Time for action – creating a Gradebook template
Next, we will set up a Gradebook complete with standardized categories that are used by every teacher in our program. For our example, we will be using Attendance and Final Exam as categories that are used by every teacher. Grading for these two categories is standardized as follows:
Attendance = 20% of a student's final grade
Final Exam = 40% of a student's final grade
Tip
In this example, the two categories only add up to 60 percent. The remaining 40 percent would be filled by individual teachers with other categories and items such as Participation, Quizzes, and so on.
We will start by first creating the Gradebook template in the template course we used to set up the attendance template. Navigate to the attendance template course (AT-M-Th-1 in our example) and then click on the Grades link found in the Administration block. From the Choose an action... pull-down menu, select Full view found under Categories and items. From the subsequent Edit...