Grade Center Columns

Automatically Created Grade Columns

When you create a gradable item in your course, a gradebook item is created automatically. From the Gradable Items list, you can drag an item to a new location in the list.

If you open attendance from the Course Content page, you can add attendance to your gradebook. You can also add attendance on the main Gradebook page. Select the plus sign wherever you want the attendance row to appear in the list and select Add Attendance.

More on the attendance feature

Manually Added Grade Columns

You can add grade items that don't require submissions such as participation. These grade items are also called manual grades, manually created items, or offline items.

For manually added items, no submissions exist. You assign scores and feedback on the student list page.

Manually added items don't appear on the Course Content page. The items do appear on students' global and course grade pages.

You can't add files, rubrics, goals, or groups to manually added items. If you want to add these options to assessments without submissions, see the next section: Collect submissions offline.

In your course gradebook, you can add a new item in the Gradable Items list or student grid view.

1. Select the plus sign wherever you want to add an item and select Add Item.
2. In the panel, type a title. The title has a limit of 255 characters. If you don't add a title, "New Item" and the date appear in the list.
3. Optionally, make the item visible to students.
4. Provide the details, such as a description and a grade unit. You can choose points, percentage, or letter. If you choose points, specify the maximum number of points possible. A due date is optional. Optionally, add the new item to a category to use when you create calculations.
5. Click Save

You can only choose a grade unit that has a grading schema associated with it. For example, you can't use Text as the grade unit until text grading schemas are available in the Ultra Course View. You can change the grade unit even after you start grading.

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