Grade Center at a Glance

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• Grade Center icons
• View or Grade Students' Submission for Tests, Assignments, and Discussion Board
• Create Grade Columns to Manually Entered Grades
• Collect "Assignments" through Grade Center
• Modify Grade Columns
• Remove Grade Columns
• Organize Grade Center
• Create Different Views in Grade Center
• Create Grading Schemas
• Categorize Grades Items
• Create Grading Periods
• Send Email from Grade Center
• Add Comments to a Grade Entry
• View Grade History
• Delete a Grade
• Download Grades from the Grade Center
• Upload Grades to Grade Center
• Add a Calculated Grade Column
• Drop the Lowest Grade
• Create Reports
• View Grade Center Statistics
• Controlling Student Access to Grades
• Getting Started With the Grade Center PDF (Download from Blackboard's web site)

Blackboard 8 provides the Grade Center as a central repository for students’ information, their grades, and the calculations and statistics for the grades. Through the Grade Center, the instructor can assess, grade, and provide feedback to the students’ submitted assignments and tests. In order for the instructor to analyze the students’ grades easily, Grade Center provides different ways to look at these grades based on a variety of student criteria.

The Grade Center page contains spreadsheet-like grid with vertical columns and horizontal rows. The intercession of the columns and rows are called cells. Grade items are displayed as columns, while each row represents a student. You use the cell to enter each individual student’s grade.

The students’ information will be automatically displayed in the Grade Center after the students are enrolled in your course. You cannot add or remove a student from the Grade Center. He/she can only be enrolled or dropped from the course.

Follow these steps to access the Grade Center:

1. Make sure you are in the desired course.

2. Click the Control Panel link in the left panel.

3. In the Control Panel area, under the Assessment area, click the Grade Center link.

4. Grade Center will automatically display a student’s last name, first name, Username, StudentID, Last Access, and Availability in the left most columns. The Last name and First Name columns will be frozen, meaning that they will remain visible even if you scroll to the right side of the screen. If you have added any assignments or assessments in the content areas, they will also automatically show up in the Grade Center. In addition, you will automatically be provided with a Weighted Total grade column and a Total grade column.