The Grades tool in eClass offers options to format the display of your gradebook to students and to control which grades are visible to students.

Please note that some activities are graded automatically, e.g., Assignments and Quizzes. If an automatically-graded item is not set to be visible to students on the main course page, it will not be visible to students in the gradebook.

There are two alternatives for how you can control grade visibility:

1. On the main Grader report view with editing turned on; or
2. in the Gradebook setup view.

For verification of student grade visibility, the main Grader report view is recommended; for making changes to the course total aggregation and structural changes to the gradebook, the Gradebook setup view is recommended. This article contains screenshots demonstrating both methods.

Choose how to format the display of grades for students (Method 1 - Grader Report)

1. Click on 1), the Grades tab near the top of your course main page, then 2), turn on Edit mode at the top right of the page:

2. To change the display format of a grade column, click the gear icon at the top of the column.

• Note: if you do not see the 'eye' icons, click on the Gradebook setup drop-down, then on Preferences: Grader report and set the option Show show/hide icons to Yes.
• You can enter grade scores for students directly into the grader report with editing turned on by typing the value in the cell for a particular student's item and clicking Save changes at the bottom left. For automatically-graded items, manual grade entry will turn the cell orange and create a grade override.

3. In the 'Edit grade item' settings page, click Show more....

4. Set the 'Grade display type' option to one of the following:

• Real - the actual score.
• Percentage - the score converted to 100 total.
• Letter - the score converted to percent then assigned the letter score based on the course letter boundaries. (For instructions on setting the course letter boundaries, see the article Setting Letter Grade Boundaries.)
• Combinations of these 3 with one first and any other in brackets
• The default setting for Grade display type can be set for your entire gradebook in the Setup tab → Course grade settings tab.

 5. For different ways of aggregating and calculating your grades, see Calculating Your Course Total.

Choose how to format the display of grades for students (Method 2 - Gradebook setup)

1. Click on 1), the Grades tab near the top of your course main page, then 2), turn on Edit mode at the top right of the page.

2. Click on the Grader report dropdown, then on Gradebook setup:

3. To change the display format (not the actual value) of a grade item or activity, click Edit → Edit settings in the Actions column for the row of that grade item.

4. Repeat steps 3-4 from Method 1 (at this point the location is the same).

Choose which grades to display for students (Method 1 - Grader report)

1. Click on the gear icon on your course main page, then on Gradebook setup.

2. Click on the View tab, then on the Grader report tab. Click on Turn editing on near the top right. Note: Any column headers or grades that are written in grey writing are hidden from student view.

3. Any columns or cells that are visible to students will have an open 'eye' icon with no stroke through it. Columns and individual student items that are hidden from students have a crossed-out 'eye' icon. Clicking on the 'eye' icon acts as a toggle to show or hide grades and columns from students.

Note: Sometimes one or more students will not see their grades. Toggling the 'eye' icon will rest the whole column.

4. This method of checking student grade visibility can sometimes be more reliable than the second method. See the article Problems with Student Grade Visibility.

Choose which grades to display for students (Method 2 Gradebook setup)

1. Click on 1), the Grades tab near the top of your course main page, then 2), turn on Edit mode at the top right of the page.

2. Click on the Grader report dropdown, then on Gradebook setup:

Note: Any greyed-out column headers or grades are hidden from student view.

2. To change the visibility of an item, click Edit > Hide/Show in the actions column for that item

3. A known issue exists that can cause grade visibility problems when editing and using this view. Please see the article Problems with Student Grade Visibility.

Verifying the student's grade view by checking their user report

1. 1. Click on 1), the Grades tab near the top of your course main page, then 2), turn on Edit mode at the top right of the page.

2. Click on the Grader report drop-down, then on User report:

3. Select a particular student from the 'Select a user' drop-down to view their scores.

4. Note that greyed-out scores are not visible to the student.

5. You can select another student's report while in the User report view.