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Set up your Grade Book
You must set up a Grade Book before you can use the Grades tool. A grade book contains the following elements: * Grading systems: Enables you to set how grades display to students, how they update in the grade book, and how you want to deal with ungraded items. Choose from Weighted, Formula, or Points systems. * Grade…
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About Grades
The Grades tool provides a series of features to create and manage your grade book. By leveraging these features, Brightspace offers a flexible and powerful gradebook that removes technical barriers and empowers users to teach and assess however it makes sense for their courses. Requirements The following are required to…
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Create and delete grade categories and items
Grade categories provide a way to sort your grade items and create restrictions and conditions for grade items. They offer a way to sort and characterize learner activities like assignments and quizzes. Create a grade category Grade categories organize and group related grade items into sections in your grade book and…
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Export grades
To export grades To export grades D2L recommends that you set up your grade book in Brightspace even if you want to enter grades in a CSV or TXT file. You can then use the Export Grades option to create an appropriately structured file. On the navbar, click Grades. On the Enter Grades page, click Export. In the Export…
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Gradebook icons and notifications
An orange warning dot indicator in your gradebook indicates that an activity (such as a discussion, quiz, or assignment) requires attention by the teacher. Depending on the type of activity being reviewed, the indicator appears based on your interactions with the student's submission. Assignments Figure: The Assignments…
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Drop the lowest grade
Instructors can exclude a student’s lowest score from grade calculations in two main ways: * Manually, using exemptions * Automatically, by configuring a grade category to drop the lowest item Manually exempt a grade item Use Bulk edit exemptions to manually exclude a grade item for an individual learner. To exempt a…
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Manage final grades
You can manage the final grades of your students by calculating final grades for single users, manually recalculating final grades, or entering adjusted final grades. Calculate final grades for a single user You can also calculate final grades for individual students. To calculate grades for single users From your course…
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Remove the grade association for a graded LTI content topic
If you want to stop an LTI tool from sending grades to the Brightspace grade book for a specific activity, you can remove the grade association from the LTI content topic. This allows the LTI activity to remain accessible to learners without deleting the associated grade item. To remove the grade association from an LTI…