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Grading discussions

Grading discussions - Blackboard Tutorial

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Grading discussions

When you create a new discussion board forum, Blackboard asks you whether or not you want to grade that forum or threads. If you choose Grade Forum, it will create a score column in the Grade Center for that particular forum. If you choose Grade Threads, it will create a score column for each and every thread. Remember, if you are going to have lots of conversations that could make your Grade Center in credibly huge. In this case, we are going to go back, and I just want to make sure here for my Weekly Class Discussions, I am going to go click on the button with the two downward facing chevrons, click on Edit. I am going to scroll down. I just want to make sure that I actually turned this on and I did. So I am going to grade the forum. The forum is itself worth 100 points. I am going to click on Submit. So we know that this thing has been enabled. I can now grade the forum. So how actually do I do it? Well, the easiest way to do it is click on the name of the forum and then at the top…

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