When creating a grade category or grade item, you will have to choose a Grade Scheme. This article explains what a Grade Scheme is, which Grade Schemes are available and how you can make your own.
What is a Grade scheme and what does it do?
Grade Schemes are the organizational schemes that make grading easier and more understandable for lecturers and students in Brightspace. As Brightspace calculates with percentages, it is possible to restructure this do a 10-point scale or a letter value. This is possible with the use of a Grade Scheme.
Shortly said: with Grade Schemes, it is possible to decide in what way grades are registered. You can decide whether the grades should e shown in a symbol, text, or rounded up to a certain percentage.
What Grade Schemes are already available?
At this time, only a few Grade Schemes are readily available in Brightspace. This might still be changed in the future. The schemes are adaptable by you, or fit for use if they are fitting to your needs.
- Beoordelingsschema (Cesuur 55%): Calculates a final mark based on the percentages, where the cut-off mark is 55% and 95-100%= 10, 85-95%= 9, 75-85%= 8, etc.
- Niet voldaan/ Voldaan: From 51% a student receives Voldaan (conditions are met)
- No Go/Go: From 50% a student receives a 'Go'
- SPS - ***: These schemes are specifically intended for SPS
Making your own Grade Scheme
In case the offered schemes do not work for your case, you can create your own. For this, go to Grades and then to the Schemes tab. Click on New Scheme.
Fill out all the variables. In the example shown above, a scheme was created that gives the text "Onvoldoende, voldoende, goed, and uitmuntend" based on certain percentages.
After you have saved your scheme, you can add it to every column in your Gradebook by editing the column.
For more information about creating a Grade Scheme, check out this manual.