During the program, professors should take the attendance in every session. 

As a general rule, students attending less than 80% of sessions will receive a FAIL for the course 

(Note: Attendance in not the same as participation. )

Click here to check the attendance policy and learn how to use the attendance tool 

During the program, professors can use blackboard to  assess students, creating  individual or group assignments,  tests,  discussions etc.  and share their grades an feedback through the  gradebook  

FOR MASTER'S PROGRAMS, PLEASE DO NOT SET THE OVERALL GRADE IN THE BLACKBOARD GRADEBOOK

4.5. UPLOAD or  FILL IN THE GRADES IN THE EVALUATION CRITERIA COLUMNS

There are 2 options:

A) Enter grades manually: Type the grades one by one in the evaluation criteria columns.

The allowed values are either between 0 and 10 or between 0 and 100.

B) UPLOAD CSV (BLACKBOARD OTHER) - Recommended ! New process since June 2026

1. Open your course in Blackboard and go to the Gradebook. Click the gear icon in the upper-right corner to open Gradebook Settings.

2. Click DOWNLOAD GRADES.

3. Under Record Details, select the gradebook columns you want to download. These must correspond to the EVALUATION CRITERIA columns. Grades must be on a 10-point or 100-point scale. Do not download the Overall Grade.

4. Select Tab-separated File (.xls) and My Device.

5. Click DOWNLOAD.

6. Open the downloaded spreadsheet in Excel and check the following:
   • Grade column headers must exactly match the EVALUATION CRITERIA column names. Rename them in Excel if necessary.
   • The spreadsheet must include a column USERNAME containing each student’s email address.
   • Duplicate column headers are not allowed.
   • The spreadsheet must include all students enrolled in the course.

7. Save the file as CSV (.csv).

8. In the grading platform, click the purple UPLOAD CSV (BLACKBOARD OTHER) button.

4.6. PRESS SAVE PROGRESS, TO GENERATE  THE OVERALL GRADE AND THE CURVE

Once the grades are included in the evaluation criteria columns, press SAVE PROGRESS

The overall GRADE will be calculated automatically, and the distribution on the curve will be generated. 

GRADE: Since the final grade cannot be modified manually, if you need to change the final grade, you must adjust the grades in the evaluation criteria columns so that the final grade is recalculated.

LITERAL SCORE: 

Check the GRADES DISTRIBUTION button to see the maximum number of students that may be in each range of the curve.

You can only modify the number of students within a range, as long as it complies with the number indicated by the grade distribution, by one up or down.

If two students who have the same grade and therefore deserve the same literal score cannot be included in the same range because the maximum number of students for that range has been exceeded, in that case, one of the students will receive a different literal score. However, you should contact the vice dean and program management to ask them to change the literal score after the review session.

FAIL grades assigned by the system cannot be modified. Additionally, you can manually assign a fail grade by selecting “Fail professor” in the drop-down menu when the student:1. Did not take the course, 2. Failed due to poor attendance, or 3. Failed due to an ethical case.

SAVE PROGRESS: Please make sure to always save your grades before exiting the page or closing your web browser.

(If you would like to KEEP A COPYof the grades  you can download it  by clicking “ EXPORT”)

**COURSES IN WHICH THE GRADING CURVE DOES NOT APPLY

a)ISAs Impact Skills Accelerator courses, b) courses with less than 15 students  c) exceptions. In these courses where the bell curve is not applied, literal scores must be assigned manually by the professor. With regard to rankings and GPAs, it is advisable to distribute all types of literal scores.

4.7. REVIEW SESSIONS 

You must fill out the box with the date and time for the students' review sessions. Otherwise, you cannot send the grades.

• The review session must take place on a specific date, between 2 and 10 school days after the grade publication.

• Your course may be affected by the early grades policy, which hides the grades of students who have not filled in the professor's survey for 7 days. Due to this, the review session should take place starting from the 8th day after the grades’ publication and on days 9th and 10th.

• *NGS/NGU grades do not have a review session.

4.8. SUBMIT FINAL GRADES

Once you have verified that the scores are correct and have selected the review date, click SUBMIT FINAL GRADES . Program Management will check the scores and either:

1. If everything is correct, they will publish them and the status will change to “PUBLISHED”. Program management will send you an email confirming the publication of grades, along with the date and time of the review session and the link where students will register for it. The review session will take place on Zoom.

2. They can  reject and return the evaluation sheet to you for revision if they spot an error or have a comment about the grade distribution. In that case, you will receive an email from them, and the status will change to "REJECTED."

For ad hoc faculty training, please connect to our office hours.

faculty.training.support@ie.edu  

Faculty guide for liquid learning

Blackboard ULTRA faculty site

Upcoming webinars  for faculty

4. INSTALL EARLY GRADES IN YOUR COURSE 

In order to increase student participation in the course surveys, we have incorporated some mechanisms which will anticipate the publication of the final grades for students who fill out the surveys, compared to their peers who did not submit them. 

To activate these mechanisms we need your collaboration. 

Please click here to read further instructions