Creating grading periods

We're back in our Grade Center.…I'm going to scroll over the far left and scroll up the page.…To create a new grading period, what we're going to do is go to Manage > Grading…Periods, and then click Create Grading Period.…What exactly is a grading period?…Well, you may have a long class, a class that spans several months, and during…those several months, you may have lots and lots and lots of score columns over…a really long period of time.…

It's going to be the same Grade Center.…It's going to be the same students. But what you want to do is organize your…Grade Center, you want to chunk it, by time periods.…You might want to have the first half of your term or the second half of the…term or if you're teaching in a 180- day academic year, you might want to do…first nine weeks, second nine weeks.…What this allows you to do is you can filter the Grade Center view.…So instead of seeing the entire Grade Center, you can see a grading period.…You can also, if you want to, calculate grades just for that period or just…