Managing Student Grade Book

Managing Student Grade Book

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Slide notes: Select the Teach tab.

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Slide notes: Select the Grade Book tool.

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Slide notes: The Grade Book shows all enrolled members, students and designers alike. There may be a considerable number of students and/or columns. Scrolling will most likely be necessary, especially if your browser window is small.

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Slide notes: The icon preceding each student’s last name is called the PeopleLinks icon. Select the PeopleLinks icon for a student.

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Slide notes: You can manage students with the icon preceding each student’s last name. This icon is called the PeopleLinks icon. Select the PeopleLinks icon for a student.

Select the Edit Member option.

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Slide notes: This gives you access to all the graded parts of the course for this particular student.

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Slide notes: You can adjust the grades and give comments. Let’s enter a final grade. Click in the Change to: box in the Final: row.

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Slide notes: Select the save button.

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Slide notes: This view also provides a View Audit History button; for the student in general, at the top, and for each grade-related item, individually, following each item.

Select the View Audit History button at the top following the student’s name.

The window that opens, shows the audit history (grade overrides) for the student.

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Slide notes: At the bottom you will find Export Log and Done buttons. Let’s export a log of the audit history for this student. Select the Export Log button.

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Slide notes: At the bottom you will find Export Log and Done buttons. Let’s export a log of the audit history for this student. Select the Export Log button.

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Slide notes: The Export Grade Book Audit Log Data window opens. You can choose to export a Comma delimited (.csv file format for Excel) or Tab delimited (.txt file format) file. Choose the Comma delimited option.

Slide notes: Select Export.

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Slide notes: Select the Save button in the File Download dialog box. Choose a destination on your computer. You may consider naming the file so it will be recognizable. If you attempt to export another log to the same folder with the same name you will receive a warning that the file already exists. Giving the file a name that relates to the student whose log this is would make sense.

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Slide notes: Select the View Audit History button following an item to view or export a log of a specific item.

Select Done to exit the window.

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Slide notes: Let’s explore the next PeopleLinks option by selecting the PeopleLinks icon again.

This time select the Send Mail option.

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Slide notes: The Create Message window opens.

This is another way to send email to students and members. See the tutorial on the Email tool to learn more about this feature.

Select the Cancel button to exit this window.

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Slide notes: Now let’s consider the last PeopleLinks option by selecting the PeopleLinks icon again.

Choose View Performance Reports.

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Slide notes: Here you get details about student activity.

You can see login dates and times.

You find what tools were used and where students visited.

Some details include the time spent in given areas.

Note that only the tools that have been added to the course will have information here.

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Slide notes: Select the View Student Grades button to switch a look at the student’s grades.

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Slide notes: This is another, more focused view of the student’s grades.