Managing Grades

CengageNOWv2 automatically grades everything it can grade electronically, marks items that must be manually graded, and calculates a student's final grade or "grade to date."

Once a student finishes an assignment, you can use tools found in your Gradebook to review the answers, score any items requiring manual grading, or see the time spent on Reading assignments. If necessary, you can adjust scoring for any item, student, or assignment.

CengageNOWv2 also offers options for creating grade reports to help you summarize and analyze individual and class performance. You can review these reports from the Gradebook page.

Gradebook Management Topics

• Gradebook Terminology. Definitions of Gradebook terms.

• The Gradebook Overview Page. Information on basic Gradebook features.

• Emailing Users. Instructions for sending either an individual or a bulk email.

• Gradebook Preferences. Instructions on changing the type of information and the display style of your Gradebook page.

• Editing Grade Details. Instructions on editing the score or assignment takes for a specific assignment and student.

• The Student Grade Details Page. Provides an overview of the progress on all assignments for a specific student.

• Creating and Editing Custom Grading Categories. Allows you to group assignments by type so that they can be weighted collectively in final grade calculations.

• Adjusting Multiple Scores. Instructions for editing scores for several students and assignments at one time.

• The Assignment Details Page. Provides an overview and access to score management for all your students in a specific assignment.

• Querying Student Data. Use an assortment of search criteria to find student grades for a course or assignment. This page is a handy reference for ascertaining student performance.

• Using Custom Reports. A report type supplying information such as scores, take data, time spent, and student participation. Using these filtering categories produces course-level data on scores and student ranking.

• Using Gradebook Analytics Reports. Instructions on using the Gradebook Analytics feature where you can generate several types of reports with data on your course, assignments, items, and student performance.

• Exporting a Course Gradebook. Instructions on how to export your course Gradebook for use in a spreadsheet application or an alternate course management system.