Understanding Gradebook Settings | Blackboard Ultra | Seneca Polytechnic

In your course Gradebook, you can customize the settings to fit your grading methods. 

You can customize the following in your Gradebook Settings:

• Grade schema
• Student performance
• Automatic zeros
• Overall grades
• Grade categories
• Course rubrics
• Overall grade notations

Editing Gradebook Settings

1. Select Gradebook.

2. Select the gear icon. The Gradebook Settings panel is displayed. 

Understanding Gradebook Settings

Grade Schema

Grading Schema refers to the conversion of percentage grades to letter grades. Note: Do not change the Grade Schemas as it set to Seneca's Grading Policy by default. Please review Seneca’s Grading Policy for more information. 

Student Performance

Adjust the activity performance criteria (such as day of inactivity or limit percentage grade) required to receive alerts in your activity stream. An alert will be sent to students based on these settings.

Automatic Zeros

Automatic zeros are assigned to students for submitting late work by default. Students can still submit work after an automatic zero is assigned. You can disable this feature in Gradebook settings by deselecting Assign automatic zeros for past due work. 

The automatic zero settings apply to these graded items:

• Assignments and group assignments
• Tests and group tests
• Graded individual and group discussions

Overall Grade

In Gradebook, you can set up the Overall Grade. The Overall Grade is a calculated item that you build to show students a running tally of all the items that you grade and post. To set up your overall grade, please see the Setting Up the Overall Grade (Weighted Total) article.

Grade Categories

Grade Categories allow you to organize and categorize assessments into categories. They are needed if you are trying to drop the lowest quiz grade, and can be handy for setting up your course's overall grade or changing assessment icons.

See the articles Using Gradebook Categories , Dropping the Lowest Quiz Grade , and Setting Up the Overall Grade (Weighted Total) for more information.

Course Rubrics

Create, edit or duplicate Course Rubrics used when grading assessments. 

See then articles Creating a Rubric , Managing Rubrics , and Attaching a Rubric to an Assessment for more information.

Grade Notation

Override a student's Overall Grade with a notation that falls outside the course Grade Schema. For example, you can create a Grade Notation "DC" that stands for Dropped Course, to represent when a student has dropped a course.

Notes

Currently. you cannot exempt individual students from assessments.

Work around:

A grade that is ungraded, (denoted by a double dash in the student’s grade “--” for that assignment) is not counted towards their total. By leaving an assignment’s grade as a double dash, the student can be exempt.

• If an assignment is already graded, you can delete the grade so that the cell is in its ungraded status.
• If an assignment has an automatic 0 applied, you may need to change the grade first, then delete the grade as above to get the cell into the ungraded state.

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