The document provides information on setting up and managing gradebooks in Blackboard including: - Creating points-based and percentage-based gradebooks - Setting up grade center columns, categories, and grading schemas - Organizing, hiding, and freezing columns for easier navigation - Tips for entering and calculating grades, providing feedback, and customizing grade center views

1. Grade Center
• Traditional Grade Book
• Excel Spreadsheet or Book
• Simple Grade Book
• Setting up simple points based grade book
• Percentage Grade Book
• Setting up Percentage based grade book
• Getting Started Handout

2. Workshop Expectations
• Setup Grade Center Columns
• Navigate Grade Center
• Manage Column organizations
• Setup Grading Schema (Assign Letter Grades)
• Create Categories
• Create Calculated Grade column for Final Grade

3. Points Based Grade Book
NetID Q1 T1 Q2 T2 MT Q3 T3 P1 Q4 Fi Tot
Student 20 10 78 98 45 66 73 78 89 90 900
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student
Max 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 1000

4. % Based Grade Book
Quizzes Tests Papers Disc. Part. Final Final
Grade
No. of
Tests
5 2 2 5 1 1
Each
Test
Points
10 100 100 20 5 100
% 10% 20% 25% 10% 10% 25% 100%
Total
categorie
s
6

5. Columns
• BB System default columns
• Last Name, First name, StudentID, Last Access,
Availability
• Total, Weighted Total
• User created columns when a gradable item is created in
CONENT area
• Adding a column using “GRADE CENTER” create
column function

6. Categories
• BB System creates default categories
• Assignment
• Blog
• Discussion
• Journal
• Self and Peer
• Survey
• Test
• Wiki
• User can create categories

7. Tips & Tricks (1)
• Hide unnecessary columns
• Organize columns
• Freeze columns (student names still visible when scrolling)
• Customize grading schema for automatically computing letter grades
• Add custom categories and apply to grade columns
• Shorten column titles by adding Grade Center display name
• Enter grades directly into cells
• Add due dates to grade columns
• Provide feedback on any student scores
• Display score and percent or letter grade for the same item

8. Tips & Tricks (2)
• Exempt a grade for an individual student
• Email students from the Grade Center
• Create calculated columns
• Create customized "Smart Views"
•
• View Grade Center statistics
• View Grade Center history
• Automatically drop the lowest grade
• Weight grades either proportionally or equally
• Print/run reports

9. Blackboard Help
• BB Help Center
• Drake # 55A
• Help Desk Option #6
• Online Help from Blackboard