If you would like to give your students an opportunity to earn bonus points, you can create a bonus grade item and add it to the final grade in Brightspace. The following guide will show you how to do that. To create a bonus item Navigate to...
In order to delete a grade item, it must not be associated with an activity (assignment, quiz, or discussion). In case an association exists, it must first be undone. This can be done in similar ways for Discussions and Quizzes, but it is slightly different for...
Navigate to Grades from the nav bar and select the Manage Grades tab. If your grade item is linked to an assessment in Brightspace, you will need to unlink the assignment or quiz that is associated with the grade item before you can delete it. If there is no...
Grade schemes allow you to customize how you assess your learners in Brightspace (e.g., by using different letter grades, comments, pass/fail). This post will demonstrate: a) how to create a custom grade scheme, and b) how to create a grade item that uses a...
Brightspace offers instructors with different options regarding the grade system they would like to use for their courses. The two most common options are the Weighted and the Points grading systems. This post includes the steps involved in creating a weighted grading...
Weighted The weighted system calculates grade items as a percentage of a final grade worth 100%. The maximum points you assign to individual grade items can be any value, but their contribution towards the category they belong to and the final grade is the...
Grade items can be released to students as "Complete" or "Incomplete" in addition to or in place of a numerical grade. After clicking Grades in the navbar, navigate to the Schemes tab. Click New Scheme. Customize the scheme. Name the scheme...
In some cases, such as with cross-listed courses or when teaching the same course in different terms, it may help instructors to copy their gradebook from one course to another. This short guide will walk instructors through this operation. 1. Enter the...
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This post will walk you through how to view unpublished grades for the assignments, quizzes, and discussions assessment activities. How do I view unpublished assignments? There are three different ways to view unpublished assignments. Option 1 Go to Course...
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