Gradebooks v4.2 and earlier (later versions)

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When offering a number of online assessments, it is often convenient to gather the scores for those assessment together. Test Pilot accommodates this by providing the ability to create virtual gradebooks. These gradebooks can be created for any user list and can not only include scores gathered from Test Pilot assessment but manual entries for offline activities.

Creating New Gradebooks

To create a new gradebook, select an associated user list from the popup menu provided and click the Make button.

Deleting a Gradebook

To delete a gradebook, click on its associated select button, check the enable deletion checkbox, and click the Delete Selected Gradebook button. Note that any manually entered scores will be unrecoverably erased when the gradebook is entered. Assessment scores will be unaffected as they reside with the assessment's submission data.

Viewing a Gradebook

Once a gradebook is defined, you may view its contents at any time by clicking on the View Selected Gradebook button. Gradebooks may be recalled as a web page or as a downloaded tab-delimited file for easy use by a spreadsheet program or import into a database or other electronic gradebook software.

Manual score entries may be made on the web page report.

Defining Gradebook's Columns

When you click upon the gradebook's title, you re taken to a dialog where you can define the columns in the gradebook and the order in which they should be presented. Following is a typical display:

New Entries

New entries are defined by filling in or selecting data in the last line of the entry list. The fields are as follows:

order - the is a number representing the order in which entries will appear when the gradebook is generated. For example, if you wanted to next entry in the gradebook above to fall between the first two entries, enter a 15 in the new order box instead of the default 9999.

type- this indicates whether Test Pilot should extract a score from an assessment or allow you to manually enter the score.

entry - in the case of a manual entry, this is the title for the column of those entries. In the case of a Test Pilot assessment score extraction, you select the title of the assessment from the popup menu provided. Note that to extract scores from an assessment, the assessment must use the same user list as the gradebook. Otherwise, the assessment's title will not appear in the popup menu.

score - this indicates whether the assessment extraction should produce a raw point score or a percentage score.

multiples - in the case of multiple submissions for a particular user, this instructs Test Pilot to extract the highest, the lowest or an average of the submission scores when generating the gradebook.

When you have made your selections, click the Update Gradebook button to create the entry.

Changing Entries

To change an entry, simply make the changes and click the Update Gradebook button.

Deleting Entries

To delete an entry, click the associated select button, check the enable deletion checkbox and click the Delete Selected Entry button. Note that in the case of manual score, deleting the entry will unrecoverably erase any stored scores.