This training guide will walk you through using the eCampus Ultra gradebook and related tools. In addition to basic grade entry, tests, and grading with a rubric, you’ll also see how to monitor grades from the Retention Center tool, work in an offline spreadsheet, and create weighted calculations.
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After logging into eCampus, click Courses in the navigator menu.
Click to open one of your Ultra eCampus courses (with a colored bar).
Click the Gradebook tab at the top of your course page.
If there are items that need grading, the number of items will appear in a circle on the Gradebook tab.
The initial view of the Gradebook is the overviewOverview, which shows how many items need to be graded or posted. You can switch between Gradable Items, Grades (spreadsheet), and the Student Students view of the gradebook.
Gradable Items shows a list of all the Gradable Items (and calculated items).
Grades is a grid view that displays a traditional spreadsheet version of the gradebook, with columns for each graded item or calculation and rows for each student.
Students shows a list of all students and their overall grade.
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The Item column shows the Overall Grade and the names of all gradable items (Assignments, Tests, Discussions, etc.)
The Overall Grade will not display an actual grade or any details here, since its purpose is to show each student’s grade in the course. Click Overall Grade to see each student’s grade.
Clicking a number in the Grading Status column (x to grade) takes you to opens the item needing that needs to be graded.
Clicking the Post x gradegrades button in the Post column will reveal the grade to the student and add the item’s grade to the Overall Grade calculation.
Clicking the ellipsis (…) allows you to send a reminder to students, access the settings for the assignment or delete it.
Clicking the item/assignment name opens the actual item to the Submissions tab, which displays a list of all students, their submission status, grade on the assignment, and posted status.
Clicking the ellipsis at the far right of the column for a student enables you to grant an exception or exemption for this student.
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By default, percentages will be allocated equally to all categories, even if you are not using that category.
To remove a category that you are not using, click the circle with a line through it.
The removed categories now have a purple icon. Allocations are recalculated to show the weights according to only the categories that are used in the course.
You can change the weight of categories by clicking within a category’s cell and entering a different weight. All weights must total 100%.
To view the items within a category, click the inverted caret.
Within the category, you can exclude an item’s score from the calculation, or unlink an item from its category.
For each category, you can click Edit calculation rules (to the right of the category name) to choose to drop the lowest or highest scores, or to use only the highest or lowest score, or to use just specific scores.
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