Grade Center – Creating a Column

Create Column for Blackboard 9 is used to create a column where you would enter manual grades such as attendance or an assignment completed where a link was not automatically created in the Blackboard 9 Grade Center.  To view the Grade Center in Blackboard 9:

1. Log into Blackboard and open your course
2. Navigate to the course Control Panel (lower left of page)
3. Click the Evaluation link
4. Click the Grade Center link which will open the Grade Center page on the right of your screen
   
5. Select Create Column.  This option is used if you want to create a column where you will manually enter grades.
   
6. Required fields for you to enter are Column Name and Points Possible
   
   
7. Other choices to make at this time would be:  Primary Display (choose Score which is default; Text; Letter; Percentage; Complete/Incomplete); Category (if you plan on weighting grades by category, this is important to choose); Due Date (students see this in their My Grades view)
   
8. Under Options, you have three choices to select:  Include This Column in Grade Center Calculations; Show this Column to Students; Show Statistics
   
9. Once you’ve created your grade column, click Submit to save your changes.

Click here to download this tutorial, 18 BB9 Tutorial Grade Center Create Column!