Category Archives: Grade Center

Getting rubric reports

While Blackboard currently doesn’t have the option to download a detailed view of all scored rubrics that includes feedback, you do have the ability to generate a report that provides a broad overview of student performance on an assessment. To access the rubric reports for a column, load up your Grade Center, click the options button for the column in question, and select COLUMN STATISTICS. Then click the large RUBRIC EVALUATION REPORT button. Select the report file type from the...

Grading with rubrics

Once you’ve set up a rubric and associated it with a column in your Grade Center, using it to grade that column is pretty easy. Load up your Grade Center and point to the cell you want to grade. Click the options button (arrow in a gray circle that appears when you point to a cell) and choose VIEW GRADE DETAILS. To grade using your Rubric, click the VIEW RUBRIC button on the Grade Details page. Grid view is the...

Grading Periods in the Grade Center

Grading Periods are an efficient way of managing your Grade Center so you only see certain groups of columns at one time. This can be particularly useful when trying to manage a very large Grade Center. As the name suggests, Grading Periods are primarily geared toward clustering columns chronologically. You might use Grading Periods to separate items graded before and after the midterm, or you might use a grading period to collect all the columns associated with module 1 in...

Create a Grade Center category

Whether you’re using a weighted column to calculate your students’ final grade or putting together a smart view to make it easier to look at groups of columns, using categories can make your Grade Center experience significantly more efficient. The default course shell comes with a handful of categories pre-created for you, but you may find these labels are insufficient. Fortunately, it’s very easy to create a new categories and apply even apply them quickly to multiple columns at once....

Smart views in the Grade Center

Smart Views let you see only specific sets of Grade Center columns and rows based on criteria you provide. Using Smart Views, you can see only students who scored poorly on an exam or homework assignment, only columns with a specific category, and so on. The tools available for dynamically selecting the columns and rows that are displayed are pretty powerful. They’re not difficult to set up either. You may have noticed the headings ASSIGNMENTS and TESTS that appear under...

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