From Courses, open a course. Then select Gradebook at the top of the page. You can manage items and post grades from four views: Overview, Gradeable Items, Grades, and Students 

Using the Overview View Tab 

The Overview tab displays grading tasks for you to complete: 

• Needs reconciling: lists all items for reconciliation.
  1. Select Reconcile now to open the Submissions tab for the item. 
  2. The review grades and feedback from others before determining the final grade.
  3. This section only appears if you are an assigned grader for parallel grading. It is hidden when you have no items for reconciliation. 
• Needs Grading: lists submissions ready for grading with the oldest ungraded submissions at the top of the list. 
  1. Select Grade now to open the submission and begin grading. 
• Needs posting: lists graded assessments that are ready to be posted. 
  1. Select Post now to immediately post the graded assessment.

How to use The Gradable Items View Tab 

The Gradable Items view displays all gradable items in your course. You can view due dates, grading status, and item categories. You can also post grades and adjust the overall calculation from the course. 

• Items with missing submissions past the due date display in red 
• Use the move button (the inverse arrows) to drag and drop items in a new order. We recommend placing these items in due date chronological order for easier navigation. 
• Select an items name to go to its Submissions or Grades & Participation page 
• Select X to grade to go directly to the assessment's Submissions page and start grading. This is important when an assignment is a submission; you have to grade each student's submission rather than grading by override, or else you will still see X amount of grades still need grading. 

How to use the Grades View Tab 

The Grade View displays each student's grade for a specific assignment, with one student per row and one gradable item per column. Use the arrow buttons to sort columns into ascending or descending order. 

In the grid, you can select a student's gradable item to open a menu with these options: 

• View: Go directly to the assignment and start grade. 
• Feedback: enter feedback for overridden test/assignment grades and automatic zeros 
• Post: post a grade that's been assigned but not yet posted 
• Add or edit exemptions: if an assignment is timed or has a due date, you can add exceptions here, as well as allow multiple attempts. You can also remove an assignment from being counted towards a student's overall grade 

The student grid contains color-coded text: 

• Green: posted grades 
• Red:  Automatic zeros 
• Purple: New submissions

When you select a gradable item at the top of the Grade view, a menu opens with options to edit or delete the item or send a reminder. Additional options include Question Analysis, Download Results, Statistics, and Download Submissions are available based on the type of gradable item and whether students have made submissions. For a more efficient grading experience, you can customize the grade view: 

• Use sort options on each gradable item's column to view the information in ascending or descending order. 
• With the Filter button, you can narrow the information displayed in the grid to exactly what you need (students, groups, gradable items, assessment type, or categories). 

How to use the Student View Tab 

The Students view lists the names of all your students with their dates of last access and their overall grades. You can view overall grades if you've set up the overall grade for the course. Students with grading accommodations have a purple flag with their name

• You can directly message students and add accommodations from the students view 
• Search for particular students by name, username, or student ID. 
• Select a student's name to go to their student overview 

How to use the Gradebook settings

You can use the gradebook settings to customize your gradebook to match your teaching style and course goals. Select the Settings button (the gear icon) underneath student preview to open the Settings Panel. 

• Grade Shemas: map assessment scores to percentages, letters, or some other notation for reporting performance. 
• Student Performance: You can receive alerts in your activity stream about student performance and activity. You can set an alert for the number of days a student is inactive. If you've set up the overall grade for our course, you can also receive an alert when a student's overall grade percentage drops below a certain point. 
• Automatic Zeros: You can choose to automatically assign zeros to missing work past the due date. If allowed, students and groups can still submit there work after automatic zero is assigned to improve their score. Then you can grade as normal. 
• Overall Grade: The overall grade is a calculated item displaying a running tally of all the items you grade and post that counts toward the overall course grade.
• Students Visibility: use the student visibility setting to hide or show unenrolled students. 
• Grade Categories:  used to link gradable items to categories to calculate the overall grade . You can add custom categories to the grade book. Here is an article on How to Use and Create Categories in Blackboard Ultra