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Grade Center: Create Grading Periods

Grading Periods are time segments created by an instructor. Grading Periods can be used to:

• Show columns that belong only to a Grading Period, for example, a first quarter of a semester
• Calculate a grade for a Grading Period
• Analyze the performance of students in a Grading Period
• Create a performance Report for a Grading Period

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

• Create a Grading Period
• Modify a Grading Period
• Remove a Grading Period
• Display columns associated with a Grading Period
• Set a Grading Period as default view
• Associate columns with a Grading Period
• Calculate a total grade for a Grading Period

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Create a Grading Period

1. Click Manage in the Action Bar of the Grade Center (the gray bar above the spreadsheet).
2. Select Grading Periods from the drop-down menu.
3. Click Add Grading Period.
4. Enter a Name for the Grading Period.
5. Type a description if necessary.
6. Select Range and then Start Date and End Date, including the month, day, and year. Select None if you don’t want to specify date range for the Grading Period.
7. If a date range has been specified, checking Associate Existing Items will associate all Grade Columns and Calculated Columns that were previously created with Due Dates to the corresponding Grading Period.
8. Click Submit.

Note:
A column must be associated with only one Grading Period.
A newly created Grading Period with the same or an overlapping date range will override the settings of an existing Grading Period.

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Modify a Grading Period

1. Click Manage in the Action Bar of the Grade Center (the gray bar above the spreadsheet).
2. Select Grading Periods from the drop-down menu.
3. Click the Modify button to the right of the Grading Period you want to change.
4. Enter the changes.
5. Click Submit.

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Remove a Grading Period

1. Click Manage in the Action Bar of the Grade Center (the gray bar above the spreadsheet).
2. Select Grading Periods from the drop-down menu.
3. Click the Remove button to the right of the Grading Period. All Grade Center Items associated to this Grading Period will be reset to “Not in a Grading Period.”
4. Click OK.

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Display columns associated with a Grading Period

1. Point to the Current View drop-down menu on the Action Bar (the gray bar above the spreadsheet).
2. Select the desired Grading Period.

Note:
You can set any Grading Period as the default view.

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Set a Grading Period as default view

1. Point to the Current View drop-down menu on the Action Bar (the gray bar above the spreadsheet).
2. Select the desired Grading Period.
3. Click the “Set as Default” button next to the name of the Grading Period.

Note:
The default view can be changed as often as desired.

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To associate columns with a Grading Period

1. Click Manage in the Action Bar of the Grade Center (the gray bar above the spreadsheet).
2. Select Organize Grade Center from the drop-down menu.
3. Select the columns to be included in the Grading Period.
4. Click Modify Grading Period.
5. Select the Grading Period to which to associate the column.
6. Click Submit.

Note:
It is not possible to associate a column to more than one Grading Period.
Use the same steps to remove a column from Grading Period or move it to another Grading Period.

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Calculate a total grade for a Grading Period

1. Associate Grade Columns with a Grading Period (view instructions above).
2. Click on the Add Calculated Column button in the Action Bar of the Grade Center (the gray bar above the spreadsheet).
3. Select Total in the drop-down menu.
4. Type the name of the Column, for example, First Quarter Total, and the description of the column.
5. Select Score in the drop-down menu next to Primary Display.
6. If desired, select Percentage in the Secondary Display drop-down menu.
7. Under Dates, select a Grading Period in the drop-down menu.
8. In Select Columns, select a radio button next to the option “All Grade Columns in Grading Period” and select the grading period in the drop-down menu.
9. Select Yes next to Calculate as running total if you want to include only those items that have grades or attempts.
10. Select other Options.
11. Click Submit.

Note:
It is possible to create a column that calculates a final grade using total grades for each Grading Period.

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