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Hans Aagard

Mastering the Blackboard Grade Book

Educational Technologist

Grade Book Objectives

After this session, you will be able to:

– Explain the views available in the Grade Book. – Manage access to your class. – Create and modify columns for storing or calculating data. – Enter or override grades and view audit history. – Make grades available to students – Make grades available to students. – Import and export grades. – Explain Instructional Data Processing (IDP) grading

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Roles

Designer Instructor/TA

Adds content Removes content Adds tools Looks at grades Changes grades Administers assignments, assessments NEEDS FERPA! NEEDS FERPA!

Grade Book Interface

Columns

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Columns Rows

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Grade Book Tabs

• Grades
• Members
• View All

Custom View

• Custom View
• SCORM Grades

Setting up the Grade Book

Customize Grade Book: – creating and edit columns. – modifying column settings

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Setting up the Grade Book

Default Columns:

– Last Name, First Name, User Name, and Role – Midterm and Final

Automatically Created Columns:

– Assessments, Assignments, & Discussions SCORM – SCORM

Setting up the Grade Book

Some column types need further editing:

– Calculated Column

• Create the Formula for the calculation

– Letter Grade

• Create the numeric ranges that determine which letter

grade is assigned

– Selection List Terms

• Define all possible list values

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Activity: Enrolling Members

• First, we need to populate our training

section with students.

• Using Enroll Members, enter the names of

these students.

– bbstudent1, bbstudent2, bbstudent3, bbstudent4

Activity: Creating and Editing Columns

• Create numeric columns titled Project1 and

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• Project2. These columns should be grade-related

and released to students. Enter grades in these columns.

• Create a calculated column titled Projects. This

column should also be grade-related and released to the students. Create a formula which averages Project1 and Project2 to create values for this column.

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Setting up the Grade Book

Grade Book Options:

– Column Settings – Column Settings – UnFreezing and Freezing Columns – Find & Show All members – Audit History (global)

More Options:

– Reordering Columns Reordering Columns – Audit History (granular) – Export/Import to/from a Spreadsheet – IDP Scoring

Activity: Export/Import Grades

• Create an archive of your Grade Book by

exporting grades to a spreadsheet

• Add a new column in Excel and import back.

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Options for Submitting Final Grades

• Enter grades manually in MyPurdue, or
• Enter or import grades into Blackboard and

“push” from there

Important Things to Know for Both Methods

• Must be submitted by a Banner-designated

instructor instructor

• Grades can be submitted to Registrar only when

Banner is accepting grades

• Grades can be submitted more than once (in case
• f an error or last-minute grade change)

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• Grades can be submitted for only one student, or a

few, if desired

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Advantages to using Blackboard

• One button click to submit grades
• Fewer chances for errors?
• Fewer chances for errors?
• Can view Final column of grades anytime

after submission from within the Blackboard grade book

• Grades can be exported from the Blackboard

Grades can be exported from the Blackboard grade book as a .csv file at any time to be saved or printed

To Push Grades from Blackboard

• Final grades

– must be entered in the Blackboard grade …must be entered in the Blackboard grade book, in the existing Final column – …in a cross-listed class, may need to be pushed by more than one Banner-designated instructor – …can only be pushed from gradable (for-credit) Blackboard classes Blackboard classes

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Sending grades to the Registrar

• Submit grades directly from Blackboard

to SIS

• Must be Instructor of Record
• Only grades from the “Final” column

can be submitted

• Step-by-step guides available online

Sending grades to the Registrar

• Submit grades directly from Blackboard to

SIS

• Must be Instructor of Record or Course

Roster Viewer

• Grades from the “Final” column alone can be

submitted submitted

• Can only be done during the Registrar’s

grade submission dates

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Campus Resources

– ITaP Customer Service Center 44000; itap@purdue edu 44000; itap@purdue.edu – ITaP Teaching & Learning 63257; www.itap.purdue.edu/learning – Blackboard Users’ Group Visit: http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/blackboard/staff.cfm