https://blackboard.unc.edu/

Note on using Blackboard to keep scores:

1.  To get to gradebook:
  a.  Log-in with ONYEN
  b.  Control Panel
  c.  Assessment:  Gradebook
  d.  To see all stduents listed at once:
    i.   ???

2.  General Strategy for uploading:   
  a.  First create new Items in Gradebook
    i.   Use Add Item Icon
    ii.  Set Display as to Score (allows numerical values)
  b.  Download their file:   gb_export.csv
    i.   Use Download grades Icon 
           (may be way over to right on Mozilla)
  c.  Add appropriate columns to    gb_export.csv
    i.   Choose "same format" on save
    ii.  Can set format to e.g. two past decimals, using the 
           Decrease Decimal button on the tool bar
  d.  Do and upload, from the file, one column at a time
  e.  For computed columns, may need to 1st save spreadsheet
      as something else, and use the following to turn everything into
      numbers that can be nicely copied in.
    i.   Select the cells to turn from formulas to values.
    ii.  Toolbar --> Copy Icon
    iii. Select the first cell
    iv.  Toolbar --> Paste Icon menu --> Choose "values"

3.  Careful about Dropping Lowest 2 HWs:
  a.  Can do this with command like:    
             =(SUM(H2:T2)-SMALL(H2:T2,1)-SMALL(H2:T2,2))/11
  b.  But make sure that missing HWs are coded with 0's

4.  To make the grades "available" to the students:
  a.  Control Panel
  b.  Course Options:   Settings
  c.  Course Availability
  d.  Make this course available  (yes)




Other useful info:


Email Text : Steve,

1. It is not possible to upload grades to more than one column at a time.

2. Seeing only check marks is addressed in a document posted at http://help.unc.edu/?id=5294

3. A description of what students would see is posted at http://help.unc.edu/?id=4734#N1054E. If you would
like to make the course available and see for yourself what the students see, then you may want to try what's
recommended at http://help.unc.edu/?id=5298

4. The problem you are having with viewing certain Bb pages in Mozilla is posted at
http://help.unc.edu/?id=5317


A: From Control Panel, click Gradebook.
Click the column heading link corresponding with the assessment or assignment.
Click Item Information.
Display as will be set to the default option, Complete/Incomplete. Click the dropdown list and select Score.
Click Submit.
Click OK.
Click OK to return to the main Gradebook view.


Q: I'm not seeing the button for weighting or other options 
in Blackboard's Gradebook. Where are they?
A: While in the Spreadsheet View of the Gradebook, keep your 
eye on the toolbar as you scroll to the right. This problem 
in Mozilla-based browsers will be fixed in the next system 
upgrade, currently scheduled for May 14-15, 2005.