NMT Blackboard 8.0 Instructor's Guide |  |
NMT Blackboard 8.0 Instructor's Guide | |
A selection list column is one that can contain only certain selected values.
For example, you might want to create a “Rank” column that contains a choice of Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Graduate, or Special.
Procedure 22. How to add a selection list column to the grade book
This procedure starts on the Grade Book page. For instructions on navigating to this page, see Section 17, “Using the Grade Book tool”.
Click on .
In the drop-down menu that appears, click on .
In the field, enter the name of the column. This field is required.
In the pull-down menu, select whether you want the values to appear aligned to the , , or of the field.
If this column is involved in the computation of grades, click the checkbox labeled .
If you want students to be able to see their value for this column, click the checkbox labeled .
Click . This returns you to the Grade Book page.
To set up the list of possible values in the new
column, click the
icon next to the
title of the column.
In the drop-down menu that appears, click on .
In the field under the heading , enter the first choice.
For each additional choice, click the button.
If none of the checkboxes for the choices are selected, the new item will be added at the end of the list.
If you want to add a new item somewhere else besides the end of the list, click the checkbox of one of the existing choices, and the button will add the new item before that selected choice.
If you want to delete a choice, click on its
icon.
When you are happy with the set of choices, click on .
If you want to enter or modify values in this column
of the gradebook, click on the icon of that column, and
click on in the
drop-down menu that appears. In the page that
appears, the column
will have a pull-down menu with your choices, plus
“--” to indicate
“none of the above.” Use these
pull-downs to set or change the desired values.
When you are happy with the values shown, click .