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Timesaving Tips Using the Timesaving Tips Using the Blackboard Grade CenterBlackboard Grade Center

Jason Rhode, Assistant DirectorFaculty Development and Instructional Design Center

[email protected] | twitter.com/jrhode

Resources available at http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/gradecenter/tips.shtml

Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, Northern Illinois University | www.facdev.niu.edu

AgendaAgenda

• Getting acquainted• Demonstration of tips described at

http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/gradecenter/tips.shtml

• Grade Center Q&A


Overview of New FeaturesOverview of New Features

http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/gradecenter/tips.shtml


Timesaving TipsTimesaving Tips

1) Hide unnecessary columns

2) Organize columns3) Freeze columns4) Customize grading

schema5) Add custom categories6) Shorten column titles7) Enter grades directly into

cells8) Add due dates 9) Provide feedback 10)Display score and percent

or letter grade

1) Exempt a grade2) Email students3) Create calculated columns4) Create customized “Smart

Views”5) View Grade Center

statistics6) View Grade Center history7) Automatically drop the

lowest grade8) Weight grades either

proportionally or equally9) Print/run reports


Upcoming Blackboard WorkshopsUpcoming Blackboard Workshops

http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/workshops


More InformationMore Information

• http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/gradecenter/tips.shtml

• http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/gradecenter

• http://blackboardtutorials.niu.edu


Contact the PresenterContact the Presenter

Jason Rhode, Ph.D.Faculty Development and Instructional Design CenterNorthern Illinois University

[email protected]/jrhode815.753.2475