In Brightspace, it is possible to make a grade column invisible to students. This can be useful if you haven’t finished grading all students or if changes might still be made. To avoid confusion among students, you can choose to keep grades hidden and publish them all at once later. 

Content

• Hiding Grade Items from all students 
• Automatically Publishing Grade Items 
• Publishing final grades

Hiding Grade Items from all students 

Click on ‘Grades’ in the course’s Navbar. Select ‘Manage Grades’. Click the arrow next to the Grade Item and choose ‘Hide From Users’.

An icon of an eye with a slash will now appear next to the Grade Item (see below). This hides the Grade Item and the associated grades from all students. When a Grade Item is hidden, grades can be adjusted without students seeing them. To make the column visible again, click the arrow and select ‘Make Visible to Users’.

Automatically Publishing Grade Items 

Click on ‘Grades’ in the course’s Navbar. Select ‘Manage Grades’. Click the arrow next to the Grade Item and choose ‘Edit’. Go to the ‘Restrictions’ tab, you now have several options: 

• ‘Hide From Users’: Hides the Grade Item from all students. 
• Use ‘Availability’ if the Grade Item should only be visible during a specific time frame. Grades will remain hidden until the ‘Start Date’ and will be hidden again after the ‘End Date’. 
• Select ‘Attach Existing’ to link an existing ‘Release Condition’ to the grade, or click ‘Create and Attach’ to create a new ‘Release Condition’.

Click ‘Save and Close’.

Publishing Final Grades 

Note! Grades in Brightspace do not hold official status. Final grades must always be registered in Osiris! 

Click on ‘Grades’ in the Navbar. Select the ‘Enter Grades’ tab. Click the arrow next to ‘Final Calculated Grade’. Select ‘Enter Grades’. A new window will open where you can input grades, if they have not been automatically filled, and publish the grades. To publish a grade, check the box on the right-hand side under the ‘Released’ column. 

Note! Only students can be graded. Users with other roles cannot receive grades. If attempted, an error code will appear.