Blackboard’s gradebook has become a Grade Center, when Blackboard was upgraded  to version 8.0 in early May.

What’s new about the grade center?  Instructors can:

• enter grades directly into grade center cells (like a spreadsheet).
• freeze panes and scroll through grades to correlate student names with grades more easily.
• automatically drop lowest quiz score(s).
• display both Score and Percentage in the same column (or Percentage and Letter Grade).
• Smart View can display only those students in a particular section of a multi-section course.
• Smart Views can be used to display students meeting a particular criteria (e.g. “Below C-” or “missed exam”).
• exempt a graded item from the grade calculations.
• easily add a comment to any grade for the student to see.
• email students directly from the Grade Center (e.g. those who have not turned in an assignment).

There’s more! See our help pages, watch a video introduction, or read a brief summary describing the new features.

If you have not used the gradebook in Blackboard before, you might like the upgraded version, the Grade Center.

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