February 2010 Faculty Development Brightspace Grade Book Presentation
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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