Exploring the Grade Center
Overview
The new Grade Center functions similarly to the old Gradebook, but offers real-time grade manipulations along with several other time-saving features.
The Grade Center is made up of rows and columns of student information and gradable items. Cells in the grid contain data specific to corresponding students. All cells and column headings contain menus for various actions. The user can access information, or navigate to other pages to interact with the Grade Center. The appearance of the Grade Center is completely configurable.
Note: New Courses or Restored Courses will contain two created columns: a Total Points column and a Weighted Grade column. The user must configure the settings of these two columns.
Action Bar
Besides the columns, rows, and cells that make up the current view of the Grade Center data, the Grade Center page contains the following areas, which display from the top of the page downward and from left to right:
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The following icons are displayed in the toolbar of the Grade Center page:
- Add Grade Column – An icon used to create a Grade Column in the Grade Center.
- Add Calculated Column – a drop-down menu with options for creating Calculated Columns in the Grade Center.
- Manage – Displays the Grade Center management options when the action link is triggered.
- Email – Displays the Email options when the action link is triggered.
- Reports – Displays a page from which Reports for the Course are created.
- Grade History – Displays a page where the Grade History of any selected students are displayed.
- Current View – A drop-down menu that lists all the different views of the Grade Center, each of which can be set as the default view.
- Set as Default – Sets the Current View as the default View of the Grade Center.
- Sort Columns By – A drop-down menu that displays possible column sort options.
Grade Information Bar
The Grade Information Bar row displays the pertinent information of the selected Grade Column cell in the Grade Center.
Icon Legend
The Icon Legend, upon selection, displays the definition of the icons viewed in the Grade Center cells.
Grade Center Accessibility
In order to make the Grade Center accessible to as many people as possible, the Grade Center has two different modes, Interactive and Non-interactive.
- is the default setting
- allows columns to be frozen
- has inline editing capabilities
- displays the Grade Center data in a simplified grid
- has no inline editing
- has no ability to freeze columns
- navigates easily by keystroke
- accommodates screen readers
- From the Grade Center page, mouse over the icon (
)located to the far right of the yellow bar that displays Current View and Sort Columns By functions. - Select Non-interactive view.
| Interactive view:
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Non-interactive view:
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Both Non-interactive and Interactive views can move the cursor from Column to Column using the Tab key. Cells within the Grade Center can be navigated by using the up, down, left, and right arrows on a standard keyboard in both views.
To manually change the Interactive view to Non-interactive view, follow these steps:
Note: This setting is not is not saved across sessions. It will last only as long as the current session. Once the browser is closed, the view will default back to Interactive.
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