Blackboard Quick Tip #40

Customizing Letter Grades in the Gradebook

The Blackboard gradebook will display grades as letter grades, however, you may want to modify the default settings of the percent to letter or letter to percent conversions of these grades.

Modify Percent to Letter Conversion

Modifying how a percent grade is converted to a letter grade will change how the grade is displayed for students and yourself in the gradebook. It will still be calculated the same. This will modify how any automatically graded item is displayed.

1.  From the Control Panel, click on GRADEBOOK under Assessment.

2.  Click on GRADEBOOK SETTINGS at the top left of the page. A new page appears.

3.  Click on MODIFY DISPLAY OPTIONS menu item.

4.  Click MODIFY to the right of Letter under Display Options. This opens a page that allows you to modify the letter grade settings.

5.  Enter the lower limit in the left most textbox under System-graded items with a grade of: for the letter grade identified.

6.  Enter the upper limit in the next textbox under System-graded items with a grade of: for the letter grade identified.

7.  Click REMOVE for any letter grade item not needed.

8.  Click SUBMIT. You are returned to the gradebook.


Modify Letter to Percent Conversion

Modifying how a letter grade is converted to a percent grade will determine the amount of credit a student will get for a specific letter grade when calculated in the gradebook. This applies only to letter grades that are manually entered into the gradebook.

1.  From the Control Panel, click on GRADEBOOK under Assessment.

2.  From the Control Panel, click on GRADEBOOK under Assessment.

3.  Click on GRADEBOOK SETTINGS at the top left of the page. A new page appears.

4.  Click on MODIFY DISPLAY OPTIONS menu item.

5.  Click MODIFY to the right of Letter under Display Options. This opens a page that allows you to modify the letter grade settings.

6.  Enter the percentage you wan the letter grade to be calculated as in the right most text box under Manually grades entered as: for the letter grade you want to modify.

7.  Click REMOVE for any letter grade item not needed.

8.  Click SUBMIT. You are returned to the gradebook.

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