6/2/11
IT-Client Support & Services
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Collect and grade work
◦ Assignments
◦ Tests & Quizzes
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Distribute and view grades
◦ Gradebook
◦ Post’Em
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Students can use this tool as an electronic
dropbox to submit their work
Instructors can electronically
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mark up students’ work
give overall comments
grade submissions
allow students to resubmit work
Assignment grades can be forwarded to the
Gradebook
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Instructors can
◦ return comments to a student without a grade
◦ attach a file to each student's grade
 completed rubric
 marked-up copy of the student's work
◦ post a grade without an online submission
◦ allow students to resubmit their work
◦ can keep students' grades private until all are
graded
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Students can
◦ see grade and comments (if released)
◦ resubmit revised work (if allowed)
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Questions can be of various types
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Pending Assessments
◦ enter questions
◦ choose settings related to delivery, availability, timing
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Published Assessments
◦ available to students to take
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Grades can be included in the Gradebook
Test grades can only be entered via Tests &
Quizzes
An Adjustment can be made on the entire test
or individual questions
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Grades for Forums, Topics or individual
Postings can be sent to existing Gradebook
Items
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Gradebook
◦ Students can only see their own grades collected
from Assignments and Tests
◦ Students can see other numeric grades posted by
the instructor along with comments
◦ Final grades can be translated to letter equivalents
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Post’Em
◦ Students can see textual information and grades
posted by the instructor
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Gradebook Items not added by Assignments or
Tests can be imported
Results of calculations performed outside of
Sakai can be imported
Review/archive
◦ Can export Gradebook data to build a local copy
◦ Can view entire record for individual students
◦ Can see individual's record as student sees it
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Can import grades from Scantron tests
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Course Grade
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all points earned
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 100 %
 maximum points to earn 
◦ Missing values are not included so Course Grade
can be used to show current status
 blank ≠ 0 points
 blank items are not counted in the course grade
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Grades
◦ Each item has a maximum value for determining
percentage.
◦ Grades can be included or not in the course grade
calculation.
◦ Values can be entered as points or percentages.
◦ Items can be grouped and weighted.
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Planning helps!
◦ How do you want to determine a final grade?
◦ Would Sakai's Gradebook more or less
cumbersome?
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Weight grades for activities
◦ Points for all items add up to 100
◦ Maximum for each item is 100, use weighted categories
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Drop lowest test grade
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Export to Excel
Calculate average test grade
Import to Excel
Only include average test grade in course grade
Include extra credit
◦ Add extra points to existing item
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TAs must be assigned to one or more sections (even
if there is only one section)
In Assignments
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give TA role grading permission
In Gradebook and Assignments, TAs will only see
students in their sections by default
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Instructors can
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Upload textual information for all students
Can put multiple columns in one file
Can have multiple files
Can update individual files
Store information not visible to students
See when students have viewed their records
Students can
◦ See only their own information (if released)
= (25+20+10+9+7)
75
= (18+25+20+10+9+7)
100
Totals
88
100