Blackboard presentation about the Grade Center after the upgrade to 9.1 SP5

1. Blackboard Grade Center
Inloopweek
Ir Ellen Zillig-Straatman, SSC-ICT Education Technology
01-09-2011
Delft
University of
Technology
Challenge the future

2. Overview
• Who am I?
• Blackboard Upgrade
• Known Issues
• Grade Center
• Tutorial Overview
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3. Who Am I?
Ellen Zillig-Straatman
• New ‘FAB’ (Functional Manager) of Blackboard
• Working at Delft University of Technology since November 2008
• Trainee
• Nov 2008: Education and Student Affairs at the Faculty of
Architecture
• Nov 2009: Education and Student Affairs at the Faculty of
Technology, Policy and Management
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4. Blackboard upgrade
• Upgrade naar versie 9.1
SP5
• Support Software
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5. Known issues
• Unenrolltool unavailable
• Multiple File Upload not working
• Grade Center
• With multiple group discussion boards, the wrong cells are grayed
out.
• Exported tab-delimited files (.xls) do not open correct in Excel. Use
comma-delimited files (.csv) instead!
• Detailed overview on blackboard.weblog.tudelft.nl
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6. Known Issues - Browser
• Blackboard is not supported in all browsers
We advise to use Firefox as your Browser
when using Blackboard!
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7. Grade Center
• Enabling Grade Center for students
• Automatic Created Columns
• Assignments
• Test
• Grading
• Needs Grading
• Full Grade Center
• Manage Grade Center
• Work offline
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8. Enabling Grade Center for students
Make sure the tool is available for students to view their grades
(customization  tool availability)
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9. Automatic Created Columns
• Assignment
• Blog
• Discussion Board
• Journal
• Self and Peer Assessment
• Survey
• Test
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10. Create an Assignment
• Create a new menu item (Create Content Area)
• Create an Assignment (see Create Assessment)
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11. Create an Assignment
• Assignment Information
• Assignment Files
• Grading
• Availability
• Due Dates
• Recipients (all members of group
assignment)
• Submit
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12. Test
• Create a Test by choosing ‘Create Assessment’ on the content
page)
• It is also possible to create a test via the Control Panel  Course
Tools
• Creating a test takes time. You can choose various
question types.
• If you would like to use Blackboard tests, please
contact Meta Keijzer-de Ruijter, she can advise you.
Also about using Maple TA.
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13. Grade Assignment or Test
• Use the ‘Needs Grading’ link in the Grade Center Menu
• Go to the ‘Full Grade Center’ and download all Assignments
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14. Needs Grading
• Possible to make a selection by categorie, item, user and/or date
• Grade one user or one after the other
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15. Full Grade Center
• Go to the ‘Full Grade Center’ and download all Assignments
Needs Grading
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16. Manage Grade Center
• Grading Periods
• Grading Schemas
• Grading Color Code
• Categories
• Smart Views
• Create Calculated Columns
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17. Grading Schemes
• A ‘Grading Scheme’ will grade your assignments and tests
automatically after giving points.
• You can Create your own Grading Scheme
• All New courses will have ‘round off at 0.1’ as standard grading
scheme
• Is very simple to create your own Grading Scheme, but can take
some time.
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18. Work Offline
• Possible to work offline
• Download the Full Grade
Center or just a specific
column
• Upload the file
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19. Tutorial Overview
• Smart View
• Customizing view
• Grading Notes
• Working Offline
• Creating Test
• Uploading Questions from Excel
• Downloading Assignments
• Color Code
More Tutorials on: http://ondemand.blackboard.com/assess.htm
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20. Questions?
E-Learning Support
• els@tudelft.nl
• 89194
Ellen Zillig-Straatman
• E.H.M.Zillig-Straatman@TUDelft.NL
• 89098
• Twitter: @ezillig
Blackboard.weblog.tudelft.nl
BBfaq.weblog.tudelft.nl
Twitter: @TUDelftBb
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21. Start
presentations
at bout 12.45
Just Come
and Walk
in
• Tea and coffee
• With a roll
• Is being served
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22. Questions? Remarks?
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