall grade
  • Automatic zeros
• Calculate grades
• About attendance
• Add accommodations

Add Items to the Gradebook

Gradebook items are regularly created by designing student activities within Learn.  Each student activity, if created as a gradable item, will create an associated gradebook column tying the activity and the grading column together.

• Automatically created grade items
  • Create assignments
  • Add tests
  • Take attendance
  • Create discussion boards
  • Create journals
• Creating grade columns manually
  • Manually add grade items (scroll to the correct heading)
  • Creating calculated columns (develop your own mathematical formulas to assist with grade calculations or to show summaries of grades to students)

Grade Student Submissions

• Assign grades
• Use the Gradebook offline
• Grade assignments with Flexible grading
• Grade tests with Flexible grading
• Using Bb Annotate (inline feedback on submissions)
• Grade attendance
• Grant exceptions and exemptions

Change Grades

• Override grades
• Change due dates
• Download a grade history record of changes
• Change points earned on test questions

Other Grading Tasks

• View Test Question Activity Log
• Submission Receipts
• Work Offline with Grade Data
• View Grade History
• Grading using Rubrics
• Submit Blackboard Learn grades to Banner/MyDUSIS using Grades Journey

If you have any further questions, please submit a Blackboard Ultra Request and select "Consultation" or contact the ITS Support Center at 515-271-3001.