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.
How to attach a discussion topic to a grade item in the Brightspace grade book.
How to attach a quiz to a grade item in Brightspace.
How to attach an assignment to a grade item in the Brightspace grade book.
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.
How to set date restrictions on grade items.
How to drop the lowest grade.
How to enter grades into the grade book.
How to remove a grade category or item from the final grade calculation, in Brightspace.
How to allow extra credit points in Brightspace.
How to create grade categories for a weighted grade system in Brightspace
A brief tutorial walking through the steps to exempt a student from a grade book item.
How to create grade categories and items in the grade book in Brightspace.
How to delete grade items and grade categories in the Brightspace grade book.
How to hide and show columns in the grade book.
How to reorder grade items.
How to set your preferred grading system in Brightspace. Choose from weighted, points or a formula based systems.
Explaining the differences between the weighted, the points, and the formula grading systems in Brightspace.
A video walking through the basics of the gradebook set-up process and links to tutorials for more specific gradebook questions.
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.
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.
Detailed article explaining the Quick Eval tool.
How to release final grades in Brightspace
How to create a rubric in Brightspace.
A brief tutorial walking through the steps of attaching a rubric to a discussion in Brightspace.
How to attach a rubric to an assignment in Brightspace.
A brief tutorial walking through the steps to copy a rubric inside Brightspace.
How to create a custom grade scheme in Brightspace.