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 grade items
- Reordering grade 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.
Filter students.
The Gradebook allows filtering the student list by individual name, alphabetically, or by group/section name.
To search students by name or group membership, type in Filter students search box (highlighted). To order alphabetically, select the A-Z or gear icons.
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 grade items 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.
- Select the boxes associated with individual items to show or hide the items. The box will fill if the item is shown and be blank if the item is hidden.
- Select the box associated with a category to show or hide all items in the category. A half-filled box reflects an item is hidden within the category.
Note: Show/Hide Items DOES NOT control which items are released to students: the items shown or hidden only reflect the Gradebook display, not the grades themselves.
Reordering columns
Select Item Order.
Sort the items and update.
- Select, drag, and drop bars using the three-line icon to shift items up or down/
- Select Update Categorized Sort Order button to apply changes.
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.