Grades – Setup and create Grade Items in your course

Automatic marking is a great way to avoid the hassle of having to manually calculate student assessments in a course. The Learning Hub can help you automate marks for your students by setting up the Grades Tool. Please see the following step by step instructions for properly setting up the Grades Tool.

Designing your Grades area

If you find yourself with an empty gradebook. You will need to build your gradebook before you can use it. It’s best to match your gradebook to your course outline.

Check the Grades Page Calculations

Check to make sure the grade calculation options are calculating correctly. Go to Grades > Settings

Select Calculation Options > scroll down to Grade Calculations > make sure the radio button beside Treat ungraded items as 0 is selected > make sure Automatically keep final grades updated is selected > Save

Creating a Grade Item

Grade Items are either individual items you want to grade or if you associate the item with a category it get placed inside the category and calculates based on what the category is set too.

Click Grades > Manage Grades > New > Item

Select Numeric


Enter a name for the Grade Item.

Optional: Create a Grade Item category

Enter Point and Weight of Grade Item

Enter the maximum number of available points. Enter the weight of the grade item

Optional: Create a Rubric

Optional

Under Display Options modify the display settings for students. By default, students only see their numerical grade. To allow students to see a letter grade or other grade symbol (like Pass/Fail), these settings will need to be modified.

Select the circled question mark for more details.