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The Student Grades screen gives teachers and administrators a view of a student's progress in the format that students see it.
Teachers can access it by clicking on a student in:
Administrators can access by clicking on a student's Course enrollment from Users > [Student] User ID > Performance.
The Student Grades screen can show up to ten tabs, where users with appropriate permissions can:
- View activity Grades, use the Grades tools in the toolbar, and click an activity to grade it with the Grade editor
- View the student's Dashboard which includes:
- Review personalized For me tasks.
- Use the What if tool to explore grade possibilities for the student.
- Review the student's recent Activity in the course.
- Review Objective mastery.
- Review the student's Inbox. You can delete any message from this screen and edit your own sent messages.
- Note: The Inbox appears only for domains with Inbox enabled.
- Review the student's Stream.
- Review the student's To-do list.
- Review each activity's Score and Status for the student and Quick edit scores.
Score and Status columns
The Score column shows the score currently associated with each activity for the student, whether it's been returned to the student or not. The Status column includes icons that show the status of the score, such as whether it needs to be graded, has feedback, or is still in progress.
- Needs grading (document icon): This icon appears when the student has submitted work, and it is ready for the teacher to grade.
- Completed (checkmark): A checkmark indicates that the student has completed the activity.
- Has message (speech bubble icon): This icon shows that the teacher has left a feedback message for the student. If Inbox is enabled, it can also indicate that the student has sent the teacher a message about the activity.
- Allow retry (circular arrow icon): This means the student has been allowed to retry the activity.
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Saved draft (bookmark icon): This icon appears when a score has been entered, but hasn't been returned to the student. The displayed score is pending and is not visible to the student until it is released.
- Teachers can release scores using Quick edit, the Grade editor, or the Activity grader.
- Saved scores can also be automatically released by a Score release date.
- Missing (clipboard exclamation icon): This means the student's activity submission is missing.
- Excused (X): An X appears when the student has been excused from the activity. The student does not need to complete it, and it does not affect their final grade.
If you use BusyBee's Grading Assistant, you will see BusyBee indicators which appear only with scores that have not been returned to students.
Grades tab tools
From this screen, teachers and admins with appropriate permissions can:
- Use Quick edit to make changes to any activity score for the student right from this screen.
- Batch-update grades for the student on multiple activities.
- Print grades (informal transcript).
- Use the Clipboard and go to Announcements.
- Organize the activities on the screen by Grading categories or by Syllabus order.
Quick edit
The Quick edit tool allows you to update activity Scores for a student right on this screen.
To do so:
- Click the Enable quick-edit grading button in the toolbar (it is highlighted when enabled as in the screenshot).
- Click the row for any gradable activity to activate the editable field, and update the Score column.
- Clicking on a new row saves the updated Score.
- Pressing Enter while in a field saves the Score and navigates you to the next editable Score field.
- Pressing Shift+Enter while in a field saves the Score and navigates you to the previous editable Score field.
When you're done using Quick edit, you can click the tool in the toolbar to disable it.
If you leave it enabled, it remains enabled when you navigate away from the screen, so you can return and continue editing scores. Enabling Quick edit from this screen also enables it in the Gradebook, so you can navigate between screens to update scores.
Batch-update multiple activity grades for a single student
From the Student Grades screen, you can Batch-update grades for multiple activities for a single student.
To do so:
- Click the Enable batch-update grading button in the toolbar (it is highlighted when enabled as in the screenshot).
- Check the boxes next to activities you want to update grades for.
- Click Allow retry, Excuse, or Mark as missing to apply the grade update.
You can also:
- Use the Activity grader to batch update an activity score for multiple students.
- Make changes to multiple activities at once.