Feedback
Feedback is about connecting with each other.
Below are some articles that may assist you in providing feedback within Brightspace:
Grades
Provide your students 24/7 feedback from you using grades in Brightspace.
The Brightspace Grades tool displays simply for your students, but as with most things, making something simple requires alot of work behind the scenes. This article gathers the all the CCC Grades articles to assist you in making it easy for your students.
Grade Articles
Setup your Grades
How do I setup Grades for my course? through Grade Setup Wizard or Settings
How do I create Grade Items?
How do I associate an existing assignment with a grade item?
How do I create an extra credit grade item?
How do I assign Grades for an entire group? Also individually?
How do I drop the lowest quiz from a student’s overall grade?
How do I create a column to enter a midterm letter grade in Grades?
Creating Calculated Grade Items for Midterm and other “Milestone Grades”
Grading
How do I hide/unhide columns when entering Grades?
How do I grade an online assignment with inline annotations?
How do I publish quiz grades?
Students
Ending the Semester
How do I release grades to students?
How do I export Grades to a file?
How do I export my Grades with a Final Letter grade?
Troubleshooting
If a student has questions about how their grade is displaying, preview the student’s grades.
What is unexpected?
- Is the grade published?
If some grade items are missing, the grade items may be date restricted.
- Check for clock icon in Assessment->Grades->Manage Grades
- Edit the grade item’s time Restrictions
- Check for clock icon in Assessment->Grades->Manage Grades
If your quizzes are not automatically grading, check quiz restrictions and publication status.
How do I see dropped students’ grades?
How can I get the grades of one student in a format that I can share?
If you do not have the option to expand your Grades to view your complete class, you have too many grade items.
- There is a Max limit for how much data can be displayed on the screen. The more grade items you have in the grade book the less amount of students can be displayed at once.
You can work around this by hiding some of the grade columns. So if you aren’t working on the last two units in your course right now, hide those units (More Actions -> Hide/Show Columns) and you should be able to see more students in the list.
There are many reasons you may want to preview the grades of a specific student, the most common being to ensure the grades are displaying correctly or as you’d like them to. Or perhaps you want to
To Preview Grades
1. Go to Grades (Assessments > Grades)
2. On Enter Grades, click on the dropdown arrow next to the students name and select Preview.
If the grades aren’t displaying as you would expect, you can modify your grade settings through the Setup Wizard or through Settings.
When your students are dropped or withdraw from your class, they disappear from the your Brightspace course. Although you can no longer see the withdrawn student on the classlist, you are still able to view their grades.
All is not lost!
To access the un-enrolled student’s grade information:
1. Go to Classlist
2. Select Enrollment Statistics
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page where you will view a list of all dropped students.
4. Click on the dropdown arrow next to the name of the student and select View Grades
HOW TO USE CALCULATED GRADE ITEM TO DETERMINE MIDTERM GRADE
For faculty keeping all grades in Brightspace’s Gradebook, creating a calculated grade for midterm (or other “milestone”) grades is helpful, too. A calculated grade item would figure out the midterm grade for you. “Milestone” refers to certain points in the course.
1. Go to Manage Grades–>New–>Grade Item
2. Select Calculated
3. Enter grade item information (Name, Short Name (optional), Description (optional)). Examples: Calculated Midterm Grade, Midterm Grade, calculated grade based on learning activities due by midterm.
4. Under Calculation, check-off the grade book items to be included in the midterm grade calculation
5. Click Save and Close at the bottom.
6. Now go back to Enter Grades and find the column to verify. Any grades already entered will show up with the total points. Example: 120/150.
Note
You may wish to reorder your Grade Items. In Manage Grades, click on the More Actions button and select Reorder.
Note
These are instructions for using the Brightspace gradebook. If you are looking for help on how to officially post course Midterm or Final grades in CS9 / my.ccc.edu, please contact your college registrar.
Give your students easy, 24 x 7 access to their midterm (and final) letter grade, even if you do not record every assignment throughout the term.
These instructions are for creating a grade book item to enter a letter grade directly into brightspace (A, B, C, D, F). This column is not worth any points, nor does it calculate points, its simply a place for you to enter text.
- Go to the Grades tool (Assessments > Grades)
- Click on Manage Grades
- Click New and choose Item from the dropdown menu
- Choose the grade item type: Text
- On the “New Item” page, add a name for your item such as “Midterm Grade”
- Click Save and Close
To Enter Letter Grades into your new text column:
- Click Enter Grades
- Click the dropdown arrow next to the your new column and choose Grade All from the menu
- Enter the letter grades for each student
- Click Save and Close
