{"id":21739,"date":"2025-10-02T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=21739"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:09:47","slug":"brightspace-tip-542-grade-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-542-grade-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #542: Grade Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/113026679@N03\/23198966652\" title=\"grade book\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/662\/23198966652_0c40d6bb4a_z.jpg?resize=480%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"grade book page\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Brightspace Grades Tool is useful for providing students with up-to-date information about their current standing in the course. For instructors, it\u2019s useful for assigning and keeping track of student grades. Students can view grade entries and monitor their progress throughout the course.<\/p>\n<p>As an instructor, you can determine how to set up your Grade Book to best reflect your approach to evaluation, including the grading system and grade scheme that is most appropriate for your course. You can select how grades display to learners, how they update in the Grade Book, and how you want to deal with ungraded items. You can create grade items for projects, assignments, discussions, quizzes, etc. to include in your Grade Book, and even associate them with other tools (e.g. Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions).<\/p>\n<h2>Follow these steps to do it.<\/h2>\n<p>Listed below are links to how-to documents to help you to use the Grades Tool:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Grades-Tool-Quick-Reference-Guide.pdf\">Grades Tool Quick Reference Guide (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/51yxwGJ-SYs\">Understanding the Grades Tool (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.depaul.edu\/teaching-commons\/teaching-guides\/technology\/desire2learn\/tools\/grades\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Guide to Using the Grades Tool<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/kb\/articles\/3519-create-a-grading-system\">Create a Grading System<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FmNdsCRilrY\">Create a Grade Scheme (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VgaHhHzZ4mA\">Create a Grade Book Category (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RfupITmDqCA\">Create a Grade Item (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-504-grade-book-bonus-points\/\">Bonus Points<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/help.d2l.msu.edu\/node\/4433\">Extra Credit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y52uZkHeRMY\">Associate an Activity with a Grade Item (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7e8sExeZjSk\">Enter Grades (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9bhofRHQdZY\">Create Grade Exemptions (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/thO24FueIuI\">Delete Grade Items with Associations (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2106N6EdoLU\">Troubleshoot Final Grades (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HrsmdLDa-Zc\">Export Grades (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-510-grade-book-adjust-final-grades\/\">Adjust Final Grades<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-509-grade-book-release-final-grades\/\">Release Final Grades<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.d2l.msu.edu\/msu-docs\/d2l-grades-at-msu\/understanding-the-final-calculated-grade\">Understanding the Final Calculated Grade<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Want more information?<\/h2>\n<p>View current, past, and preview upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/categories\/release-notes-en\">Continuous Delivery release notes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/Brightspace:_Instructors_Quick_Start_Tutorial\">Instructors Quick Start Tutorial<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/index.php\/Brightspace_Known_Issues\">Brightspace Known Issues<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-2-sandbox-courses\/\">Request a sandbox course<\/a><br \/>\nSign-up for <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/events\/\">Brightspace training sessions<\/a><br \/>\nYou can find <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/categories\/higher-ed-postsecondary\">Brightspace help<\/a> at D2L's website.<br \/>\nJoin the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/categories\/higher-ed-postsecondary\">Brightspace Community<\/a>.<br \/>\nTry these <a title=\"Brightspace How-to\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-documents\/\">Brightspace How-To documents<\/a>.<br \/>\nVisit our <a title=\"Brightspace FAQs\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-faq\/\">Brightspace FAQs<\/a> for additional Brightspace information<br \/>\nor <a title=\"Schedule 1-on-1\" href=\"http:\/\/jflorent.youcanbook.me\/\">schedule a one-on-one session<\/a>, <a title=\"Send email\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/mail\/?to=31\">email<\/a>, or<br \/>\ncall Janice Florent: (504) 520-7418.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: Are you doing something innovative in Brightspace or perhaps you've discovered a handy tip? Share how you are using Brightspace in your teaching and learning in <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-189-educator-share-showcase\/\">The Orange Room<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><small>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/113026679@N03\/23198966652\">Grade book<\/a> by David Mulder | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brightspace Grades Tool is useful for providing students with up-to-date information about their current standing in the course. For instructors, it\u2019s useful for assigning and keeping track of student grades. Students can view grade entries and monitor their progress throughout the course. As an instructor, you can determine how to set up your Grade <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-542-grade-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Brightspace Tip #542: Grade Book\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[403],"tags":[402,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-21739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brightspace","7":"tag-brightspace","8":"tag-grade-book","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-5ED","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12856,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-63-grade-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":21739,"position":0},"title":"Brightspace Tip #63: Grade Book","author":"Janice Florent","date":"October 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Brightspace Grades Tool is useful for providing students with up-to-date information about their current standing in the course. 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