The document discusses navigating and using the Grade Center tool in Blackboard. It provides instructions on how to access the Full Grade Center and Needs Grading page to view student assignments. It also describes how to sort assignment columns, change which student attempt is scored, view user statistics, and delete grade center columns by first removing the associated course items.

1. GRADE CENTER
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2. ACCESS GRADE CENTER
Visit the Grade Center by navigating to the Control Panel in the Left Column in
Blackboard.

3. Access Grade Center
Click on “Full Grade Center”
to view all of the students in the
course.

4. GRADING CENTER
Make another selection
in an additional drop-
down list to further
narrow the columns and
users that appear in the
grid.

5. GRADING CENTER
If you have a heavy grading load, the Needs Grading page can help you determine
what needs attention first and allows you to access it quickly. You can view all items
ready for grading or review on the Needs Grading page.
Access the Needs
Grading page in
the Grade
Center section of
the Control Panel.

6. NEEDS GRADING
Click Grade All on the action bar to begin grading and reviewing immediately.
The Grade All function places all attempts in a queue for easy navigation among
items. The items in the queue appear in the order they appear on the Needs
Grading page.

7. SORT COLUMNS
• Sort Columns to Organize Your List. The following
columns appear on the Needs Grading page:
• Category: Sort attempts to group all assignments or
tests together.
• Item Name: Sort attempts by alphabetical order or
reverse alphabetical order.
• User Attempt: Sort attempts by a student's name.
• Date Submitted: Sort attempts by the date and time
students submitted the attempts.
• Due Date: Sort attempts by due date and grade items
that are due first.

8. CHANGE ATTEMPTS
• To change the attempt used for the score, access the column's contextual menu and
click Edit Column Information. Select from the options in the Score Attempts
Using drop-down list:
• Last Graded Attempt
• Highest Grade
• Lowest Grade
• First Graded Attempt
• Average of Graded Attempts

9. USER STATISTICS
• You can view the User Statistics page which provides statistical information related
to a user's performance.

10. DELETING GRADE CENTER COLUMNS
The only way to delete these auto-created grade columns is to first delete the gradable items in
your course. For some, if no student submissions exist when you delete the item, the Grade
Center column is deleted automatically or you are allowed to decide whether to delete the
column.