Grade Book - Represents all the work that you want to evaluate users on in a course. Grading System - Choose from Weighted, Formula, or Points systems. Grade Items - An Item is a column in the Grade Book. Grade Categories - A way to sort your grade items and create restrictions and conditions for grade items. Calculated Final Grade - The final grade calculated by the grade book. Cannot be adjusted. Adjusted Final Grade - The final grade calculated by the grade book but can be manually adjusted by the instructor.

Articles (28)

Attach a Discussion Topic to a Grade Item (Column)

How to attach a discussion topic to a grade item in the Brightspace grade book.

Attach a Quiz to a Grade Item (Column)

How to attach a quiz to a grade item in Brightspace.

Attach an Assignment to a Grade Item (Column)

How to attach an assignment to a grade item in the Brightspace grade book.

Attendance in the Brightspace Gradebook

A brief tutorial explaining the steps to set up a column in your gradebook to record attendance and how to enter attendance grades. This tutorial also links to the Brightspace tutorial on how to use the attendance tool.

Date Restrictions

How to set date restrictions on grade items.

Dropping The Lowest Grade

How to drop the lowest grade.

Entering Grades

How to enter grades into the grade book.

Exclude an Item from the Final Grade Calculation

How to remove a grade category or item from the final grade calculation, in Brightspace.

Extra Credit

How to allow extra credit points in Brightspace.

Grade Categories for a Weighted Grade System

How to create grade categories for a weighted grade system in Brightspace

Grade Exemptions

A brief tutorial walking through the steps to exempt a student from a grade book item.

Grade Items (Columns) and Categories: Creating

How to create grade categories and items in the grade book in Brightspace.

Grade Items (Columns) and Categories: Deleting

How to delete grade items and grade categories in the Brightspace grade book.

Grade Items (Columns) and Categories: Hide / Show

How to hide and show columns in the grade book.

Grade System Selection

How to set your preferred grading system in Brightspace. Choose from weighted, points or a formula based systems.

Grade Systems Explained

Explaining the differences between the weighted, the points, and the formula grading systems in Brightspace.

Gradebook Overview: Getting Things Set Up

A video walking through the basics of the gradebook set-up process and links to tutorials for more specific gradebook questions.

Grading Tools in Brightspace

Brightspace offers built-in Annotations Tools in Assignment to assess submission with inline feedback with free hand drawing, highlighting, text and note annotation. This allows you to assess submissions directly in Assignments, without using external tools like Turnitin.

Manually Release Final Grades

In order for the students to see their grades in Brightspace, you'll need to automatically or manually release final grades. This process walks you through manually releasing final grades.

Quick Eval

Detailed article explaining the Quick Eval tool.

Release Final Grades

How to release final grades in Brightspace

Rubrics in Brightspace

How to create a rubric in Brightspace.

Rubrics: Attach a Rubric to a Discussion

A brief tutorial walking through the steps of attaching a rubric to a discussion in Brightspace.

Rubrics: Attach a Rubric to an Assignment

How to attach a rubric to an assignment in Brightspace.

Rubrics: Copy a Rubric

A brief tutorial walking through the steps to copy a rubric inside Brightspace.

Updating/Creating a Grade Scheme

How to create a custom grade scheme in Brightspace.