Letter Grade Columns in the My Grades Tool

The My Grades tool in WebCT has the capability to apply your grade scheme to numerical scores while automatically converting them to a letter grade. In this section, we will show you how to create a Letter Grade column.
  1. Go to the Expanded Control Panel, click on Manage Students under the Manage Course column.
    Click on manage students
  2. You will be presented with a list of students and pre-existing grade columns for any WebCT Quizzes and Assignments you may have already set up for your course. For this example, we will compare a calculated column's result (Course Avg) to a grading scheme to determine a student's letter grade.
    Manage Students Page
  3. Click the drop-down box under Organize and select Manage columns. Then click the Go button for Orgainize.
    Manage Columns
  4. From the Manage Columns Actions area, click Add Column.
    Click Add Column
  5. Type in the label for the column, select the type column, and click on Add. In this example, we want the column result to use our grading scheme to convert the numerical average course score into a letter grade for each of the students.
    Add the column
  6. The column has now been added to your gradebook. Notice that you may change many of the column properties in the options section after creating the column.
    column added
  7. To input your letter grade schema, click on the checkbox at the top of the column to select it. Then, click the Setup column button.
    setup column
  8. You will be presented with an input screen similar to the one shown here. The values presented here are based upon the default values for your course or WebCT. In this example, we will only convert the course average into a letter grade. However, you can use this column type for each student activity, to convert any score into a letter grade. To avoid having to enter your letter grade conversion schema for each column, you will have the opportunity to change the default values for this course. In our example screen shot, the arrows indicate the areas in which you are most likely to make modifications.
    grading schema
  9. Enter your grading schema. Here we have completed the entries for our grading schema and selected the column which will provide the source score to be converted to a letter grade. However, we have not yet clicked on the Update button, therefore the schema does not reflect our changes. If you want to use this schema as your course default, then click on the Set as course defaut button.
    Update
  10. After clicking on the Set as course defaut button, Refresh ranges button, or the Update button and by returning to the Setup column area; you will see that the schema is now updated to reflect the values you input.
    updated schema
  11. Note that you may add or delete rows if your schema so dictates.
    updated schema
  12. Upon returning to the Manage Students section (you may go directly there by clicking on Manage Student in the breadcrumbs menu), you see that your schema is now being used to convert the Course Avg column scores into letter grades.
    updated schema
  13. Please review the instructions on how to create the other column types.