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| Approving Grades in the Gradebook |
Once a Gradebook grade is approved, it is displayed in the student's Grade Report. Note: For assignments imported into the Gradebook from Homework, the approval takes precedence over the assignment's posting date. To approve grades in the Gradebook: - Click the Assignments tab in the Gradebook. (Click Gradebook in the navigation bar to open the Gradebook.)
- Click the Title of the assignment for which you are approving grades.
The Grade Summary/Assignment page is displayed. - Click Approve for each grade to approve.
To approve all grades, click Approve All - Save Changes
Stellar records the approver's username and date and time of the approval in the grade's history. | Info |
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| - If an 'X' is entered into a grade field, that grade is ignored and is not counted towards the final grade.
- Grades can be 'cleared' by removing the grade and hitting update.
- Null grades cannot be approved
- Null grades are treated as "not yet entered" in the dashboard and will cause any assignment that contains one to appear in the first column of the dashboard.
- Null grades will appear as 'cleared' in the grade history.
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In order for students to view their approved grades Actual and Original/ Makeup grades box must be checked in the Configure page of the Gradebook, which are by default, displayed to students 
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You may also approve grades via spreadsheet and then import them into the gradebook.
- Export your grades into an excel spreadsheet. Steps to do this are located at Exporting Student Grade Information.
- To approve an individual's grade, go to the "Approved" column for that student and change the value from FALSE (unapproved) to TRUE (approved).
- Once you have completed approving grades, import your spreadsheet back in the gradebook.
- Any grades you have approved should automatically have the Grade Status of "Grade Approved".
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