Avenue Grades

Welcome to the Avenue to Learn Assessment Tools - Grades workshop. This is a blended workshop - meaning that before you attend the in-person session, you will have viewed the resources on this page, tried some of these tasks in a course shell and then attended our face-to-face working session where you will put what you've learned into practice. We strongly encourage you to bring materials that you might use for your course to the session, that way you will be able to use that time for developing your actual course. If you do not have all your materials prepared, that's fine, bring what you can to the session. The outcomes for this course are:

• You will be able to configure the Grades tool to display the grades that are listed in your Course Outline/Syllabus.
• You will personalize how the grades in the Grades tool are displayed.
• You will understand the mechanism for exporting a CSV or an Excel spreadsheet to capture the information you will need for a variety of different purposes.

Here you will learn how to set up your gradebook, create grade items and input grades.

When you receive your course and you first access the Grades tool, you will be asked to go through the Grades Setup Wizard. The Setup Wizard will help with general configuration of your course gradebook. Here is some more information about the process: https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/grades-setup-wizard

There are two types of options that can be created in Grades; Categories and Items.

Once your gradebook has been set up, you will want to start creating some Grade Items. Most Grade Items will be numeric however, there are other types of Grade Items that you can create (selectbox, pass/fail, formula, calculated and text). Here's how to create a numeric Grade Item: https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/creating-numeric-grade-items

Below is a video to help demonstrate the process of creating a Grade Item.

When it comes to inputting grades, you can either enter them directly in Avenue (https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/entering-grades) or you can import them from a spreadsheet (https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/importing-grades). If you choose to import them from a spreadsheet - we suggest that you first export a constructed gradebok from Avenue first to CSV.

INSERT INSTRUCTIONS TO EXPORT TO CSV/AND IMPORT

For questions or concerns, Avenue support is available from Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM at (905) 525-9140 ext. 22911 or email support.avenue@cll.mcmaster.ca.