Once all marking has been concluded and the marks and feedback have been added to the relevant Gradebook column, the final step is to submit those marks to the student record system using the grade mapping tool (this is known as 'mapping the marks'). Once this has been done, the most recent mark for each student will be copied across into the SIS Gradebook column and will then be extracted ready for your School SPS team to import into SIS.
Important things to note
- The points possible for your column of marks MUST be the same as the SIS work item points possible. The Blackboard to SIS extract does not extract percentages - it will always take the raw points behind the percentage.
- The Grade Mapping can only be carried out once
- Mapping should only be carried out once marking is concluded
- Once the mapping has happened and marks extracted, any subsequent changes to the marks will not update SIS automatically
- You cannot grade map an SIS fed assignment.
How to Grade Map a column of marks and extract them to SIS
- Once all marking has been concluded and you have a single column in the Gradebook that contains the marks, from the right hand Books & Tools menu, select Grade Column Mapping.
- The Grade Mapping tool will load and will list every SIS work item that has fed into that course as Grade Mappings under the SIS Assessment column.
- Any Gradebook columns which are available to be mapped will be listed in the Gradebook Column dropdown.
- Against the relevant SIS Assessment, from the Gradebook column dropdown, select the Gradebook column where you have entered the marks.
- Select Map and Extract Grades.
- You will be taken to an extract grade page - select Submit. The marks will then extracted to ISIS.
- You will be redirected to the Release marks to ISIS page where the SIS Assessment will be showing as extracting.
- If you look back in the Grade Column Mapping tool, the SIS Assessment and the Gradebook Column that you mapped will now be locked but you will still have an Extract Grades button. You can only extract grades to SIS once, if for whatever reason you did not extract the grades when you initially carried out the grade mapping, you can use the Extract Grades button to extract.
