Display the Final Calculated Grade in Brightspace

Display the Final Calculated Grade in Brightspace

Make each student’s overall grade visible in Grades and keep it updated as you enter marks. Follow the steps below to enable automatic release or manually release existing grades.

Step 1: Open Calculation Options

  1. Open your Brightspace course and select Assessments > Grades.
  2. Select Settings in the top-right corner.
  3. Select the Calculation Options tab.
Brightspace Grades settings showing the Calculation Options tab.

Step 2: Display and Update the Calculated Grade

  1. Under Final Grade Released, select Calculated Final Grade.
  2. Select Automatically release final grade.
  3. Under Auto Update, select Automatically keep final grades updated.
  4. Select Save, then Close.

Showing progress during the semester? Select Drop ungraded items to calculate the current grade using graded work only. Treat ungraded items as 0 includes ungraded work as zero. Enter an explicit zero for missing work when appropriate to your course grading policy.

Settings for releasing the calculated final grade and keeping final grades updated.

Step 3: Release Existing Grades if Needed

If existing final grades are still hidden, release them manually:

  1. Return to Enter Grades.
  2. Open the dropdown beside the Final Calculated Grade column heading and select Enter Grades.
  3. On the next screen, open the dropdown beside the Final Grades page heading and select Release All.
  4. Confirm the release when prompted.
Manually releasing existing final calculated grades in Brightspace.

Step 4: Check the Student View

  1. In Enter Grades, open the dropdown beside a student’s name and select Preview.
  2. Check that the overall calculated grade appears in the student’s grade summary.
Checking the student view of grades in Brightspace.

Need Help?

For support with grade calculations or releasing grades, contact the Educational Technology team.

edtech@okanagancollege.ca

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