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iPD’s Guide for Course Design & Development

Triggering the Brightspace Gradebook – Participation

Standard

The standard with which Michigan Virtual courses need to comply. 

Michigan Virtual will trigger the Brightspace Gradebook for participation in courses where completion must be tracked for course credit.

This will be used if the goal is to ensure that learners have completed all activities on the page, regardless of learner accuracy or mastery. An example can be found in Phenomenal Science Course.

Note: Learners must complete all activities on a page to trigger completion of the page.

 

Requirements 

What exactly do course developers need to include in order to comply with this standard? 

  1. In order to trigger a grade from CourseArc, Michigan Virtual must edit the page in Brightspace to change “Ungraded” to “Graded” and provide a number of points. 
  2. Once changed to “Graded” it can then be linked in the gradebook using one of the grading schemes.
  3. Naming of CourseArc page must exactly match name of graded item in grade book for learner ease.

 

Implementation 

How can course developers implement this standard? What is the process for doing so?

Step 1. CourseArc Settings

Change settings of course using “Edit Course”. Change settings of the entire course using “Edit Course”. This can only be changed on a course level. 

There are two different options that can be used to grade CourseArc pages into Brightspace: Participation and Cumulative.

With both, keep score syncing as “Automatic”.

For this option, the following are the different blocks that can be tracked for participation: 

Checklist, Classification, Cloze, Flashcards, Flashcards with Images, Graphic Organizer, Graphing, Image Hotspots, Image Labeling, Image Matching, Interactive Categorization, Interactive Matching, Poll, Quiz, Quiz Bank Quiz, Self Check, Survey, and Writing.

Note: You do not need to update point values with this option.

Step 2. BrightSpace Page Settings

  1. Select three dots in top left corner of page and select “Edit”.
  1. In the “Edit” page, select “In Gradebook” drop down to change from “Ungraded” to “In Gradebook”

Settings for “In Grade Book” pop up.

  1. When linking to gradebook, organize into categories if applicable.
  1. Additionally, show the score in one of the three schemes: Percentage, Complete/Incomplete SCHEME, and Incomplete (1%)/Making progress/Complete (99%).
  1. Double check the settings to ensure: title matches gradebook entry, grade out of is a number, and the item is linked within the gradebook.

Step 3. BrightSpace Grade Book

For specific information about setting up the grade book, refer to the style guide Brightspace Grade Book Set Up.

Ensure that the name of the assignment matches the name of the “external learning tool”.

 

Resources

What resources would help a developer implement this standard appropriately?