NEW Blackboard Ultra Gradebook Setup

This video discusses the various settings in the Blackboard Ultra Gradebook. I feature some best practices in setting up your gradebook as well as show you the student's view of the gradebook calculation.
0:00 Intro
1:17 Verifying grade item points, category, and percentages
3:13 Gradebook Setup / Schema
5:50 Overall Grade Settings
6:52 How Weights are Calculated
8:21 Set & Lock Weights
10:26 Points-Based Gradebook
12:57 Grade Displayed to Students
13:37 Student Preview
16:47 Gradebook Best Practices
20:05 Closing
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[@FirstGenRDHEducator-jy7yy]

Is there a way to put a date instead of grade or letter?

[@lwilliamsrsu]

Excellent tutorial. I hope RSU will promote your channel more and display it in the training and faculty sections of MyRSU and a link in all your emails.. There are only 3 likes and 32 subscribers and there would be a lot more if it were displayed more prominently and redundantly.

[@discardedparticles]

Thanks!

[@pequodexpress]

Does Ultra allow "equal" and "proportional" weighting within a Weighted Category?

[@pequodexpress]

Does Ultra allow the display of both points and percentage, as Bb Learn does?

[@chereylenemcchesney3339]

Hi! I have one student who needs to write her final exam at a different time than the rest of the class and I cannot figure out how to do this. The exam is timed, set to start at a specific time on a specific date and is set for 180 minutes. I'm really hoping you know how to make an exception for one student to access that exam early. Thank you!

[@designtoeducate]

Great question. In Blackboard Ultra, if you navigate to the assignment submission page and find the student's name, there will be 3 dots to the far right of the page. By clicking this, you should see exceptions and exemptions. Exceptions will give you the option to give the student a custom due date, number of attempts, and window of availability (Release Conditions). I have a video about this here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJLJe6CkiLqLY5I

[@chereylenemcchesney3339]

@@designtoeducate Thank you so much!

[@cinemyscope6630]

Thanks for trying, but at 1:30 you have a module within your course setup. I don't. There is no module like that.

[@designtoeducate]

It's important to remember that modules are merely an organization tool; similar to a folder. Content and gradable items can exist inside or outside of a module. This won't have anything to do with classifying the items in a gradebook category.

[@pequodexpress]

@@designtoeducate How would you characterize the functional differences between a Learning Module and a Content Folder?