Using the Gradebook
The Gradebook provides insight into student work. Instructors can view or edit student scores, view student answers on assessments, and reset assessment attempts.
Access the Gradebook from any course page via the Profile Menu.
Gradebook Navigation Tools
the Gradebook course menu pull down to navigate between the Gradebooks of multiple courses.
Each course Gradebook includes the following navigation & search tools:
- Show X entries filter to select the number of students to show on screen. The default is set to 25 and can be changed to 50 - 75 - 100.
- Unit and Module headings are active links to course content.
- Horizontal and vertical scroll bars
- Page navigation is in the lower right corner.
Tool Tips
The Gradebook contains useful tooltips on most items to assist you with grading. Roll-over any underlined item to see the tooltip.
Search Students
The Search students allows you to search and locate a specific student in the Gradebook. To use the tool, type a student name into the Search field and corresponding students will sort automatically below.
Practice Completed Column
This column lets you track student progress through the topics of the course. It displays the % of the questions completed of the available activities in that topic. It also displays the time spent, and the student’s first time accuracy. With one click, you can see if a student is struggling with a concept.
You can choose to hide the gradebook Practice Completed Column by using the toggle.
Note: Toggling off the Practice Completed Column will not hide the column from student view in My scores.
Mastering the Content Scoring
This column tracks the summative, graded assessments at the end of each topic. You can see all the attempts made for these quizzes. Instructors can manually adjust grades and leave notes for students via the gradebook
Score is calculated by dividing the total points available by the number of items a student answered correctly.
Depending on your course setup/settings, scores in the gradebook may represent one of the following
- 1st attempt (the score of the student's 1st attempt)
- Last attempt (the score of the student's last attempt)
- Maximum (the student's best/highest score of all attempts)
- Average (the mean of all student's attempts)
Details on scores and attempts can be accessed by clicking on an individual score.
Note: How your course's assessments are scored is called out at the top of the gradebook and columns are marked with a tilde. These tildes are also included in the gradebook export.