For summative work that HAS NOT been submitted via a single SIS fed Blackboard Assignment:
Grade Column Mapping
Grade Column Mapping is a function to send a column of marks that you have entered in the Gradebook, back to an assessment item in the student record system (SIS). In order to use Grade Column mapping, the work item in the student record system would need to be set up accordingly.
Please see our Grade Column Mapping guidance for more detail.
For summative or formative work that HAS been submitted via a Blackboard Assignment:
Gradebook
The Gradebook is the standard Blackboard grading tool. It provides various views of the submissions for all Blackboard assessments. Markers click into the students assignment attempt and they can enter a mark and feedback. There is currently no allocation to markers and only one field to enter a mark.
| Can I use Rubrics? | Yes |
| Can I mark anonymously? | Yes, the assignment can be set as ‘Hide student names’ |
| Can the Grade Centre allocate marking? | No. Module Leaders would need to tell the marking team which students they should mark by student number or name |
UWE has developed its own UWE Marking Allocation tool which gives a way of allocating marking and provides the markers with links through to the attempt in the Gradebook. Please see UWE Marking Allocation tool for guidance.
Please see our What type of marking do you need to carry out? guidance to help you decide which tool is appropriate.
UWE Spreadsheet Marking
The UWE Spreadsheet Marking tool was developed by Blackboard for UWE. It provides the ability for the module leader to create zip packages of student submissions for the marking team. Each zip contains a spreadsheet to record the marks for that set of students as well as the student submitted files.
Each marker packages up their marked spreadsheet and feedback files into a new zip and uploads it back into the UWE Spreadsheet Marking tool. When ready, the module leader releases the marking packages.
| Can I use Rubrics? | You can't use the Blackboard Rubric function but you could use a marking rubric outside of Blackboard. |
| Can I mark anonymously? | Yes, if it was a manually created assignment or the SIS work item is set to be anonymous, the tool will use student numbers. |
| Can I allocate marking? | Yes. You can create packages of submissions for each marker. |
Please see our What type of marking do you need to carry out? guidance to help you decide which tool is appropriate.