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       Custom Gradebook and Grade Entry, (pdf) by Arlene Zimmerly


This presentation is designed to help you become a power user of the Custom Gradebook feature. It therefore includes a great deal of detail. Remember that once you set up your custom gradebook, your work is essentially “done” for all your classes. You can use your gradebook each semester and share it with others.
 

Custom Gradebook Help, by Arlene Zimmerly
Click here for a handout that includes all grading principles from this presentation. This handout will be a valuable reference as you fine tune your gradebook.
 

Importing a Custom Gradebook

Go to GDP's Help feature and click Gregg College Keyboarding, 10th Edition, Using a Custom Gradebook and Managing Custom Gradebooks to learn about GDP's Custom Gradebook features. Below are some sample Custom Gradebook templates you can import and use as a starting point for your own custom gradebook. After downloading the desired gradebook template below, follow these steps to import them into GDP:

  1. In a GDP Network Installation, click Options, Instructor Options; click your name, enter password.

  2. Click LAN Gradebook (or Web Gradebook to go to the Instructor Management Web Site where you will log on), Manage Custom Gradebook, Import Gradebook, Select Gradebook.

  3. Browse to the saved *.ggb gradebook, click Open, OK; Close.

  4. Click Create New Class, type in a course name.

  5. Click Custom Gradebook, click the list arrow to the right of the Select a gradebook box.

  6. Click the desired gradebook, Use This Gradebook, Save.

  7. Click the class you newly created class, Show List of Students.

  8. Click each tab in order for Edit Grading Parameters, Select Grade Scale, and Set Up Grading Parameters and edit as desired.

  9. Click Save when you're done.
     

Custom Gradebook Templates, by Jack Johnson

These gradebooks (created by Jack Johnson) contain the basic categories as well as the graded/required documents used in his keyboarding class.
 

Click Custom Gradebook Installation Johnson.doc, which lists steps to download and import the gradebook and explains which documents, exercises, and activities were used. Right-click the links below, click Save Target As, and save the gradebook files to your desktop. Then follow the steps listed in Custom Gradebook Installation Johnson.doc to import and use the gradebook in GDP.
 
bullet Custom 1-60.ggb. Lesson 61-120 activities are in the "unassigned" category.
bullet Custom 61-120.ggb. Lesson 61-120 activities are in the "unassigned" category.
bullet Custom 1-120.ggb. Includes all 120 lessons.
 

Custom Gradebook Template, by Arlene Zimmerly

This gradebook is designed to help instructors who don't want to assign two separate, individually weighted grades for keystroking accuracy for a given document. Zimmerly's approach is to assign one grade based on keystroke accuracy and format and completion times (for tests only). She uses GDP's Override Weighted Average feature to accomplish this. Then GDP automatically calculates a grade average for each category and calculates the final course grade.

Click Custom Gradebook Installation Zimmerly.doc for steps to download and import the gradebook and see which documents, exercises, and activities were used. The examples below are based on the grading system Professor Zimmerly uses in her Keyboarding Online class. Here are some helpful links;
 
bullet Course Outline, Grading Policies, Progress Folder, and Spreadsheet.
 
bulletZimmerly 1-60.ggb: Based on the documents, skillbuilding, and tests listed in the Progress Folder and course outline.
 
Click here to see Professor Zimmerly's Custom Gradebook Setup for steps on setting up this gradebook.

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