Category: Grade Center / Gradebook

To help instructors stay on top of their grading workload, we added an indicator to the Gradebook tab to let you know when there are new submissions to grade. The […]

When grading an assignment that involves videos submitted by students you can view the video for grading by following these steps.

Blackboard now has Grade Display Standardization. This standardizes the decimal places in the grade center to ensure more accurate grade reporting.

Sometimes it can be useful to see all the actions that have been taken with a grade in order to diagnose a problem or research a claim made by a student that they couldn’t submit their assignment. The Grade History can be a great source of information in cases like this.

You can use the filter feature in the Gradebook to show one or multiple sections of your course at a time.

At times it may be necessary to allow a student another chance at an assignment or to hide one of their previous attempts at an assignment. This is a simple task using the Grade Details Page.

You can manage item visibility and reorder gradebook items in the Blackboard Ultra Gradebook.

Instructors may want to sort by Gradable Item options or Student View options in Gradebook. Sorting provides a more efficient grading experience. For example, you may want to sort by grading status to quickly locate items that need grading.

This will show you how to set up the Blackboard Gradebook (Grade Center) to drop a grade from a group of scores, such as dropping the lowest quiz score from a semester’s worth of grades. You have to categorize the group, create a calculated column, and configure the settings.

The Blackboard Gradebook will allow you to set up grading schemas. Grading schemas allow you to assign a letter or word to a grade column. This post will walk you through the two-step process of setting up grading schemas. In Blackboard, Grading Schemas are used to assign a letter or word to a Gradable Item rather than a numeric value.