Grade Center Reporting

Grade Center Reporting within Blackboard offers options for creating and printing reports for either your entire Grade Center or for individual students or projects.  Customized reports based on specific criteria can also be generated.  Individual reports can be printed for each each student.  These can also be saved as PDFs for instructor records - it can be very helpful to create an individual report for each student at the end of a semester and save these as PDFs so that you have them for future reference, if needed.  Check out Blackboard OnDemand's video for Creating a Grade Report.

Grade Center reports can be created from the Reports menu on the action bar.  You can then select options to be included within the report.

Grade History

Grade History can also be accessed from the Reports drop-down list within the Full Grade Center.  The Grade History page records all activity and changes within the Grade Center and can be filtered to display a specific date range (1 day, 7 days, 14 days, 30 days, 6 months, all) or to display items by column name, score, or date.  The Grade History for a course can be downloaded and saved as an Excel file.  Watch Viewing and Downloading Grade History for a video tutorial of this process.

Grade Center Statistics

Statistics can be viewed within the Blackboard Grade Center for both users and columns.  Users' statistics pages will provide information about a student's ID, contact information, and items completed.  Column statistics pages include information about a graded item, including average, median, and standard deviation.  There are several viewing and filtering options available on both statistics pages.

Download Grade Center

From within the Full Grade Center, you can download a copy of the Grade Center to an Excel spreadsheet.  This will allow you to have full access to scores within the Grade Center outside of Blackboard, should any questions arise over student grades, without the need to restore an entire archived course.  This does not save student submissions or your feedback (archiving the course will do that), but does allow you to have access to all grades.  This should be done for every Blackboard course once a semester ends and grades have been entered but can also be done at any time during the semester.  The following guides, provided by the Teaching and Learning Center provide step-by-step instructions, as well as additional explanations.

• Ending a Semester Guide
• Saving Course and Grade Data Guide

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For additional assistance with the Blackboard Grade Center, contact the TLC at tlc@icc.edu or (309) 694-8908, or visit us in room 240A on the East Peoria campus.

Next week our Blackboard Users' Group will meet in the TLC on Wednesday, October 7 at 12noon or Thursday, October 8 at 3pm - participants may attend either session.

Our November blog series will focus on the Blackboard reports.