MyGateway System Help
MyGateway Grade Center
The Grade Center formerly known as the gradebook offers new features and functions which include:
- A redesigned tool bar, titled the Action Bar, through which multiple functions are possible.
- The ability to create and print Reports, such as final grades.
- The ability to enter grades directly through the Grade Center spreadsheet.
- New grade calculations, Average grade and Minimum/Maximum grade, and improvements to the creation of Weighted grades and Total points grade.
- Smart Views -- the ability to categorize Students into groupings based on selected criteria. These views can be displayed in the Grade Center.
- The ability to create Grading Schema: multiple grading scales that match Assessment grades to chosen grade displays, such as text or percent grades.
- Email users directly through the Grade Center.
The documents below contain instructions for using features in the Grade Center.
- Getting Started with the Grade Center (pdf file)
- Adding Comments to a Grade Entry (MS Word file)
- Adding Grade Columns to Grade Center (MS Word file)
- Changing Grades (MS Word file)
- Creating a Weighted Grade (MS Word file)
- Creating Categories (MS Word file)
- Deleting and Reverting Grades (MS Word file)
- Entering Grades (MS Word file)
- Exempting Grades (MS Word file)
- Exploring the Grade Center (MS Word file)
- Grade History (MS Word file)
- Organizing the Grade Center (MS Word file)
- Sharing the Grade Center with Students (MS Word file)
- Showing and Hiding Users (MS Word file)
- Sorting the Grade Center (MS Word file)
- Total Points Calculations (MS Word file)
- Uploading a File to the Grade Center (MS Word file)
Blackboard videos: Overview, Grading Center, Critical Thinking Tools and Blackboard Webinar (recorded December 2007)