Blackboard Grade Centre
The Blackboard Grade Centre provides an area within your Blackboard course to store results data. Student scores from Blackboard tests and surveys are stored in the grade centre automatically. You may also manually add scores and information that are not automatically added by Blackboard.
As well as the documentation listed below a four page PDF document is available on Blackboard's own web site that provides a quick reference to using the Grade Centre.
Viewing Results
Viewing Test or Survey Results
Blackboard tests and survey results are automatically recorded into the Blackboard Grade Centre.
Assignments in the Grade Centre
The Blackboard Assignment feature makes use of the Grade Centre for downloading submissions and entering marks and feedback.
The Grade Centre provides reporting functionality, allowing you to generate printable reports.
Manual Usage
This guide explains how to manually enter a grade.
Customising the Grade Centre
By default the Grade Centre will show all students in your course. Smart Views allow you to customise this so that you can zero in on certain groups of students.
You may organise the Grade Centre so that columns are shown in your preferred order. This feature also allows you to quickly change the grading periods and categories of columns within the Grade Centre.
Changing from Interactive to Non-interactive View
Usually you will be using the Interactive View of the Grade Centre. However if you have accessibility issues with using the Grade Centre you may wish to change to the Non-interactive View.
If you wish, you may add an extra column to the Grade Centre to record scores that are not usually held within Blackboard.
If you wish, you may add an extra column to the Grade Centre to that will show the results of a calculation based on scores from existing columns.
It is possible to create categories and assign Grade Centre columns to these for simpler management of the Grade Centre.
The Grade Centre allows you to set up Grading Periods. These are periods of time to which grade columns may be associated. For example Grading Periods could be set up for each semester to differentiate assessments between semesters.
Grading schemas allow you to associate certain values with numerical scores. For example one course create a pass/fail schema, where any score below 40 is shown as a fail.
Exporting and History
You may export the Grade Centre to a file which you may open in Microsoft Excel. This will export student details, Grade Centre columns, and scores.
The Grade Centre keeps a record of whether Grades are changed, and if scores were changed it is possible to view the previous score.
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