Blackboard Vista: Customizing the Grade Book

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You can customize the Grade Book to suit your needs and teaching style. You can create and edit columns to post grades for tests and activities outside of Blackboard, generate a letter grade based on a numeric score, keep notes or record any other data. You can also edit and reorder columns.

When you create a column and set it as grade-related, it will automatically be added to the Grades tab. The column will also appear on the View All and Custom View tabs.

Step 1: Open the Grade Book

Select the Teach tab.
In the “Instructor Tools” menu, click Grade Book. The Grade Book screen is displayed.

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Step 2: Create a Column

Click Create Column.
From the drop-down Action Links menu, select the column type. In the example, we select Numeric. The Column Settings screen is displayed.

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Step 3: Column Settings

In the “Column label” text box, type the name of the column.
From the “Alignment” drop-down list, select the Alignment.
Select whether the column is grade-related and, if so, whether you want to release the column to students.
In the “Based on numeric/calculated column” drop-down list, select the numeric or calculated column on which you want to base the letter grade column.
Click Save. The column is added to the Grade Book.

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