Overview: Grades

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Overview

The Grades tool gives you access to your course grade book. Your grade book includes all the scores that you have recorded for your students across all assignments. If you set a grading policy in the Assignment tool, it will automatically be reflected in the grade book and even display a calculated final grade column. Any grades entered using the SpeedGrader appear in the grade book, but you can also manually enter grades as well. The grade book gives you a quick glance of how you have evaluated your students at any given date in the course, and offers some quick ways to communicate with them about their performance.

Each change in the grade book is saved automatically so you never lose any of your work. When using the grade book, instructors can activate SpeedGrader, curve grades, and send messages to all of the students who haven’t submitted or who have scored less than an identified score on a specific assignment. You may also export and import grade book scores in .csv format.