Courses: Gradebook

Overview

Navigate to any course and select Gradebook to grade assignments, tests, quizzes, assessments, and discussions. Students can review these grades from the Grades section.

Gradebook is not supported in courses containing more than 10,000 members.

Gradebook menus

The Gradebook includes several menus to help you filter, sort, and manage content.

Members menu

Menu options	Details
All members	Displays all course materials. If the material was not assigned to a student, the grade cell is greyed out and un-editable.
Grading groups	Displays materials only assigned to the selected grading group.
Linked sections	Choose the section from an additional menu that appears when linked sections are set up.

The default display is Last Name, A-Z. The display selected for each section will be saved within your browser session. If you change browsers or clear your cookies, the display will reset to the default.

Grading period menu

Menu options	Details
A grading period	Displays only items from that grading period. The default view for active classes.
All grading periods	Displays the calculated grades for the overall and grading period scores. Sub-periods are nested beneath their main grading period. The default view for inactive classes which does not display individual graded materials.
Final/Midterm material grades	Displays items for which you have selected Set as midterm/final in the item's Grading options.
No grading period	Displays items that haven't been assigned a grading period.

Categories menu

Menu options	Details
All materials	Displays all graded items from that grading period. The default view.
Specific categories	Displays graded materials within a specific category and the student’s grade for that category. The Categories in this list are configured on the Grade Setup page. If a material does not have a grading Category, it will be displayed in the ungraded section. You cannot enter grades, comments, or exceptions into the Gradebook for an item designated as ungraded.
All category summaries	Displays the overall and grading period columns if the course is configured to display those columns. Materials are not listed. Only available when you have selected the lowest level of the grading period since course materials can only be aligned with the lowest level of the grading period in your course. A grading category score is not calculated for grading periods that have sub-periods. If you select a parent grading period and the All Category Summaries, the display changes to the selected parent period with All Materials automatically selected in the category drop-down. If you select a specific grading period and the All Category Summaries option, the gradebook displays one column per grading category that exists in the course. If no items have been graded for a student within a certain category, that category’s column displays N/A.
Grading category score columns	Displays column headers are the category title and the calculated category score for the selected grading period. Course Admins can hide the category score columns from their gradebook page using the option in the Grade Setup flag, Hide Grading Category score columns.

Sort materials menu

Meno options	Details
Due date, ascending	Sorts items from left to right with the earliest due dates displayed at the beginning of the gradebook and the most recent at the end.
Due date, descending	Sorts items from left to right with items with the most recent due dates at the beginning of the gradebook and the earliest ones at the end.
Date created, ascending	Sorts items from left to right with the earliest items you created displayed at the beginning of the gradebook and the most recent at the end.
Date created, descending	Sorts items from left to right with the most recent items you created displayed at the beginning of the gradebook and the earliest ones at the end.

Items without assigned due dates appear at the beginning of the gradebook list regardless of how you sort materials.

View menu

Menu options

Details

Show full titles

Expands the header row of the gradebook and displays the entire title of each graded item.

Show grading scale

If enabled, a menu appears in the gradebook cell for material items with a point- or percentage-based grading scale.

When disabled, the gradebook cells do not display the menu. The grading scales are not removed from items and the item grades are not affected.

The setting persists across all of a user's sessions and courses and will not be applied for course co-admins.

Highlight cells

Highlights all gradebook items based on status.

Items marked Excused or Incomplete register as blank, null values in the gradebook, and are not factored into student grades.
Graded with New Submission is only supported for discussions and assignments.

Edit materials

The header row for each graded item displays a Materials More Options and provides additional options for assignments, tests, and discussions.

Options	Details
Edit	Modify the item details.
Track Revisions	Displays changes made to a student's grades for assignments and discussions. This option is not available for tests, quizzes, and assessments.
Set (All Grades)	Adds the same score for all of the grades for that item. Assignments, discussions, and grade columns with aligned Mastery objectives are scored by the aligned objectives and manually setting the overall score via Set All Grades is disabled.
View Statistics	Displays statistics for the item.
Delete	Removes the assignment, test, or discussion from the course section. All grades for the item are also deleted.

Add materials

Click the add item icon in your gradebook to create the following graded content:

Assignments
Discussions
Test and quizzes
Grade columns without associated course materials

Edit grades

From your gradebook, click a cell and enter the new grade.

For automatically graded tests, quizzes, or assessments, the calculated grade is displayed with a link to the student's submission. If you manually change the grade, an orange pencil icon will appear to indicate the override. Click the pencil icon to clear the override and revert to the original calculated grade.

Grades automatically save when you modify a cell.
You can enter any non-numeric character in a cell to assign a 0 for that grade.

Navigate the gradebook

Use the tab or arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate the gradebook cells.

Press Tab to move through the rows in a column.
At the end of a column, press Tab again to move to the beginning of the next column.

Move your pointer over the gradebook cells to highlight the entire row and column intersecting at that cell. This includes the student name in the row and the material title in the column header.

Whether using a mouse or keyboard, the row and column you are working in will be highlighted to indicate the cell you are editing.

Access submissions

Instructors can open and review materials for individual student submissions directly from the Gradebook. Material types are indicated by an icon.

Icon	Material type
	Assignment
	Graded discussion
	Test or quiz
	Completed assessment

Enter comments and mark accommodations

From the gradebook, hover over a cell and click the Comment icon.
Enter your message. Optionally, clear Display to Student to hide the comment from students.
Click the close icon . Your comment saves automatically.

Optionally, select Accommodation Offered/Received if an accommodation was offered to a student.

Comments and exceptions are displayed in the student grade report. Click the graph icon for the student to display the report. The report includes grading period comments and the overall column unless you have selected Hide overall grade from student reports or Hide grading period grade from student reports in the Grade Setup area.

Mark exceptions

To add an exception, point your mouse over the gradebook cell and click the flag that displays.

Refer to the Use exceptions in the gradebook page for more information.

More options menu

When there are graded materials in the course, access additional gradebook options from the more icon (three dots).

Options	Details
Bulk Edit	Review, edit, or delete graded assignments, tests, quizzes, assessments, and discussions. Then, click Save Changes.
Print reports	Select the specific grading period to include. Select students. Click Generate Report. Print from your browser.
Export	Export your gradebook: As an XLS/CSV version of your Gradebook. As an XLS/CSV file that you can use to import your Gradebook into other systems.
Import	Import grades from an XLS/CSV file if graded items in one course are the same as graded items in another course.

Importing grades is only available to Enterprise instructors.