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Privacy concerns where sponsor/mentors are able to access the information of all students in a class
Our students are each assigned a mentor who is responsible for their progress through the Brightspace course. The issue is that when the a mentor views their student's progress in the virtual classroom, i.e., grades, assignments, etc., they are also able to see ALL the other student's personal information, grades and…
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How to create choose your own adventure of select x activities of a possible y with only x graded?
Background: I am assisting with creating a Brightspace for a summer research internship program. The course requirements are more of a completion mark than a grade. Students who complete the course activities receive a cocurricular record credit (extra-curricular activities that wouldn't appear on an academic transcript).…
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Setting up a x completed of y number of assignments grade book
Hi there, I am assisting with creating a Brigthspace page for a summer research program. Undergraduate students are required to complete 4 professional development sessions synchronously or asynchronously. It is a "choose your own adventure" pass/fail completion mark. The asynchronous sessions are hosted in VoiceThreads. I…
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Issue with Brightspace update for Grades – Improved navigation within the Enter Grades page
Does anyone know how to remove or roll back this update? This update is very difficult on professors with a large number of students in a class, as the right and left scroll arrows that were added scrolls past the columns too far and also leaves columns showing halfway. When you try to scroll back it goes past the column…
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What happened to scrolling in Brightspace gradebook
Just recently, I found I am unable to scroll in my Brightspace gradebooks. I'm sure I clicked on something. Thanks Cheryl
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Creating Different Learning Paths Within a Course
Hi all, My team wants to create different paths that students can take within a single course based on their area of interest. For instance we have a School Supervisor course. The base content covers basic principles of supervision then each module splits into 2 paths: supervisors of teachers and supervisors of…
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Release Grades
Has anyone experienced a delay when an instructor released grades? I have run into the issue twice this semester. I know one instructor was experiencing latency issues, and the other instructor was on her personal laptop (I'm thinking maybe it needed an OS update, a browser update, or maybe they were using Edge. If anyone…
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Specifying Category during grade import
When I export grades from Brightspace, the column headers include metadata in angle brackets. For example: My Item Points Grade <Numeric MaxPoints:1 Weight:10 Category:My Category CategoryWeight:5> Is there a way to use this same format during import? If I am creating a new item, can I specify which category it belongs in…
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Grade items do not show up when try to link
I imported assignments from another class, but the list of them did not appear under Grades. So I created the list under grades. Now, when I try to link the assignment to the Grade Book. Only "Quiz 1" appears. Do I have to manually recreate the entire list of assignments under Grades again?
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Wish grade items could be separated into formative and summative.
I wish there was a way to indicate if grade items were formative or summative. Since formative do not factor into grade calculation, it would be great to have a toggle button to look at only one type of evaluation at a time.
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Assignments - unresponsive when connecting to Grade Book
Case 02283708 “Assignments - Slowness when connecting to Grades” has been marked as resolved, but I am still experiencing the issue! When creating or editing an Assignment, and adding it to Grade Book or linking to an existing Grade item, the page becomes unresponsive for up to 60 seconds. The same happens when you save…
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How to Drop Lowest Subtotals in Brightspace When Using Category-Based Weekly Grading
Hi Brightspace community, I’m restructuring my gradebook and need help figuring out the best way to set up “drop the lowest 4” given my structure. Course structure Class meets two days each week: Tuesday and Thursday Each class day has two graded items: Quiz = 10 points Activity = 10 points So each class day totals 20…
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Is it possible to edit a system-wide grade scheme?
Hello, As an admin, I am wondering if it is possible to edit the start % of a system-wide grade scheme? The documentation is unclear. It appears that we should be able to edit the grade schemes, but when I try, I am not able to edit the start %. I wonder if this is by design, preventing grade schemes that are in use from…
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pass fail grade item help
Hi, how do i make a pass/fail grade item where pass (100%)/ fail (0%) also includes the option for an exceptional grade (115%) And the pass grade is 78.9%, this is for a quiz thanks!!
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Improvise automatically display number of students are pending to be graded in Gradebook
During grading period, it is very useful to know how many students are pending to be graded / evaluated. Now, if we have to find this, we have to select a few filters, jump a few hoops and even then it is at the bottom of the page. (please see screen shot below) Can we have this automatically displayed on the top of the…
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Editing the title of an Assignment isn't reflected in Grade Book
In Classic Experience— I have some assignments that are already linked to the Grade Book. I've noticed that if I edit the title of the Assignment, the title isn't automatically updated in the Grade Book. I have to edit the title in the Grade Book as an additional step. Is this correct? To try to get around this I tried…
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Attempt 1 grade re-sent to gradebook when attempt 2 is submitted but NOT published
TL;DR Why does attempt 1 grade get re-sent to gradebook when student submits attempt 2 (overwriting manually entered grade in gradebook) even though the attempt 2 grade is not published? The quiz is all Written Response questions and auto-publish attempt results is not checked. Synchronize to grade book on publish is…
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Discussion Name Change Not Reflecting in Gradebook – Brightspace
I would like to understand an issue related to Discussions and the Gradebook in Brightspace. When a Discussion topic is linked to the Gradebook and we later change the naming convention of that specific Discussion, the Gradebook continues to display the previous name instead of the updated one. As a result, we are required…
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Analyzing Grades - Pivot Table Templates
Hello Brightspace Community, We are currently analyzing the Grades Report, and we are trying to break down the unique number of grades received overall by Majors, Years of Study etc. Wondering if there are any tips or templates for pivot tables in Excel. Thanks in advance!!