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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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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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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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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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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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Drop the lowest grade
You may want to drop the lowest grade for students to increase their overall final grade for the course. To drop the lowest grade On your course homepage, navigate to Grades. Click the Actions drop-down menu beside a student's name and click Bulk edit exemptions. Figure: The Bulk edit exemptions option in the Actions…
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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…