Grade Schemas

This page serves as a reference for how to access and manage Grade Schema settings within the Gradebook settings of your Blackboard course.

Accessing Grade Schema Settings

In your Blackboard course, open the Gradebook tab in the course navigation menu.

Find and click the gear icon below "Student Preview" to access the Gradebook settings. 

The first section of the Gradebook Settings is "Grade Schemas." In this section, find the link that reads "Manage Grade Schemas" and click to open the Grade Schema settings.

Managing Grade Schemas

Adding New Grade Schemas

By default, Blackboard will have the SU Letter grading schema already created and ready for use within your course. If you wish to use a difference grade schema, follow the instructions below. 

Steps:

1. Click the " Add" button located underneath the "Grade Schemas" title menu of the page.
2. When the pop up menu appears, type your preferred title.
3. Click the black "Add" button on the pop up menu to save and create a table for the new grade schema. 

Editing a Grade Schema

Once you have created a new grade schema template, you can now edit the table to fit your needs.

Let's create an example schema to adhere to the following grading scale:

A = 90%-100%

B = 80%-90%

C = 70%-80%

D = 60%-70%

F = 0%-60%

When you create a new Grade Schema, the table that is created will only have two rows and the rows are defaulted with the Grade name "A" and "F" and the grade Range % as "50%-100%" and "0%-50%" respectively.

The grading scale example above shows that you need five different rows in the table so you will need to add three rows, hovering the mouse between the two existing rows until the plus sign appears and clicking the plus sign three times. 

Once the rows are added, type the needed "Grade Name" for each respective row.

In our current example, we will name these rows "B," "C," and "D" (as rows "A" and "F" already exist within the table).

To edit the Grade Range %, either click the three dots to the right of the row to open the "Edit" option, or simply click on the percentage that you want to edit and an editable text box will appear.

Please note that only the lower bound percent of the grade range can be edited. 

You will notice in the screen grab below that the upper bound percentages automatically change based on changes that were made in the previous row.

When all edits are made, be sure to click the black "Save" button in the lower right hand corner. 

Applying Grade Schema to Gradable Items

Once grade schemas are created in the system, they are available to be used and applied to any gradable items that you add into an Blackboard course.