The upgrade to Blackboard 8 provides Instructors with a powerful new Grade Center to manage grading in a course. This Grade Center replaces the current gradebook. If you are currently using the Blackboard gradebook, the new Grade Center can look different at first, but it improves highly on its predecessor.
Online Documentation is available at
http://wiki.acomp.usf.edu/index.php/Grade_Center
In addition to creating online documentation about the Grade Center, special training sessions are available to Instructors and Departments. Instructors can call ahead for one on one training on the Grade Center. Departments can take advantage of group training sessions to be held in your meeting rooms.
For One on One sessions, please call 974-3286 to learn about available times.
For On Site training, Office Managers can 974-3286 and request On Site
Grade Center Training.
The following are the dates that these special sessions are available.
December 15-19
On Site Training
One on One Sessions
January 5-9 (First week of Classes)
Limited Onsite Training. Please call for availability.
January 12-16
On Site Training
One on One Sessions
Online Documentation is at
http://wiki.acomp.usf.edu/index.php/Grade_Center
December 30th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Onsite training request. I would like to attend onsite training. The 3286 number does not provide possible times. Thanks for letting me know.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I am still not able to access a student roster on the grade center. The person at the HELP desk this afternoon stated that there is no one available to assist faculty.
This is a simple request. I can only view one student for grading. I cannot scroll down and see other students. There must be a switch or box to check. I have come in for help and I have gone through the tutorial.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I do not think the new grade center works with firefox.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Hi Kathleen,
The grade center is designed to be fully functional with Firefox 2.0 and has worked well in our tests for Firefox 3.0. I see your ticket in our support system detailing your specific issue with the browser and will follow up with you via that.
In the meantime, if you could reply to the incident creation email you received when you send us the email with a screen shot of what you are seeing, that would be most helpful.
Regards,
Scott
January 5th, 2009 at 10:25 am
How do I do that. I hit prifnt screen but it doesn’t seem to paste here.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:09 am
OK, I realize I can’t post the screen shot here. So I have sent it to the HELP Desk.
What I really think is that this new upgrade is not ADA compliant. Maybe the BB people have come up with something that fixes it? Since I was perfectly functional before the upgrade I do not think this is my fault.
This is as if I were in a wheel chair and asked to teach on the third floor w/o an elevator.
Minimally, there should be alerts to people with low vision that functionality has been lost with this upgrade. it may work in theory but not for all of us attempting to use it with assistive technology.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I am an instructor for MUL 3012-701, sharing the teaching with Dr. Sang-Hie Lee. She and I have a concern about the Grade Center.
I uploaded assignments and they automatically created columns in the Gradebook with equal weightings. However, it is necessary for us to structure those particular columns in the Gradebook with different weightings for the final grade (as I have done in past semesters). With the new configuration in the Grade Center, I have not been able to figure out how to achieve this. I understand that I can create new columns with weightings, but how can I manage columns previously created by assignment uploads?
Your help will be greatly appreciated.