Brightspace grade book quick guide

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Intended Audience

This quick guide article is intended for instructors interested in starting to use the Brightspace Grade Tool in their courses.

To create a grade book in Brightspace follow the steps below:

Fig 1. Grade Tool Tabs

On the navbar, click Grades from the Assessments menu.
Choose the Manage Grades tab (See A in Figure 1) at the top of the Grades page and choose the New button and select Item.
Select Numeric.
Name the Item you wish to have in your grade book.
- Within the Grading section of this page set the points you would like for this item.
- Choose the Grade Scheme, your options are by default Percentage or Basic Grade Range (i.e. A, B, C, D, & F).
Under the Display Options section you can choose to Override Display Options for this item and then choose to show Points for both the Student View and Manager View (i.e. Faculty View).
Click Save & Close if you are done adding items to your grade book or choose Save & New if you would like to add more items to your grade book.
Once you have all the items in your grade book you will need to switch to the Enter Grades tab (See B in Figure 1) at the top of this page and you will see grade items listed in columns across the page and your student names will go down the first column.

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