Using Grade Centre has numerous benefits, such as built-in security and monitoring, fewer manual transfer errors and the ability to review mark changes.
The Grade Centre provides an area within your Blackboard course to store student marks, while student scores from Blackboard tests and surveys are stored in the Grade Centre automatically.
Grade Centre allows you to enter grades and/or grade submitted work such as online Tests, Turnitin assignments, Blackboard assignments, Discussion Boards and the ePortfolio system. Changes made in the Grade Center are “instantly” available to students.
Manually add marks and information to the Grade Centre.
Perform basic calculations such as average marks, total marks and weighed marks.
Colour coding can identify students above or below a threshold (i.e. students who failed a hurdle task).
Import and export of Grade Centre data to a spreadsheet.
Bulk upload MCQ test results.
Smart views can customise the Grade Centre view based on groups (i.e. tutorial, seminar and practical groups).
Grades history tracking and the ability to review mark changes.
Grade Centre column automatically created for all Blackboard tools and Turnitin.
Does not accomodate hurdles.
Cannot do complex calculations.