Important Note! This page will be completely revised when Blackboard 8 becomes available. The gradebook area will be very different in that version. Is there a way that I can see a composite yet detailed view of how all my students did on a particular quiz or exam? Yes. To access this view, As follows: How do I enter grades into my gradebook? How do I change grades for items that are not Blackboard-generated quizzes and exams? From within the gradebook, follow the same steps outlined in the answer above. Scores previously entered into the empty grade box for a particular student may be deleted and a new score put in its place. How do I change grades for items that are Blackboard-generated quizzes and exams? What does it mean when I get a exclamation mark, a padlock, or a question mark in my gradebook? All three of these symbols can mean one of the following options: How do I add a new item (e.g., an assignment, a paper, an project, etc.) to my online gradebook? How do I change or modify an item in my online gradebook? As follows: How do I change the way a gradebook item score appears (Letter, percentage, complete/incomplete, score, text) ? NOTE: You cannot remove Blackboard-generated quizzes and assignments through this method until you fist delete those items from the content area/s in which they live. How do I remove/delete an item from my online gradebook? As follows: Is there a way that I can weight grades in my online gradebook? Can I rearrange the organizational setup of my gradebook? How do I export my online gradebook to Excel? How do my students access their online gradebook? Am I allowed to use letter grades and percentages in the gradebook instead of just point values? Yes. The Blackboard gradebook accepts point values, percentages, and letter grades as valid grading options. Blackboard will also allow you to grade, say, Assignment A using a letter grades and Assignment B using percentages. How do I display letter grades or percentage scores for Blackboard-generated quizzes and tests? Because Blackboard-generated quizzes are always graded on a point value system, when a student completes a quiz, his/her grade, by default, appears as a numerical score. You can change that by doing the following: How do I display letter grades or percentages for items that are not Blackboard-generated quizzes and tests? To do this, set up the item as follows: Suppose I enter all the grades for a particular item as letters (e.g., A, B, C, etc.), and then later want them to be displayed as either numerical scores or percentages? Can I do this? Yes. To do so If I don't set up an item to display grades as, say, letters, can I still enter letter grades for each student when I go to grade that particular item? No. If an item isn't set up to accept grades of a certain type (e.g., percentages, letters, point values, etc.), then you cannot enter that type of a grade into the grade field for each student (you can, but the grade won't take; it'll remain blank). In other words, the settings of the item must be reconfigured to accept that kind of grading first. To do this, How can I find out what numerical values are behind Blackboard's system of letter grades, and how can I change those values if I want to? As follows: Is there a way that I can see a composite yet detailed view of how all my students did on a particular quiz or exam? Yes. To access this view: Can I enter a quiz score for a student even if that student didn't actually take the quiz? Yes. Blackboard allows instructors to enter test scores for students even if those students haven't actually taken the test in question. There are various ways to do this. Here is one way: How do I view and grade assignments that are set up using Blackboards assignment feature? You have to go to the online gradebook to view and grade these kinds of assignments. Here are the general steps involved (some details may be different depending on how you set up your assignment): Once a student submits an assignment, that student will not be able to go back and make changes to his/her submission without the instructor wiping out the old attempt first. To wipe out that old attempt, Where did these questions come from? Some questions & answers were taken from the University of Alaska http://technology.uaa.alaska.edu/kb/Computer/Blackboard/Blackboard_Instructor_FAQ.cfm