Grades Overview

When a student clicks Grades, they see a list of assignments with their grades with links to rubrics and comments if available. 

When a teacher clicks Grades, the entire Gradebook is displayed like a spreadsheet with a row of grades for each student. Scores and comments can be directly entered for grade items.  Other options include exporting and importing scores, viewing the grades of students who have been dropped from the class, sorting, filtering, excusing a student from an assignment so that it is not included in that student's overall calculation, and more.

This Gradebook Overview video Links to an external site. covers the basic options and settings. 

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Clicking the pull-down in a column header lets you message all students who haven't submitted, got a low score, etc.. Finally, you can also write private Notes about particular students that are separate from any particular grade item.  This brief video shows how:

 

Add an Assignment

Teachers can add a new assignment on the Assignments page or within a module.  This will automatically create a new column in the Gradebook.  Assignments can be set up to be submitted in class or online in a variety of formats.