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Exploring the Grade Center.
From the Grade Center, you can provide and manage your student's grades for assignments,
tests, discussion posts, journals, blogs, wikis, and projects.
The Grade Center Interface.
We can access the Grade Center from the Control Panel.
Expand the Grade Center section to display the links to the Needs Grading page, the Full
Grade Center, and Smart Views.
The Needs Grading link displays a page listing all test and assignment attempts ready for
grading or review.
You can begin grading and reviewing from this page...or items can be sorted and filtered
to narrow the list.
Attempts are placed in a queue for easy navigation among items during grading.
The Full Grade Center link displays all columns and rows in the Grade Center and is the default
view of the Grade Center.
Smart View links appear as an indented list under Full Grade Center.
A Smart View is a focused look at the Grade Center.
It shows only the data that matches a set of criteria.
Smart Views are useful to quickly find data when the Grade Center includes a great number
of students and columns.
In our example, the Tests Smart View only displays test columns.
You can add customized Smart Views to this list.
Click a Smart View link to open the Grade Center using that view.
The Grade Center is made up of rows and columns of student information and gradable items.
Cells in the grid contain data specific to corresponding students.
Use the scroll bars to see additional rows and columns.
In the Grade Center page contains the following areas:
The Action bar...which are rows containing functions specific to the current page.
The Grade Information bar...which allows access to column details quickly.
A Grade Center Column Title...information appears in this grade area.
The Grade Center...columns, rows, and cells that make up the current view of the Grade
Center data.
And the Icon Legend...which explains the symbols used in columns and cells.
The Action link.
You can use the Action link...the chevron-shaped button, to access contextual menus with options
for most columns, rows, and cells.
The options on the contextual menu vary, depending on the type of column.
For example, a menu for a Grade column includes a Column Statistics option.
For a non-Grade column, such as First Name, you may only have the options of hiding the
column and sorting the items.
The following list contains the default columns in the Grade Center.
Last Name
First Name
Username
Student ID
which are populated automatically when students enroll in the course.
Availability
The Administrator determines the availability status. If the student's status is set to
unavailable, the student cannot access the course.
Weighted Total
The Weighted Total column is provided as a placeholder for instructors who want to create
a calculated column that weighs the data in grade or category columns.
Total
By default, the Total column displays a running total of the items in all grade columns. You
can edit the criteria for the Total column.
Any of the proceeding columns can be hidden from view...to minimize scrolling...except
the Last Name column.
Grade Center columns are generated automatically. When the following items are created in Blackboard
Learn, corresponding columns are created automatically in the Grade Center.
Assessments...including Tests and Self and Peer Assessments
Surveys
Assignments...including Safe Assignments and TurnItIn Assignments
Discussion Forums and threads...set to be graded
Blogs, Journals, and Wikis...set to be graded
Once these columns are created, they can be edited.
For example, a column can be renamed or hidden from view.
For additional resources and information about using Blackboard at LLCC, please see the Instructional
Technology & Distance Education website.