What is included in the Grade Center?
Blackboard 8’s Grade Center is a powerful tool for storing, displaying, and processing student performance data and for assessing student work. Like a paper gradebook, Blackboard’s Grade Center includes student names and grades for a variety of assignments, tests, exams, and other assessment criteria, e. g., class participation. Some grades are entered in the Grade Center by the instructor while others are added as students complete tests created in Blackboard or computed based on criteria set by the instructor. The Grade Center is composed of a spreadsheet with rows and columns, an Action Bar, through which most tools and functions of the Center are accessible, an Information Bar containing information about a selected column, and an Icon Legend, which defines the meaning of icons that appear in the spreadsheet cells. Grades can be entered through in-line editing (click and type). Additional functionality can be accessed through pop-up windows within each column and each cell. Downloa
