1. The things you need to know to get your gradebook going again!!

2. Combining Classes You must do this before you do anything else!
Why Group
You can enter assignments once and they populate to all courses in that group
You can grade all assignments in one screen rather than going to many screens
Please choose carefully; once you enter other information, you will not be able to group without deleting that information first.
If you don’t want to group, skip the next 2 slides
You can combine any classes that are the same course
Here’s how:
Log into gradebook
Go to Settings – Course Groupings
Give the Group a Name – Then click Add Group
Once the Group is added, you will see a drop down box in the Course Group Detail box
Add the courses one at a time pressing save after each one
Once the last one has been added and saved, you’re done.
You can then add another group

3. It Looks Like This This is the drop down where you add the courses.
This is where you name and add your group

4. Course Grouping – A Few More Things
Once you’ve grouped courses, whatever assignments you add to one class will automatically be added to the others
You can still work in the individual classes if you want.
The new group will show up in the drop down list of courses in any screen

5. Assigning Categories
The next step in setting up your gradebook is to assign categories
This is how you set your grade weights for your classes
Here’s how:
Once logged into gradebook
Go to Administer Categories
Choose the Course you want to create the categories for from the drop down menu.
Then go to the available categories section and find those that relate to your course
Click on one and drag it over to the selected category section
Do this until the percentage equals 100%
You can also change the colors to differentiate your assignments in gradebook
Just click the painter’s palette icon and choose a color
Enter you PIN and click save
If you’ve grouped courses, these categories will be applied to the whole group. If you haven’t grouped, then click the blue copy categories to other sections and click the sections to copy to and enter your PIN and save.

6. Here’s What It Looks Like
This is where you add a color
This is where you drag to
This is where you enter your PIN and save
This is where you drag from

7. Adding Assignments Next you can add assignments Here’s how:
Go to Settings
Administer Assignments
Choose the course you want to add the assignment to from the drop down
Type the assignment title
Click the category it goes into
Click a due date
Click how many points it’s worth
If you need another assignment, click add assignment
Once you’re finished, enter your PIN and click save
If you’ve grouped courses, then the assignments will be in all the grouped courses automatically
If you haven’t grouped, click the blue copy to other sections and click the sections and enter your PIN and click save

8. Here’s What It Looks Like

9. Adding Grades Easy as pie! Go to Grades then Assignment Grades
The key is to choose the course you want to enter grades for via the drop down box
Then click Retrieve Data
Once the assignments come up, enter grades
Make sure you enter your PIN and click save
If you grouped courses, then you can select that grouped course from the drop down, too, and enter grades there

10. Looks Like This!

11. Key Things To Remember
You always need to save by entering your PIN number and clicking the save button – don’t just hit enter because it doesn’t work on all screens
You must click Retrieve Data on several screens in order to see information on that screen
Course grouping can help you by allowing you to enter assignments to all courses at one time. It’ll also allow you to enter all grades in one screen rather than many different screens per class.

12. Going Forward
We will have sessions that you can attend if you need more help
You can always Michael Lawson or Jennifer Griffin with questions
When grades come due, we will absolutely send out some additional instructions and have some additional sessions for you to attend