Wytheville Community College – Distance & Distributed Learning

To quickly enter grades in the grade center:

1. If you’re entering a list of grades manually, be sure you’re in interactive view, not screen reader view.   Interactive view displays the Grade Center similar to an Excel workbook, where you can enter grades and click on Enter to move to the next cell.
   
2. Click in the cell, enter the grade and hit Enter to move to the next cell in the column
3. Once you’ve added your grades in a column, you can go back to each cell, click the chevron (drop down arrow) and add a quick comment.  Grades are automatically saved when you move to the next cell.

   

To download this tutorial, click here: BB91 GC Entering Grades!

Once Grade Center Columns are created the instructor may want to Edit the Column’s name or other attributes of that column.  Editing Grade Center Columns can include a variety of items which are listed at the bottom of this training document.

1. Click on the action link  next to the column name you’d like to edit
2. This will open another screen with a variety of actions you can perform to this column
3. Choose Edit Column Information to open the screen where you’ll make  your changes



4. Enter your changes
5. Click Submit to saveBelow is a grid with the various column changes you can make with explanations:
   

To download this tutorial, click here: BB91 GC Editing Columns!

Downloading the Grade Center for each class will let you save a record of grades when the Blackboard classes are deleted.  Blackboard is a course management system, not a storage area for grades.  It’s wise to download your Grade Center prior to dropping students, at midterm and finally at the end of each semester.  To download your grade center:

1. Scroll to the right of your Grade Center and click on Work Offline then Download



2. This will open a page where you’ll make some choices.  You can download the Full Grade Center for a permanent record of your class, or you can download Selected Columns, or download User Information Only.
   
3. Under Options, the default Delimiter Type is Tab, which works with Excel.  You can leave the default.  Include Hidden Information will download columns and users you have hidden from view.
   
4. The Save Location area allows you to designate where you want the file to be saved.  You can save it to My Computer, or to your Content Collection.
5. Click Submit to open the next screen which contains a DOWNLOAD button
6. Click the DOWNLOAD button, choose where you want your files saved, click SAVE
7. You should now be able to open the .xls Grade Center file using Excel

To download this tutorial, click here: BB91 GC Downloading Grades!

Grades can be deleted or reverted back to a previous grade by the instructor in several ways.  An instructor can delete the grade directly from the Grade Center or from the grade details page.

1. Click on the grade that you’d like to delete in the grade center.  You’ll notice the grade will be highlighted.



2. Press delete or backspace on your keyboard
3. Press enter
4. Click OK to NULL the grade value.  Grade values that are NULL display a (-)

To delete a grade from the grade details page:

1. Click on the icon next to the grade you’d like to delete, clear or revert
2. Choose View Grade Details



3. A Grade Details screen will open with the choices to Override (designed to ignore the results of all attempts and display the grade as entered), Clear Attempt (designed to remove an attempt, such as a test, where a student can try again), Edit Grade (designed to provide a comment box, along with a place to change the grade).



4. Select your choice, click OK to save changes
5. Caution:  If you delete a grade, all notes associated with that grade will be deleted also

To download this tutorial, click here: BB91 GC Deleting a Grade!

To delete a column in the Grade Center:

1. Click on the chevron (down arrow) in the grade column that you’d like to remove
2. This will open a menu.  Click on Delete Column.  A warning message will pop up, click OK.  Be aware that this will also delete any grades or record of grades that have been entered in that column.



3. If Delete Column does not appear in your list, the column is connected to an item that is deployed in your course.  You’ll have to remove the item from within the course, which will enable Delete Column in your Grade Center.

To download this tutorial, click here: BB91 GC Deleting Columns!