Oncourse CL Gradebook: Overview

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The Gradebook is a tool for instructors to calculate and store grade information and distribute it to students online.

Features: Using the Gradebook, instructors can:

Choose to enter grades as points, percentages, or non-calculating grades
Note: As of December 2008, letter grades in Gradebook are referred to as non-calculating grades. Non-calculating grades may be any string of text up to eight characters. If you want your grades calculated automatically, you must enter them as either points or percentages. See Changing the grade entry, type, and scale in Gradebook, How changes in the Gradebook tool affect data for previous semesters, and How changes in the Gradebook tool affect grade entry for current and future semesters.
Autocalculate course grades using point- or percentage-based grading
Create categories to organize items and allow for weighting of grades
Assign extra credit or assess grade penalties with adjustment items and adjustment categories
Drop a specified number of lowest and/or highest scores from a category, or choose to keep only a specified number of highest scores from a category
Export and import settings from one course to another
Enter, view, edit, and release to students their scores and grades
Transmit scores to the Gradebook from tools such as Assignments, Forums, and the Original Test and Survey tool
Note: Assignments and the Original Test and Survey tool cannot transmit non-calculated grades to the Gradebook. However, the new pilot tool Assignments Beta can.
Export scores and grades to Microsoft Excel (in .csv format)
Import assignment scores from spreadsheet files (in .csv format)

Viewing scores: The Gradebook lets students view their own scores and grades once instructors have released them.

Instructors can view information in the Gradebook in different ways, including an item summary for each course, item detail, all grade listing, course grade listing, gradebook setup, and course grade options.
Instructors can choose to selectively release scores to students for individual items and the course grade (cumulative score).
Students can view their cumulative scores for all items, once an instructor releases them; view their course grades, once an instructor releases them; and sort items by title, due date, grade, and weight, where applicable.
Instructors can import grades. For instructions, see Importing grades from a spreadsheet.

For help documentation about the Gradebook tool, see Gradebook.

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Last modified on November 20, 2009.