1. Blackboard
Feature
Friday
March
22, 2013
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Workshop Topics
 Managing Grade Center Columns
 All about Columns:
 There are three types of columns that will be covered in this
session:
 The User Column
 The Grade Column
 The Calculated Column

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Workshop Objectives
 At the end of this workshop the participates will be able to:
 Attain a working understanding of managing the Grade Center
 Identify types and categories of Grade Center columns
 Create gradable columns

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Introduction to the Grade Center
 Commentators Notes:
 The Grade Center link is located under the Course
Management Control Panel. For easy access
there are four built in links available to the
instructor for quick access to specific areas of the
Grade Center:
 Assignments that need to be graded
 The whole Grade Center
 Assignments view only Assignment categories
 Test view only gradable test

5. Creating and Managing
Grade Columns
The discussion will start with the four tabs in the Grade Center:
1. Create Column
2. Create Calculated Column
3. Manage
4. Reports
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Create Column
 Selecting Create Column will open up the
four section page below:

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Create Calculated Column
 In the Grade Center, you can calculate grades using
calculated columns. Calculated columns combine data from
multiple columns to attain performance results. You can
share these results with students and your chair of the
department. You can use calculated columns to do the
following:
 • Calculate the total grade.
 • Weight grades by column, category, or both.
 • Calculate the average grade.
 • Calculate a minimum or maximum grade.

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Manage Columns
 Grading Period allows instructor to include all assignments,
discussions, journals to a given semester such as: Spring 2014
 Grading Schemas sets your grading scale
 Categories are extremely important this link allows the instructor to
add grade category to the course example: projects and
presentations

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Course Grade Reports
A grade report has seven sections
1. Header Information: report name, date and other information
2. User Section: who you wish to include in the report, all, groups
or selected students
3. User Info Section: first name or last name or Username… to be
included in report
4. Columns Section: what assignments you wish to included
5. Column Information such as due dates
6. Footer information custom text section
7. Submit: submit button creates the report!

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Example Printed Report No
Grades Displayed
The grade information is displayed here in the report

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View Grade History

12. All About Columns
 User Column
 Grade Column
 The Calculated Column
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13. User Columns 13
In a new course, six default user columns appear in the Grade
Center grid:
• Last Name
• First Name
• Username
• Student ID
• Last Access
• Availability
You cannot delete or edit default user columns. You can hide all but the
first user column in the grid. If you need to hide the first column, you
can rearrange the user columns on the Column Organization page, but
at least one user column must show. You can also freeze user columns
so they remain in place as you scroll in the grid.

14. Grade Columns 14
When you create gradable items in your course, grade columns are
created automatically in the Grade Center. You can edit a grade column
to rename it, associate it with a different category or
Grading Period, change the grading schema, determine if students will
see the results on their My Grades pages, and include or exclude the
column in calculations.

15. Calculated Columns in the Grade 15
Center