Grades Tool Overview

The Grades tool is a pow­er­ful fea­ture that allows you to man­age and assess stu­dent progress through­out the course. With the Grades tool, you can cre­ate and man­age grade items, set up grade schemes and assign grades to indi­vid­ual stu­dents or groups.

The tool also enables instruc­tors to view and export grade reports, mon­i­tor stu­dent progress and pro­vide feed­back on stu­dent work. Addi­tion­al­ly, the Grades tool inte­grates with three of the four assess­ment types avail­able in Bright­space: Assign­ments, Quizzes and Dis­cus­sions. This makes it easy to grade with­in the tool and have the grades auto­mat­i­cal­ly pushed through to the grade­book.

Open the accor­dions below to learn more about the four grad­ing views in Bright­space and avail­able grade NIC grade schemes.

There are four grad­ing views, which include the Enter Grades, Man­age Grades, Grad­ing Schemes, and Set­up Wiz­ard, each sup­port­ing a dif­fer­ent part of cre­at­ing, cal­cu­lat­ing, and view­ing grades in your course.

  1. Enter Grades: This is the default view when you click on Grades, and dis­plays the grade­book in a spread­sheet-style lay­out, allow­ing you to input, edit, and review stu­dents’ scores for each grade item direct­ly with­in the course.
  1. Man­age Grades: This view dis­plays all grade items and cat­e­gories in the course and is where you build your grade­book by cre­at­ing, orga­niz­ing, and con­fig­ur­ing grade items and cat­e­gories.

    Watch the video below to learn more about the Man­age Grades view.
  1. Grad­ing Schemes: This area is where you view or apply grade schemes to your course; most cours­es at NIC use Grade Scale 1. Please refer to the accor­dion below for more infor­ma­tion about NIC grade schemes.
  2. Set­up Wiz­ard: This is where you estab­lish the over­all grade­book set­tings for your course, includ­ing the grad­ing sys­tem, cal­cu­la­tion options, and dis­play pref­er­ences that apply across all grade items. See Grade­book Set­up for more infor­ma­tion.

Grade schemes define how numer­ic scores are trans­lat­ed into let­ter grades or per­for­mance lev­els and are used to ensure con­sis­tent and trans­par­ent grad­ing across a course. Most cours­es at NIC use NIC Grade Scale 1 or NIC Grade Scale 2; how­ev­er, there are oth­er grade schemes avail­able.

Creating a New Custom Grade Scheme

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