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.

  1. Go to the Grades tool (Assessments > Grades)
  2. Click on Manage Grades
  3. Click New and choose Item from the dropdown menu
screenshot of Manage Grades and select new item
  1. Choose the grade item type: Text
  1. On the “New Item” page, add a name for your item such as “Midterm Grade”

  2. Click Save and Close
Item Properties tab

 To Enter Letter Grades into your new text column:

  1. Click Enter Grades
  2. Click the dropdown arrow next to the your new column and choose Grade All from the menu
screenshot of Enter Grades and grade all
  1.  Enter the letter grades for each student
  2. Click Save and Close
screenshot of grade all - letter grade entry

  1.  Go to the Quizzes tool

  2.  From the selected quiz’s contextual menu, click Preview

  3.  Start the test

  4.  Highlight all of the questions.

Quizzes->contect menu screenshot

Use Word

  1.  Copy all of the questions

  2.  Paste it into a Word document

  3.  Edit

  4.  Print the Word document.

OR

Use Chrome

  1.  After you’ve highlighted the questions, select Print from the browser menu

screenshot of Chrome print quiz

You may also create a new submission from the Quiz tool-> Submission tab.

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Add dates

If you use date restrictions with your course, they auto-populate your course calendar. 

Go to your course Content

Select the Module or Item

Edit dates

OR for Events not linked to your course content.

Use the Calendar tool. Watch the video below.

In Brightspace, your course availability to students is controlled by the course start and end dates listed in my.ccc.edu (PeopleSoft/CS9).

If you want your course to “open” or “close” on another date, you can manage that on the Course Offering Information page.

To Manage Course Availability and Dates

1.  Click on Course Admin > Course Offering Information

2.  Change your course Start and End Dates to control when the course will open and close

3.  Click Save

image of course offering information
update start date and end date and hit save