Creating a Smart View

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Smart Views are views of the Grade Center based on a variety of student criteria. This enables instructors to create certain views of the Grade Center based on performance criteria for items such as assessments or assignments that quickly track students.

How to Create a Smart View

Smart Views of Grade Center data are based on groups that have been created in a course. Course groups must be made before they are selected for a Smart View. For more information on creating a Course Group, see the section on Groups in the instructor manual.

To create a Smart View, you should point to Manage button and select Smart Views from the drop-down list.

Click Create Smart View button.

Type a Name and a Description for the Smart View.

Select Type of View. Select the Criteria for the Group. Selections include: Equal to and Not equal to. Select the value of the Group, which would be the Group name.

Select the Filter Results by picking which Columns to Display in Results from the drop-down list. To select more than one item, hold down Ctrl key on the keyboard and click the desired items.

The following choices are possible:

Columns to Display

Description

All Columns

Select all Grade Center columns.

None

Do not select any Grade Center columns.

All columns shown to users

Select all columns that are shown to users. Columns that have been hidden are not shown.

All columns hidden to users

Select all columns that have been hidden from users.

Selected Columns Only

Select the desired columns from the selection list or list of columns.

Selected Categories Only

Select the desired Categories from the list of Categories.

Selected Grading Periods Only

Select desired Grading Periods from the list of Grading Periods.

Click Include Hidden Information to include hidden columns in the Smart View.

Click Submit button to save the Smart View.  

Once built and saved, Smart Views become a selectable list item on the Current View drop-down list of the Grade Center page, enabling easy navigation from one view to another. Any Smart View is saved as the default view of the Grade Center. The current default view can be changed at any time.

 

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