Creating and Applying Grade Center Categories

Grade Center categories are used to group the scores of related assignments and tests. This organizes the information for your class and allows for easy calculations of entire categories.

By default, College of DuPage courses have the following categories for grade center columns:

• Assignment
• Survey
• Tests
• Discussion
• Blog
• Journal
• Self and Peer

Create a New Category

The following steps go through the process of adding new categories to a class Grade Center. Creating extra credit categories or labeling specific types of assignments are possible uses of grade categories.

1. Navigate to the course Grade Center.
2. Highlight Manage and click Categories.

3. On the Categories screen, click Create Category
4. Enter the name of the category and click Submit.
5. When creating grade center columns, the new category will now display in the Category drop down menu.

Assign Categories to Multiple Grade Center Columns

1. Navigate to the course Grade Center.
2. Highlight Manage and click Column Organization.

3. On the Column Organization page, a list of the grade center columns and their current categories will display. Click the checkboxes next to the name of each column to categorize.
4. Then, highlight the Change Category To button and select the category to apply to the selected columns.