The Gradebook > Managing Display Options

The Blackboard gradebook provides a variety of different display settings and options. These settings can be controlled via two buttons. Login to your site and click "Control Panel>Gradebook" The buttons used to control the display options are 'Manage Items' and 'Gradebook Settings'.

Manage Items
To re-arrange the way items display in the on-line gradebook you can click on the button labeled "Manage Items". This will call up an interface where you can reorder items in the on-line gradebook, as well as modify their availability and display options. You also have the ability to remove items that you added into the gradebook via the "Add Item" button. **Please note** You are not able to immediately remove a quiz, assignment, or survey. If you wish to remove these types of items you would first have to remove the assignment, quiz, or survey itself. After doing so you would then have the option to remove the item from the gradebook. Be careful when removing items from the gradebook, as this could cause loss of grades.

Gradebook Settings
This button allows you to re-arrange several other display options in the on-line gradebook. The categories that you can manipulate are Spreadsheet Settings, Gradebook Categories, and Display Options.

The Spreadsheet Settings link allows you to reorder the way that student accounts appear in the on-line gradebook. You can order these by last name, first name, User ID or Student ID.

The Manage Gradebook Categories link allows you to alter and add categories for the different items you will be adding to the gradebook. For example, if you have a series of scores for peer reviews then you can add a category into the gradebook labeled "Peer Review". Now, when you go in to add those scores to the gradebook you can specify the newly created category type when adding the item.

The Manage Display Options link allows you to alter the way letter grades will display on the system, or add in your own "Display Option" type that you can apply to an item when creating it. In order to manage the display options for the letter grade display type click on the link labeled "Manage Display Options" - in the subsequent screen click on the button labeled "Modify" that will appear next to the letter grade display option.

This will open up an interface where you can begin editing the curve that controls the display of letter grades for "Items" as well as quizzes graded automatically by the system.

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Related FAQ's

Q: Students claim they can't see a content item I just added - what's wrong?

A common cause of this problem is that the item availability has been set incorrectly. Log back in and click "Control Panel>Manage Items". Find the item you just added to the gradebook and click the button labeled "modify". Be sure that the item you added is set to "available".

Q: Is the Gradebook secure?

Yes. Students can only access their own grades in the on-line gradebook.

Q: Can students see anyone else's grades in the on-line gradebook?

No. Students can only access their own grades in the on-line gradebook.

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