Managing Permissions in the Gradebook
By default, only members of the Administrators and Faculty roles have permission to manage grades in the Gradebook. If you have created a custom role—for example, a TA role—and you want its members to have permission to work with grades, you must manually give them permission.
Available Permissions
This section lists the available Gradebook permissions.
Note
These permissions are not intended to be used by students in the course section (enrolled students or non-roster students). If you try to give a Gradebook permission to one of these students, the permission will not be honored.
This permission lets the user do the following:
On the Evaluations screen:
Create and modify evaluations (but not enter scores for them).
Include or exclude the attendance evaluation and adjust its value and settings.
On the Final Grade Weighting screen:
Change the weighting method and make exceptions to the way weighting is handled within a single unit or type.
Manually weight items.
Configure the system to drop the lowest grade from the course as a whole, or from one group (from a unit, a type, or from the list of evaluations).
On the letter grade scale tab, change the letter grade scale being used by the course section, add grades, and so forth.
Note
When a user with this permission displays the Gradebook feature, the user will not see the home screen. The Evaluations tab will display.
This permission lets the user do the following:
On the Full Gradebook screen:
Add feedback comments and files
Add extra credit
Drop grades on the grade sheet
Export grades to an Excel spreadsheet
On the Evaluations screen, this user can grade evaluations.
When this user displays the Gradebook feature, the user will see the home screen, along with options for displaying the Full Gradebook and the Evaluations screen.
Use this procedure to give a role a Gradebook permission. Make sure that you have also given the role permission to view the Gradebook page, as well as any other pages in the course that they’ll need to view.
Note
Users who have Gradebook permissions—but no other affiliation with the course—will not see the course section in their My Courses lists. These users should be instructed to add the pages they’ll need to access as favorites or told how to navigate to the appropriate page.
If you haven't already done so, display the Coursework feature instance for the appropriate course section.
Click the wrench icon in the upper-right corner of the page.
The admin bar displays.
Click the Access link in the admin bar.
The system displays the Access page, which lists all the roles defined for this context as well as all the global roles. Roles that have access to the page are highlighted in green. Roles that do not have access to the page are shaded gray.
Locate the role that should be able to post items or administer the feature instance, and take one of the following steps:
If the role is highlighted in green, this means the role already has permission to view the page. Click the role to display a pop-up window that lists the permissions available in each of the features found on the page.
If the role is shaded gray, this means the role does not have access to view the page. You must first grant the role access to the page before you grant permissions. To do so, click the role and then click the Hidden toggle button to change it to Visible. Now that the role can view the page, the screen refreshes to list the permissions available in each of the features found on the page.
Under the list of permissions for the Coursework feature, grant the role one or both of the following permissions by clicking the toggle button next to each:
Content Management Access
Grading Access
The toggle button changes from No to Yes to indicate the permission has been granted to the role.