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Grading Assignments

Inline grading for assignments ( movie 1:30 ).

When reviewing assignment submissions, you can provide a grade and feedback. You also have the option of returning the submission to the student with comments only, so the assignment can be refined further and then resubmitted for a grade.

QUICK STEPS: grading assignments

• On the Grade Assignment page, view the submission text, attached files, and comments made by the student.
• Type a Grade for the assignment.
• Optionally, type comments in the Feedback to User box and attach a file for the student to review. Use the Text Editor functions to format the text and add files, images, links, multimedia, and Mashups.
• Optionally, type comments in the Grading Notes box and attach files that only you can access.
• Click Save and Exit to return to the Full Grade Center, the Needs Grading page, or the Grade Details page, depending on where grading began. -OR- Click Save and Next to grade the next assignment, when available. -OR- Click View Previous to view the previous assignment, when available. -OR- Click Save as Draft to return an assignment attempt without a grade with comments only. The assignment remains ungraded and an exclamation mark appears in My Grades and in the Grade Center. Students access your comments through My Grades and can resubmit by accessing the assignment. If you type a score, Save as Draft prevents the score from appearing in the Grade Center and My Grades and the score is not saved.

If multiple attempts for an assignment have been allowed and submitted, a grade may not be released until all of the attempts have been graded. All attempts appear in the contextual menu for the grade’s cell. After selecting an attempt, type a grade and feedback. Click Save and Next or View Previous to navigate between attempts. The last attempt’s grade appears in the cell by default. If the last of the multiple attempts is ungraded, the exclamation mark remains in the cell.

To change the displayed grade to the first attempt, highest grade, lowest grade, or an average of attempts, access the Grade Center column’s contextual menu, select Edit Column Information, and select the attempt to score from the Score attempts using drop-down list.

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Grading Assignments with Flexible Grading in Blackboard Ultra

Flexible Grading is a brand new workflow for grading Assignments and Tests in the Blackboard Ultra Course View that provides you with more flexibility and efficiency. Blackboard gathered extensive feedback from faculty to make the new workflow intuitive to use and to eliminate barriers that make grading cumbersome. This tutorial will show you how to use the Flexible Grading workflow to review, annotate, and enter grades for assignments in the Ultra Course View.

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Create and Grade Assignments in Ultra view

Last modified: December 6, 2023

Use the assignment feature when you expect students to turn in a file or document for a graded assignment. A column is automatically created in the Grade Center for any assignment created in Blackboard.

You are viewing instructions for Ultra view in Blackboard (you would have regenerated your course using a tool).

Create an assignment.

 If you are posting resources or reading material, use a "document" instead of an assignment.

To create an assignment, click the "+" symbol anywhere you would like the assignment to be located and select "create". Under "Assessments" and choose "Assignment".

Now you can:

• Name the assignment
• Provide instructions. You can also add media or files as resources.
• Add Due Dates (optional).
• Adjust points. A Gradebook column will be created with this number of points possible. 
• Add rubric - You can add a previously created rubric or create on specifically for this assignment.
• Adjust settings like the number of attempts, add SafeAssign, or change the assignment to a group assignment if you've already created groups.
• Display of Grades - Choose whether the grade for this assignment displays in points (score) or percentage. 
• Availability - This section allows you to control when this assignment is available to students and for how long.

Grading Assignments in Blackboard

To find assignments that have been completed, go to Gradebook in the top menu.

The  Gradable Items  list is your default view of the course gradebook. You can view all the coursework you've assigned and your grading progress. You can also access the management functions.

You can switch to the Students tab to view an overall picture of each student’s engagement.

Canvas Guide Breakdown: Default Grades and Applying Scores to Ungraded Items

Towards the end of the semester, instructors usually have a few cells in their gradebook without values due to manual grading techniques or missing submissions from students. Going into your gradebook and manually finding and grading each ungraded item can be a tedious process, potentially leading to errors and inconsistencies. Instead of doing this manually, consider using the Set Default Grade or Apply Score to Ungraded functions to help save some time.

There are 3 ways to use these features throughout your gradebook ( please note that this cannot be undone ):

For assistance with the above, feel free to book an appointment with one of our Canvas experts or submit a Help Desk request to our team.

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• Created an assignment for MATLAB Onramp
• Had a student complete part of it
• Confirmed the grades were populated
• After the deadline had past, I checked that the student didn’t have access to the course via their LMS
• We then tried completing more of the MATLAB onramp (after the deadline had past) through MATLAB Academy
• Upon checking the LMS gradebook, a new grade was populated for that student (higher mark)
• I then added a restriction to the assignment (not available after a particular date and time)
• We verified that the student could not access the course via their LMS
• Unfortunately, they could still access and further complete the course outside of the LMS, and have a new (higher) grade populate in their LMS gradebook

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Final grades are DUE for the Fall 2023 (part of Term B and full 16 week term) on Wednesday, December 13 at 5pm.

[NOTE:  An online grade change request must be submitted for all grades after this date. Please submit a grade for all students on your roster (including Incomplete or Deferred grades by the deadline.)]

Incomplete Grades: For instructors who issue an “I” complete grade, the “I” grade assignment form can be used to document the agreed upon missing requirements and expected deadlines.  As a reminder, students do not reregister for a course in which they are completing an “Incomplete” in a future term.  Incomplete forms should be retained either in the department or sent to the AHS Office of Student Affairs at [email protected] .

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