Exempt Grade from main "Enter Grade" screen

Question

Right now, if I want to exempt a student from an assignment, I have to go

Grades Tool → Specific Assignment → Enter Grades → Select Student (checkbox) → Select Exempt (at top).

That may make sense if I'm manually grading assignments, but I get a lot of assignments automatically passed from publisher sites or such, so the grading has already happened there. I'd like to exempt it in Brightspace; and it would be great if there were a drop-down menu for the assignment next to the student's score that let me exempt it.

Luke.D.727 · Answer

Thank you, it is nice to have another method. I still think it would be an improvement to the UI to have it as an option from the main gradebook.

Janet.W.5235 · Answer

Hi Luke.D.727,

I'm not sure if you've tried the Bulk User Exemptions feature. Here are step-by-step instructions:

Setting multiple grade item exemptions for a learner

* On the Enter Grades page, click on the learner's name.
* From the context menu of the learner's name, select Bulk edit exemptions.
Note: You can also launch the Bulk edit exemptions page from the Grade item and the Grade Category pages.
* On the Edit Grade Exemptions page for the learner, select the check boxes of the grade items that you want to exempt the learner from.
* Click Save and Close.

Hope that helps!

Janet