Overview:

The Grade Center posts all Student grades associated with Tests and Assignments. The Grade Center also manages scores and grades associated with regular assignments that do not use built-in Blackboard tools. Instructors may also view the results of Surveys and manage grades for Safe Assignments through the Grade Center. The Grade Center opens to the View Spreadsheet page. The Spreadsheet lists Students in rows and graded items in columns. All features of the Grade Center can be accessed through the Spreadsheet.

Items in the Grace Center are categorized. This enables Instructors to: Sort and filter items by category. For example, Instructors may only want to view items in the Exam category on the View Spreadsheet page. Weight categories differently.   For example, items in a Homework category may be weighted less than items in an Exam category.

Grade Center Training and Support Materials

Materials Created by TAC Staff

Online Tutorials

• Grade Center Navigation
• Manually Entering Grades
• Adding Comments
• Clearing Attempts
• Weighting Grades
• Emailing Students from the Grade Center
• Printing Grade Center

Print Materials

• Grade Center Basics
• Grade Center Frequently Asked Questions

Materials Created by Blackboard

Video

• Grade Center Overview

Print (pdf documents)

• Getting Started With the Grade Center

Materials Created by the VCCS

The site created by the VCCS is organized into sections for beginner, intermediate and advanced users of the Grade Center.

• Beginners
  • Covers: New Icons, Adding a Grade to the Grade Center, Modifying a Grade, Adding a Grade Column, Downloading Grades, Viewing Grades in the Grade Center, Clearing Assessment Attempts, Choosing Which Attempt to Grade, Emailing Users From the Grade Center
• Intermediate
  • Covers: Setting the Default Grade Center View, Adding a Calculated Column, Adding a Smart View, Modifying a Smart View, Working With Grade History, Grading Schema, Modifying a Grading Schema, Removing a Grading Schema
• Advanced
  • Covers: Uploading Grades, Grading Periods, Categories, Modifying a Column, Creating Reports

When you click on the materials created by the VCCS you will be prompted to enter your VCCS log in, which is the same log in that is used to access MYNOVA.

Other Grade Center Training Materials

• Blackboard Version 8 Grade Center Unmasked (45 page pdf created by Southwestern College: Online Learning Center Training Series)
• Online@UT (video, htm and pdf files)
• Missouri's Grade Center Tutorial Materials
• Virginia Western Blackboard 8 Grade Center Training Materials
• University of Illinois, Chicago Blackboard 8 Grade Center Flash Video Mini-tutorials