The GW Blackboard Tour: Keeping a Gradebook

Tour Stop 2. Managing Gradebook Items

In addition to the columns that are automatically added to the Gradebook when you add an Assignment, a Test, or a Survey to the course, you may add item columns manually.

You are able to shuffle the order of the columns as they appear to both you and your students. Managing the items also includes the ability to remove items that you have manually added. Note that any item that does not have a Remove button is a Test, Assignment or Survey that receives auto columns.

Step by Step Clicks:
Manage Items in the Gradebook – add, remove, and reorder

To add

1. Control Panel > Gradebook (from Assessment Pane)
2. Manage Items link
3. Add Item link
4. Complete the form (Item Name, Category, Description, Date – this can be the due date – Points Possible, Display As – this is what students will see in their Gradebook – Item visible, Item in gradebook score calculation)

Submit button

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To remove

1. Control Panel > Gradebook (from Assessment Pane)
2. Manage Items link
3. Remove button (note, the button will be visible only for the items that were entered manually in the gradebook and for the items that were un-deployed from the content areas)

OK button

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To reorder

1. Control Panel > Gradebook (from Assessment Pane)
2. Manage Items link
3. Drop-down list button (from Order column)
4. Select the number signifying the new order of the item (note, that the page will automatically regenerate displaying the new order or the items/columns)