Customizing the Grade Entry Grid

On the Grades page, you control what assignments appear and in what order, what average and grade columns appear, whether to indicate comments and dropped grades, and whether to show a warning when you enter an assignment grade exceeding maximum points.

 

  1. On the Home page, select the academic year in which to enter grades.
  2. On the navigation bar, click Gradebook. The gradebook opens to the Grades tab.

Click Customize to control what appears in the grade entry grid.
 

Grades tab
 

Gradebook

 
 

 


  1. To select what appears on the grid, click Customize. The Customize Gradebook screen appears.

 

  1. In the Assignments To Include frame, mark All or Selected. If you mark Selected, you can filter the assignments to appear on the grid by the assignment’s student due date. Assignments without student due dates are excluded. In the Dates to Include field, you can select a general date range such as “Today”, “This Week”, or “This Month” or select “<Specific Range>” and enter a date range in the Start and End fields.
  2. In the Columns To Include frame, mark checkboxes for the grade columns to appear in the grid: Category Averages, Marking Column Average, Marking Column Posted Grade, and Marking Column Letter Grade.

    Note: For the grid to load faster, select a short date range of assignments and hide columns you do not need to see.

  3. In the Assignment Sort Order field, select “Student Date Due”, “Category”, or “None”.

·         If you select “Student Date Due”, the assignment columns are in order by the assignment’s student date due, then assignment name. Assignments without student due dates appear first in alphabetical order.

·         If you select “Category”, the assignment columns are in order by category, then the student’s date due. Assignments without student due dates appear first in alphabetical order within each category.

·         If you select “None”, the assignments are sorted in the order they appear on the Assignments page.

  1. For dropped assignment grades to appear in red, mark Indicate Dropped Grades.
  2. To change the background color to green for grade entries that have comments, mark Indicate Comments Present.
  3. So a warning message appears when you enter an assignment grade over the maximum points, mark Show Exceed Maximum Points Message.
  4. To save your selections and return to the Grades tab, click OK.