Gradebook

New in ME 1.21!

• A database setting to define whether an unentered grade in a Course Gradebook assessment is ignored or counts as 0.

• Ability to show/hide grading rubric attached to Gradebook Assessment to learners (databse setting).

• As an administrator or course director viewing a grading page or grade spreadsheet, I want to easily see if a learner has a custom weight for an assessment.

• Add view of Learner Explorer to learner view of Gradebook (My Gradebooks).

• As an administrator setting up a Course Gradebook, I want the option to apply the course gradebook rating scale to the learner view of their weighted total.

• As an admin or a learner, when viewing the weighted total for a Gradebook, I want to see both the cumulative weighted total AND the weighted total.

• Add ability to enter an Adjusted Total to the Grading Spreadsheet for a Course Gradebook.

• Add Gradebook Assessment Dropbox column for "Last Activity" timestamp.

• When entering grades for a Gradebook, allow users to input more than three numbers; e.g., a score of 1000.

• When creating a Gradebook assessment, a user should be able to link tags in the tag selector.

• When a gradebook is copied, curriculum tags and their contextual links must also be copied.

Sample course gradebook

Gradebook is an Elentra module that allows the management of all assessments and learner grades within a course/program. It has multiple capabilities including:

• Recording grades and making them visible to learners and some faculty (e.g., course directors)

• Supporting multiple marking schemes including percentages, numerical grades (e.g., 7/10), complete/incomplete, pass/fail, and custom grading scale

• Allowing an organization to have multiple grading scales as needed

• Importing and exporting student grades

• Linking assessments built through Elentra's quiz and exam module to a gradebook for easy transfer of grades

• Allowing electronic submission of assignments through a drop box

• Attaching grading forms (built in Assessment and Evaluation) to gradebook assessments so faculty can grade assessments inline and provide feedback to learners

• Notifying a designated person if a learner grade is below a specific threshold

• Creating dashboard notices for learners re: upcoming assignments (this applies specifically to assessments with drop box assignments added)

• Allowing administrators to record comments about grades (e.g., late, excused absence, etc.)

• Using weighted collections in a gradebook to easily distribute weights of assessments within a collection (e.g., quizzes)

• Providing documents to learners through the gradebook (Document Delivery) without the learner having submitted anything

Database Setting Options

Multiple database setting options can be configured for a Course Gradebook.

Database Setting	Use
eportfolio_can_attach_to_gradebook_assessment	Allow a portfolio to be linked to a gradebook assessment.
eportfolio_show_comments_in_gradebook_assessment	Allow comments made on a portfolio artifact to be accessed when grading a portfolio attached to a gradebook assessment.
eportfolio_entry_is_assessable_by_default	Allows for all portfolio artifacts to be accessed when grading a portfolio attached to a gradebook assessment.
eportfolio_entry_is_assessable_set_by_learner	This changes the possible actions in the portfolio but the impact is in the gradebook. Allows learners to define which artifacts will be available when a portfolio is attached to a gradebook assessment.
eportfolio_entry_is_assessable_set_by_advisor	This changes the possible actions in the portfolio but the impact is in the gradebook. Allows portfolio advisors to define which artifacts will be available when a portfolio is attached to a gradebook assessment.
export_weighted_grade
export_calculated_grade
gradebook_assessment_document_delivery_enabled	Enable this setting to allow gradebook administrators to create a folder in a gradebook to provide files to learners (e.g. results from an external exam).
gradebook_passing_grade	Add a value here to be applied in the Student Report Card report (System Report > Learner Reports > Student Report Card)
calendar_assignments_enabled	Used to allow learners to see due dates on their dashboard calendar for any gradebook assessments that include a drop box assignment.
gradebook_adjusted_grades_enabled	Allows you to manually enter an adjusted overall grade for a course gradebook. Useful when assessment policies require that a learner pass an ungraded course component to pass a course, regardless of their calculated grade. (New in ME 1.21)
gradebook_assignment_show_form_options	Allows increased control of how assessment forms used in conjunction with course gradebook assessments can be displayed to learners. Choose to have the option to show only the ungraded form, the graded form, both, or none. (New in ME 1.21)
gradebook_assessment_bonus_marks	Enable this option if you want to be able to enter grades over 100% for course gradebook assessments.
gradebook_include_ungraded_assessments (New in ME 1.21)	Controls whether the admin. view of a course gradebook ignores unentered grades or counts them as zero. Enabled by default.