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1 I ve logged in! Now where do I start? Instructor s Quick Start Guide

2 Introduction: Up and Running with OpenClass We ve created this Quick Start Guide to help you, the instructor, get up and running with OpenClass in as few steps as possible. In this guide, we will only cover the absolute essentials you need to know to get your classroom started. This guide is organized into the following sections. Navigate OpenClass In this section, we will orient you to the basic elements of the interface including global navigation with the Toolbar, how to navigate the Dashboard, access your courses, and navigate the Course Home page. Course Profile and Preference Settings Learn how you to create a profile, manage profile privacy settings, change your password, select Google App services for your course, and manage notification settings. How to Create a Course In this section, we will cover how you can create a course from Dashboard and Import Content from your former Learning Management System. Design Your Course Home Page Course Home is your course s homepage and the first place students land when they enter your class. Learn how to design Course Home to welcome your students and orient them to their online classroom. Build a Course Menu Learn how to build your Course Menu in a predictable structure so your students can know what to expect each week when they log into class. Creating content for online instruction is a fun and creative process once you become familiar with the authoring features available to you. In this section, we will discover how you can use popular developer tools to build out content fast! Set Up Gradebook Learn how Gradebook s features will help you enter grades, assign total points possible, and share grades with students.

3 Introduction: Up and Running with OpenClass... 2 Navigate OpenClass... 4 Take a Tour:... 5 Toolbar... 6 Dashboard... 7 Course Home... 9 Course Profile and Preferences Create a Profile Change Your Password Privacy Settings Services How to Create a Course Create a Course Import Content Design Your Course Home Page Upload a Syllabus Add an Introduction Post an Announcement Build a Course Menu What is the Course Menu Window? Add Menu Items To add new menu items to the course menu: Nest Menu Items To nest menu items: Add Content Set Up Gradebook How to Navigate Gradebook Mark Items as Gradable or Non-Gradable Enter Point Values for Assignments Enter Student Grades... 42

4 Navigate OpenClass Learn the basic elements of the interface including global navigation with the Toolbar, how to navigate the Dashboard, access your courses, and navigate the Course Home page. In this section, we will cover: Take a Tour Toolbar Dashboard Course Home Page

5 Take a Tour: When you first log into OpenClass, a friendly Welcome screen displays inviting you to take a tour of your new landscape and become familiar course features. The tour only displays once after your initial login.

6 Toolbar The Toolbar is available globally giving you quick access to the features you will use the most across your online campus. 1. Profile drop down menu: In this menu, you can select to a. View Profile Shows a preview of your profile page. b. Settings Displays the Edit Profile page where you can update your profile, set your privacy settings, update your password, and turn on/off notification alerts. c. Admin Access the Admin pages if you re an administrator for your institution. d. Help Community Forum Access to self-help services such as articles, videos, tutorials, and peer-to-peer support in the Community Forum. 2. School drop-down menu- In this menu, you can select a. Dashboard, to return to Dashboard from the OpenClass Exchange or from your Course b. Current Courses, to browse between courses without having to return to Dashboard and select courses from Course List. c. OpenClass Exchange, to search and add content to existing courses or create a new course from packaged content. 3. Notifications In this window, you will receive alerts informing when someone from your network: a. Is following you b. Comments on your posts in the Share Stream c. Responds to a Threaded Discussion in which you are participating d. (Students) Students receive notifications when instructors return assignments in Submissions 4. Google Apps Whether you are a Google Institution or selected Google Services from the Settings page in the Profile drop-down menu, you can access Google Apps to manage class communication and work without having to leave your online campus!

7 Dashboard What is Dashboard? Dashboard is the first page you see when you log into OpenClass. From Dashboard, you have visibility into everything that is happening across your campus and in your network.

8 1. Course List Shows your current and older courses. Click the course title to open a course. 2. Course Options Click the Gear icon beside a course title to expand and select course options for that course. Course Options include: a. Edit Course Detail Update or change course information such as course codes, course descriptions, and so forth. b. Edit Course Roster Manage your student roster by adding new enrollments or dropping students from the course. c. Copy Course Reuse your course content and copy it into a new source. d. Import Content Migrating from a previous learning management system? Don t start over! Use the Import Content feature to import your content into OpenClass. 3. Share Stream Visible in Dashboard and Course Home, the Share Stream is the main feed of student and instructor posts and comments made to your online campus. From Share Stream, you can post photos, videos, comments and responses, or click a person s name to view their profile information and choose to follow them to build your network. 4. Your Network - A compilation of social connections established between you and other students, instructors, and teaching assistants enrolled in the same courses as you at your school. This includes people you are following and people that are following you and your classmates. View a list of your classmates to follow people you want to connect with outside of the context of the course relationship. Following enables you to create a personal network of peers.

9 Course Home Course Home is the first page students and instructors see when accessing a course.

10 1. Course Menu This is the navigational system of your course. How you organize the Course Menu determines the structure of your classroom. 2. Content Area This is your work area. All of the content you develop or import displays in the content area of your course. a. Expand/Collapse Click beside the course title (in this case, Accounting 1A) to enlarge or minimize the content area as you develop or preview content. b. File Manager Click the gear icon beside the course title (in this case, Accounting 1A) to open the File Manager window. File Manager is your class file system where you can upload and manage course files and images from within your course. c. Introduction Welcome to Accounting 100! Create a warm and friendly welcome to introduce your students to their online classroom. If this is a student s first time taking a course online, a friendly introduction sets the tone for a friendly environment. d. Activity tab - Shows a current feed of posts and comments by you and your students to the Share Stream. Only posts related to the current course display in the Course Home Share Stream. e. Articles tab Shows RSS Feeds added to your Course Home page. If you do not add an RSS feed or reference web sites in general through the Articles tab, the Article tab will not display in the Students view of the course. 3. Announcements Inform the class of upcoming exams, school events, and anything you might want to bring to their attention. 4. Upcoming Check here for upcoming due dates and deadlines to assignments and exams. 5. For Review Stay on track with grading and refer to For Review for a quick glimpse at what students recently submitted. 6. Modify Menu Click Modify Menu to open the Modify Menu window where you can manage the Menu Items created for your course. 7. Modify Page Click Modify Page to display the authoring side of the course where you can manage the content to any of the menu item types in your course.

11 Course Profile and Preferences Learn how you to create a profile, manage profile privacy settings, change your password, select services such as Google Apps for your course, and manage notification settings. In this section, we will cover: Create a Profile Change Your Password Privacy Settings Services

12 Create a Profile Let your students know who you are! Creating a profile not only gives you an online persona, but it also establishes a personable and friendly online learning environment between you and your students. In the Profile drop-down menu, select Settings to open the Edit Profile page. Enter as much information in your profile as you like in the sections described in the following table. If you prefer to be private about what you share, see Privacy Settings in this section of the Quick Start Guide to learn how you can restrict visibility of your profile. You can return to the Edit Profile page anytime to make updates. Remember to click Save Changes to save your settings!

13 Section Basic Info Description... Your Profile picture is visible to others in your network. If you like, click Choose File to upload a photo of yourself or favorite avatar. Supported image formats include:.jpg,.png, and.gif Maximum file size: 3MB Contact Info Use the fields provided to share contact information such as address, mobile or home phone, instant messaging IDs, and a personal Web site or portfolio. About Me - Type a quick introduction about yourself. Skype - Share your Skype contact information to enable chat sessions with everyone in your network Phone - Share a number where others can reach you offline. Website - Enter your portfolio, blog, or favorite Website. What's your academic specialty? You might find classmates who are in the same subject of study or are in need of a tutor. Education Information is where you can share with others what degree you are studying, which program you are in, what your degree concentration is, if you specialize in anything specific, and share any awards or academic achievements you are most proud of. Education Employment Use the fields provided to share your education background or current area of study. Share current or previous work experience. By sharing your employment information, you can begin to establish a job network for yourself and build career connections with classmates.

14 Change Your Password You can change and update passwords at anytime. If you are logged in from a Google school, you will need to change your password from the Google side. To change your password: Select Settings from the Profile drop-down menu and click Change Password. Enter your new password in the fields provided, and click Save Changes.

15 Privacy Settings If you re not comfortable with sharing your profile to everyone, you can set your profile visibility settings to not show your information to your network and to also not show when you are online. Tip: Some instructors like to not show when they are online when they are grading assignments or need to close online office hours to manage upcoming coursework. To set your privacy settings: Select Settings in the Profile drop-down menu and click Privacy Settings. Select: Share my profile with school to display your profile information with your school. De-select this option to restrict other users from having visibility to your profile information. Share my online status with school to show other users when you are logged in and online. De-select this option to restrict other users from having visibility to your online status. Remember, click Save Changes to save your settings!

16 Services OpenClass gives you the option to integrate 3 rd party Web services with your course experience. Currently, Google Consumer is available and enables students, instructors, and Teach Assistants to integrate Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Gmail with the Toolbar. What you should know before adding Google Consumer: Turn off Pop-Up Blockers in your Browser settings. To associate your Google account, you must allow for the Google login and permissions window to open. After your Google account is associated to your OpenClass account, you can log into OpenClass using your Gmail address or login with your OpenClass credentials. If you are invited to join Collaborations and do not have your Google account associated to OpenClass, you can access the Services page from Collaborations to begin the setup. You must have a Google account to add Google services to your course. See Create a Google Account (opens new window) to create a Google account today! To add Google Consumer services: Select Settings in the Profile drop-down menu and click Services. Click Google + to associate your personal Google account with your OpenClass account. The Google login window opens. Enter you Google login information and click Login. A Google confirmation message displays. Click Allow. Click back to dashboard or on any page to refresh your course. The Google Apps display in the toolbar. (Optional) In the Course Menu, click Collaborations. Begin setting up Collaboration Groups and invite others to join.

17 How to Create a Course When creating a course for the first time in OpenClass you will either be creating the course from scratch or importing content from another Learning Management System into your OpenClass course. In this section, we will cover: Create a Course Import Content

18 Create a Course To create a new course, navigate to Course List on the Dashboard and click Create a Course. In the Create a Course window, enter your course information. Course Title (Required) Enter the full title of the new course (i.e. Introduction to Psychology 101). The course title displays under My Courses on the Dashboard for students and instructors to see. Course Code (Required) Enter a course code (i.e. PSY101, BIO450, etc.). As best practice, avoid using special characters and spaces. Credits Enter a numerical value for the number of credit hours the course will be worth. Term Enter the date range in which the term will start and end. Course Description Enter a high-level overview description of the course as it might appear in the course catalogue. Remember to click Submit, to see your new course displays in the Course List!

19 Import Content Use Import Content to easily transfer previously developed content from Blackboard, Moodle, and Angel, and import that content into OpenClass. Types of content you can import include: Text /Multimedia items Announcements HTML pages MS Office documents Threaded Discussion Topics Exams Doc Sharing Before you can import content, you first create a course in OpenClass to import your content to. Once your course is created, you are ready to export content from your other Learning Management System (LMS). When you export content from an LMS, you have the option to export and package the content in common cartridge (CC) format. Some systems offer you different export formats. To ensure a successful import from: Angel - Always select CC format. BlackBoard - Export content in either Export or Archive file format. Do not export packages in CC format. Moodle - Do not export packages in CC format. Moodle course packages are imported as MBZ files.

20 What you should know about importing content Verify you are importing from the following supported LMS versions: o Blackboard: 7.x, 8.x, 9.x o o Moodle: 2.0 (and older versions) Angel: Common Cartridge output only Allow about 2 hours for your content to transfer and upload to your course. For optimum performance, upload content in 500 MB or less. As best practice, import content for one course at a time from either one or multiple LMSs. You can import content into an empty course template (shell) or you can import content into a course containing content. By default, the Syllabus menu item type displays in the Course Menu. When you import a Syllabus, the system interprets it as a text item. This means, you will have two Syllabi: the imported text version, and the default menu item that comes with your course. MS Office documents and PDF files import as embedded content. Links to content hosted on external servers do not carry over. By default, imported exams retain their original order within the course menu hierarchy including the order or of questions and answers. Links to external sites from within an exam are also retained in the import. DocSharing serves as a repository for uploaded items the system does not identify or map to within the Course Menu hierarchy. Images, text files, audio files, PowerPoints, and so forth can reside within Doc Sharing following a content upload.

21 To import content from Blackboard, Angel, Moodle, and so forth: Go to the Course List on Dashboard and click to expand the Course Options. Select Import Content. From the Import Course Content window, select the management system from which you are importing content. Click Choose File to locate and select the content package you'd like to upload to the course. Click Import Content and the content is imported to your course.

22 Design Your Course Home Page Course Home contains many features you will use throughout the lifespan of your course. But for this guide, we will only cover the absolute essentials you need know to get a course up and running. In this section, we will cover: Upload a Syllabus Add an Introduction Post an Announcement

23 Upload a Syllabus Your online syllabus can include the same information as a traditional syllabus, such as a Course Description, Course Objectives, General Course Policies and Procedures, Grading Policies, Course Textbooks, and anything else you want to include. You can add these and other items to your online syllabus, or you can upload an existing offline Microsoft Word document into your course syllabus, which we will explain how to do here. When you upload an existing document, a link to your Word document displays in the Syllabus section of your course.

24 What you should know about Syllabus: The syllabus is a perfect place to set the tone for your online course. Make the syllabus personable and include your photo with a few paragraphs about your background and teaching style. Do you want to keep students on track throughout the semester? Create a detailed schedule outlining due dates for projects, assignments and exams. Do you want to ensure students log on frequently and participate? Reward quality participation in weekly discussions with extra credit. To create a new syllabus: 1. In the Course menu, click Syllabus. 2. Click Modify Page, and select Manage. 3. Click Upload Microsoft Word Syllabus (.doc), to upload an existing syllabus (MS word document). 4. Click Add. 5. Click Choose File to select your Syllabus. 6. Click Upload & Convert File. The system renders your file as HTML. 7. (Optional) Click Modify Page, and select View to preview your Syllabus how students will see it.

25 Add an Introduction The course introduction on the Course Home page is a friendly way for instructors to introduce themselves to students and welcome them the class. Instructors can use audio and video in the course introduction to make it more personable. For some students, this might be their first time taking a course online. The course introduction provides a way for students to learn something about you and to get excited about learning in an online environment.

26 To add a course introduction: 1. In the Course Menu, click Course Home. 2. Click Modify Page, and select Manage. 3. In the Course Introduction text box. type your course introduction. You can format your course introduction text using the tools available in the Visual Editor. 4. Add an audio or video file by entering the file's URL in the appropriate field. 5. In the Introductory Audio/Video Text, specify the actual text that students must click on to view the audio or video file. 6. Click Save Changes.

27 Post an Announcement Announcements display on your Course Home page and are listed with the most recent announcement first. Instructors can set Display Dates for course announcements. If you see an announcement one day and it's gone the next, the Display Date for that announcement might have expired. Always look for new announcements each time you log in to your course. As an instructor, you can post, edit, or delete course announcements on the Course Home page. Your students can only view announcements. To delete an announcement, you must remove the Course Home menu item from the Course Menu. If you set specific Display Dates for a particular announcement, that announcement only displays during the date range specified. This means announcements do not display on the Course Home page if the current date is before the announcement's Display Start Date or after the Display End Date. To display an announcement, you can always modify the Display Dates.

28 To add an announcement: 1. In the Course Menu, click Course Home. 2. Click Modify Page, and select Manage. 3. Click Add Announcement. 4. In the Subject field, enter a short subject for your announcement. This is the text students click on to read the announcement. 5. In the Visual Editor, enter and format your announcement. If you'd like your announcement to link to a file, click in the Visual Editor toolbar. 6. Select Display Dates for your announcement. Enter a date directly into the text box (mm/dd/yyyy). The Display Dates default to the course start and end dates, so if you don't enter Display Dates, your announcement remains on the Course Home page throughout the entire course unless you delete it or change its Display Date. 7. Click Add Announcement.

29 Build a Course Menu In this section, we will cover: What is the Course Menu Window? Add Menu Items Nest Menu Items Add Content

30 What is the Course Menu Window? The Course Menu Window consists of three tabs: Settings, Add & Arrange, and Restore. Settings 1. The Settings tab includes column headings for Hidden, Gradable, and Submissions. By selecting the check box to any of these columns, you can: Hide/Show Menu Items to manage their visiblity in Course Menu Mark Menu Items as Gradable (selected check box) or Non-Gradable (cleared check box) Mark Menu Items for Submissions (selected check box) meaning, the content will be returned to you through the Submissions box. Think of Submissions like a drop off box. Add & Arrange 1. Add New Item Click Add New Item to add a new Menu Item to the Course Menu. From there, you can select the type of menu item and opt to mark it as gradable. Items marked as gradable display in your gradebook. 2. Order column Provides the tools you can use to change the structure and organization of Menu Items. 3. Archive - Allows you to remove the menu items you do not want to use for the course or no longer need. You can restore archived items on the Restore tab.

31 Restore 1. Restore Click for the menu items you d like restored back to the Course Menu. 2. Delete Click to permanently remove a menu item from the Course Menu. Deleted menu items cannot be restored. Instead, you would have to create the menu item again.

32 Add Menu Items When you build your Course Menu, you will be adding menu items of different content types. For example, if you choose Content Page as your menu item type, when your students click on the menu item, the content page displays in the content pane. If you choose Threaded Discussion as your menu item type, when your students click on the menu item, they can view and respond to the discussion that displays in the content pane. You can also choose Uploaded Content as your menu type so that your menu item displays a Microsoft Office file, an Adobe PDF file, or a media file you upload. To get you started, we will explain how to add the Content Page and the Uploaded Content menu item types.

33 Keep in mind as you build you Course Menu, when you add a menu item, you can choose any location within your course structure for the new item. You can choose to add the menu item at the main level, after an existing menu item, or nested within an item in the hierarchy. To add new menu items to the course menu: 1. Click Modify Menu. 2. Click Add & Arrange. 3. Click Add new item or Add new item to main level to add a new item to the main level of the course menu. 4. To nest a new item within another level of the course menu, click the expand icons and click Add new item to at the level you want. 5. To more easily view the list, click expand all, and click the Resize icon to increase the window size. 6. For Select Item Type, select one of the following: Content Page: Creates a content page for you to edit. Uploaded Content: Lets you upload an Adobe PDF file, Microsoft Office file, HTML file, video, or image, and associate it with the new menu item. After creating the menu item, navigate to it and click modify > Upload MS Office File or modify > Upload Content (PDF, HTML, etc.) above the content pane. 7. Enter the Menu Item Name you want to appear in the course menu. The recommended limit for menu items is 60 characters. 8. Select Hidden from Student if you do not want the menu item to appear in your students' course menu. You do not need to hide the menu item while creating it. You can choose to hide the item in your student view at any time. 9. Click Gradable if you want to include the item in the gradebook. For Pts, enter the number of points you're assigning to the item, a whole number between Click Save to add your new menu item, or Cancel to discard your changes. 10. Click Close and view the new menu item in the course menu.

34 Nest Menu Items Show Me! Watch a quick video on How to Nest Menu Items (opens video in new window)

35 To nest menu items: 1. Click Modify Menu. 2. Click Add & Arrange. 3. Find the menu item in the list, clicking the expand icons or expand all to show the item, if necessary. To reorder items in the main level only, click collapse all. 4. Use the order column to change the position of the items in the list: Enter a new number for the item in the order column and press Enter, or Click the arrows in the order column to move the item to the next position or previous position in the list. It may take a few seconds for the item to display in its new location after pressing Enter or clicking the arrows. Note: The number shown in the order column is relative to the number of items and levels displayed in the list. The order numbers change dynamically when you click the expand icons or collapse icons. For example, when the list in the sample below is collapsed, Chapter 2 has an order number of 3: 5. In the same list, when Chapter 1 is expanded to display one nested item, Chapter 2 now has an order number of 4: 6. Click Close to view menu items in their new locations in the course menu.

36 Add Content In the previous section we covered how to add a Content Page menu item type and an Uploaded Content menu item type. After you add your menu item, you are ready to add content. If you are adding content to a Content Page, you will be working in OpenClass authoring tool, Visual Editor. Uploaded Content page, you will upload files (MS Office Files, PDF, HTML, etc.) from your personal computer to OpenClass. Add Content with Content Page Adding content to a Content Page menu item requires using Open Class s authoring tool, Visual Editor. The Visual Editor is similar to a word processing program and includes the same features as copy, past, insert hyperlink, and so forth. If you know HTML or prefer to work with code, you can switch to Visual Editor s HTML view. For advanced users, there is also an option to use the Plaint Text Editor which is meant for authoring in code only. We won t go into detail here on how to use HTML view or Plain Text Editor, but you can learn more about these options in the Knowledge Base. To add content to Content Page: 1. In the Course Menu, click the Content Page menu item. 2. Click Modify Page and select Manage. 3. In the Visual Editor, begin developing your content using the Visual Editor toolbar to format your text and design the layout of your content. For tips formatting and layout tips in Visual Editor, see the Community Forum and Knowledge Base. 4. (Optional) Click Modify Page and select View to preview how your page publishes to the course and displays to students.

37 Add Content with Uploaded Content Adding content to an Uploaded Content menu item is the fastest way to get content into your course. Any content you developed from an external authoring tool (Dreamweaver, PDF, MS Office Documents, etc.) can be uploaded to your course and rendered to HTML with the Uploaded Content menu item. To add content to Uploaded Content: 1. In the Course Menu, click the Uploaded Content menu item. 2. Click Modify Page and select either Upload Content (PDF, HTML, etc.) Upload MS Office File 3. Click Choose File to locate and browse to your file. 4. Click Upload File. The system renders your file to HTML. 5. (Optional) Click Modify Page and select View to see how file publishes to the course and displays to students.

38 Set Up Gradebook In the Build Your Course Menu section we discussed how you can mark content menu items as gradable and assign points to them as you build out your Course Menu. If you re not ready to mark items as gradable or enter point values, you can enter this information later. There are different methods to access the pages you need to set up or modify the Gradebook. To get you started, we ve highlighted the most basic Gradebook functions you need to know. For a more in-depth look into Gradebook, see the Knowledge Base and Community Forum. In this section, we will cover: How to Navigate Gradebook Mark Items as Gradable or Non-Gradable Enter Point Values for Assignments Enter Student Grades

39 How to Navigate Gradebook For this guide, we will highlight the Overview page and the Grade By Assignment page in Gradebook. Overview 1. Export Gradebook We didn t go into how to export grades here, but if you like, you can export grades to a CSV file. See the Knowledge Base for more information about exporting Grades from OpenClass. 2. Grade to Date Shows you the accumulative score from assignments and exams completed to-date. 3. Overview of Grades - This grid views shows you the points earned by every student for each gradable item. Click inside a table cell, and you can enter the points earned for that student for that particular gradebook item.

40 Grade by Assignment 1. Select Assignment Select the assignment for which you want to assign grades. 2. Share Select the check box for the student(s) you want to share the graded assignment. 3. Points out of 20 Enter the points earned on the assignment The column heading reflects the total possible points entered for the item. 4. Letter Grade - Optional, you can enter a letter grade for assignments. 5. Comments Optional, provide feedback on how the student performed to offer encouragement. 6. Details View Click to display the Details View which shows grade details for that individual student.

41 Mark Items as Gradable or Non-Gradable To mark items as Gradable or Non-Gradable: 1. Click Modify Menu, and select the Settings tab. 2. At this point, either Mark Items as Gradable: In the Gradable column, select the check box for every item you want marked as Gradable. Selected items display in the Gradebook. Mark Items as Non-Gradable: In the Gradable column, clear the check box for every item marked as Gradable to remove it from the Gradebook. Items with cleared check boxes do not display in the Gradebook. Enter Point Values for Assignments To enter point values for assignments: 1. In the Course Menu, click Gradebook. 2. Click Modify Page, and select Setup. 3. In the Points column, click the point value in the row of the assignment and enter a point value, for example, 10. If the gradebook item you are assigning points to is an Assessment, ensure the number of points you assign the Assessment is the same as the total number of points assigned for all questions within the Assessment item itself. 4. (Optional) Select This Item is Extra Credit to assign extra credit points. The Gradebook excludes points for extra credit items from the calculation of total points for the course. 5. (Optional) Select Exclude From Grade to exclude points scored from the final grade. Students score points for the assignment, but the Gradebook excludes those points from cumulative grade. This option is useful for practice quizzes and assignments. 6. Click Modify Page, and select Overview to return to the Gradebook Overview page. The total number of points possible displays in the heading, for example, out of 10.

42 Enter Student Grades You can enter student grades two ways: 1) Grade by Assignment, and 2) Details View. In this section we will cover how to enter grades by assignment. To enter student grades: 1. In the Course Menu, click Gradebook. 2. Click Modify Page and select Grade by Assignment. 3. In the Select Assignment Menu, select the assignment you want to grade. Grades and points earned by all students display for the assignment. 4. In the Points column, enter or change the total points each student earned for the whole assignment. The total points possible for each assignment displays in the heading, for example, out of (Optional) Enter a Letter Grade. Assigned Letter Grades do not get factored into the student s grade-to-date shown in the Gradebook Overview page. Only the point score is factored into the grade-to-date. 6. (Optional) Enter Comments. 7. In the Share column, select the check box for each student with whom you want to share the points (and letter grade) you awarded and the comments you entered. Tip: As a shortcut, select the Share check box in the heading to allow all students to view their individual grades for the assignment. The check mark icon indicates all students will see their individual scores. 8. Enter points, grades, and comments for each student. If you like, in the Select Assignment menu, select the next assignment to grade. 9. Click Modify Page and select Overview to return to the Gradebook Overview page.