The Grade Center in Scholar has been replaced by a completely new Gradebook tool.  It functions completely differently from the Grade Center.

To access the Gradebook click the Gradebook link at the top left.

The gradebook has two views, List View and Grid View, you can click on the view toggle to change it.

In List View, you can choose between listing all gradable items or all students.  If you choose Gradable Items, you can click on the assignment to grade it.

If you are looking at Students, you can click on the student to view and edit all that student's grades.

Grid View is more like a traditional gradebook.  You'll see your students as rows and the assignments in columns.

To grade a student's work, you can click the Grade Now button. After you grade a student's work, you'll need to post the grade so that they can see it.  Click the grade and choose Post.

To post all grades for a particular assignment, click that assignment and choose post.

Adding Columns

Just like with the original Grade Center, any tests or assignments collected in Scholar automatically get columns. You should NOT add gradebook columns for these items.  If you want to add a column for something that is collected outside of Scholar, hover where you'd like it in either the Gradable Items view or the Grid View and click the plus sign.  Then choose "Add Item".

Once you do that, the column information popup will appear on the right.

Give the column a name.

Next, you can control whether the column is visible to students and set a due date for the non-Scholar assignment.

You can choose whether you're displaying the grade on percentage, points, or a letter, and how many total points the assignment will be.

Finally, choose the grade category that you want the assignment to be in.  This is especially important with how the Ultra Gradebook does calculations.

Click Save at the bottom and the column will be created.

Overall Gradebook Settings

To change the overall settings for the Gradebook, click the gear icon at the top right.

You can change the translation of percentages to letter grades by clicking the grade schema link.

If you've set up an overall grade, you can set notifications to come to you and your students when their grade falls below a percentage you choose and/or they've been inactive for a certain amount of time.

You can have Scholar automatically assign zeroes to students that don't submit assignments by the listed due date.  These grades can be updated later, and students with accommodations will not be penalized.

Click "Manage overall grade settings" to set up the overall grade.  This will be discussed in a later section.

Next you can control the categories in the Gradebook. Scholar has several built-in categories, but you can add your own by clicking Add New Category.

Type a name and press enter.

You can change the name of or delete a category that you create by clicking the three dots next to that category.

Overall Grade

The overall grade is completely different from how it worked in the Original Grade Center.  If you haven't set up an overall grade for the course, there will be a button at the bottom of your Gradebook.  Otherwise, you can click the link in your Gradebook options.

ALL overall grades are now based on categories or individually-weighted columns.  You can no longer combine categories and columns in weights.  To choose whether to weight columns or categories, use the dropdown.

Unlike the default way of calculating grades on the original Grade Center, grades within a category have the total points added up and then divided by the total points possible.

For example, let's consider a category with two assignments, one worth 10 points and one worth 100 points

In the original Grade Center, you'd take the average of the percentages (pretty much disregarding the points possible).  Averaging the two grades gives you 75%.  In Ultra, all points are added up, then divided by the total points possible, for an overall grade of about 95%.

To set the percentage weight of your categories, enter them in the "Overall grade percentage" column.

Click the no sign to remove a category or column from the calculation.

To drop grades from a category, click Add Rule.

Click the toggle, click Drop Scores, and enter a number of scores to drop.

Grading Based on Total Points

If you want to grade on total points, assign ALL graded items to the same category.  Then weight that category at 100% of the overall grade.