February 2010 Faculty Development Brightspace Grade Book Presentation
Overview
This page includes the agenda for the Faculty Development Presentation on the D2L grade book held on February 19th, 2010 in the Jack Kane Dining Room from 11:00 to 1:00.
Objectives
The Fastest D2L Grade Book Ever
- Adding numeric grade items
- Entering student grades
- Backing up your grade book
- What students see
Putting Your D2L Grade Book to Work
- Points-based versus weighted grade books
- Configure early, but not often
- The formula-based approach: A special points-based grade book
- Using grade categories
- Distributing points and weights across category items
- Dropping the lowest or highest scores in a category
- Including extra credit and bonus items
- What's the difference between the two?
- Applying them to a category or the entire grade book
- Grade schemes
- Creating, editing, copying, and deleting grade schemes
- Setting a default grade scheme
- Applying specific grade schemes to specific grade items
- Displaying grade scheme values in the grade book
- Transferring grades on quizzes, discussion topics, dropbox folders, and rubrics
Enhancing Student Feedback
- Adding comments
- Adding calculated items
- Adding text items
- Releasing a calculated running total
- Releasing a final grade
- Calculated versus adjusted final grades
- Recalculating final grades