Read the gradebook

The gradebook is where you follow how each learner is doing across the whole Offering. It lives in the Gradebook tab and is deliberately spreadsheet-like: learners down the side, Assessments across the top, one current score in each cell. Nothing surprising, nothing to configure before you can read it.

Before you start

Open the Offering and select the Gradebook tab.
The grid fills in once you have published Assessments and learners on the roster who have started responding.

Read the grid

Each row is a learner; each column is a published Assessment. A cell shows one of:

A score — for example 8 / 10. Select it to review that learner’s attempt.
A dash (—) — the learner has not attempted this Assessment yet.
A “Needs grading” badge — the attempt is in and waiting for you to grade it by hand.

Assessments delivered by an external tool appear as their own columns, marked LTI, with the tool’s name beneath the heading. Those cells are owned by the tool and are read-only here; a Pending badge shows when the tool has not finished grading.

Grade a hand-in

When a cell shows Needs grading, the attempt needs your judgement — an extended response, an uploaded file, or any item the engine cannot score on its own.

Select the Needs grading cell to open the grading panel.
For each item, read the learner’s response and enter a score. Auto-scored items are marked as such and already carry their score.
Optionally add a comment on any item and overall feedback for the learner.
Select Submit grades. The cell updates to the final score a moment later.

Review an attempt

Select any scored cell to open a read-only attempt review: each item, the learner’s response, and whether it was marked correct or incorrect, with the attempt’s score. A badge marks whether the score is Final or still Provisional (for example, when the server re-scored some responses authoritatively).

Weight categories toward a final grade

By default the gradebook shows raw scores. To combine columns into a weighted Final grade, group them into Grade Categories and give each category a weight.

Select Manage weighting.
Under Categories, add a category with a Name and a Weight. Weights are relative — any scale works, so 50 and 50, or 1 and 3, both split the grade the way you’d expect.
Under Column categories, assign each gradebook column to one of your categories (or leave it as No category to exclude it).
Select Save, then close the dialog.

Once weighting is configured, a Final column appears at the right of the grid, showing each learner’s weighted percentage. Hover it for a per-category breakdown, and note that each column heading now shows the category it belongs to.

What you end up with

A live, spreadsheet-like view of every learner’s standing across the Offering — scores as they land, hand-ins graded, and an optional weighted final grade — so you can see at a glance who needs your attention.