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Enter Grades Using the Assignment Overview

There are several advantages to entering grades on the assignment overview:

  • You can enter grades for many students all on one screen.

  • Even if you are entering just one student’s grade, you can see other students’ grades for comparison.

  • If this is a basic assignment, you can give multiple students the same grade with just a few clicks.

Note

When you enter grades, you will use either the scoring icons or enter values in text fields. For help with either of these scoring methods, refer to the Entering Scores section.

To enter grades on the assignment overview:

  1. Display the assignment overview, as described in Navigate to the Assignment Overview.

    If you have not entered grades for your students, each student’s name will be accompanied by grading icons, which you can use to enter scores.

    If you have already given some students a score, those scores will be listed instead of the grading icons—but you can make the icons come back (and change the score) by hovering your cursor over the row that represents any student.

    If you want to be able to manually type in each student’s grade, you can click the Edit all grades link. When you do this, the system displays a text box next to each student’s name. You can then manually enter or modify each grade.

    Note that this screen includes tips on the permissible grade values that you can enter. You can also refer to the Values That Can Be Entered section for a list of guidelines.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Enter the score(s) for each student using either the grading icons or by clicking Edit all grades and type in the grades. If you use the latter method, make sure to click the Save Grades button when you are done.

    • If this is a basic, forum or uploaded assignment and you want to enter the same score for all students who do not currently have a score, click the Enter a default grade link to display a pop-up. Note that this option is displayed only if some students don’t have scores yet, and for uploaded assignments this option does not become available until at least one student turns in the assignment.

    • Enter the default grade and click Fill Empty Grades to apply this score to all students who don’t currently have a score.