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Educational Technology - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Overview
This is how you enter and submit student grades for clerkships.
How do I enter the FINAL LETTER GRADE?
Instructions
1. Click on Gradebook
2. Then select Grades
Graded columns are automatically created when you create a graded assignment, test, survey, discussion board, test, blog, wiki, or journal in Blackboard and assign a point value. You may need to create additional columns for items not created in Blackboard.
3. Create a New Column by going in between two existing columns and click the purple + symbol, then select Add Item.
4. Complete the Create Grade Column form & Select Grade Format
Column Name: Provide a name for the column - e.g. ACC Final Grade
Visibility: You can either keep this hidden from students or make it available.
Note: Even if you make it available to students, they will not see the grade you input until you “post” their grade within the gradebook.
Grade Using: Choose whether you want the column’s grades to appear in your Grade Center and the students’ My Grades as a Score, Text, Percentage, Letter, or Complete/Incomplete format.
Maximum Points: Enter the number of points possible to receive. For the Final Letter Grade, enter 0.
Grade Category: Choose a Category for this item from the ones provided by Blackboard or create your own using instructions provided in this document under Creating Categories. Categories are useful for grouping items to assign a percentage in a Calculated Column.
Description: Enter a description for the column, if desired. We strongly suggest adding a short description in order for the students to fully understand their grade
- e.g. this is your grade for the clerkship.
5. Click Save when you are finished.
6. Click the dash in the cell you would like to enter the grade.
7. The entered grade must be numerical unless you are importing an excel file into your gradebook. Once you enter the number hit Tab or Enter (Return) to submit the grade.
Here is the grade schema for clerkships
8. Continue clicking in the cells and adding grades until all are entered.
How do I enter the MSPE paragraph?
Graded columns are automatically created when you create a graded assignment, test, survey, discussion board, test, blog, wiki, or journal in Blackboard and assign a point value. You may need to create additional columns for items not created in Blackboard.
1. Access the Gradebook, followed by Grades
2. Create a New Column by going in between two existing columns and click the purple + symbol, then select Add Item.
3. Complete the Create Grade Column form & Select Grade Format
Column Name: Provide a name for the column - e.g. ACC Final Grade
Visibility: You can either keep this hidden from students or make it available.
Note: Even if you make it available to students, they will not see the grade you input until you “post” their grade within the gradebook.
Grade Using: Choose whether you want the column’s grades to appear in your Grade Center and the students’ My Grades as a Score, Text, Percentage, Letter, or Complete/Incomplete format.
Maximum Points: Enter the number of points possible to receive. For the Final Letter Grade, enter 0.
Grade Category: Choose a Category for this item from the ones provided by Blackboard or create your own using instructions provided in this document under Creating Categories. Categories are useful for grouping items to assign a percentage in a Calculated Column.
Description: Enter a description for the column, if desired. We strongly suggest adding a short description in order for the students to fully understand their grade
- e.g. this is your grade for the clerkship.
4. Click Save when you are finished.
5. Click the cell of the student you want to comment on. Enter in the number 0.
6. Then click on the cell again and select View.
7. This will open up the full grade details of the student. Copy and paste the MSPE paragraph onto the Feedback for student box.
8. NOTE: DO NOT COPY AND PASTE FROM Microsoft
WORD. If your paragraph is in MS Word, copy and paste to Wordpad or TextPad (PC) or TextEdit (Mac) first. This will remove all unseen HTML codes from MS Word.
9. Once you have pasted the MSPE paragraph to WordPad, TextPad or TextEdit, copy and paste to the Feedback to User section. Hit SAVE.
10. Continue with the same steps for the other paragraphs.
How to Post Grades
How does my student check his/her grades?
1. Click on Gradebook
2. The new grade will appear towards the top of their screen. They can select the Name of the column OR the purple text box to see their Feedback.
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