Why might you want to do this?
If you want to manually adjust some, or all, of your students’ final grades at the end of the semester, utilize the Final Adjusted Grade column. Note that the only time to make this switch is at the end of the semester when all of your grading is completed. That’s because, while the default Final Calculated Grade column continues to recalculate and display changing grades as student work is scored, the Final Adjusted Grade column is static, and the total isn’t recalculated even when new grade data is posted.
When you’ve completed grading, you will transfer all grade data from the Final Calculated Grade over to the Final Adjusted Grade column, then you can edit all or some students’ grade totals as you wish. (Even if you’re only editing a few grades, you’ll need to move all grade data to this column.) Here’s how:
- At the top of the Final Adjusted Grade column, click the down arrow and choose “Enter Grades.”
- Next to the title at the top of the page, click the down arrow and select “Transfer All.”
- NOTE: If more data is added to the Grade Book after you’ve done this, there will be a discrepancy between the Final Calculated Grade and the Final Adjusted Grade. In this case follow steps 1 and 2 but instead of “Transfer” choose “Recalculate all.” However, your modifications will be overwritten, so this is why we wait until the end of the semester to switch to the Final Adjusted Grade view.
Last step: click the Settings gear symbol (top right) and go to the tab “Calculation Options” and select “Adjusted Final Grade” as the column to release.