Understanding the Feature Layout and Functions

When you navigate to the Gradebook feature, it displays a home screen that lists all enrolled students and non-roster students, along with students’ grades so far, and links to other screens.

The Full Gradebook screen lists all students, along with their grades for each assignment and each evaluation, and their overall grades in the course section so far.

Note that if you have selected the Manual Method as your weighting method, you will not have a Full Gradebook screen.

The Full Gradebook is described in more detail in Reviewing and Adjusting Grades.

You can use the Evaluations tab to track any qualities or accomplishments that you expect from students. As part of this, you can make students’ overall grades dependent on their evaluation scores—either in conjunction with Coursework scores, or in instead of them.

Additionally, if you want students’ overall grades to be affected by attendance details that you enter in the Attendance feature, you can use the Evaluations tab to include an attendance evaluation.

Note that if you have selected the manual weighting method, you will not have an Evaluations tab. This tab is described in more detail in Working with Evaluations.

You use the Final Grade Weighting screen to manage how students’ overall grades for the term are determined. You can choose to manually entering students’ scores, or you can have the feature automatically calculate grades, using any of several methods.

Weighting is covered in more detail in Working with Final Grade Weighting.

You use the Letter Grade Configuration screen to manage the definition for each of your letter grades (for example, an A could be defined as 90 to 100%, a B as 80 to 89%, and so on). There are several grading-scale options from which you can choose. You can also implement any of the preset scales and then make changes to it.

Working with letter-grade scales is covered further in Working with Final Grade Weighting.

The Submit your grades screen lets you send midterm and final grades to your school’s ERP system. If you are teaching a course section that exists only in the portal, then your Gradebook will not have this feature. For more details on submitting grades, see Submitting Grades to the ERP System.