Category Archives: Grade Center

Quickly identify and contact students who need help

Combining color-coded cells in the Grade Center table with the Email from Grade Center tool makes it easy to identify and get in touch with students who are having difficulty mastering your course material. Fortunately, it’s also easy to set up these features. First, let’s look at how we can color code a grade center column to make it easier to quickly identify a student who is slipping. Open the Grade Center in your course. Point to MANAGE at the...

Avoiding "locked out" students in proctored Blackboard tests.

In a situation where faculty are administering a proctored Blackboard test, such as in a computer lab environment, there have been instances where students get disconnected from the test. Once the student is disconnected the test normally needs to have the attempt cleared and the student needs to restart the test, which is not ideal for the faculty or the student. The student loses all progress and time previously applied to the test. A solution to avoid this situation, is...

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