Downloading Grade Center Data

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Instructors have the ability to download Grade Center data as a delimited file that is used in other applications such as spreadsheet programs or statistical analysis programs. Instructors can select specific data to download, or download the complete Grade Center data set to a local computer.

To download a Grade Center data set, you need to log on your to Blackboard, enter your course and click on Control Panel in the lower left of the screen. Click on Grade Center under Evaluation.

 

Click on Work Offline button then click Download link.

 

Check the radio buttons to select the data that you wish to download:

Full Grade Center: Contains all columns and associated data.

Selected Column: Using the drop-down list, select one column and its data. Check the box to include comments for the column.

Using Information Only: Only columns containing student data such as User Name are included.

 

Move down to the Options area, and select the file delimiter, Comma or Tab.

Comma delimited files contain data surrounded by quotation marks (quote character) and have the file extension .CSV. Comma delimited files will not open directly in Microsoft Excel.

Tab delimited files do not contain quote characters and have the file extension .xls. Tab delimited files will open directly in Microsoft Excel.

Select whether or not to Include Hidden Information in the downloaded data. Hidden information includes columns and students that have been hidden from the view being downloaded.

 

Click Submit button.

 

The data has been saved to a file. To download the file to a local computer and work off line, you can click Download button.

 

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