{"id":2781,"date":"2016-10-13T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2016-11-04T09:13:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T22:13:57","slug":"edtool-tips-2-speed-marking-using-smart-views-grade-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/edtool-tips-2-speed-marking-using-smart-views-grade-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"EdTool Tips #2: Speed up your marking by using smart views in the grade centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smart Views are the best way to visually navigate the Grade Centre and can help speed up the marking process for you or your tutors. \u00a0They are typically based around the groups feature of Blackboard, but any set of students can be used to generate a smart view. \u00a0Some instructors use custom smart views to cluster their special consideration students or those given extensions; most often they are used to break the grade centre down by tutorial groups. \u00a0Group creation is a different topic to be covered another time. \u00a0Remember, if you ever run into trouble you can call or email the Educational Innovation helpdesk team at x18728 or elearning@sydney.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n

Another great facet of the Smart Views feature how it can be used to\u00a0reduce the number of columns displayed\u00a0without hiding them from the Full Grade Centre view. \u00a0Many instructors choose to create Smart Views which only show the columns currently hidden from students. \u00a0Others break columns down into assignment categories to only view the 10 columns associated with student’s weekly journals or the 3 columns relevant to a large project submission. \u00a0 This dramatically reduces the need to side-scroll and makes working in the Grade Centre a lot easier on the eyes. \u00a0Overly busy Grade Centres have slowed down my marking and lead to literal headaches as I’ve tried to go back and find those 5 marks to change! \u00a0Avoid these problems by using Smart Views. I’ve broken down an example below where I am isolating two blog columns for all my students.<\/p>\n

In a few quick steps you can set up Smart Views and Favourite them so they appear as clickable items under your Full Grade Centre view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The end result –<\/strong><\/span>
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\"only-what-you-needs-view-comparison\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Step 1 –<\/strong> Go into the Full\u00a0Grade Centre
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\"control-panel-smart-view-list\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Step 2 –<\/strong> Hover your mouse over the ‘Manage’ area and select ‘Smart Views’<\/p>\n

\"grade-centre-to-smartviews\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Step 3 –<\/strong> Create a new Smart View or manage your favourites list. Smart Views that have been added to your favourites list will appear in the Grade Centre drop-down area in the Control Panel.\"smart-views-top-screen\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Step 4<\/strong> – Creating a new Smart View. \u00a0Give it a name, add it to your favourites, select the student and column criteria you wish to use.\"creating-the-smart-view\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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