If you enabled the “Grade Forum” option when creating the forum, follow these steps to grade posts:
- Blackboard will collect all posts within the Forum for each student, allowing you to provide an overall grade for each student’s participation in the discussion.
- Go to the graded Forum > click Grade Discussion Forum. The Grade Forum Users page will appear, displaying a list of students.
- Click Grade to review a student’s posts and enter a grade.
- The Grade Discussion Forum page will appear. All posts the student has made in the forum are collected on this page.
- Click Forum Statistics to show details on the student’s forum activity (date of last post, average, minimum, and maximum post length).
- Enter the Grade, Feedback (shown to student), and/or Notes (private to instructor).
- Click Submit when grade has been entered.
- Click OK to return to the Grade Forum Users page. Click Grade again to edit the grade or comments.
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