Frequently asked questions
for Instructors and Designees
Grades, statistics, and uploading scores
- How do I turn my grades on?
- Please see the grading tutorials
for more information.
- How do I see a spreadsheet view of my students,
assignments, and grades?
- Select the Download scores link on the Navigation
Bar to see a spreadsheet view. (You do not need to download in order
to see the spreadsheet.)
- How can I post letter grades instead of
number grades for my students?
- At this time, letter grades are not accepted by eGradebook. However,
you can use the Comments feature to provide an unofficial
letter grade to students. Visit the
Add comments tutorials to learn how to post comments at the level
of the entire class, or at the assignment level, or at the student assignment
level.
- Is eGradebook able to drop the lowest scores
(for example, the lowest quiz score)?
- Yes. After choosing a class, click on the My Preferences
link in the left Navigation Menu. In the Final Grade Calculation
section, choose Calculate by Weighting and you may
drop any number of scores within any of the available categories. For
more information, please visit the Dropping
lowest scores tutorial.
- How do I assign weights to different assignment
types?
- If you want grades to be automatically calculated by weighting event
types, you must set your scheme up in the Preferences
settings section of your eGradebook. For more information, please visit
the Weighting grades tutorial.
- How do I download my scores into
a spreadsheet?
- Please visit the Download scores
tutorial for more information.
- How do I upload into eGradebook?
- Before uploading, it is best to create
assignments within eGradebook, and then to download
your spreadsheet. Once you have entered the scores, it is easy to
upload the spreadsheet.
- How can I use a single spreadsheet to
upload grades to multiple unique numbers?
- Currently, the eGradebook functionality does not allow this. However,
if all students from multiple sections are in a downloaded
spreadsheet, you can simply change the cell that references the
class unique number and upload
the same spreadsheet multiple times.
- How do I view the student performance statistics
for an assignment such as mean, standard deviation, due date, and total
points?
- The student performance statistics are displayed on the Assignments
page.
- I have chosen to display statistical data
to my class. Why does the standard deviation appear for only some and
not all of my assignments?
- Statistical data does not displayed for the Attendance
assignment type.
- How will manually entering a score on the
Student Roster page for an assignment affect all of the statistical
calculations?
- Once you enter a score manually, that student's grade is marked by
eGradebook as having been Hand
Scored (an asterisk will appear under the HS
column). The result will still be calculated into the t-score, standard
deviation, mean, and rank. However, if an answer key is present for
the assignment, changes to the answer key will NOT affect any of the
students' grades marked Hand Scored.
- I want to add points to everyone’s
assignment as a curve. Is there a way to do this without entering scores
by hand?
- Yes. Click on the assignment from the class home page, or from the
Navigation Bar. In the Adjust All Scores box above the student roster,
choose either Add or Subtract, type
in the number of points to adjust, and click on the Adjust Scores
button.
- My class has ten sections and I have
made one of the sections the "parent" of the other nine, and
have set the option to display the statistics to the students. However,
the students only see the statistics for their particular section. Is
it possible to enable statistics for the overall class (i.e. all ten
sections)?
- At this time, the ability to look at statistics for multiple Unique
Numbers is not available in eGradebook.
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