University Gradebook

Overview
While gradebook programs do exist on campus (most notably in Blackboard or at the Testing Center) and some faculty members have developed their own way of tracking and computing final grades for students, there does not currently exist at BYU a definitive, enterprise gradebook that will store student performance measures, calculate a course final grade, and then transmit that final grade to AIM.

Personnel from the Academic Technology Office, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and the Office of Information Technology (OIT), are currently working on the development of an enterprise gradebook that is expected to be put into Beta testing for Winter Semester 2010.

The new gradebook will include:

• Integration with Blackboard
• Integration with the Testing Center
• Multiple “on-ramps” for faculty to input and retrieve student performance measures.
• Customized letter grade calculation
• Direct interface with AIM so that grades do not have to be entered by hand at the end of the semester.

A set of gradebook specifications has been drawn up and is available for your perusal.  You can make comments by writing to gb_comments@byu.edu