Using the Online Gradebook

Adding Gradebook Items | Entering Grades | Weighting Gradebook Items
Exporting | Importing

Overview

You can use the online gradebook to post grades for your students, allowing them to track their progress throughout the quarter. Online Assessments and Assignments (when created using the Assignments feature) automatically appear in your online gradebook, and you can add other items and enter grades for them in your online gradebook. This gradebook is separate from the Banner system and is only for communicating grades with your students.
To access the online gradebook, go to the Control Panel, and click on Gradebook under the Assessment section.

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Adding Gradebook Items

A "Gradebook Item" is any assignment, test, project, or other part of your grading criteria that you want your students to see. (Online Assessments and Assignments automatically appear in your online gradebook). To add your own gradebook items, please do the following:

1. Access your online gradebook.
   
2. Click the Add Item button.
   
3. Now enter the name, category, and short description of the item. In the gradebook, you can display gradebook items by type.
   
4. Enter the item’s due date.
   
5. Enter the points possible. This does not have to reflect the relative weight of this entry in the total grade, since the gradebook allows you to weight items. (See Weighting Gradebook Items for more information and examples).
   
6. Determine how you would like the grade displayed. You can choose letter, percentage, score or text.
   
7. Leave the remaining options at the default setting.
   
8. Scroll down and click the Submit button at the lower right of the page.
   

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Entering/Changing Grades

You can enter all the grades for a gradebook item at one time.

1. Access your online gradebook.
   
2. Click the item for which you want to enter grades.
   
3. Click on Item Grade List.
   
4. You will see the Grade column which includes boxes for entering the scores for each student. You may award more points than the maximum point value.

You can also enter all the grades for a single student.

1. Access your online gradebook
   
2. Click the name of the student for whom you want to enter grades.
   
3. Click on User Grade List
   
4. You will see the Grade column which includes boxes for enter the scores for each assignment. You may award more points than the maximum point value.

or symbols appear occasionally for online assessments. Click here for more info.

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Weighting Gradebook Items

The online gradebook includes a weighting function intended to allow instructors to specify how much each gradebook item affects the total grade. To use this option:

1. Access your online gradebook.
   
2. Click the Weight Grades button at the top of the page.
   
3. Choose either Weight by Category or Weight by Item. Weight by category allows all items in a category to have the same weight. For example, all Assignments will have the same weight and all Tests will have the same weight. Weight by Item allows each item to carry a different weight. For example, a weekly test will have a different weight than the Mid-term Test even though they are both tests.
   
4. Click the Submit button at the lower right of the page and OK to return to the gradebook.

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Exporting the Gradebook

You can export your online gradebook to open it in Excel, Word or other program. This will allow you to perform more complicated spreadsheet operations or format for printing. To export your gradebook,

1. Access your online gradebook.
   
2. Click the Download Grades button.
   
   
   
3. Click Comma and Submit.
   
4. Click the Download button.
   
5. Click Save and select a location on your computer in which to save the file.

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Importing the Gradebook

You can import your gradebook from Excel to the Online Learning System. To import your gradebook:

1. Access your online gradebook.
   
2. Click the Upload Grades button.
   
3. Click the Browse button to locate your Excel gradebook.
   
4. Click the Submit button at the lower right of the page.
   
5. Select which item should be imported and the destination for the item.
   
6. Select the students for whom grades should be uploaded.
   
7. Click the submit button at the lower right of the page and OK to return to the gradebook.

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