Gradebook Settings

Choose how student names are displayed in grid view: First name last name or Last name, first name. Toggle the Student ID column on or off. When shown, Student ID appears in its own sortable column.

Select Download grades or Upload gradebook to work with grade data outside Blackboard LMS.

Grading schemas map percentages to letter grades or another notation for reporting performance. Select Manage Grade Schemas.

Identify students with alerts and receive activity stream notifications, based on:

If you leave a field empty, that alert won't show. Select the checkbox to send activity stream notifications to students based on these same settings. Select View Course Activity to open the Course Activity report.

Assign automatic zeros for past due work. Students can still submit late to update their grade, and students with due date accommodations aren't affected.

Select Manage overall grade settings.

Hide students in the gradebook who no longer have access to the course.

Select Manage gradebook items to configure column visibility across all gradebook views. This applies to all non-student users (instructors, TAs, graders). Student view is unaffected: a hidden column stays hidden from non-student users but still appears for students.

Grade categories are groups of similar coursework. Select Add New Category to create one, or manage existing categories from this list, covered in Grade Categories.

Select Create or Generate to build a new rubric directly from this panel, or manage existing rubrics from this list.

Override a student's overall grade with a notation that falls outside the course grade schema, for example when a student withdraws mid-semester.

Select Add Overall Grade Notation, then enter a name and description. To apply a notation, select the student's overall grade cell in Grid View and choose the notation. The cell turns gray to indicate an override. To remove it, select the cell again and select Undo Override.