Managing Grades > The Student Grade Details Page

The Student Grade Details Page

From the Gradebook overview page or the Assignment Details page, select the appropriate course and click a student name to open the Student Grade Details. From this page you can review all assignment grade details for an individual student in a particular course. The course name is displayed at the top of the page. You can choose to see results from a different student by making a selection from the View the grades for a different student dropdown menu.

When you have created and assigned your own custom Grading Categories, the assignments are grouped into tables by category. You can simplify the appearance of the page by clicking an assignment category heading to expand or minimize the list. See Creating and Editing Custom Grading Categories for more details.

Note: You can edit a score if it is an active link in the % column. This opens the Edit Grade Details page, where you can edit the score at either the assignment or individual question level. See Editing Grade Details for more information.

The following Gradebook settings affect the page display and score calculations on the Edit Student Grade Details page:

When Include missing assignments in totals is unchecked in Gradebook Preferences, CengageNOWv2 does not include assignments that are not-yet submitted, not-yet due, and in-progress as part of the score calculation. On the Student Grade Details page these assignments are displayed in the table for Assignments not currently counting towards grade.

Note: If you choose to enable Drop Lowest Scores in Gradebook Preferences, those scores are also excluded from the grade when Include missing assignments in totals is unchecked.

When Include missing assignments in totals is checked in Gradebook Preferences, CengageNOWv2 includes not-yet-submitted, not-yet-due, and in-progress assignments in the score calculation. These assignments are then organized in tables by their category (if any).

The overall course score is calculated as follows:

The following tools are available to you on the Student Grade Details page:

Overall Grade

Overall Grade displays the score as a percentage with the weighing of the grading categories factored in (when custom categories are used). This score is calculated as (points earned/possible score) x category weight.

When Gradebook Preferences are set to display Total Points, the Overall Grade is not shown, as the influence of any categories is not included.

View the grades for a different student

Select a new student name from the dropdown menu, which lists all students enrolled in the course.

Send Email to Users

Clicking this button opens a popup window allowing you quickly send an email to the selected users without leaving the page.

Enter a heading in the Subject text box and your message in the text box below. Select the appropriate names for the recipient list by selecting a check box. When you are done, click the Send Email button.

Go Back to the Gradebook

Clicking this button returns you to the Gradebook overview page.

Sorting the Assignment Display

Clicking a table heading expands or collapses the list of assignment information for that grading category. Assignments are organized by grading category (if available). The default setting is for all lists to be expanded.

Status Icons

At the bottom of the page is an icon key that provides a legend for the status icons that might appear for assignments or students with special conditions

Note: To see detailed information on the student's responses and edit scores for a particular assignment, click the score in the % column to open the Edit Grade Details page. See Editing Grade Details for more information.

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