Grade Assignments (New)

• Class: the class associated with the assignment.

• Assignment type: used to categorize assignments in the gradebook and for reporting.

• Added to cumulative: indicates the assignment is included in cumulative grade calculations.

• Extra credit: indicates the assignment is marked as extra credit.

• See description: view the full assignment Description.

• Formative: indicates if the assignment is marked as Formative (Mastery assignments only).

  Note: Formative assignments are only available for schools using Mastery.

• Content-area skills: number of content-area skills (Mastery assignments only).

• Transferable skills: number of transferable skills (Mastery assignments only).

• Average grade: average grade for the assignment.

• Max points: maximum points possible.

• Factor: number of times the assignment is counted in cumulative grade calculations.

• Assigned: date the assignment was assigned for the class.

• Due: date the assignment is due.

• Published: indicates if the assignment is published to students.

The student has submitted text, file submission, or LTI upload.

A teacher has entered a grade, comment, skill evaluation, indicator (e.g. Exempt, Missing) or attached a File for the student, but the entry has not been committed.

A teacher has committed a grade, comment, skill evaluation, or file attachment for the student.

• Select Commit evaluation at the bottom of the page to commit for the current student only.

• Select Commit all evaluations at the top to commit evaluations for the class at once.

Tip: To view students with uncommitted evaluations for the assignment, look at the student dropdown in the upper right. A blue exclamation mark icon next to a student's name indicates they have uncommitted evaluations.

Below the student dropdown, you'll find "Marked as" indicators that you can add to a student's assignment. When committed, these indicators are visible to students and their parents.

Tip: Select More, then See key to view the icon descriptions.

Indicators

Collected: Tracks received student work. Committing the Collected indicator updates the student's view of their assignment status to Completed.

Exempt: The assignment is not included in the student's cumulative grade calculation.

Incomplete: Student has not completed the assignment.

Missing: Student has not submitted the assignment. In the student's Assignment Center, the assignment displays under Missing or Overdue in calendar view and in Missing assignments in list view.

Late: Student submitted the assignment after the due date. Enter the number of days late in the space provided.

Tip: You can set your Preferences to automatically remove the Missing and/or Incomplete indicators when you commit a grade. For more, see Evaluation preferences.

• Under Evaluation, enter a numeric grade or select a grade from a dropdown.

  Note: You can only select letter grades if your gradebook is set up to use a Letter grade scale.

• Decimal values are accepted

• Values less than zero are not accepted

• Enter feedback in the Comment box.

  Note: Comments and changes to committed comments are not visible until committed.

• Upload feedback files, such as external rubrics, under File by selecting Attach file.

If your assignment uses Mastery, Content-area and/or Transferable skills are displayed on the right.

• Select an evaluation from the dropdown for each skill

• Select a skill name for additional skill details.

• Yellow warning icon indicates a skill without an evaluation.

• Green checkmark indicates skill with an evaluation.

• To add a comment for a skill, select Add comment under the skill, enter a Comment, then select Save.

• Files submitted by the student are displayed on the left with annotation tools. See Assignment Annotations for more.

• Text submissions are also displayed on the left but cannot be annotated.

• If a student submitted multiple files or text, select the file name or Text submission on the right display the desired submission.

• To allow a student to resubmit the assignment, select Allow resubmit.

Google Drive submissions

If your school utilizes Google Drive integration, Google Drive submissions are displayed on the right and cannot be annotated within the system. Select the cloud icon next to a Google Drive file name to open the file in Google Drive.

Warning: Once you begin grading an assignment with a rubric, the rubric cannot be edited or removed from the assignment.

Select Evaluate with rubric to display rubric skills.

• For point-based rubrics, select a proficiency level from the Evaluation dropdown below each skill.

• For point range-based rubrics, select a proficiency level and point range from the Evaluation dropdown, then enter the Points earned within the selected range.

• To add a comment for a skill, select Add comment, enter the Comment, then select Save.

• Select a skill name for more details on each proficiency level. You can also select a proficiency level or enter Points and add Comments in this view. Select Apply to save your changes.

• As you select proficiency levels or add points, the score at the top of the Evaluation panel is updated.

• You do not need to fill out the entire rubric before committing. Rubric skills without evaluations will appear ungraded and treated as zero.

  Tip: A yellow warning icon indicates a skill does not have an evaluation, while a green checkmark indicates a completed evaluation.

Adjust student's total points

To adjust a student's total points, select the edit icon next to their score at the top of the Evaluation panel. You can: 

Add to total: Add additional points to the overall score of the assignment. Use the available text box to award additional points.

Remove from total: Remove points from the total score of the assignment. Use the available text box to remove awarded points.

Mark score as zero: This will remove any scores and set total points earned to zero.

• A preview displays the student's Total points as calculated and what the student's Total points will be with your adjustment.

• To save your adjustment, select Apply.

• To exit without making an adjustment, select Cancel or select Do not adjust total points, then select Apply.

Note: LTI tools are not accessible when impersonating.

When an LTI 1.3 tool is enabled on an assignment, select the LTI tool in the student dropdown.

Assignment grades passed from learning tools to Blackbaud Learning Management are automatically committed.

Turnitin

When using Turnitin for your assignment, the following information is displayed:

• Title

• Description

• Max grade

• Start date

• Due date

• Feedback release date (will be the same as the due date)

Use Bulk actions to add the same evaluation for multiple students.

Note: Bulk actions overwrite existing evaluations for the selected students.

1. Select Bulk actions.

2. Optional: To add a grade or indicators, select Add bulk evaluation, then enter or select a Grade and/or indicators you want to add for students.

3. Optional: To add comments, select Add bulk comment then enter a Comment.

4. Under Apply to, select the students you want to apply the evaluation to.

   Note: Review existing evaluations that will be overwritten upon saving in the Grade, Indicators, and Comments columns next to the selected students.

5. Select Save.

To download file submissions for all students in the class, select More, then Download all files.

For a preview of the assignment from a student's perspective, select More, then See student preview. For more details, see Student Preview of Assignments for Teachers.

View a student's grade change history for the assignment by selecting See change history in the upper left. Changes are listed with the most recent first.

Change history includes:

• Changed item

• Changed from

• Changed to

• Changed by

• Changed time

  Note: The format for Changed time is DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM AM/PM

The following changes are recorded: