LMS Weekly Update: Answering Your Gradebook Questions (part 2), “Course Copier” Role and Internet Explorer NOT Supported starting January 1st

Posted on Friday, December 13th, 2019


Answering Your Gradebook Questions (part 2)

⇒Troubleshooting Final grades:

  • Final calculated grade showing a value out of a percentage different than 100? Switch to the Treat ungraded items as 0 option, from Grades/Settings/Calculation Option tab, under the Grade Calculation label
  • Final calculated Grade not automatically updating? Make sure you have the Automatically keep final grades updated option checked off from Grades/Settings/Calculation Option tab
  • Final Calculated Grade not visible to students? Go to Grades/Enter Grades tab and click on Enter Grades from the Context menu for the Final Calculated Grade column. Then select all the rows and click on the Release/Unrelease option.
  • I get error messages that the weights are not adding up to 100%. From Grades/Manage Grades, select all columns and click on Bulk Edit. Adjust the weights and click Save.
  • Grades not displaying in columns for completed activities. Check if your quizzes/assignments/topics have gradebook columns associated.
    Watch this video from D2L on troubleshooting final grades.

⇒Need to give your students bonus points? Watch this video for details.

⇒Need to keep a copy of the student grades? If you ever need to save a paper copy of the students grades, this is how you can export it to a file that you can open in Excel. Note that, if you use a combined course and you need to download students from one particular section, you will need to filter first by the section.

⇒How do I hide a gradebook column? There are different types of gradebook columns in Brightspace, and each has a different way of hiding its content from student view.

  • Hide Final Calculated Grade/Final Adjusted Grade columns – Click here for detailed instructions on how to hide these columns.
  • Hide a column that it is NOT associated with any online activity (for instance, when you need to enter grades for course participation) – While in Grades/Enter Grades view, click on the chevron for the title of the column and choose Edit. Click on the Restrictions tab and then on Hide from Users. You can also use dates to restrict the view of the grades for a limited amount of time.
  • Hide a column associated with online activity (quiz/assignment/discussion) – As these activities are linked to gradebook columns, just hiding the columns in the gradebook won’t actually hide the grades from students. They still have the option to view their grades by going to the Activities menu and then to that particular activity, if that activity is still visible. Follow the steps from number 2., but also make sure you hide the quiz/assignment/ discussion, or have the grades set up as draft and not published.

Important: Please make sure you hide the Gradebook columns prior to you entering the grades!

⇒How do I submit the final Grades? Learn how to download your grades from Brightspace and upload them into ACSIS by clicking here.

 

“Course Copier” role now Available in Brightspace

There are times when you need to add other teachers to the courses that you are developing, with the intention to have them do a course copy from your course to theirs, but you would like to make sure that your course content does not get altered by mistake. Instead of adding them with the “instructor” role, please use the new “course copier” role,

Reminder: Support for Internet Explorer NOT Available

Starting January 1st, 2020, D2L will end the support for Internet Explorer. All versions of Internet Explorer will no longer be able to access Brightspace. We recommend using Chrome while working with Brightspace.

 


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