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Exempting Grades

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Faculty can exempt students from any grade item in the Grade Center to take into consideration various situations including, adding a course late, dropping a course, or other extended circumstances.  Exempted items are not added into any statistical or total calculations for the student.  Existing grades that have been exempted from grading are not removed but are ignored in all total and statistical calculations.  No secondary display value is shown for these items.

  1. Click the Control Panel button on the left side of the screen in your Course homepage.
    Control Panel Button
  2. Under Assessment, click Grade Center.
    Click Gradecenter
  3. Move the cursor over the grade to be exempted and click the down arrows.
    Click the down arrows
  4. Click the Exempt Grade option.
    Exempt Grade
    Note: To easily identify grades which have been exempted, Blackboard displays them as a blue square. 
    Blue Shading

Clearing an Exemption

  1. Click the Control Panel button on the left side of the screen in your Course homepage.
    Control Panel Button
  2. Under Assessment, click Grade Center.
    Click Gradecenter
  3. Move the cursor over the grade that has been exempted and click the down arrows.
    Down Arrows
  4. Click the Clear Exemption option.
    Clear
    Note: Once the Exemption is cleared, the score is displayed.
    Clear Exempt

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Are you looking for more information regarding the Blackboard Grade Center? Review the answers to Blackboard frequently asked questions as well as Blackboard tutorials. Also, consider attending one of the upcoming Blackboard workshops.

Last Updated: 07/18/2009