Welcome to the Introduction to Grade Center I online course.
About Course
The purpose of this course is to provide faculty, who have little to no experience using Blackboard's Grade Center, an online resource to learn the foundational skills necessary to successfully operate within Blackboard’s Grade Center environment.
Training participants will learn how to setup a course Grade Center using ITI’s four step process for success: Setup Categories, Create Columns, Organize, and Setup Total Columns. This course will also demonstrate how to properly add, override, delete, and download Grade Center grades.
This course has been setup to address the needs of faculty who do not have time to attend face-to-face training, but still need to learn how to use Blackboard's Grade Center.
How is The Course Structured?
The course is setup as a self-paced course. You will be able to work through the units when your schedule allows. It’s an open entry open exit course.
The Grade Center I online course is comprised of six units of self-paced instruction.
- Each unit will provide instruction through the use of demonstration videos, as well as hands-on interactive videos that allow you as the viewer to actually practice the task being presented.
- In order to successfully complete and receive credit for this course, you will have to pass all unit assessments with an 80% or better.
Course Prerequisites
Before attempting Grade Center I, training participants must have successfully completed the following ITI course:
- ITIBB-0100-F2F/WEB: Introduction to Blackboard
This course is only being offered to active employees at Columbus State Community College.
*ITI course format key: F2F - Face-to-face, WEB - Self-paced Online, SYN - Live online via WebEx
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Use ITI's four step process for setting up Grade Center for a given Blackboard course.
- Locate and enter a given course’s Grade Center area.
- Given a course syllabus, identify necessary grading categories needed to be created for use in setting up a Blackboard course Grade Center.
- Create, edit, and delete Grade Center Categories for a given course.
- Explain how to determine which Grade Center columns will be added manually, and which columns will be added automatically for a given course's grading structure.
- Add, edit, and delete Grade Center columns.
- Use Blackboard's Column Organization tool to organize Grade Center columns, set frozen columns, and hide unnecessary columns from instructor Grade Center view for a given Blackboard course.
- Depending on an instructor's method of grading:
- Properly setup a Running Total column for calculating student grades for a given Blackboard Course.
OR
- Properly setup a Weighted Total column for calculating student grades for a given Blackboard Course.
- Properly setup a Running Total column for calculating student grades for a given Blackboard Course.
- Manually enter student grades for a given Blackboard course using both the
“Quick Grade Entry Method” and “View Detail Method”. - Use Grade Center to provide feedback directly to a student about their grade for a given assignment/assessment.
- Use Grade Center to record an instructor note about a student’s grade for a
given assignment/assessment. - Properly change an existing student’s grade using Blackboard’s Override tool for a given Blackboard assignment/assessment.
- Properly delete (or clear) a student’s grade from Grade Center for a given
Blackboard assignment/assessment. - Carry out the steps necessary to download (or backup) a copy of a given course’s Grade Center area.