Article Last Updated June 2021
The Grades tool in eClass (or _Gradebook)_ allows you to manage and
organize a collection of grades in eClass. Items that have been
assessed using an eClass activity will be automatically added to the
gradebook (for examp...
Article Last Updated June 2021
eClass has several options for calculating the course total for your
students. These options are specified through your gradebook
AGGREGATION METHOD and allow you to give items different weights in
the overall course total...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If you choose to set or display letter grades in eClass, it is
important to review the default grade boundaries to ensure that the
system assigns the appropriate letter grade for each range of marks
that you assign. Letter...
Article Last Updated June 2021
You are able to assign letter grades to specific assignments or
activities in eClass using the Improved Letter Grade Scale. YOU SHOULD
ALWAYS USE THIS SCALE INSTEAD OF THE STANDARD 'LETTER SCALE' SINCE
THAT ONE TRANSLATES ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Gradebook categories are useful for organizing and grouping multiple
course assessment items by type. For example, if the course contains a
midterm worth 30%, three lab assignments worth 30% overall and a final
exam worth ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Whenever you add a Quiz or Assignment Activity to your course and
specify a grade in its settings, a grade column will appear in the
gradebook. This article will explain how to manually add a grade item
that is not tied to...
Article Last Updated June 2021
By default the Grader Report in eClass identifies students by first
and last name, email address, and CCID - student 7-digit student ID
numbers are not displayed. Even though they don't display, you can
still match importe...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If you have set up groups in your course, you might want to enable the
option to filter different course administration pages by those
groups. The most common use case for doing this is in the gradebook
but this also works...
Article Last Updated June 2021
eClass by default has some scales already available for use in student
grading. These include the standard numeric scales (can be out of any
number of points, up to 100, with 1 point intervals), and several
others such as ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Some aggregation methods in the eClass gradebook allow instructors to
give bonus marks for certain grade items. The aggregation methods that
allow this are _Simple weighted mean of grades_, _Natural_, and _Mean
of grades (...
Article Last Updated June 2021
This article describes how to make edits to existing manual grade
items, specifically the NEW REQUIRED OPTION TO SPECIFY WHETHER TO
RESCALE EXISTING GRADES INTRODUCED IN SUMMER 2017 when editing the
maximum grade for an it...
Article Last Updated January 2022
In the eClass gradebook, as an alternative to using the built-in
mechanisms to calculate a course total
[http://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/152/0/calculating-your-course-total],
inst...