The My Grades tool allows students to track their grades in WebCT. Students will only be able to see the grades you release to them, and only their own grades, not those of other members of the class.

If you keep a grade book outside of WebCT in Excel or another spreadsheet, you can upload those grades to the WebCT grade book, so that students can also track those grades online. (See the handout Creating an Excel Workbook for use as a grade book in WebCT for details.)

There are two steps to make grades available for students to see in WebCT

• Add the My Grades tool. You only need to do this once per course.
• Unhide and release the grade book columns you wish to allow the students to see. You need to do this each time you have a new column you want the students to be able to see. Most likely this will be each time you add a new column to the grade book.

Adding the My Grades tool:

1. Click the Add Page or Tool link in the Control Panel or Designer Map.
   

2. Click the My Grades tool from the Student Tools group.
   

3. Enter a title for the page. This will be the text of the link to the tool. Decide where you want the link to go (on an organizer page, navigation bar, or both) and click Add.
   

Releasing columns in the Grade book to Students:

1. From the Control Panel click Manage Course.
   

2. On the Manage Course page, under Manage Students, click Manage Columns.
   

3. The grade book columns are displayed. Scroll down until you find a row named Hidden, and then scroll across until you are in the column you want to release. Make sure no is selected in the Hidden row.
   

4. Now look for a row named Released. Scroll across to the column you want to release and make sure yes is selected in the Released row. To Change a column, or several columns, check the box above the column(s), and in the Actions bar change the appropriate drop down menu and click Go:
   

Reminder: Each time you create a new column in the grade book, or WebCT creates a new column for you (eg, quiz or survey results) you need to "unhide" and "release" that column before students can see it.

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