Creating Smart Views

Faculty and staff can create Smart Views to break up their Grade Centers into smaller chunks. This allows them to better manage a large number of students.

1. Navigate to the Full Grade Center for the course in which you wish to create Smart Views. 

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2. Click on the Manage drop-down.

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3. Click Smart Views.

4. Select Create Smart View.

5. Provide a Name for the Smart View (i.e., the number of the lab or discussion section: Section 001 or 001L or 001D).

6. Smart-views can be created for a variety of items, including course groups, categories (assignments, tests, journals, etc.) From Selection Criteria, choose which criteria you wish to create the smart-view for

7. For Select Criteria, fill out any required information such as selecting the group or users.

8. For Filter Results, select which columns from the gradebook are to appear in this smart-view. If you want the entire gradebook for the selected group or user, select All Columns.

9. Select Submit.

10. Reference steps 7-8 below to add the Smart-view as a “favorite”, so that it is quickly accessible.

Creating a Smart-view for a Child Course

1. Follow steps 1-6 above.

2. For Selection Criteria, select Custom.

3. Select the drop-down under User Criteria and select Child Course ID.

4. Set the Condition of the filter to Contains, and fill in the Value with the specific number for that section.

5. Review what you have selected.

6. Select Submit.

7. Check Add as Favorite so the smart view is available as a filter option.

8. Navigate back to the Grade Center drop-down menu. The newly-created Smart View is now visible and selectable.

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