Preparing Your Blackboard Grade Center

The Grade Center in Blackboard can seem like one of its most daunting tools. However, by planning ahead and getting the Grade Center configured early in the semester, you can make the end of the term a bit less stressful for yourself. It's important to ensure that, if you plan for students to track their course grades within Blackboard and/or you want to use the Calculated column option to compute students' final course grades, you have a Grade Center that is aligned with the grading information in your syllabus. Upon request, a member of our team can meet with you online to go over your syllabus information and graded activities/assignments in Blackboard, and help you make sure that all is well in your Grade Center. Some of the issues with which they can provide guidance are: cleaning up outdated/extraneous Grade Center columns; resolving problems mixing grading based on cumulative points with those based on percentages; ensuring that a grade column exists for all assignments/activities in your syllabus and schedule; and organizing Grade Center columns and hiding Grade Center rows for students who have dropped your course. To request Grade Center assistance, please contact the Support Center to have a help ticket created that will then be assigned to the most appropriate member of our team. It's best to get your Grade Center properly adjusted no later than the halfway point of each semester.