Overview
Learners use the Grades tool to check grades on assignments and tests. You control the grading formula used to calculate grades and what projects, assignments, tests, etc. are graded; how grade items are associated with other tools, and when grades are released to users and what information they see.
A grade book is a list of items on which you evaluate users’ performance. Grade items can include assignments, tests, discussion posts, participation, and so on. Together, the items in a grade book represent all the work that you evaluate users on in a course.
The Grades tool allows you to create a grade book which:
Before you set up a grade book in Learning Environment, you should know:
A grade book contains your grading system, grade calculations, grade scheme, grade items, and view and display options. Grade items in your grade book represent all the work that you want to evaluate users on in a course. You can evaluate specific tasks such as assignments, tests, and participation, and you can also create grade items and associate them with course objects such as assignments and quizzes.
You must set up a grade book before you can use the Grades tool. As you plan your grade book, consider:
Making changes to a grade book’s settings and calculation options after you begin tracking users’ grades can significantly affect existing data.
The grading system determines how the grade items in your grade book contribute to users’ final grades. There are three options:
Grade items in your grade book represent all the work that you want to evaluate users on in a course. Grade items can exist independently in your grade book, or you can associate numeric grade items with course objects such as discussions, quizzes, and assignments. Each grade item has an entry in the grade book, which you assign a grade to for each user. Depending on the grade item type you want to create, grade items can be graded numerically or based on a grade scheme. The grades and feedback you manually enter in your grade book for quizzes, assignments and discussions synchronize automatically with Quizzes, Assignments, and Discussions and appear in those tools as published feedback for learners to view. Review Synchronizing your grade book with other tools for more information.
Grade categories organize and group related grade items into sections in your grade book, for example, a Writing Assignments grade category to group assignment items and a Class Participation grade category to group discussion items. Grade categories display in Manage Grades.
The final grade calculated by the grade book. You cannot adjust the final grade without adjusting grade item scores.
You can manually change the final grade calculation without affecting grade item scores.