{"id":1256,"date":"2024-07-03T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2024-07-03T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:27:39","slug":"creating-grade-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/2024\/07\/03\/creating-grade-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Grade Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are using<strong> weighted totals, <\/strong>you will need to set up <strong>Categories<\/strong> to house the assignments within the weighted section.&nbsp;For example, Discussions, may be 25% of your overall grade and Discussion 1, Discussion 2, and Discussion 3 would be <strong>Items <\/strong>under that category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This video and written instructions below will help you set up <strong>Categories<\/strong> and will show you how to use\u00a0<strong>Bulk Edit<\/strong> features when using <strong>Weighted totals<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grades Tool \u2013 Manage Grades\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Uw-b-CyEPk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To create a new category:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to\u00a0<strong>Grades\u00a0<\/strong>tab on the navibar and click the <strong>Manage Grades<\/strong> tab.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a <strong>Category<\/strong> by clicking on the\u00a0<strong>New<\/strong>\u00a0button and selecting\u00a0<strong>Category<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brightspace.cuny.edu\/content\/enforced\/307136-BrightspaceTrainingforBMCCFaculty\/Screenshot%202024-06-19%20at%203.34.12%E2%80%AFPM.png?ou=307136\" alt=\"create a category\" style=\"border-width:1px;width:600px\" title=\"\/content\/enforced\/307136-BrightspaceTrainingforBMCCFaculty\/Screenshot 2024-06-19 at 3.34.12\u202fPM.png\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you are using a weighted grading system, include the weight (percentage of final grade) <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Decide how you would like the grade items in that category to be distributed. Items can be weighed evenly, with varying distributions and possibly drop a lowest grade. You can make those selections here.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brightspace.cuny.edu\/content\/enforced\/307136-BrightspaceTrainingforBMCCFaculty\/Screenshot%202024-06-19%20at%203_20240619202457797.38.30%E2%80%AFPM.png?ou=307136\" alt=\"Weight distribution of a column\" style=\"width:600px\" title=\"\/content\/enforced\/307136-BrightspaceTrainingforBMCCFaculty\/Screenshot 2024-06-19 at 3.38.30\u202fPM.png\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be sure to click\u00a0<strong>Save<\/strong>\u00a0once you have made all the selections for your\u00a0<strong>Category<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you have created your <strong>Grade Categories<\/strong>, you can move existing items into those categories or set up new items in categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using weighted totals, you will need to set up Categories to house the assignments within the weighted section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[9],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}