Blackboard Grade Center Facilitated by Hope Greenberg Center

Blackboard: Grade Center Facilitated by: Hope Greenberg Center for Teaching and Learning

Blackboard: Grade Center Welcome! Please introduce yourself in the chat window with: 1) Your name 2) Your department

Blackboard: Grade Center Learning Outcomes • Navigate the many aspects of the Grade Center • Sketch out a grading plan • Create grade columns, both auto-generated and manual • Create a Weighted Total column to calculate a final grade • Use Student Preview to see My. Grades 3

Blackboard: Grade Center Grading: Deciding to Grade 4

Blackboard: Grade Center: What’s in your course? What does the grading portion of your syllabus look like in terms of graded activities and scoring? What are the individual elements that go into that grading? Example: • 5 quizzes worth 5 points each; • 3 short essays worth 10% of the final grade; • a project with 2 drafts (10 points each) + presentation (worth double) 5

Blackboard: Grade Center Blackboard Says: 22 “Yes, 5 Points Possible is fine!” If you give the student a 4 out of 5? 4 out of 5 = 80% 16 out 20 = 80% 80 out of 100 = 80% 200 out of 250 = 80% 6

Blackboard: Grade Center Grading: Journals 2 7 Tiny arrow leads to all other students’ Journals to help speed grading.

Blackboard: Grade Center Grading: Rubrics 8

Blackboard: Grade Center Grading: Rubrics 9

Blackboard: Grade Center Grading: Assignments This shows the new version of the annotation tool for assignments which will be available in late July. 10

Blackboard: Grade Center Grading: Discussion Board 1 11

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Blackboard: Grade Center Grading: Tests Manually graded • File Response • Short Answer • Essay 14

Blackboard: Grade Center Needs Grading 15

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Blackboard: Grade Center Categories Scenario An instructor has used the Test tool to create 5 quizzes. Each quiz has a Points Possible of 10 points. The intention is to drop the lowest grade of one of the 6 quizzes, then make the 5 Quiz grades worth 20% of the final grade. And there are numerous other assignments and tests. Can Blackboard do that? Yes, but how? 21

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Blackboard: Grade Center Original categories: • Assignment • Test • Journal • Wiki • Discussion New categories: • paper • quiz • catface 23

Blackboard: Grade Center Homework 2: What are your categories? If you group some grades together in your course, what are they and how are they grouped? For example, do you do things like group together 6 quizzes so you can drop the lowest grade, then count the remaining 5 as 20% of the grade? 24

Blackboard: Grade Center Weighted Total Let’s see the real thing. 25

Blackboard: Grade Center Blackboard Grade Center Questions? 26

Blackboard: Grade Center But wait, there’s more! (But not today. ) Attempts – get to student’s work through the Grade Center Grade Override – manually type over any grade to change it Group Grade – Grade one student in the group, the entire group will get the same grade. Blaclboard will show the students cells grayed out. Exempt – you can exempt a student from any grade Schemas – check to make sure your numbers match Bb’s letter grades Color Coding – set criteria for what should be in color Send Reminder – email students directly from the Grade Center Grade History – see a history of any student’s grades Set External Grade – nope, dump it Delete Columns – if the column was created automatically by Bb when you turned grading on for any given tool, then you must remove the tool first 27

Blackboard: Grade Center 2 2 Thank you. Course Design, Assignment Design, Blackboard Help, Screencasting, cool apps, wild ideas? Contact ctl@uvm. edu http: //www. uvm. edu/ctl 28 Specific questions about this talk? Find me at Hope. Greenberg@uvm. edu Hope Greenberg on Teams