>> Welcome to Cengage Learning CengageNow, Managing the Gradebook Overview video.
This is an installment of the digital course support self-training video series for instructors.
Our agenda for this video is to guide you through the basics of managing the gradebook
for your course.
Once a student finishes an assignment in CengageNow, you can use tools found in your gradebook
to review the answers and score any items requiring manual grading.
If necessary you can adjust scoring for any item, student, or assignment.
The gradebook overview page displays the names of all students enrolled in a course, and
their individual scores for assignments.
A gradebook shading features highlights which student assignments are falling into a specific
percentile.
Expand the perform student and assignment actions or manage columns menus to access
links to additional tools.
It's important to note that assignments that your students have saved to resume later will
display and in progress icon and their current score.
You can use the gradebook preferences page to control what kind of information is included
on your gradebook page.
To display this feature, click the link to show all options.
Check the box next to an item to include the information on the page or to use it as part
of the score calculation.
Use the radio buttons to select between display styles.
You can choose to display your gradebook's course score either as a percentage or as
total points or simply display the assignments as either taken or not taken.
The CengageNow report creator gives you a quick way to view overall or cumulative course
grades.
Grades for particular assignments, individual students responses, or export the entire gradebook.
Reports are generated in file formats that can be printed, viewed on screen, or exported
to other software i.e. spreadsheet applications for further editing.
To get started, select a report type from the drop down menu to open the report creator
page.
The export course gradebook option allows you to export the information from the current
course as a file format that can be imported into an alternate course management system
or edited in a spreadsheet or database application.
The course or section drop down menu allows you to select a new course and refresh the
page.
The edit grade categories link opens a page where you can create new categories or edit
any existing categories.
The show all options or hide all options link determines whether the gradebook preferences
are displayed.
The columns for student name, student ID, email, total score, and total time spent,
also an X button that allows you to hide individual columns.
You can click on any active column heading to organize the gradebook table by that column
in ascending or descending order.
And the manage columns menu allows you to both return columns you've hidden and view
hidden assignments.
To limit the names listed in a course with quite a few students, you can select an alphabetical
range from a drop down menu located to the right on the screen, show all options bar.
Select the appropriate alphabetical grouping to refresh the list.
You can also use the previous and next links to browse the pages of student names in sequence.
The enter student text box allows you to search for a specific student's information.
Enter part of the student's name and click the find button.
When you would like to return to the full list of students, click the show all students
link.
Thank you for taking the time to review this self-training video.
We hope you found it helpful.
Please make sure to check out our other self-training videos and resources for more help with your
Cengage digital products.