Term A Countdown: Simplifying Your End-of-Semester Tasks

Over 270 sections that began in mid-August are wrapping up next week. We know that you are very busy during this time period and need to focus on grading student work. To assist with your end of the semester tasks, we wanted to share some information about working in the Gradebook.

Visibility icon on Students’ Total Grade

A visibility icon may appear when an accurate Total Grade is not available for students. This does not affect the score that you see as the instructor. The score displays accurately to instructors. The icon indicates that the student cannot see the most updated or accurate Total Grade at that moment in time.  You will see this icon on Total Grade when you need to post grades for an assignment or assignments, this can be for all students or as few as one student. Be sure that all students can see their Total Grade at the end of the semester.

Missing Status Label

You may have noticed that after you enter a zero for a student’s missing assignment, that the Missing status label disappears.  This can present issues when you are attempting to use Filters to see which students are missing work.  You can adjust the status label using the Grade Detail Tray or Speedgrader.

For more information on icons and labels visit the link below:
How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook?

Apply Score for Ungraded Items

Good news!  There is an easy way to apply scores for ungraded items in the Assignment Group. You can choose to apply a particular score to all these items.  You can also choose to apply a missing assignment label to the items (use all artifacts option).  This can make your updates for missing assignments with zeroes a much easier process.  

How do I apply scores to ungraded assignments as an instructor?

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