Blackboard's Grade Center is a spreadsheet that shows the students' grades, and calculations based on those grades. Only a user with the role of Instructor, Teaching Assistant, or Grader can access Grade Center.
In this chapter, we will show you how to:
Find things that need to be graded
Use Smart Views to view the gradebook
Categorize graded items
Manually override grades
Prepare a report for grades
When a student wants to see his/her grades, the student selects the My Grades tool, and not Grade Center.
Blackboard automatically enters the grades for graded activities such as tests, assignments, graded posts in forums, and so on. Each graded activity gets a column in Grade Center. Each student gets a row in Grade Center. In the following screenshot, you can see that there are columns for graded activities, such as Where did you, Water Walks, and more. There is also a row for each student:
Notice the column labeled Total. This is a calculated column. Calculated columns...