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After you log in to your course in

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D2L, select Grades from the navigation bar.

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Grades Setup Wizard

When creating a grade book for the first time, the Grades Setup Wizard starts automatically and takes you through seven steps that help you select options for how grades are calculated and displayed.

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This step displays a summary of the options you selected. Select Finish to complete the Setup Wizard.

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Creating Gradebook Categories

Gradebook categories let you organize and group related grade items into sections. For example, you could have separate categories for Assignments, Quizzes, Participation, Discussions,

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etc. When grade items are grouped together in a category, you can distribute points equally across all grade items and drop the highest or lowest item in the group.

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You can now create a New Category.

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General

Type a Name for the category.

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Select Show Description, enter the description text and select the Allow users to view description check box to make the description visible to users, (optional)

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Grading

Can Exceed -- Select this option if you want grades to be able to exceed the maximum value for the category.

Exclude from Final Grade Calculation – Select this option if you want to exclude this grade category final grade calculation.

Distribute points across all items – Select this option if you want all items in the category to be worth the same number of points. If you select this option, enter the Points per item. You also have the option of dropping the highest and lowest scores for each user.

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Display Options

These options determine how this grade category will appear to students.

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When you have finished creating your Categories you can start creating your Grade Items.

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Creating Numeric Grade Items

Step 1: From the Manage Grades area, select Item from the New dropdown menu.

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When you return to Manage Grades, you will see your Grade Categories and Grade Items.

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Entering Grades

To enter grades, select the Enter Grades tab.

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Make sure to select Save after you have entered or changed grades.

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