MyGateway System Help

Adding Items to the MyGateway Grade Book

From a course control panel, select "Gradebook" from the assessment area.

All official course sites will have a "Final Grade" column (item) . If not please click "Add Item" at the top and enter Final Grade for the Item Name. For Display As choose "Text" and make sure the item is Available for Users. Click submit. Use this item to enter final grades for your students. Access the "Registrar Grade Submittal" link from the control panel to logon to the registrar's grade submittal system and "pull" your final grades from MyGateway onto the registrar's submittal pages (see, http://www.umsl.edu/technology/mgwhelp/fachelp/grades.htm for more information on online grade submission).
Online Assignments, Assessments, and Surveys will automatically be entered into the grade book when they are added to a "content area" of a class site. See Procedure for setting automatic grade function in Blackboard for more information.
To add an item (homework, exam, paper, etc.), click on "Add Item" near the upper left-hand corner of the spreadsheet screen.
The "Add/Modify Gradebook Item" screen opens.
Provide the following information:

Item name
Category (select an appropriate category for sorting and filtering in the grade book).
A brief description (if desired)
A date for the item.
Points possible (especially important is using the percentage display option
Select a "display as" type:
Score – Score is the raw score earned by the Student.
- Percentage – Percentage is calculated by using the following calculation: (Raw Score/Points Possible) *100
- Letter – Letter is a letter grade that equals a specific range of Percentages. For example, 94% to 97% equals an “A” Letter grade. The following Letter grades are built into the Blackboard Learning System. Instructors may modify these on the Modify Grade Display Options page.
  - 97% to 100% (or higher) = A+
  - 94% to 97% = A
  - 90% to 94% = A-
  - 87% to 90% = B+
  - 84% to 87% = B
  - 80% to 84% = B-
  - 77% to 80% = C+
  - 74% to 77% = C
  - 70% to 74% = C-
  - 64% to 67% = D
  - 67% to 70% = D+
  - 60% to 64% = D-
  - 59 or below = F
- Text – Text allows the Instructor to enter any string as the score for a grade book item. It does not have any calculable value. Scores that are entered as Text cannot be set to a numerical range. It is not possible to copy this display option, or modify the possible values.
- Complete / Incomplete – This option signifies that a Student has completed an item. It is the default option for Surveys. It displays as a check mark in the student view.

In "Part 2" you can choose to hide the item from your students' view, and to exclude it from grade book calculations.
After an "Item" has been entered, you can modify these properties by selecting the " Manage Items" link (you can also add items from the Manage Items page), or by clicking on a item name at the top of the spreadsheet column, and then selecting, "Item Information."