Introduction to Grade Center
Blackboard’s Grade center can be an important communication tool for professors. As grades are entered into your Blackboard Grade center, students’ “My grades” areas are updated as well.
Viewing Survey Results
Surveys in Blackboard are useful for determining the base knowledge of a class, discovering topics that interest your students, or for gathering anonymous feedback. Remember survey results are truly anonymous, so you will not be able to view individual student’s responses.
Adding a Tool Link in the Course Menu
Instructors can link directly to any of the built in Blackboard tools such as journals, wikis, blogs, and discussion boards in the course menu and make them available to students. The tools included are: blogs, discussion boards, Bb Collaborate, and more.
Adding Course Cartridges to a Course
You can add Course Cartridges from your textbook’s publisher into your course, however occasionally there are problems with the import and you should check with the U of A’s Blackboard Helpdesk before importing any cartridge into your course.
Adding a Textbook to Your Course
You can add a syllabus and your textbooks in your Blackboard Learn course, with just a few clicks.
Adding Content Areas
Content areas hold most of the course material with which your students will interact. This article will show you how to create a content area and make sure that the students can see it.
Managing Menu Items
The course menu is on the left in every Blackboard Learn course. From it you can add new content areas, add links to other content both in the course and outside of Blackboard, and other helpful course items.
Dropping Grades in the Grade Center
This will show you how to set up the Blackboard Grade Center to drop a grade from a group of scores, such as dropping the lowest quiz score from a semester’s worth of grades. You have to categorize the group, create a calculated column, and configure the settings.
Creating a Column in Grade Center
If you create an assignment, test, quiz, blog, etc. in Blackboard and give it a point value, Blackboard will automatically create the associated column in the Grade Center. However, columns can also be created in the Grade Center that are not tied to Blackboard assignments for a variety of uses, 0ne is in face-to-face classes so students can check their grades online. Additionally, you can create columns to perform calculations on other columns and create a custom total column that can reflect an average of other columns, set up different weights, a minimum/maximum column.
Managing Grade Center Columns
You can access some group properties for the columns in your Grade Center by selecting Manage then Column Organization. Here you can reorder columns, show/hide columns, and assign categories in bulk.