The Grade Center is your digital grade book. Here are just a few examples of  what the Grade Center allows you to do: keep track of student grades, color code grades, and create weighted columns. View our resources below to learn more about the Grade Center. Also, be sure to view our Beginning of the Semester Checklist and End of the Semester Checklist.

Learn how to organize the grade center and its data.

Add a grade center column into the full grade center to provide students instant access to grades.

Learn how to enter grades into the grade center columns made.

The Grade Submit Tool allows instructors to directly transfer Final Grades for students from Blackboard Learn into Purdue’s student information system, Banner.

A grading schema maps percent scores to letter grades.  You may create a schema specific to an assignment, test, quiz, or final grade column.

Learn how to create a column that automatically drops the lowest grade in a category.

Learn how to create a column that calculates a midsemester average.  You may also use this technique to create a running course percentage to be displayed for the duration of the course.

Learn how to download the grade center and open in an excel spreadsheet.  You may keep track of grades offline and upload them at a later time.  Or you may create an attendance sheet which can be used during your face-to-face classes.

Smart views are limited displays of Grade Center data based on selected criteria.

You may use Grading Color Codes to apply background and text color to items in the grade center that meet specific criteria.

Learn how to assign categories. Categories are useful when you need to drop the lowest grade in a set.