Tag: Grade Center

One week!

And exams are done and fall semester will be put to rest.  Review what worked, what didn’t and if take inventory of your Blackboard course as fall semester 2020 it will be in Canvas.  If you use Blackboard grade book you may want to download it before finalizing and/or changing grades, remember to save to your pirate drive and not to your local machine.  To download your grades, click work offline and download.  It will be an xml file which will open in Excel, remember to save as Excel file.  Using Canvas?  Click here for how to do it in Canvas.

Need help?  Contact this office.

Who’s counting?

Yes there are less than 10 class days left of Spring Semester 2017 classes.  So I have some housekeeping items to share

Blackboard Downtime during break – Monday May 8 – Thursday May 11 click here for a list of upgrades.

Tuesday, April 25 is a Friday meeting day according to the academic calendar.

Wednesday, April 26 is Reading Day, time to catch up!

Summer Session starts May 15.

Grade Center – need assistance in weighting grades contact OET! Remember that anytime you download grades (work offline) you must save that file to a piratedrive location not your desktop, laptop, Read more

Reading, writing and everything else!

Yes today is Reading Day and hopefully students aren’t trying to read, watch, etc their class content from the beginning of the semester!  Remember to download grades go to grade center and click work offline to download to an excel worksheet.  Be a good steward of student information and make sure you save this file to a pirate drive location not your desktop of flashdrive.  If you Safe Assign remember to “Synchronize your course” each time you submit a Safe Assignment so that it checks against the most up to date database.

Need to create your final exam quickly in Blackboard?  Use Respondus Test Generator it can convert a word document into a Respondus file which uploads to Blackboard.

Need help with weighting grades, or spring prep contact OET and check out our training calendar.

Just under three weeks . .

And no I will not start the countdown for the end of classes as I did for the beginning of the semester!  Just a few tips as we get closer –

  • Downloading your grade center? remember put it on your pirate drive not on your hard drive be a “good steward of student information”,
  • Want to make a review for your students, consider using Mediasite Desktop Recorder, quick install and you can do it right from your office,
  • Distance Ed students asking questions, you can get great analytics from Mediasite to find out who watched what, for how long and when,
  • Respondus Test Generator makes test creation simple and uploads easily to BB
  • Thinking about Spring Semester, contact OET for consultation and some new ideas!

And since this is my blog I can brag so let me introduce you to my newest grandchild, Claire Amelia, born 11/11/14,

Claire Amelia

Who sees what?

Blackboard’s new grade center gives you the ability to customize your view of the grade center by “Hiding Columns”  this can be done by either clicking on the arrows

hidecolumn

next to each grade item  or going

to manage  from the Action Bar action_bar2 and selecting “Organize Grade Center” from this option you can hide multiple items and also rearrange the order of items.

NOTE:  columns which are hidden in your grade center are viewable by students.

If you want to have a column item be unavailable to students you must select the option “Modify Column”  from the grade items dropdown menu.  When a grade item is unavailable to students you will see this icon next to the grade item hiddengrade.  Please contact our office if you would like to schedule a session on working with grade center.


It’s all in the name . . .

Gradebook vs Blackboard 8 new Grade Center.  Click here for a quick preview (under 2 minutes) on what to expect.  Onsite training will be available later this month and in the new year here at CAHS.  AO is offering Centra sessions on the Grade Center if you would like to join one of these sessions but are unsure of using Centra please contact OET and we can host the session in one of our offices and learn about two things in one sitting!

Contact OET for other links or checkout Blackboard’s blog!