Contents 

1. What is a Gradebook?  
2. What is the Grades Setup Wizard? 
3. Getting Started with the Grades Setup Wizard 

1. What is a Gradebook? 

A Gradebook is an overview of the course results of the students. After creating a Gradebook, you can add Grade Items to it. Grade Items represent all the tasks and activities you want to grade within a course.  

2. What is the Grades Setup Wizard? 

By using the Grades Setup Wizard, you can create a Gradebook. Here you can set up the Gradebook yourself according to your own preference. 

3. Getting Started with the Grades Setup Wizard 

To get to the Grades Setup Wizard you have to click on Grades, then click on Setup Wizard in the bar below.

When you’re on the Grades Setup Wizard page, you can scroll down to press Start, to start setting up the Gradebook. 

Within the Grades Setup Wizard, there are 7 steps that we can set. Let’s go through the steps: 

Step 1: Choose the Grading System 

There are three grading systems you can choose from. These options are explained below:

• Weighted
  This grading system is useful if the course consists of multiple assignments, which together add up to a final grade. You can set the weighting for each sub-assignment.
  Let’s take an example where a course consists of multiple assignments.
  Writing assignment 10%, Presentation 20%, Exam 70%. Together they are 100%.

• Points
  This grading system follows a similar format to the Weighted system, in which several sub-assignments result in a final grade. The difference is that instead of percentages, points are awarded
• Formula
  This grading system uses its own calculation for the final grade, you do not have to take the weighting into account. 

Step 2: Final grades 

This step contains settings about the final grade.
There are two options for calculating the final grade:

• By default, the setting is set to Calculated Final Grade. This option calculates the final grade based on the setting chosen in the previous step of the grading system

• Adjusted Final Grade ensures that you can make adjustments to the final grades yourself. 

• There is the option to automatically release the final grades, this is optional. You can enable this by checking the Automatically release final grade box.  

Step 3: Calculate grades 

In this step, you can choose what to do with Ungraded Items. Here you have two options again:
 

• Drop ungraded items, this ensures that Graded Items for which no grade has been entered do not count towards the final grade. This is the default setting. 

• Treat ungraded items as 0, this ensures that Graded Items for which no grade has been entered will count towards the final grade as 0.  

• There is the option to enable Auto Update. This ensures that final grades are automatically adjusted if changes are made to Graded Items or calculations. You can enable this by checking the box. The setting is checked by default. 

Step 4: Choose default grade scheme 

In this step, you can choose the Default Grade Scheme for your course. This is the form in which the student’s results are given. You have choices from several options here: Percentage, Attendance, Grade 1-10, Letter, Pass/Fail and UCU GPA Letter.

Step 5: Manage display options 

In this step, you can determine how many decimal places the digits will be displayed in. This is for when entering numbers.

Step 6: Student Display Options 

In this step, you can control the display options for students. You can choose to show details of the grades. The different options are explained below:

• Points grade: This shows the points achieved. 

• Weighted grade: This shows the weighting of the grade. 

• Grade scheme symbol: This will show the grade scheme you chose in step 4. 

• Grade scheme color: This adds color to the number.

•  Decimals Displayed allows you to determine the number of decimal places of the digits that the students will see. 

• With Characters Displayed, you can determine the number of characters displayed for a text. 

• In Final Grade Calculation, you can control whether students can see the final grade calculation. By checking the box, the calculation will become visible. 

Step 7: Summary of Grade Settings 

This is the last step. Here you get an overview of all the chosen settings. It is possible to go back to previous steps by clicking Go Back. You can also change the settings later under Settings on the grade page.

When you’re done filling in the settings, click Finish to set up the Gradebook.