Grade Assignments

After students submit assignments,can review submissions, enter grades and comments, evaluate rubric or mastery skills, and commit evaluations to Gradebook.

For more information about grading different types of assignments, see:

Video: New Assignment Grading Experience

Open Assignment Grading

You can open assignment grading from several areas in Faculty.

From the Assignment Center:

In Faculty, select My Day, Assignment Center.
Select the assignment name.

From a class page:

In Faculty, select Classes, then pick a class.
Select Assignments, then the assignment name.

From Gradebook:

In Faculty, select Classes, then pick a class.
Select Launch gradebook.
Select the down arrow below an assignment in the header row.
Then select Go to assignment.

Tip: For information on entering grades via the gradebook, see Working with Gradebook.

From the Calendar:

In Faculty, select Calendar in the top level menu.
Select the assignment name, then More Details.

View or Edit Assignment Details

When the grading page opens, select See details next to the assignment name to view additional information.
To edit the assignment settings, select More, then Edit assignment.

Select a View

Select the grading view that best fits your workflow. Use Student view to review submissions individually, or use Class view to enter grades for multiple students efficiently.

By default:

Assignments with in-system submissions or assignments linked to an LTI open in Student view, which provides more space to view submissions and LTI tools.
Assignments without in-system submissions open in Class view for efficient grade entry.

Student View

In Student view, use the dropdown in the upper-right corner to select a student. Use the arrow buttons to move to the next or previous student.
Icons can appear next to a student's name in the dropdown to indicate submission or evaluation status:
- - 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.
- - The Missing indicator has been marked and committed.
- Note: The Missing indicator takes priority over committed grades. If a student has both a committed grade and a committed Missing indicator, the Missing icon displays for the student until it is cleared and committed.
- - A teacher has committed a grade, comment, skill evaluation, or file attachment for the student.
- - The student has submitted text, file submission, or LTI upload.
  
  Tip: Select More, See key to view icon details in Student or Class view.
You can annotate file submissions directly from Student view.

Class View

Class view is like Gradebook, but it displays only one assignment at a time.
Use the down arrow at the bottom of the assignment column header to change the student sort order or view the assignment Performance summary.

Commit Grades to Gradebook

Evaluations are not visible to students or parents until you commit them to Gradebook. Changes to committed evaluations are also not visible until you commit the changes.

For example, if you commit a comment, then delete it, you must commit the deletion to remove the comment from student and parent view.

Note: Annotations on file submissions are visible to students and parents immediately and do not need to be committed. For more information, see Assignment Annotations.

To commit grades:

Select Commit evaluations at the top of the page to commit all evaluations.
In Student view, select Commit evaluation on the bottom left to commit only the current student's evaluation.
In Class view, select Commit [#]at the top of the grade or skill column.

Tip: In Student view, use the student dropdown to identify students with uncommitted evaluations. A blue exclamation mark next to a student name indicates that the student has uncommitted evaluations.

"Marked as" Indicators

With "Marked as" indicators, you designate student work as the following:

Collected: Tracks received student work. When committed, the Collected indicator updates the student's view of their assignment status to Completed.
Exempt: Excludes the assignment from 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.

To mark indicators:

In Student view, the indicators appear below the student dropdown.
In Class view, select the right side of a student's grade column to open Evaluate assignment where you can mark indicators.
- Indicator icons appear on the right side of a student's grade column.

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

Enter Assignment Grades and Comments

When you enter grades:

You can select letter grades only if the gradebook is set up to use a letter grade scale.
Decimal values are accepted.
Values less than zero are not accepted.

Enter Grades and Comments in Class View

Class view is like Gradebook, but displays only one assignment at a time.
The assignment column header displays the maximum points for the assignment.
On the left side of a student grade column, enter a numeric grade or select a letter grade.
Select the right side of a student grade column to:
- mark indicators
- enter comments
- access rubric grading
- attach feedback files
- view change history

Remember to commit your evaluations when finished.

Enter Grades and Comments in Student View

Student view is recommended for grading assignments with in-system file submissions.

Select a student from the dropdown in the upper-right corner.
Under Evaluation, enter a numeric grade or select a letter grade.
To upload feedback files, such as external rubrics, select Attach file under File.

Remember to commit your evaluations when finished.

Working with File or Text Submissions

Select a file under Submission to view it.
If the student submitted text, select Text submission to display the text.

Note: Text submissions cannot be annotated.
To open a file in full-page view, select the new tab icon .
Use annotation tools to mark up submitted files. For more information, see Annotate Assignments.
To allow a student to resubmit the assignment, select Allow resubmit.
To download one file, select the download icon at the end of the file name.
To download all files for the class, select More, Download all files.

Tip: Use the Submitted column in the Assignment Center list view or class Assignments page to see which students turned in online file or text submissions for an assignment. Select the Submitted number to open a flyout with submission details, then select a student name to open the student evaluation page.

Google Drive File Submissions

If your school uses Google Drive integration, Google Drive submissions appear under Submission.

Select the name of a Google Drive file to view the file on the left. You cannot annotate or edit the file in this view.
Select the new tab icon next to a Google Drive file to open the file in Google Drive, where you can add comments, edit, or annotate the file.

Grade Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) Assignments in Student View

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 to the Gradebook.

Select Refresh grades to reload the LTI assignment information and student grades.

Turnitin Assignments

When you use Turnitin for an assignment, the following information displays:

• Title

• Description

• Max grade

• Start date

• Due date

• Feedback release date, which is the same as the Due date

Enter Grades in Bulk

Use Bulk actions to add the same grade, indicator, or comment for multiple students.

Note: See Add Skill Evaluations in Bulk for information on adding bulk skill ratings, skill comments, or skill exemptions.

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

In Class or Student view, select Bulk actions.
Do at least one of the following:
- Select Add bulk evaluation and enter or select a Grade
- Select Add bulk evaluation and select an Indicator
- Select Add bulk comment and enter a Comment.
Select the students to apply the changes to.
Note: Before you save, review the Grade, Indicators, and Comments columns to confirm which existing evaluations will be overwritten for selected students.
Select Save.

Enter Mastery Skill Ratings

Your school may use Mastery for skills-based learning. It can be used on its own or in combination with traditional grading.

Enter Skill Ratings in Class View

If your assignment uses Mastery, a column displays for each skill.

Select the left side of a student skill column to choose a skill rating.
Select the right side of a student skill column to enter comments or mark the student Exempt for the skill.

Note: You can also add skill evaluations in bulk.

Enter Skill Ratings in Student View

If your assignment uses Mastery, skills display in the Evaluation panel.

Select an evaluation from the dropdown for each skill.
Select a skill name to view additional details.
To add a skill comment, select Add comment under the skill, enter a comment, then select Save.

Add Skill Evaluations in Bulk

In Class view, you can add the same skill rating, skill comment, or skill exemption for multiple students at the same time.

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

Select the down arrow at the bottom of the skill header column, then select Bulk actions.
Select Add bulk evaluation.
Do at least one of the following:
- select Add bulk evaluation and select a skill Rating
- select Add bulk evaluation and select Exempt to mark students exempt for this skill
- select Add bulk comment and enter a Comment
Select the students to apply the changes to.

Note: Before you save, review the Rating, Indicators, and Comments columns to confirm which existing evaluations will be overwritten for selected students.
Select Save.

View an Assignment as a Student

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.

See Change History

View a history of changes for a student's assignment evaluations.

In Student view, select See change history in the upper left.

In class view, select the right side of a student's grade column. Change history appears at the bottom of Evaluate assignments.

Changes are listed with the most recent first and include:

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:

Change	Change category
Total points	Score
Skills rating	Name of skill
Unchecked box becomes checked	[Name of indicator] status
Checked box becomes unchecked	[Name of indicator] status
Number of days late	[Name of indicator] status
Rubric	Rubric [Name of skill] rating
Assignment comment	Comment
Skill comment	[Name of skill] comment
Rubric comment	Rubric [Name of skill] Comment