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Angel FAQ - Manage – Gradebook
- How do I access the Gradebook?
- From any Angel course select the Manage tab.
- In the Option Box: Course Management click on the Gradebook link
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- What are the different options in the Gradebook?
The Gradebook page is divided into five sections
On the Left:
- View: Allows you to View Grades or to Print Grades
- Enter/Edit Grade: Allows you to enter or edit a grade either by assignment or by student
- Gradebook Setup (Preferences):
- Allows you to set preferences without using the Wizard or edit preferences after you have set up the gradebook using the Wizard.
- Allows you to import or export grades
On the Right:
- Gradebook Management: Manage the categories, assignments and grading scale of the gradebook.
- Gradebook Tutorial: Basic and does not cover all the needed information. Use this tutorial instead.
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- What is the difference between Points and Percentage mode?
A Points mode gradebook adds up all the points from the different assignments to determine the overall grade. You may use categories if you wish to categorize assignments by type, but it is not necessary.
A Percentage mode gradebook calculates the final grade according to the weight each category is worth.
For example, a category called Homework is worth 50% of the overall grade, Quizzes is worth 25%, and Exams is worth 25%. All homework grades will be worth 50% of the final grade, all quizzes and exams will be worth 25% each, of the final grade.
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- How do I set up my gradebook?
Step One - General Settings:
(click here to skip to step two - creating categories)
- In your course, navigate to the Manage tab
- Click on the Gradebook link
- If the Gradebook setup wizard loads, click the Skip Wizard button at the bottom of the wizard page.
Note that once the gradebook has been set up the wizard will not be available.
- In your gradebook, Click on the Preferences link.
- Under Gradebook Mode choose the type of gradebook you wish to use
- Percentage - for a weighted gradebook
- Points - for a straight point gradebook
- Under General Preferences
- Set the Default Display Format - the type of grade students see
- Treat Ungraded Items as Zero - uncheck. When checked, this option uses all gradebook assignments for student averages. Assignments that were not submitted will be averaged in with a zero grade.
- Limit Course Assistants by Team - for courses with merged rosters. Teaching assistants can only grade students in their team.
- Exclude instructors from Averages - determines if instructors are included in class averages, may decrease class averages. It is recommended that you check this box.
- Under Average Settings
- Set the Overall Display Format
- Check Display Overall Average to allow students to view the class averages
Step Two - Creating Categories
(Click here to skip to step three - creating assignments)
Categories are an important gradebook concept. The primary purpose of categories is to group assignments based on their impact on the overall grade.
The Categories page allows you to add new gradebook categories, to edit settings for one or more categories (modifying multiple), and to delete categories.
Categories are NOT required for a Point based gradebook.
- In the Gradebook, Under Gradebook Management, select 1. Categories.
- On the Categories page, click the Add New button.
- Click the Advanced option to display all of the category options.
- Type a category Title and Description.
- Optionally, select a Calculation method, Release Date and time and Average Format.
- Optionally, clear the Average checkbox if you do not want to display the category average. When cleared, the category average does not display in the student or instructor views.
- Optionally, select the Extra Credit checkbox to configure the category to be calculated as extra credit.
- Click the Save button.
Step Three - Creating Assignments
- In the Gradebook.
- Under Gradebook Management, select 2. Assignments.
- On the Assignments page, click the Add New button.
(underlined are the required fields)
- Type the assignment Title and Description.
- Select an assignment category from the Category drop-down menu.
- If you are using a points based gradebook and did not create categories, do not select a category
- Specify a point possible value for the assignment in the Points field.
- Optionally, select a different option from the Display Format list if you want to use a different display format for the assignment grade than the gradebook default (specified in Gradebook Preferences).
- Select the appropriate calculation type from the Calculation Type list.
- For a drop box or an online test - choose First Submission
- For assignments submitted or graded offline - choose Manual
- Optionally, click the Advanced option to display all of the assignment options.
- Select the Extra Credit checkbox if you want this assignment to be extra credit.
- On the right side of the Assignment Editor, select any content items that you want to associate to this assignment. (for example - a drop box created for student submissions)
- If the assignment is submitted or graded offline - do not select a content item
- Click the Save button.
- The assignment is added to the Assignments page.
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- How do I create a grading scale?
The Grading Scale allows the course editor to specify a grading scale that is used to display letter grades in addition to the percentages or scores for assignments, category averages, and overall grades.
For example, when the student receives an 88% on an assignment, when they view their grade a "B+" will show up.
- In the Gradebook, Under Gradebook Management, select 4. Grading Scale.
- Type a letter grade in the Label field.
- Type the corresponding percentage in the Minimum Percent field.
- For example, if:
A= 94%-100
A-= 90%-93%
Enter the following:
- Click the Add New link. The new grading scale is added.
- Continue this process to add all labels for the grading scale.
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- How do I enter or edit grades?
There are two ways to enter/edit a grade:
To enter or edit grades by assignment:
- From any ANGEL course Select the Manage tab.
- Under Course Management, select Gradebook.
- Under Enter/Edit Grade, click the By Assignment link.
- On the Enter Grades by Assignment page, select the assignment you want to edit and click the Go button.
- On the Enter Grades by Assignment page, perform one of the following:
- Type the grade information for each student (Percentage or Points, Locked, Comments) and click the Save Changes button.
- Type the batch grade information (to add a common grade for all members of a particular team or to add a common grade to all students who do not have a grade listed) and click the Batch Update button.
- Save Changes
Return to View/Edit Grades
To enter or edit grades by user:
- From any ANGEL course Select the Manage tab
- Under Course Management, select Gradebook
- Under Enter/Edit Grade, click the By User link
- On the Enter Grades by User page, click the Search link
- On the Search page, Type any portion of the user’s first name, last name, or username and click the Search button
- Click on the student’s name that you want to grade
- On the Enter Grades by User page, Type the grade information for each student (Percentage or Points, Locked, Comments)
- Click the Save button.
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The following are explanations of options on the Enter/Edit grade page:
Selected Assignment: To enter grades for another assignment, select the new assignment from the Selected Assignment drop-down list located at the top of page.
Show: The Show drop-down menu allows the course editor to filter the list of students based on team affiliation.
Only Students: Clearing the Only Students checkbox allows the course editor to display grades for all enrolled users including non-students.
Display: For courses with more than 25 students, the course editor can view the additional student grades by selecting a higher value from the Display drop-down menu.
Go: The Go button refreshes the page with the selections you made from the drop-down lists or radio buttons. Click Go after making the selections.
View: Full/Condensed Optionally select Condensed from the View radio option to change to a simple view of percentage and points fields for each student. Select Full from the View option to view all grading options including Locked and Comments (discussed below).
Percentage or Points: Assignment grades can be entered into either the Percentage or Points fields for each student. As you move to the next user, the neighboring field automatically updates with the appropriate value calculated based on the entered score and assignment’s max points.
When entering grades using points, review the Max Points value displayed in the assignment attributes table to verify points are being entered based on the appropriate scale.
Locked: The Locked option is used with gradebook assignments that are associated with ANGEL content items (quiz, drop box, discussion forum, etc.). It allows the course editor to “lock” and manually overwrite a student grade to ensure it isn’t overwritten by updates to the associated ANGEL content item.
Comments: The course editor can optionally provide feedback in the Comments field for each student. Comments are displayed in the student’s grade report and are only viewable to the student for whom they are intended.
Batch Update: The Batch Update tool makes it easy to add a common grade for all members of a particular team or to add a common grade to all students who do not have a grade listed (i.e. to batch update an assignment to give a zero to everyone who did not complete the assignment).
To batch update grades for displayed users for a particular assignment, type a percentage or point value in the appropriate field, optionally select the Locked checkbox and provide a common comment (if applicable), and click the Batch Update button.
To add a common grade for all members of a particular team, first select the team from the Show drop-down box to filter the list of students based on team affiliation.
The Batch Update tool is also useful when a large percentage of the students receive a common grade (i.e. all but a few students earn 100%). In this scenario, grade the few students who did not earn the common grade, then use the Batch Update tool to update the grade for all ungraded students.
Save Changes: The Save Changes button saves the gradebook changes. Cancel Changes Gradebook changes can be cancelled by clicking the Cancel Changes button.
Previous Page | Next Page: Use the Previous Page | Next Page “paging” options (located at the bottom of the page) to advance to the next page of students.
Done: Click the Done button to exit.
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- How do I view grades?
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How do I view all grades?
- From Any ANGEL course Select the Manage tab
- Under Course Management, select Gradebook.
- From the left column Select the View All Grades link.
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How do I view all grades by Category and/or User?
- From Any ANGEL course Select the Manage tab
- Under Course Management, select Gradebook.
- From the left column Under the View All Grades link Select from the categories and/or user list and
- Click the Go button.
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How do I navigate my view of the Grades?
To navigate the gradebook do one of the following:
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How do I filter my view of the Grades?
Once you are in the gradebook view you have the opportunity to filter your View of the Grades.
To change the view of the grades, perform one of the following:
- To view grades based on the view format settings specified in Gradebook Preferences
- Select the Default option and click the Update button
- To view grades as points
- Select the Points option and click the Update button
- To view grades formatted as a percentage
- Select the Percentage option and click the Update button
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How do I reorder the View Grades by a particular column?
- To sort a column in ascending order
- Click a column link one time
- To sort a column in descending order
- Click a column link a second time
- From within any course
- Click the Manage tab
- Click the Gradebook hyperlink under Course Management
- Click the Categories hyperlink under Gradebook Management
- Check the box next to the Category where the assignment exists
- Click the Show Tasks button
- Click the Reorder Assignments link
- Use the four buttons on the right side to re-order the assignments
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How do I print grades?
- From any ANGEL course
- Select the Manage tab
- Under Course Management, select Gradebook
Perform one of the following:
- Select Print Grades OR View All Grades
- When the View Grades page displays, select Print button
On the View or Print Gradebook PDF page:
- Select the appropriate Format settings (Page Size, Page Orientation, Page Margins, Font Family and Font Size).
- Select the category order from the Category Order list.
- Select a Team to filter on a specific team.
- Select the Show Students Only checkbox if you want only student grades to appear.
- Select the Show Averages Only checkbox if you only want averages displayed.
- Click the Generate PDF button.
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- Can I Import Grades?
The Import Grades option allows the course editor to import assignment grades from any delimited file format.
- The Import Grades utility does not add new assignments or students to an existing gradebook or roster.
- New assignments must already exist (or be added) to the gradebook prior to the import process for the new assignment grades to be successfully imported into the gradebook.
- Likewise new students must exist (or be added) to the course roster prior to the import process for the new student grades to be successfully imported.
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- Can I Export Grades?
The Export Grades option allows the course editor to export the assignment grades, for all students, as a comma delimited or tab delimited file. The resulting delimited file can easily be viewed and modified in a standard spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel. - back to top
- Can I import assignments from a repository?
Yes. Once you create an assignment in a repository (Quiz, Assessment, Drop Box) you can import it into your gradebook. For more details, please view the Learning Object Repository FAQ.
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- How do I copy my gradebook settings from one course to the other?
- In your course, navigate to the Manage tab
- Click on the Gradebook link
- If the Gradebook setup wizard appears, click on the Skip Wizard at the bottom of the screen
- Click on the Preferences link under Gradebook Setup
- Click on the Copy gradebook settings tool link at the top of the page
- From the drop down menu, choose the course you wish to copy your gradebook from
- Check all relevant boxes
- Click on the Copy Settings button
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