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 example if you add an Assignment activi...
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. If your course requires extreme...
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 grades are also THE REQUIRED OUT...
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 POORLY TO NUMERIC VALUES. This is...
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 40%, creating a category for the...
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 an Activity - for example when y...
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 imported grades to Student ID numbers if...
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 for the participants page, list ...
By default, eClass has some grading 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 ‘Quarter points (10 tota...
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 (with extra credits)_. These three...
This article describes how to make edits to existing manual grade
items, specifically the required option to specify whether to rescale
existing grades when editing the maximum grade for an item after
grades for students have already been entered.
This ...
In the eClass gradebook, as an alternative to using the built-in
mechanisms to calculate a course total
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/152/0/calculating-your-course-total],
instructors can use formulas to compute...
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