Adjusting Assignment Settings in the Gradebook

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There are a few settings that you can access for the gradebook. To do this, login to Blackboard, enter your course and click on Control Panel.


In the Control Panel screen, locate the Assessment area and click on Gradebook.

To edit the settings for a specific assignment, click on the assignment title link.

To quickly see the grades for all the students that submitted an assignment, click on Item Grade List.

The students will be listed, with their grades on the right hand side of the screen.  From this dialog box you can change the grade, by highlighting the grade and entering a new value. Click the submit button to reflect the grade changes.

To edit the Item Information, click on the Item Information link.

Within the Item Information screen, you can change the basic setting for your assignment, such as the name, Category and description.

You can also adjust visibility and determine if this assignment should be used for calculating a grade.  For example, you may not want to include this item in the grade score calculation if the assignment is due after midterm.  If you have ten assignments each worth ten points, the semester total would be 100, but if all ten are used in the grade calculation for midterm the student's score would only be 50% even if the student had a perfect score on all five assignments assigned before midterm.  To reflect any changes, click the Submit button.

If you clicked on submit, Blackboard will generate a confirmation that the Gradebook has been updated.

The next option does not allow for editing but gives you insight regarding a particular assignment.  Click on Item Detail to view some statistics about your assignment.

This is an overview of how your students did on this specific assignment.

You can look at student submissions one at a time by using the gradebook, however you can also do a mass download of assignments.  To download all assignments, click on Item Download.

Select the student assignments you want to download and click submit to download. You can Check All, Check Ungraded or Uncheck All.  You will need to select where the files will reside on your computer to successfully complete the download.  One word of caution, make sure you instruct your students to put their names on their papers.  If this doesn't happen you could end up with all the papers downloaded, but no idea who submitted each paper. You may want to set up a naming convention for the students to use when submitting their papers. An example might be: Surname First Initial and then the name or number of the Assignment. JonesPAssgn01.doc

The final item is Item File Clean Up.

In this screen you can delete files you no longer need.  This can be done by groups of files or by selecting individual files.

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