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The CONFIGURE form is where the Gradebook properties are setup. Options include using grade weighting to calculate student scores, choosing to display Weighted Scores, Actual Points, and Cumulative Scores to students.
When selected, the data is appended as additional rows at the bottom of the STUDENT GRADE SUMMARY form.
The TA OPTIONS allows instructors to grades to students, display histograms to students, and display cumulative Scores to students. You can also determine the level of permission TAs wield.
APPROVAL RIGHTS AND HISTOGRAMS-"Approval rights are not required to edit (unapprove) approved grades" configuration option. When enabled, this checkbox will allow graders to edit/unapprove previously approved grades for assignments which they are allowed to see. "Allow students to view histograms" configuration option-allows students to see a histogram of grades for an assignment.
After you have selected Gradebook options, you can preview an example of how the Gradebook will appear to Students. Select the See Sample Student Grade Report link to preview the Student Grade Report.
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DIRECTIONS to CONFIGURE the GRADEBOOK:
- Click Gradebook in the navigation bar
- Click Configure in the Gradebook navigation bar
- Choose the appropriate options
- Optional- You can view a sample Student Grade Report by clicking the (image/show student grade report)
- Click Save
The Default configuration in Stellar checks off the boxes under TA Options, allowing TAs to create, edit, delete assignments, approve grades, and change Gradebook options.access control, sample student grade report, setting up section filters, show dropped students
The Section Gradebook
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Section Gradebook is accessed through the section subsite(s).
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It displays only the participants in a particular section.
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The Section Gradebook does not prevent Graders or TAs from viewing the whole class
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Gradebook or sections other than their own, it will merely allow them to focus in on the section to which they've been assigned
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Calculations and histograms display section-based data in the section-filtered
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Gradebook
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- Choose a section from the left-hand navigation bar.
- Click on the bottom the left-hand navigation bar.
- Click at the top of the screen.
- Check next to "Section Gradebook"
- Click #* \
- If "Section Gradebook" does not appear:
- Click
- Type "Section Gradebook" in a blank field
- In the adjacent field type "Gradebook/" and check the corresponding checkbox
- Click
Info title Note - This process must be repeated for each section
- you wish to add the section Gradebook to.
- Permissions in sections depend on permissions for master Gradebook, in order to see a section, TAs and Graders must have access to the master Gradebook.
- A Gradebook must be added to the master site and sections must be created before adding the section Gradebook link to sections.
- Assignments are global. There are no section-specific assignments or exams.
- If "Section Gradebook" does not appear:
Access Control
Role / Action | Add/Edit Grades | Approve Grades | Create/Edit Assignments | Delete Assignments | Configure Gradebook | Change Approved Grades |
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