Brightspace/Classes: Running Total Grades

Introduction

This tutorial explains how to display a running total grade so students know where their course grade stands at all times throughout the semester.

Instructions

1. In your course, go to Achievement and Grades in the blue navbar
2. Click the Settings gear icon in the upper right of the screen
   
3. Click the Calculation Options tab.
   
    
4. Scroll down and select the Calculated Final Grade radio dial and check the Automatically release final grade option.
   
    
5. Press Save and Yes.
    
6. Go back to Achievement and Grades in the blue navbar.
    
7. Scroll down to the Final Calculated Grade column and note if the eye in the column has a slash through it or not.  If the eye does not have a slash, you are done. If it does, as in the image below, you must release the final grades to students so that they can view them.
   
   
    
8.  To release final grades (make them visible to students), click the dropdown arrow next to the Final Calculated Grade column and select Enter Grades.
   
9. Select all students by clicking the top checkbox in the table, then click the blue Release/Unrelease text so that each student gets a check in the Released column of the table.
   
    
10. Press Save and Close. The grades are now visible to students.