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The Grade Center provides instructors with the ability to manage their student's grades, and allows each student to check his/her grade at any time. Grades from online quizzes are added automatically; grades from outside the course site can be added manually.
View the Grade Center:
- Access your course site’s Control Panel
- Click Grade Center in the "Assessment” area
Add a Grade Column
Certain grade columns are added automatically to the Grade Center. For example, when you create a test, a column for that test is automatically created in the Grade Center. To add a column manually, simply click on the "Add Grade Column" button and fill in the necessary information. It is possible to display two types of grades in each column. For example, the student's percentage and a letter grade might appear in the same cell: 85% (B)
Sort a Column
Click on the header cell for the column to sort the grades. Click again to change from ascending to descending.
Add a Calculated Column
Calculated columns are a useful way to tally all the grades from the quarter to figure the final grade for the course. It is possible to weight grades, and even to drop a low grade from a category.
To add a Calculated Column.
- Click Add Calculated Column
- Pull down to the desired type of calculated column
- Enter a name for the column
- Select the columns or categories that you would like to include in the column
- Click the arrow button
 to move each item into the Selected Columns box
- Enter the percentage you would like each item to hold
- Click Submit
Categories
Categories are useful ways to group like items together in the Grade Center. Categories can then be further organized in Smart Views and Reports. Categories also allow the instructor to easily drop a grade.
To create a category, go to the Grade Center and
- Click Manage
- Pull down to Categories
- Click Add Category
- Enter the Category name
- Click Submit
After the Category is created, you can put items in it:
- Click Manage
- Pull down to Organize Grade Center
- Select all the assessments to be included in the category by clicking the appropriate boxes
- Click Modify Category and select the desired category
- Click Submit
Dropping Grades
To drop a grade, instructors must first create a category. Then, from the Grade Center
- Click Add Calculated Column
- Pull down to Weighted
- Enter a name for the column
- Select the category that you would like to include in the column
- Click the arrow button to move each item into the Selected Columns box
- Enter the percentage you would like each item to hold
- Enter the number of grades you would like to drop for each student for that item
- Click Submit
Remove a Grade Column
- Click on the down arrow in the header of the column you wish to delete
- Pull down to "Remove Column"
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Note: It is only possible to remove columns in this way if they were not created automatically. However, you can easily hide columns from view by pulling down to Hide Column instead.
Organize the Grade Center
To organize the layout of the Grade Center
- Click Manage
- Pull down to Organize Grade Center
It is possible to freeze panes, hide columns, move columns, and modify categories and grading periods from this view.
Move a column
- Place your cursor in the shaded area to the left of the column you wish to move
- Click and hold down on your mouse and slide the column to the desired location
Show/Hide, Modify Category, or Modify Grading Period
- Go to the Organize Grade Center page
- Check the box next to the column you wish to modify
- Click the appropriate button above the table
- Pull down to the desired action
Email Students
- Go to the Full Grade Center
- Select the students you wish to email
- Click the Email button
- Pull down to Email Selected Users
Reports
Reports provide a way to give students a written progress report with customized information. To create a report, click Report in the Grade Center, then fill out the form with the information you would like to present. Click Submit, print the generated report, and distribute to students.
Grade History
The Grade History provides the complete history of changes made within the Grade Center. Simply click the "Grade History" button to view all the modifications made to the Grade Center and by whom they were made.
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