Gradebook Overview
Introduction to Gradebook
The Gradebook is the place for instructors to input and distribute grades for students. Grades for each assignment can be calculated as points, percentages, complete or incomplete, and letter grades.
The Gradebook is driven by the assignments that you create.
Assignments, graded discussions, and quizzes must all be created first, in order for them to show up in the Gradebook. Columns are automatically created in the Gradebook when you create and publish assignments, graded discussions, and graded quizzes and surveys.
If you look in the Gradebook before students are loaded and submitting assignments, there is not much to see except for the columns that are associated with each graded assignment and each assignment group. So let's look at a screenshot from a "live" Gradebook.
As you can see in this image, the student names are listed along the left side of the page [1], the names of the assignments are listed across the top [2], and information about the submissions is contained in the columns below the assignment name [3].
You will see a variety of icons and numbers in the columns:
- A number means you have graded the assignment
- A dash means there is no submission
- A "paper" icon means there is a submission that hasn't been graded
- A rocketship icon means there is a quiz submission that requires manual grading
- The color-coded bubbles refer to the originality score generated by Turnitin
Instructors will find the Gradebook to be useful for the following tasks:
- Viewing grades for all students in the course
- Downloading assignment submissions from students to grade or view them offline
- Manually entering student grades, if SpeedGrader is not employed
- Automatically calculating total and final grades
- Assigning zeros after deadline
- Notifying students when an assignment has been graded
- Downloading or uploading Grades as a CSV file
If you would like for the Gradebook to do automatic calculations for weighted grading, be sure to set up the weighted groups in assignments before students are loaded into the course. There is more information on weighted grading on the next page.
Resources
- What are Grades and the Gradebook? Links to an external site.
- How do I use the Gradebook? Links to an external site.
- How do I enter and edit scores in the Gradebook? Links to an external site.
- How do I set a default grade for an Assignment? Links to an external site.
- How do I leave comments for students in the Gradebook? Links to an external site.
- How do I view my students' total grades as a point value instead of a percentage in the Gradebook? Links to an external site.
- How do I upload changes to the Gradebook? Links to an external site.
- How do I sort my Gradebook? Links to an external site.