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| defaults | Home^deck.properties |
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| borderColor | white |
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| bgColor | white |
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| borderWidth | 12px |
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Managing Assignments| Background Color |
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| Adding and Importing Assignments |
Importing assignments automatically populates the |
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Due Date fields with the original Homework properties ( |
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Import Assignments to the |
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Gradebook:- Click Gradebook in the navigation bar.
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- Click 'Add Assignment' on the Gradebook Navigation bar
- Stellar displays the
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- Add' form where you can choose to either
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- 'Import' homework assignments from the course Homework tool or
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- 'Add' new assignments to the Gradebook. Continue to follow the appropriate directions to either import or add an assignment.
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- Click Gradebook in the navigation bar.
- Click 'Add Assignment' on the Gradebook Navigation bar
- Click the drop-down list field to open the
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- 'Homework' drop-down list and select the appropriate Assignment.
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- The drop-down list is comprised of all the homework titles currently available from the
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- 'Homework' section for the course
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- Make a selection from the list.
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- 'Title', 'Short Name', and 'Due Date' fields are populated with the original Homework properties (
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- 'Title', 'Short Name', and 'Due Date' fields to update the information or leave the defaults. Changes made to these fields do not change the original homework's properties.
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- Enter the 'Maximum Points' the imported Homework will carry.
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- (Optional.) If you are weighting the homework, enter the weight percentage in the
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- Click 'Add' to finish creating the assignment in Gradebook.
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- Stellar will show the title of the newly imported homework in the
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- 'Summary' section with the Student roster below awaiting grade input.
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Return to Top Or do the following: Add a new Assignment/Exam to the Gradebook: |
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- Enter the 'Title', 'Short Name', and 'Due Date' and 'Maximum Points' the new assignment/exam will carry.
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- Click 'Add' to add the selection to the
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- 'Summary/Grading Table' form.
Tip: If you have multiple Homework assignments to import or add, after adding the first assignment to Gradebook, click the |
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'Save', 'Add More' button instead of the |
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'Add' button. This will clear the |
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Add' form so you can import additional homework without leaving the form. |
title | Note | - Weight percentages are applied to an assignment only if the Gradebook is
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configured - Configured to calculate grade weighting.
- A value of zero in the
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WEIGHT - 'Weight' % field will cause the assignment/exam grade to be ignored when the final grade is calculated.
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| Editing an Assignment |
When editing a Gradebook assignment, you can |
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Directions to Edit Gradebook Assignments:- Click Gradebook in the Navigation Bar
- Click the Assignments tab in the Gradebook Navigation bar.
- Click the Title of the assignment you want to edit.
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- Click the 'Edit' link (located in the Options column of the summary grid) on the Grade summary/ASsignments page.
- Edit the assignment as needed.
- Click Save.
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| Deleting and Restoring a Deleted Assignment |
How you delete an assignment from the Gradebook depends on whether grades have already been recorded for the assignment. - An assignment with grades is deleted from the Edit Assignment page. After the deletion, the assignment remains in the Gradebook, and the assignment title is grayed and it is followed by a "restore" link. You can later click the restore link to reactivate the assignment in the Gradebook.
- An assignment without grades can be deleted from either the Edit Assignment page or the Grade Summary/Assignment page. Once deleted, this assignment cannot be restored.
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- 'Assignments' tab in the Gradebook.
- Click the title of the assignment to delete.
- On the 'Grade Summary/Assignment' page, click the
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- 'Edit' link (in the Options column of the Summary grid).
- Click the
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- 'Delete' button (at the bottom of the page).
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DIRECTIONS To DELETE an assignment without grades:
Return to Top Directions to Delete an Assignment without Grades:- Click the 'Assignments'
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- tab in the Gradebook.
- Click the title of the assignment to delete.
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- On the 'Grade Summary / Assignment page', click the 'Edit' link (in the Options column of the Summary grid).
- Click the 'Delete' button to
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DIRECTIONS o RESTORE a deleted assignment with grades:
- Click the Assignments tab.
- Click the deleted assignment's
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- Update the assignment fields if applicable
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- 'Undelete' button to restore the assignment.
note: You can enter and approve grades for the assignment, and Stellar will include the assignment and grades in summaries and cumulative point and weight calculations.
Return to Top Entering Grades by Assignment Use this procedure to enter students' grades for one assignment in theGradebook. This procedure is particularly useful if you need to enter multiple grades for one assignment or if you also want to approve grades.- Click the Assignments tab in the Gradebook. (Click Gradebook in the navigation bar to open the Gradebook.
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- Click the Title of the assignment for which you are entering grades to display its Grade Summary/Assignments page.
- Enter the grade(s) in the Points column.
- Click Save Changes to save the grades.
Stellar highlights any grades that need to be updated, and you can click the Save Changes button after entering each grade or all grades.
Tip: If you are also approving grades, click the Approve button for each grade to approve. To approve all grades, click the Approve All button. Once a grade is approved and SAVED (Click Save Changes), it will appear in the student's Grade Report.
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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.
- Letter grades CAN be set to null.
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| In order for students to view their approved gradesActual and Original/ Makeupgrades box must be checked in theConfigurepage of the Gradebook, which are by default, displayed to students |
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