Determine your gradebook settings in D2L Brightspace

Gradebook

You can determine how to set up your gradebook to best reflect your approach to evaluation.  The gradebook provides you a way to record scores, evaluate students, and track student progress.  You can evaluate specific tasks (such as projects, tests, and participation) and you can create grade items and associated them with course assessments, e.g. Assignments and Quizzes.

Determine your gradebook settings

1. From your course navigation bar, click Assessments, and then select Grades.
2. In the Grades tool bar, click Setup Wizard.
3. On the next screen, choose your grading system, then click Continue.
4. Choose whether to release the Calculated Final Grades or Adjusted Final Grade to student, then click Continue.
5. Choose how you want to treat ungraded items:
   • Select Drop ungraded items if you want the final grades to only reflect the students’ current grades entered in the gradebook.
   • Select Treat ungraded items as 0 if you want the final grades to reflect all items in the gradebook, regardless if the student has a grade for the item or not.
6. If you want final grades to automatically update after enter grades or changing grade items, select Automatically keep final grade updated. Then click Continue.
7. Choose your default grade scheme and then click Continue.
8. In the Number of decimal places to display field, enter the number of decimal places to display to you when you view the gradebook. Then click Continue.
9. Select display options for your students’ view of the gradebook. Then click Continue.
10. On the Grades Setup Summary page, review your selections.
11. To save your selections, click Finish.

Related Resources

• Video: Set up the gradebook