Blackboard saves you work by calculating students' grades for you.
Blackboard is an online learning tool that is the complete package for distance courses. It holds all of your course materials such as your syllabi and your lecture notes, it has a discussion board component and even hosts a virtual chat. The best feature, according to many instructors who use it, is the Grade Center. Once you set up the grading center with your assignments and their relative weights and values, Blackboard calculates the grade for you and the students can check their grades at any time. However, you need to add grading columns in for them to be calculated.
Instructions
1. Log into Blackboard and select the class to which you wish to add an assignment column, and open the Grade Center by clicking on "Evaluation" and selecting "Grade Center."
2. Click "Create Column" under the Grade Center heading. This column will allow you to add an assignment, quiz or test and then adjust the total grade to account for the added item. The column information menu should open.
3. Type a name for the column in the "Column Name" field.
Then, click "Score" under the "Primary Display" drop-down menu. This will show the student her score on an assignment.
Click the drop-down menu under "Category," then select the appropriate grouping: assignment, test, quiz or discussion. This will add the item to the correct category -- in case your categories such as quizzes are weighted.
Finally, enter the total number of points possible.
4. Assign a due date by clicking on the calendar next to the "due date" field. Then, select a time the assignment is due by clicking up or down on the time settings.
5. Click "Yes" under "Include this Column in Grade Center Calculations." This will allow the student to see his running grade total.
Then, click "Yes" under "Show this Column to Students." This will show the students their grade on this assignment.
Finally, click "Yes" under "Show Statistics (average and median) for this column to Students in My Grades" if you would like the students to be able to compare their grades to other students. Click "No" if you would like to keep the average and median provate.
6. Click "Submit" to save your settings. The column should now appear in the Grade Center.
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