ANGEL Help

Field Name

Definition

Selected Assignment

To enter grades for another assignment, select the new assignment from the Selected Assignment drop-down list located at the top of page.

Show

The Show drop-down menu allows the course editor to filter the list of students based on team affiliation.

Only Students

Clearing the Only Students checkbox allows the course editor to display grades for all enrolled users including non-students.

Display

For courses with more than 25 students, the course editor can view the additional student grades by selecting a higher value from the Display drop-down menu.

Go

The Go button refreshes the page with the selections you made from the drop-down lists or radio buttons. Click Go after making the selections.

View: Full Condensed

Optionally select Condensed from the View radio option to change to a simple view of percentage and points fields for each student. Select Full from the View option to view all grading options including Locked and Comments (discussed below).

Percentage or Points

Assignment grades can be entered into either the Percentage or Points fields for each student. As you move to the next user, the neighboring field automatically updates with the appropriate value calculated based on the entered score and assignment’s max points.
When entering grades using points, review the Max Points value displayed in the assignment attributes table to verify points are being entered based on the appropriate scale.
When using gradebook macros to enter grades, macros/labels must be entered in the Percentage field to be calculated correctly. For information regarding how to configure macros, refer to the section of this document titled Macros.

Locked

The Locked option is used with gradebook assignments that are associated with ANGEL content items (quiz, drop box, discussion forum, etc.).  It allows the course editor to “lock” and manually overwrite a student grade to ensure it isn’t overwritten by updates to the associated ANGEL content item.

Comments

The course editor can optionally provide feedback in the Comments field for each student. Comments are displayed in the student’s grade report and are only viewable to the student for whom they are intended.

Batch Update

The Batch Update tool makes it easy to add a common grade for all members of a particular team or to add a common grade to all students who do not have a grade listed (i.e. to batch update an assignment to give a zero to everyone who did not complete the assignment).
To batch update grades for displayed users for a particular assignment, type a percentage or point value in the appropriate field, optionally select the Locked checkbox and provide a common comment (if applicable), and click the Batch Update button.
To add a common grade for all members of a particular team, first select the team from the Show drop-down box to filter the list of students based on team affiliation.
The Batch Update tool is also useful when a large percentage of the students receive a common grade (i.e. all but a few students earn 100%). In this scenario, grade the few students who did not earn the common grade, then use the Batch Update tool to update the grade for all ungraded students.

Save Changes

The Save Changes button saves the gradebook changes.

Cancel Changes

Gradebook changes can be cancelled by clicking the Cancel Changes button.

Previous Page | Next Page

Use the Previous Page | Next Page “paging” options (located at the bottom of the page) to advance to the next page of students.

Done

Click the Done button to exit.