Grading Discussion
Student interactions within the Discussion Board serve as a permanent record of participation within a course. Once grading is enabled at the Forum or Thread level, Blackboard automatically creates a grade button and corresponding column within the Grade Center. The following section outlines steps for enabling grading and selecting the appropriate grading option.
Enabling Grading
- Click Communication on the Course Homepage.
- Click Discussion Board.
- Once at the Discussion Board area, click the Modify button for the Forum in which grading will be enabled.
- Using the options outlined below as a reference, select the appropriate grading mode.
Grading Option Details
- No grading in Forum: Grading is not enabled.
- Grade Forum: Select this option to assign a signle score to the Forum (no matter how many threads a student posts).
- Grade Threads: Select this option to assign a score to each thread in the Forum. Note: With this option, students cannot create new threads.
- To apply changes, click the Submit button. Note: If the Grade Forum option is selected, make sure to fill in the Points possible box.
- Forums with Grading enabled are easily identified with an icon appearing in the Grade column.
Note: When grading is enabled on a Forum, a corresponding Grade Center column is also created.
Grading Forums
- Click Communication on the Course Homepage.
- Click Discussion Board.
- Find the Forum to be graded and click the corresponding icon
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- To begin grading, click the Grade button for a student. At this time, Blackboard retrieves all threads (within the particular Forum) posted by the selected student.
- After reviewing the threads, enter the points earned into the Grade textbox.
- To save the score, click the Submit button.
- Once the score is saved, point values are updated in the Grade Forum and Grade Center areas.
Updated Grade Forum
Updated Grade Center
Grading Threads
- Click Communication on the Course Homepage.
- Click Discussion Board.
- Click the Forum title to be graded.
- To enable grading for the thread, click the Enable button.
- Enter in the points possible for the thread.
- Click the Submit button.
- To grade the thread, click the icon.
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- Enter the points earned into the Grade textbox.
- Click the Submit button.
- Once the score is saved, point values are updated in the Grade Forum and Grade Center areas.
Updated Grade Forum
Updated Grade Center
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Last Updated: 05/27/2008
