GRADE CENTERTexas A&M School of Law

ACCESS GRADE CENTERVisit the Grade Center by navigating to the Control Panel in the Left Column in Blackboard.

Access Grade Center

Click on “Full Grade Center” to view all of the students in the course.

GRADING CENTER

Make another selection in an additional drop-down list to further narrow the columns and users that appear in the grid.

GRADING CENTER

If you have a heavy grading load, the Needs Grading page can help you determine what needs attention first and allows you to access it quickly. You can view all items ready for grading or review on the Needs Grading page.

Access the Needs Grading page in the Grade Center section of the Control Panel.

NEEDS GRADINGClick Grade All on the action bar to begin grading and reviewing immediately. The Grade All function places all attempts in a queue for easy navigation among items. The items in the queue appear in the order they appear on the Needs Grading page.

SORT COLUMNS• Sort Columns to Organize Your List. The following

columns appear on the Needs Grading page:

• Category: Sort attempts to group all assignments or tests together.

• Item Name: Sort attempts by alphabetical order or reverse alphabetical order.

• User Attempt: Sort attempts by a student's name. • Date Submitted: Sort attempts by the date and

time students submitted the attempts. • Due Date: Sort attempts by due date and grade

items that are due first.

CHANGE ATTEMPTS• To change the attempt used for the score, access the column's contextual

menu and click Edit Column Information. Select from the options in the Score Attempts Using drop-down list:

• Last Graded Attempt• Highest Grade• Lowest Grade• First Graded Attempt• Average of Graded Attempts

USER STATISTICS• You can view the User Statistics page which provides statistical

information related to a user's performance.

DELETING GRADE CENTER COLUMNS

The only way to delete these auto-created grade columns is to first delete the gradable items in your course. For some, if no student submissions exist when you delete the item, the Grade Center column is deleted automatically or you are allowed to decide whether to delete the column.