LMS Weekly Update: Answering Your Gradebook Questions, Exemplar Course Templates and 14 Weeks Semester

Posted on Thursday, December 5th, 2019

Answering Your Gradebook Questions (part 1)

 

⇒Are you wondering what the student view of the Grades looks like? Go to your Grades/Enter Grades tab, click on the chevron beside the name of one student, and then click Preview. You (the instructor) control the students’ view of the grades (points, percentage, letters) from your Grades menu, Settings/Org Unit Display Options tab.

⇒How do I manually enter student grades in the gradebook (Grades/Enter Grades)?

  • How do I enter grades for all columns, for one particular student? Click on the student name in the Last Name/First Name column. This view also allows you to enter comments for each grade.
  • How do I enter grades for all students, for one particular column? Click on the chevron for the title of the column and then choose Enter Grades
  • How do I use the gradebook as a spreadsheet? Go to Grades/Enter Grades and click on the Switch to Spreadsheet view button. Click Save to save the changes.

⇒How do I remove a gradebook column? Go to Grades/Manage Grades and click Delete from the More Actions button. In the next screen, select the grade items you would like to remove and click Delete. Note that you can ONLY remove columns that are NOT associated with any activities. For columns with associations, you need to go to that particular activity (quiz, assignment or discussion topic) and remove the association from the Grade Item drop down list (choose NONE). To figure out which activity the grade item is associated to, in the Manage Grades screen, click on the question mark icon in the Association column

⇒Want to reorder the columns in the Gradebook? Go to Grades/Manage Grades tab/More actions/Reorder.

⇒I have different points possible displaying in the gradebook for the columns associated with quizzes and assignments. What do I do? If there are no submissions for your quiz or assignment, then to correct this, you just need to edit the associated column from Grades/Manage Grades and adjust the points.
If you already have graded the assignment or quiz, this is what you need to do:

  • Assignment: You published the grades, but noticed that the column in the Grades has different maximum points than the assignment. Unfortunately, once you edit the column and change the points, the existing grades won’t get automatically adjusted. You will need to go to Activities/Assignments/View Submissions and Update the grade for each student (the same screen you use when you first grade the assignment and publish grades).
  • Quiz: After you edit the maximum points for the column, in Grades, go to Activities/Quizzes/Grade/Users tab. Select all the students and then click Publish Feedback. Click Save and Close and then go back to the same screen and hit again Publish Feedback. This will force the grades to be readjusted in the gradebook.

Exemplar Course Templates (The Winners of the You Think You Can Brightspace)

You will be enrolled in three template courses which you can use to get ideas about content design and layout. You can copy the structure from these templates into your own blank Winter course shells, if you want to use them as the starting point for your Winter course setup.

14 Weeks Semester

A gentle reminder as we plan for the Winter 2020 semester in the new 14 week format: for most programs we are numbering weeks from 1 to 15, with Week 8 being the Break Week. This is reflected in the structure of Exemplar Course Templates A and B, and also in the new CSI template. Should you have any questions related to converting your course to the new 14 semester or would like a copy of the new CSI template, please visit https://www.algonquincollege.com/lts/14-week/ or contact lts@algonquincollege.com to set up a consultation.

 

 

 


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