Introduction

Welcome to the Gradebook in AsULearn, your dedicated space for managing student grades with precision and flexibility. Every course is unique, and so are the grading preferences of instructors like yourself. Whether you want to calculate grades using points or weights, drop a grade from the course total, add extra credit, or preview what your students see when they check their grades, AsULearn's Gradebook is designed to accommodate your needs. This robust and adaptable tool empowers you to customize your grading approach, ensuring you can effectively manage and track student performance in a way that aligns with your course objectives.

Although using the Gradebook isn't required, many students appreciate the ability to view their grades in AsULearn, allowing them to easily track their progress. AsULearn activities that receive grades, such as assignments, quizzes, or forums, automatically publish grades into the Gradebook. Faculty can also add additional, manual grade items to include activities that happen outside of AsULearn. Grades can be grouped into categories, and faculty can choose from multiple grade calculation methods to match their grading setup to AsULearn.

Faculty have full control over when and how students see the Gradebook, and can choose to hide it entirely.

Gradebook and the Registrar

The AsULearn gradebook does not send grade information to the Registrar. Faculty will still need to enter official final grades separately in the Banner form provided at the end of each semester.

 Getting started with Gradebook

Aggregation type

In the context of AsULearn, "aggregation" just means "how I want my grades calculated". Different methods for calculating grades in AsULearn are called "aggregation types". Your course total uses an aggregation type you set so it knows how to calculate each student's current overall grade. If you use categories in your gradebook, you'll also need to set an aggregation type for each category. 

Grade Item

When you create a graded activity in your AsULearn course, like an Assignment, Quiz, or Forum, a corresponding column is automatically created in your gradebook. But what if you want to manually add in grades for something else, like attending a campus event, or an in-class presentation? You would create a Grade Item for those grades. In other words, Grade Items are gradebook columns you manually create.

Category

A category is an organizational tool in your gradebook, and is often used by faculty who are weighting their course grades. Here's an example of a course where grades have been weighted:

  • 40%: 10 Quizzes
  • 40%: 4 Assignments
  • 20%: 2 Forums

In this example, our students will be attempting 10 quizzes, and those 10 quizzes will count for 40% of their course total. A category is a way to organize those quizzes, and tells AsULearn to calculate them all together to create just one overall grade (called the "category total"). That Quizzes category total will then be weighted as 40% of the course total. 

The pages below are the most frequently used areas of the gradebook. 

Grader Report

Grader Report is your default gradebook view. From here you can view and edit all grades for all students. Grader Report has multiple features to help you find and optimize your view, including a search bar, first and last name filters, collapsible columns, and the ability to only view individual grades, totals, or grades and totals. 

Gradebook Setup

Gradebook Setup is where you'll tell AsULearn how you want it to calculate your grades. AsULearn is very flexible, and has multiple options to ensure course grades are calculated in the way you want. For example, some faculty prefer to calculate their grades using points (e.g. a student earned 370/400 points, and has a course grade of 92.5%), while others prefer to weight their grades using percentages (e.g. Quizzes are worth 40% of the course total, while Assignments are worth 60%). Regardless of how you want AsULearn to calculate your grades, it has the tools and settings to get the job done.

Single View

This specialized view of your gradebook helps you drill down to view either:

  1. Every course activity grade for a single student, or
  2. Every student's grade for a single course activity

Single View is also a helpful area if you want to bulk enter grades for an activity, exclude grades from the course total, or override an existing grade you'd like to change. 

User Report

User Report is where you can preview the default gradebook view for your students, allowing you to see what they see. When a student clicks the "Grades" tab at the top of your course, they'll only see their User Report. 

Gradebook: Overview

 

Gradebook: Setup

 

Gradebook: Entering grades

Suggested articles

  1. How Do I Calculate My Grades in AsULearn?
  2. Show or Hide the Gradebook from Students
  3. Changing Grade Aggregation Types
    1. Natural
    2. Simple Weighted Mean of Grades
    3. Weighted Mean of Grades
  4. Using Single View in the Gradebook

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