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Assessment & Grading

Official Grades are posted using VandalWeb. However, you may use the BbLearn's Grade Center to provide your students with secure, private, up-to-date progress on their grades.

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Top 3 Tips

  1. Add "My Grades" tool so your students can see their grades.
  2. Show ALL Grade Columns to adjust which columns are visible and calculated.
  3. Verify Grades with your "Test Student". See what students see, check calculations.
Assignments Student's submit assignments online. Instructors grade assignments in the Grade Center. more »
Tests & Surveys Online quizzes with automatic grading, and anonymous surveys. more »
Calculate Grades Letter Grade, Weighted Totals, Curves, and Dropping the Lowest Score. more »
Organize Grades Show or hide grades. Add, remove, and reorder columns. Create custom grade center views. more »
Grade Submissions Enter Grades & Feedback, Extra Credit, Post Grades to VandalWeb, Rubrics, Statistics & Reports. more »
Download, Upload, and Print Grades Transfer grades between BbLearn and Excel. Print grades and reports. more »
Adaptive Release Limit access to an assessment to specified students. more »

FAQ

  1. Why can't my students see their Grades?
    Have you added the My Grades tool, and set the grades to show? Learn more »
  2. Why can't my students see their Test?
    To Activate a Test check the Make Link Available option, and set the date range appropriately. Also, remove old Adaptive Release.
  3. What's with the "Alignments"?
    The Alignments feature is not currently being used on the UIDAHO campus. More info »
  4. Why do student's letter grade displays as "A/0, B/0, C/0, etc."?
    No fix yet, problem has been reported. Blackboard indicates problem has been fixed in Service Pack 10.
  5. Why can't I enter a formula to calculate grades.
    Most common tasks can be completed with the Calculated columns, but if you're needs are more advanced you can download the grade center, work with it in Excel, and then upload it back into BbLearn.
  6. Why doesn't the printed Grade Center include all columns or rows.
    You may print the Grade Center by downloading it to Excel .
  7. Why can't I enter grades manually?
    Turn Edit Mode "ON"
  8. Why don't columns worth zero points total up (e.g., several extra credit columns)?
    You can, just make each column worth 0.000001 points.
  9. Why does HTML display when "Grading by Question"?
    No fix yet, problem has been reported.
  10. Why can't the secondary display for Grade Center column be cleared?
    No fix yet, problem has been reported.
  11. Why is a student missing from my Grade Center?
    It's possible that the student either dropped, or you have hidden them in the Grade Center.
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