Gradebook Overview: Getting Things Set Up

The Brightspace Gradebook

A gradebook contains your grading system, grade calculations, grade scheme, grade items, and view and display options. Grade items in your grade book represent all the work that you want to evaluate students on in a course. Each course start with an empty gradebook by default, unless you have copied the gradebook from another course.

Setting Up Your Gradebook

We recommend walking through the 7 step set-up wizard first, then creating any necessary grade categories and items. 

Please refer to the following tutorials for more help setting up your Brightspace Gradebook.

• Grade Systems Explained
• Grade System Selection
• Grade Categories for a Weighted Grade System
• Custom Grade Scheme
• Release Final Grades
• Dropping The Lowest Grade
• Exclude an Item from the Final Grade Calculation
• Extra Credit
• Grade Items (Columns) and Categories: Creating
• Grade Items (Columns) and Categories: Deleting
• Grade Items (Columns) and Categories: Hide / Show
• Grade Items (Columns) and Categories: Reorder
• Attach a Discussion Topic to a Grade Item (Column)
• Attach a Quiz to a Grade Item (Column)
• Attach an Assignment to a Grade Item (Column)
• Attach a Rubric to an Assignment