Selecting Gradable Items

Selecting which items in your course will be gradable is the second step in the setup Gradebook process. From this tab, you'll decide which instances of an item will actually be assigned grades. For example, perhaps you added Threaded Discussions to your Gradebook from the Add New Items tab and your course contains Threads in Units 1, 3, and 5. From the Select Gradable Items tab, you'll determine which Threads will "count" in students' grades—that is, which threads will be evaluated and graded. Perhaps the Threaded Discussion in Unit 1 is a "practice" and therefore ungraded, but the Threads in Units 3 and 5 will receive grades.

Note: You can also "exclude" a course item from the final course grade. This option allows you to display the item in the Gradebook and assign a point value to it, but not include the point value in the final course calculations. this is useful if you wanted to "grade" or provide feedback on a "practice" assignment (like the Thread in Unit 1 in the example above) but not include the practice score in the student's final grade calculations. See the Help topic “Exclude from Grade” for more information.

To make an item gradable:

1. Make sure you're in the Select Gradable Items tab within Setup Gradebook.

2. Check the individual content items or course tools that you want to be able to assign grades to. Note that content items and course tools are listed on the left side of your screen; the Units in your course appear across the top. Example: If you want to use the Threaded Discussion in Unit 1 as a "practice" but then assign a grade to the Threaded Discussion in Unit 3, check the Threaded Discussion box under Unit 3 and leave the box in Unit 1 unchecked. Note: If you don't see a checkbox for a particular content item in any given unit it means that you didn't add that item to that unit when you set up your course. Course tools are available in every unit.

3. Make sure you click Save Changes.
   

Only items you identify as gradable will appear in your students' Gradebook