Numeric Grade Items associated with either an Assignment, Quiz, Discussion or SCORM object within Grades will transfer to Blackboard's Gradebook post-migration (with caveats; see below). However, any Numeric Grade Items NOT associated with an Assignment, Quiz, Discussion or SCORM object will NOT transfer post-migration, and will need to be recreated manually.
While Calculated Grade Items do not transfer post-migration to Blackboard, Blackboard does support Calculated Items and thus they can be recreated in the Gradebook.
The following Grade Item types have no equivalency in the Blackboard Gradebook, and thus do NOT transfer to Blackboard post-migration. That said, some of the functionality of these items can be recreated by the use of Grade Schemas (see 'Grade Schemas' below for more information):
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The following Grade Item types have no equivalency in the Blackboard Gradebook, and thus cannot be recreated therein:
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Grade Schemas
Grade Schemes do not transfer post-migration, however:
We have recreated the standard Centennial College Grade Schema in all newly provisioned course shells in Blackboard, which will be used by default in the Gradebook.
Other commonly used custom Grade Schemas are available via the 'Course Development Template' Organization and if needed can be copied into your course from there.
Certain Grade Item Types not represented in Blackboard that did exist in eCentennial can have some degree of their functionality recreated using Grade Schemas. There include:
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Grade Categories
While Grade Categories do transfer to Blackboard, the items that were within those categories will not be post-migration. You will need to reassign your Grade Items to your categories in the Gradebook.
You will want to configure whether Grade Items in your Grade Categories contribute equally or proportionally to the weight the category is worth.
You will want to setup any specific calculation rules for your Grade Categories (e.g., if a certain number of lowest scores should be dropped).
Overall Grade
The Calculation Options in the Grades tool do NOT transfer to the Gradebook in your Blackboard course, meaning you will need to do the following when configuring your Overall Grade:
Assign your Gradebook to be either Points-based, Weighted or defined by a custom Calculation.
Configuring whether you want to 'calculate grades based on points earned out of total graded points' (this option is similar to the 'Drop Ungraded Items' versus 'Treat Ungraded Items as 0' options in eCentennial).
If you were NOT using Grade Categories within the Grades tool, you will want to unlink your Grade Items from the categories they have automatically been assigned to, then reweight them, as all Grade Items lose their percentage weighting in the Gradebook post-migration.
If you were using Grade Categories within the Grades tool you will want to weight those categories, as well as choose whether the items within the category contribute proportionally or equally to the percentage of the Overall Grade the category is worth.
