Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Italic Scores in the Grade Book

When using Blackboard CE 6 do you ever wonder why midterm and final grade columns sometimes show numbers in italics and parenthesis, such as (225), and others are not, such as (239), e.g, no parenthesis, and no italics?

When a score is in italics it means that some of the column scores (used in the formula to determine the value in the calculated column) have not been posted yet. Once all columns have a score (number) posted, the calculated score changes to non-italicized.

Italics within parentheses indicate that some of the grades being used as input for the calculation in the column are missing, so the calculation is incomplete.

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