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How to Submit Final Grades to the Registrar (Graduate School) (Ultra)

Overview

This page outlines how to submit the students’ final letter grade for the Registrar to see.

Instructions

1. Click on Gradebook

2. Then select Grades

How do I enter the FINAL LETTER GRADE?

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. One of the columns in the Grade Book is called Final Grade. By default this column is hidden from students.

4. Click the dash in the cell you would like to enter the grade.

5. Enter your students' letter grades as you would like them to be sent to the Registrar.

6. 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.

7. Grades are expected to be entered one week after the end of the semester.

Here is the grade schema for the Graduate School

Release the Final Letter Grade to your Students

First Step:

Make sure your columns is “available to students.”

Go to Gradebook
Click Grades
Select the icon of the name of the column you want to un-hide.
Select Edit
Then change Hidden from students to Visible to Students.

Second Step:

Follow this guide to post your student grades

Further Notes

Releasing after Evaluations

If you want to release grades only after a student submits a course evaluation, and you are using Blackboard for the course evaluation, here's a suggestion.

Add all the grades to the Final Grade column so that the Registrar can see the grades.

Create an additional column called Final Course Grade. Make this column visible to students. As students complete the survey (you'll see a green checkmark when they do), key in the grade that you entered for them in the Final Grade column.

Can’t Find the Final Grade Column

If you don't see the column:

A) It’s hidden from your view

Inside of Gradebook select Grades
Click on the Gear button and select Manage gradebook items you will see the full list of your gradebook columns
On the right column you can toggle Instructor visibility for each

B) Unorganized and has been moved away towards the end of your grades list.

Inside of Gradebook select Gradable Items
Search for the column here, it may in the middle or bottom of the page.
Re-arrange the columns by selecting the up and down arrows in the right most column, click and drag to move the items.

C) The column does not exist. You can contact us to create the column for you, or you can create it yourself. Just carefully follow the settings in the image below. Note the exact spelling of the Column Name.

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