Articles relating to grading assignments, discussions and tests are found here. Also included are articles on dropping grades, inline grading, downloading/uploading grades to Excel, using rubrics, clearing assignment attempts, etc.
Instructors may continue to see the "New Submission" marker, even after grading a student's assignment submission. This does not affect student's ability to view their grade and feedback, but might make it difficult for instructors to keep track of grading, and cause visual clutter. This article will explain why this happens, and how to resolve it.
An instructor or grader can create personalized audio and video feedback recordings for individual assessment attempts or manual gradebook items.
This article explains how to clear an assignment attempt submitted by a student.
This article will show you how to create and post comments while grading using Blackboard Annotate, the inline grading tool.
This article shows you how to Download and Upload grades to/from a Blackboard Ultra Gradebook.
This article explains how to drop the lowest, or highest, grade in the Gradebook in Blackboard Ultra.
This article will walk you through how to grade a test in a Blackboard Ultra course.
This article contains instructions on how to use a rubric for grading in Ultra Course View.
This article discusses how sorting controls in the gradebook work. Instructors can sort by student or question.
To motivate students to post insightful contributions, you can make the discussion count for a grade.
This article provides grading tips for Blackboard Ultra regarding posting grades, overriding grades, rearranging the gradebook, etc.
This article explains how to grant exceptions and exemptions of graded assessments for students.
This article explains how to annotate and grade student files directly within the browser.
This article explains how to send reminders to students for non-submitted assignments. The reminders are sent through the gradebook.