Gradebook offers the following options for instructors to customize how it displays for them:
- Filtering the list of students
- Grouping by Category
- Showing or hiding items
- Reordering items
- Reordering columns
Note: These display changes do not affect the student view of Gradebook. For information about the student view, see How do students view their grades in the Gradebook?
Go to Gradebook.
Select Gradebook from the site Tool Menu.
Filtering the list of students
The Gradebook allows filtering the student list by section/group and by searching by student name.
Filter by section/group.
Open the Filter by Group menu to select a course section or group filter.
Filter by search criteria.
Enter part or all of a student's name or ID in the Filter students field to display only matching students.
Grouping by Category
Activate Group by Category.
If Categories are present, select Group by Category to group Gradebook items based on their category. This does not change how item calculation works.
Items display adjacent to other items in the same category and are grouped with the category column.
Showing or hiding items
Use View Columns to temporarily hide items. This does not affect the student experience in Gradebook.
Open View Columns.
Toggle items as shown or hidden.
- Select Show All or Hide All.
- Check the boxes associated with individual items to show or hide the items.
- Check the box associated with a category to show or hide all items in the category.
Note: Show/Hide Items DOES NOT control which items are released to students.
Reordering columns
Select Item Order.
Sort the items and update.
- Select the sort buttons to shift items up or down, or drag and drop items to reorder.
- Select Update Categorized Sort Order button.
Note: When viewing items grouped by category, you can only reorder columns within a category. To reorder categories, go to Gradebook > Settings > Categories and Weighting.