This article is intended for faculty and staff who want to create additional columns in their Grade Center on Blackboard. Instructors can create columns when adding something to the curriculum that they wish to grade. Certain tools, such as the items under Assessments, automatically create their own columns.
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Creating Columns in Grade Center
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Access the Grade Center. Go to your Control Panel on the left-hand side. Look under Course Management. Image Modified Select Grade Center.
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Select Full Grade Center. Image Modified
In the top left corner of Full Grade Center, select Create Column to add a column that can display manually entered scores or text.
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select Create Calculated Column to add a column that will use existing columns in the Grade Center to compute an Average, Weighted, Average, Total, or
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tofind the Maximum/Minimum value.
Enter the required information.
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For all column types, a Course Name must be entered. This is the name that the students will see when looking at their grades in My Grades. A Grade Center Name is generally not advised as it makes it more difficult to compare the student view to the instructor view of column names.
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There is also a Description Field. Text entered here will appear under the column title in My Grades, but students need to click on a down arrow to Expand Grade Details in order to see it.
Edit your Display Settings and your Column Settings. For more information about Display Settings and Column Settings, review the below section, Display and Column Settings.
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Managing Display and Column Settings
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Both "regular" and calculated columns have two Display Settings – Primary and Secondary. Only the Primary Display will appear in My Grades for Students. If a Secondary Display is added,
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; displays with two decimal places Letter: based on a Grading Scheme defined by the instructor Text: can be used to enter an alpha grade manually
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Specifically when making a Minimum/Maximum calculated column, under the Select Columns section, there will be the option of Calculation Type. You may choose if the column takes the minimum grade or maximum grade for an assignment.
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For the first Options setting, selecting No will prevent this column from being an option when selecting columns to include in a calculated column. For the second Options setting, selecting No will prevent students from seeing this column when looking in My Grades. For the third Options setting, selecting Yes will enable students to see these statistics when looking in My Grades.
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This is helpful when testing out new content or functions in Blackboard. |
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