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Importing Custom Gradebook |
Custom Gradebook Templates
(Johnson)
Custom
Gradebook Template (Zimmerly) |
Custom Gradebook
Setup (Zimmerly) 
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To understand GDP's
scoring mechanism and GDP's gradebooks, you must first understand the
difference in these terms:
 | “Scoring” means that GDP checks an exercise for
keystroking accuracy, such as what happens in timed writings and
document processing jobs. All scored jobs will have scoring results
reported in the RESULTS columns (WPM, Errors, and
Total Time) of the Portfolio.
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| “Grading” means that GDP has applied a parameter from
a gradebook (which can be sometimes, but not necessarily, be based on
scoring results such as WPM, Errors, and Total
Time) and has assigned a “grade” of some type in the Grade
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By default GDP assigns GDP’s Default Gradebook to a
class when a class is first created and adds automatic grades to the
Portfolio based on preset grading parameters. You can also choose to
create your own custom gradebook and assign it to a class. When you see
"NA" or other grades in the Score and Grade columns of the
Portfolio, ignore them if you are not using GDP's Default or
Custom Gradebooks.
If you like the idea of automatic grades, you should
view the presentations and read the handouts below:
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 Custom Gradebook
and Grade Entry, (pdf)
by Arlene Zimmerly |
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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.
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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. |
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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:
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In a GDP Network Installation, click
Options, Instructor Options; click your name, enter
password.
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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.
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Browse to the saved *.ggb gradebook, click
Open, OK; Close.
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Click Create New Class, type in a
course name.
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Click Custom Gradebook, click the list
arrow to the right of the Select a gradebook box.
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Click the desired gradebook, Use This
Gradebook, Save.
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Click the class you newly created class,
Show List of Students.
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Click each
tab in order for Edit Grading Parameters, Select Grade
Scale, and Set Up Grading Parameters and edit as
desired.
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Click
Save when you're done.
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These gradebooks
(created by Jack Johnson) contain the basic
categories as well as the graded/required documents used in his keyboarding
class.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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here to see
Professor Zimmerly's Custom Gradebook Setup for steps on
setting up this gradebook. |
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