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Desire2Learn 8.3

Setting Up Your Gradebook
Step 1: Selecting a Grade Calculation System

This document covers the first of the five steps you should complete when setting up your gradebook in D2L. The selections recommended in this document are designed to help you easily complete the gradebook set up while giving you the most flexibility in maintaining it.

NOTE: Even if you copied your gradebook over from a previous semester, you must complete the steps outlined in the first three documents (Steps 1-3) of the Setting Up Your Gradebook series.

Other documents in this series include the following:

• Step 2: Selecting a Grade Scheme
• Step 3: Setting Display Options
• Step 4: Creating and Setting Up Categories
• Step 5: Creating Grade Items

To select your grade calculation system

1. From the Course Home page, on the Navigation bar, click GRADES
   The User List pane appears.

2. In the Grades Area widget, click GRADES SETTINGS
   The Personal Display Options pane appears.

3. Click CALCULATION OPTIONS

4. In the Grading System section, select your grading system
   EXAMPLE: Select Points System
   

5. In the Final Grade Released section, select Adjusted Final Grade
   IMPLICATION: This selection gives you the most flexibility when working with the final grade.
   

6. In the Grade Calculations section, select Drop ungraded items
   IMPLICATION: If Treat ungraded items as 0 is selected, D2L will consider any non-graded items as zeros, which could confuse students and/or cause problems with final grade calculations.
   NOTE: When recording grades, enter zeros for any grade items that a student did not complete. This ensures that your gradebook will calculate accurately.
   

7. Deselect Automatically keep final grades updated
   IMPLICATION: Leaving this option off will improve the speed with which your gradebook loads during the semester.

8. Click SAVE