The Gradebook

Grades

Any assessment that is graded and/or used to establish a grade in your course must have its own individual column in the gradebook. Students must be able to look at each individual graded assessment and determine what grade was given to them for that assessment.

Grade Column Titles

Grade column titles must include the entire name of graded assessments..

When creating grade columns, developers are given the opportunity for a "Name" an a "Short Name" in the Column Item Properties.

• The "Name" should be the complete and consistent name that is used elsewhere in the course. This is the name that the students see and should be consistent.
• The "Short Name" is the column header designation that only instructors see when they look at the gradebook. If you want to call "Module 1" as "M1" in the "Short Name" so that the columns are not wide - this is where you can do that.

GradesSettings

There are a couple of settings within the Assessments tool which are very important to have set properly they are:

1. The Auto Export to Grades and Automatic Grades settings - these settings need to be set so that the grades from the assessment will be autormatically graded and submitted to the gradebook. If they are not set, then the instructor will have to manually grade and submit them to the gradebook.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. The Auto-Submit Attempt and enforced settings - these settings need to be set so that any attempt by a student will be auto submitted when the alloted time expires. If the Auto-Submit Attempt is not set and a student fails to exit properly submit the exam (say by closing the screen before submitting the exam). The attempt will not be graded or submitted to the gradebook.
   
   If the enforce setting is not set, then the clock (amount of time allowed for a test) has no meaning and is not enforced. The result is that students can keep submitting answers after the alotted time has expired.
   
   If the show clock setting is not enabled, student won't know how long they have till the time is up for the test attempt. With the setting enabled, a clock counts down the time allowed until that attempt is through.
   
   

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