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Table of Contents
LESSON 1: OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................... 2
DISCUSSION ........................................................................................................................................................ 2
Gradebook............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Dropbox .................................................................................................................................................................2
LESSON 2: QUALITY MATTERS RUBRIC – ASSESSMENT & MEASUREMENT ................................... 4
LESSON 3: GRADEBOOK .......................................................................................................................... 6
GRADING SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................................................. 6
CREATE YOUR GRADEBOOK ................................................................................................................................ 9
CHOOSE HOW FINAL GRADES ARE RELEASED ..................................................................................................... 10
Calculated Final Grade ........................................................................................................................................ 10
Adjusted Final Grade ........................................................................................................................................... 10
CREATE A NEW GRADE CATEGORY .................................................................................................................... 16
CREATE A NEW GRADE ITEM.............................................................................................................................. 19
ENTER GRADE DATA ......................................................................................................................................... 21
VIEW THE GRADES ............................................................................................................................................ 22
LESSON 4: DROPBOX .............................................................................................................................. 24
CREATE A DROPBOX ......................................................................................................................................... 24
PROCESS A DROPBOX ....................................................................................................................................... 26
APPENDIX: LOCATE HELP RESOURCES .............................................................................................. 30
INDEX ......................................................................................................................................................... 31
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Lesson 1: Overview
Discussion
Springboard! contains on-line assessment and evaluation features. Assess student learning
through quizzes, a dropbox to collect student work, and create a gradebook to record and report
student performance.
In this course you will learn how to set-up a gradebook that uses grade categories and grade
items, and set-up a drop box for students to submit completed work.
In this course, you will learn how-to:
Gradebook
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Choose from the two primary grading systems
Use the setup Wizard to create a gradebook
Create grade categories and grade items
Complete online grade entry
View completed grades for all students
Drill-down to view the assignment behind the grade
Dropbox
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Create a student submission dropbox
Link dropbox assignments to a gradebook item
Add date/time restrictions to dropboxes
Easily download student assignments to review and grade
Provide feedback on assignments
Save time and use dropbox to post grades to the gradebook
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Lesson 2: Quality Matters Rubric – Assessment &
Measurement
Discussion – a brief introduction to the Quality Matters
Assessment & Measurement
Quality Matters is a framework of 8 General Standards used for evaluating and developing
courses.
In an effort to promote the standard, we provide some Quality Matters guidance with references
to these standards, made at the beginning of relevant lessons.
It is important to note the Quality Matters Rubric has 8 detailed standards. Lesson references
presented here are much less detailed and not a substitute for actual Quality Matters training.
If you find these references useful, you are strongly encouraged to pursue additional study. For
seminars offered by The University of Akron, contact Dr. Jonnie Phipps, University of Akron
Quality Matters Institution Representative, at [email protected], the Manager of Design and
Development Services, Wendy Lampner, at [email protected], or visit
www.QualityMatters.org.
When creating a Gradebook or a Dropbox in Springboard, consider these guidelines, adapted
from the Quality Matters framework. They are not the verbatim standards.
1. What gets measured is what you promised you would teach.
2. What gets graded is clearly stated in course documents.
3. How what gets graded is also clearly stated.
4. Provide students more than one opportunity to do well.
5. Measure only what you said would be measured.
6. Sequence assessments easiest to more difficult.
7. Provide students self-check opportunities.
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Lesson 3: Gradebook
Grading Systems
Gradebook is a flexible tool. You can change almost anything in it after a gradebook is made.
However, you must select a grading system when creating the grade book.
A grading system determines how grade items contribute to the final grade. There are three
options available, Percent, Weighted, and Formula. See the visual aid on page 6 to for
examples of the percent and weighted systems. IN this course, we consider percent and
weighted systems only.
Considerations
1. Which items will be graded? Include items such as quizzes, discussions, and tests.
2. Determine the overall value for each graded item.
3. How is final grade calculated?
Choosing a grading system: understanding the two primary grading systems
The Weighted System:
1. The weighted system uses a two level hierarchy of categories and its grade items.
2. Each grade item contributes a percentage to the category percentage. All grade items
for a category total 100%.
Additionally, grade item percentages of a category contribute to the category percentage but
not directly to the final grade. Further, all items in a the Category should total 100%
For example, the Quizzes Category is worth 20% of the final grade.
These three items (Q1, Q2, and Q3) contribute 30%, 35%, and 35%,
respectively, to the Quizzes category. The quizzes category, in turn,
determines 20% of the final grade.
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3. All categories sum to 100%, the final grade.
A warning message will appear at the top of the grade book if grade items of categories or
categories in total do not total 100%. This is simply a warning message – a balanced grade
book is not required.
Note: As the total of all categories determines the final grade, the final grade is inaccurate until
all items of a category are graded. Therefore, it can be misleading to release calculated final
grades to students BEFORE the end of the course since the final grade is inaccurate until ALL
the items in the category are graded.
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The Points System: (simpler)
The Points System supports, but does not require categories. Categories can be used, they are
just not weighted, as in the Weighted System.
The Points System determines the final grade using the Max. Points assigned to a
grade item, meaning the item’s contribution to the final grade, is equal to the
maximum points assigned to the grade item.
Max. Points assigned to a Grade Item are equal to item’s contribution to Final
Grade. In this example, HW1, HW2, and HW3 each have a Max. Points value of
20.
The Points System calculates the Final Grade by adding all student scores for all Grade Items
and dividing by the sum of all Max. Point values. In this example, the sum of all points earned is
353 of a possible 395. The earned grade calculates as 89%.
Comparison: Weighted and Points Side-by-Side
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Create Your Gradebook
The easiest method to setup your Gradebook is to use the Gradebook Wizard, which will guide
you through the steps of setting up the gradebook.
Step-by-step
1. Click the
Notes/Comments
tool.
2. From the Grades tool menu, click the Setup Wizard
button.
The Setup Wizard guides you
through a series of questions
and is the easiest method to
create a new gradebook.
To make changes, you can rerun the Wizard anytime or use
the gradebook settings
menu.
3. Click
to continue to step 1.
4. Step 1 of 7, Choose Grading System. Choose a
system and click the
button.
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If unsure which system to
choose, refer to the discussion
section at the beginning of this
lesson (page 6).
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Choose how Final Grades are released
At Step 2: Final Grade Released, you must decide whether you want the option to modify
student grades before they are released to students. There are two choices: Calculated Final
Grade or Adjusted Final Grade.
Calculated Final Grade
The final grade is calculated by Gradebook. The student’s final grade is calculated based on a
formula and cannot be adjusted without manually editing individual grade items or categories
and then instructing Springboard to recalculate the final grade again. While doable, adjusting
Calculated final grades takes extra effort.
Use the Calculated method when managing a large class where adjustments are not anticipated
or when school policy is such that adjustments are not permitted.
Adjusted Final Grade
Teacher enters modified (curved), adjusted final grade, meaning the student final grade can be
modified before it is released. This method enables you to round a 79.8% to an 80% or apply a
curve to final grades.
Step-by-step
5. Step 2 of 7: Final Grade Released. Choose a grade
release method and click the
button.
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Step-by-step
6. Step 3 of 7: Grade Calculations. Choose a method
and click the
button.
Notes/Comments
Controls ungraded items.
Note: If you are going to show
Calculated Final Grade during
the semester, consider choosing
Drop ungraded items.
Student score starts as 0/0. As
assignments are graded,
student has better sense of
their progress.
Recommended: The default is
Treat ungraded items as 0.
Recommend switch to Drop
ungraded items.
Recommended method: Drop ungraded items. Ignored in final grade
calculation. Select if you plan to make grade available to students as the course
progresses ( i.e. before the end of the course).
Treat ungraded items as 0: Grade items for which you have not entered a
grade are scored as 0 (zero) by Gradebook and count as a 0 toward final grade
calculation. Select if you typically leave grade items blank when no work was
submitted.
Treat ungraded as zero means an ‘F’ all semester, until enough points are
accumulated. The advantage here is the instructor has less bookwork for
missed assignments.
Caveat: You must enter 0 (zero)
as a grade for missed
assignments (student fails to
submit an assignment).
Otherwise, if you leave it blank,
Springboard will drop the grade
and student will not see correct
grades.
Recommended: If showing
Calculated final grade, use
Drop ungraded items.
Automatically keep final grade
updated, unchecked, is like
having a spreadsheet that does
not recalculate. Recommend
checked.
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7. Step 4 of 7: Choose Default Grade Scheme.
Choose the UA organization scheme and click the
button.
Schemes are the numeric
demarcations between letter
grades. You can create your
own grade schemes.
8. Step 5 of 7: Managing View Display Options.
Specify the number of decimal places and click the
button.
Managing view is the
instructor’s view.
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9. Step 6 of 7: Student View Display Options. Choose
Grade Details, Decimals Displayed, Characters
Displayed, and Final Grade. Click the
button.
Recommended: We typically
enable Points Grade and
Grade scheme symbol.
Points grade
checked
Points grade
unchecked
Recommended: We typically
leave the Decimal Displayed
to ‘2’, e.g. 89.75%
Use Characters Displayed
when the grade scheme
involves words instead of
letters such as, ‘Pass’, ‘Credit’,
‘No Credit’.
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10. Step 7 of 7: Grades Setup Summary. Review your
choices and click
.
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Did you know?: Modifying gradebook settings
Use the Gradebook
tool to make adjustments, even after you completed the Setup Wizard. Here are
the three tabs of the Settings tool:
Every step and more of the Gradebook setup wizard is available in the settings screens.
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Create a New Grade Category
Use these steps when using the weighted grading system. Recall the weighted system (Grading
Systems, page 6) breaks the final grade into hierarchical categories, each assigned a
percentage contribution of the final grade. Next, each category is divided into individual grade
items, each grade item adding points towards the category.
First, create grade Categories, then grade items for the categories.
Grade
Categories
Grade items
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Step-by-step
1. Click the
Notes/Comments
tool then enter a grade
.
2. Next, select New, then Category.
3. Name the category
Using Short Name helps
control grade sheet width.
4. Set Grading category Weight.
The amount, think %, the
category contributes to the
final grade.
5. Set Grading Distribution.
Distribution controls the
method of apportioning
category point values across
grade items.
See Did you know? (page 18) for a Gradebook policy discussion.
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Did you know?: Choosing a gradebook policy
Note how each grade item contribution is calculated, depending on the category distribution chosen.
Category Distribution Choice
Grade Item view
Distribute weights by points
(proportionately) across all items of
category: uses points of all grade
items and apportions a relative
weight of 100% to each grade item.
To illustrate, note that HW 03 is
worth as many points as HW 1 & HW
2 combined and therefore is
apportioned 50% of the category
weight.
Distribute weight evenly across
all items: all grade items
apportioned equal weight in
category.
Each grade item is apportioned the
same weight, regardless of each
item’s point value.
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Create a New Grade Item
Step-by-step
1. Click the
Notes/Comments
tool then
.
2. Next, select New, then Item.
We create grade items for the
category.
3. Choose a grade item type.
Choose Numeric, unless you
understand Grade Item Types
very well.
Note that Formula and
Calculated, while flexible, do
not contribute to the calculated
final grade.
4. Complete the Name field and, if necessary, assign a
category.
Short name limits grade
sheet width.
5. If necessary, complete the Grading Max Points
section.
6. If necessary, complete the Grading Weight section.
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If Categories are used and
weights assigned by
Springboard, the Weight field is
preset.
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7. If necessary, check Can Exceed.
With Can Exceed
checked.
Note error when
Can Exceed is
not checked.
8. If finished click
to make a new grade item.
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the ability to enter a grade
value greater than the Max
Points value.
For example, if checked, a value
of 12 can be entered for this
grade item.
Best used if a grade item has
extra credit available.
or
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Enter Grade Data
Use Spreadsheet View to enter grade values and Standard View to display letter grades.
Spreadsheet View
Standard View
Step-by-step
Notes/Comments
1. Click the
tool then
2. If necessary, click
enter grades.
3. When finished, click
corner.
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for Additional Gradebook
Settings, and learn how to
adjust the preferences for this
view.o
We must click save to confirm
changes to student data.
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View the Grades
Gradebook allows you to drill-through a gradebok value to view the student’s supporting
assignment. This feature is available for submitted items such as Dropbox submissions and
Quizzes.
Step-by-step
1. While entering grades, click an entry to view the
supporting student work.
Notes/Comments
A new tab or window will open.
In this example, the grade item
represents a Dropbox
submission.
2. View the student work. Close the tab or return to the
original tab to continue in Springboard.
3. Click
Options tab.
and then the Personal Display
Settings is located in the
upper right corner.
We can adjust when the column
header repeats, either by user
or by number.
Lower number = more columns of names
Experiment with the settings to
increase the number of data
columns between student name
columns or increase the number
of times student names repeat.
Hihger number = more columns of data
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You can Use Excel to review
grades, too.
Lower number = fewer student names
From Enter Grades, click the
Export button.
Higher number = more student rows
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Lesson 4: Dropbox
Create a Dropbox
Dropboxes enable you to collect assignments on any day, not just a class day. A Dropbox is just
a folder used to accept student assignments. Springboard is online, facilitating the task, greatly
increasing flexibility, instructor efficiency and effectiveness.
Step-by-step
Notes/Comments
1. Click
on the toolbar.
2. Click
A Dropbox is just another
folder.
, in the upper-left corner.
3. Enter a Name.
4. Option: Assign a dropbox category. If necessary,
create a New Category.
Categories are optional but
useful organizational tools.
Two dropbox categories
5. Option: Attach the dropbox to a grade item.
When processing a dropbox
(page 28), Springboard will
automatically post to the
gradebook and offers
considerable times savings.
6. If connecting the dropbox folder to a grade item,
complete the Out of field.
Rrecommended: Typically, Out
of uses the same value as the
Max points field for the grade
item.
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Step-by-step
7. Make Submission Options choices.
Notes/Comments
Recommendation: Use these
choices to follow our
recommendations.
The relationship is files per
dropbox submission.
Files allowed per submission
determines the number of files
a student may attach with their
submission.
8. Click the Restrictions tab.
9. Choose Start Date to set when the dropbox will
accept submissions.
Choose Due Date to set the last date assignment is
accepted without late penalty.
Choose End Date to set the last date dropbox will
accept submissions. Late submissions accepted,
marked as late.
Submissions specifies which
files, of all possible submissions,
should we keep?
Use the Restrictions tab to set
availability.
Springboard automatically
saves changes to the Properties
tab.
These checkboxes are optional.
Due Date is new and is the
date assignments are accepted
without penalty. Before this
feature, students would submit
late assignments via email,
snarling instructor workflow.
10. Set a date for each checkbox.
11. Click
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Click the folder’s menu to edit
the dropbox again.
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Process a Dropbox
Once student files are submitted, it is time to process the dropbox. The workflow is to download
the student file, grade and make feedback in the file, attach graded file to student dropbox, enter
the grade (if connected to a grade item), and submit.
Step-by-step
1. Click the dropbox folder to process.
Notes/Comments
We view the folder submissions
page.
2. Either: On the Users tab, check the boxes of students
with dropbox folders to download.
Use the Files tab to check boxes of files to download.
3. Click the
button.
4. When the download is completed, click the link to
open the download folder.
Files lists only students that
have submitted files.
Users lists all students,
regardless of whether they
have made a dropbox
submission.
Doing so will download
compressed copies of the files
(a.k.a zip files) to your
computer.
If opening more than one file,
repeat this process for each file.
5. Next, click the link to open the download folder.
6. Open and grade the file per your normal workflow.
7. From the dropbox, click
return the graded file to a student.
to
8. Scroll through the work pane to locate the Evaluation
section.
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You downloaded all student
files earlier. However, you can
process the dropbox one
student at a time.
We walk through the remaining
steps.
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Step-by-step
9. In addition to any feedback in the grade file, add
general feedback.
10. If you tied the dropbox to a grade item, enter the
numeric score here.
Notes/Comments
The Student Preview will
update too.
One of the two main benefits to
using a dropbox is saving the
extra steps to switch to the
gradbook.
11. Upload the graded file from your computer.
The student can download the
file from Springboard.
12. Use publish to let the student view results
immediately.
See Did You Know (page 28) on
how-to use Springboard’s new
delayed feedback mechanism.
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Did you know?: Delayed Dropbox Feedback
Prior, published feedback was released immediately to students. If the instructor wanted to change grades for the
assignment for everyone in the class, it was awkward to revise a grade that was already released.
Likewise, if a dropbox took unusually long to process, some students might question why others had grades
whereas they did not.
Now, Springboard 10 supports batch feedback publishing (delayed feedback).
When processing a student’s
submitted file, click Save Draft
instead of Publish.
We are returned to the dropbox page.
Click
when finished with all delayed feedback.
Check a box for each user to publish feedback.
Click the feedback button to release feedback to all selected students.
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Appendix: Locate Help Resources
1. Download the Teaching with Desire2Learn PDF Manual
a. The link for Desire2Learn’s official training manual and thorough faculty guide can be
found below:
b. https://learn.uakron.edu/springboard/training/TeachingwithDesire2Learnv8.2
c. Please note this manual is large (280 pages) and is intended as a reference manual.
2. Attend a hands-on training session. Software Training services conducts instructor-led
training sessions on using Springboard! (Desire2Learn).
a. Register for a training seminar at http://www.uakron.edu/seminars
3. Visit the Software Training web site to obtain copies of training manuals, job aids, and
videos.
a. The training manuals used to teach the instructor-led training sessions described in
#2 above are available online at the Software Training Services web site found
below:
i.
http://www.uakron.edu/its/learning/training/SpringBoard.php
4. Contact the ZipSupport Center
a. Phone: 330.972.6888
b. Email: [email protected]
5. Complete the Atomic Learning web-based tutorials
a.
b.
c.
d.
Log in to Zipline
Select the Faculty/Staff tab
Click the Atomic Learning link located under the Computer Software Help heading
Search the product list for “Desire2Learn”
6. Join the Desire2Learn community
a. There is a wealth of resources available online on the Desire2Learn community
website.
b. Follow the guide below to register, as this is not available to the public.
i. Visit the D2L Community site: http://community.desire2learn.com
ii. Select the Enrollment link in the upper right corner.
c. Be sure to enter your email address as @uakron.edu
d. You will receive a receipt of enrollment confirmation (usually within a day).
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Springboard Evaluation and Assessment:
Gradebook-&-Dropbox
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Index
A
G
Adjusted Final Grade, 11
C
Grade Categories, 17
Grade Item (Create), 20
Grading Systems, 7
Calculated Final Grade, 11
choosing a gradebook policy, 19
Create a Gradebook, 10
P
Points System, 9
D
Did you know?
Choosing a gradebook policy, 19
Delayed dropbox feedback, 29
Modifying gradebook settings, 16
Dropbox
create a dropbox, 25
how to process a dropbox, 27
R
Release final grades, 11
V
View grades, 23
W
E
entering grades, 22
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Weighted and Points Compared, 9
Weighted System, 7
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