This article pertains to users participating in the Brightspace Pilot program during the Spring 2025 semester.
Introduction:
The Gradebook Mastery View in Brightspace helps instructors track student progress on learning outcomes. It allows customization of achievement calculations, displays mastery levels, and integrates with assessments. Instructors can override achievement levels, publish or retract evaluations, and follow best practices for effective grading and progress tracking.
Grade book Mastery View
The Gradebook Mastery View in Brightspace allows instructors to track student progress on learning outcomes, displaying mastery levels for each outcome. It helps assess individual performance, identifies areas for improvement, and simplifies reporting.
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Setting up and configuring the Grade book Mastery view
Setting up the Gradebook Mastery View in Brightspace includes enabling the view, linking learning outcomes to grade items, and displaying mastery levels. It also covers adjusting settings for tracking mastery data and customizing displays for grading needs
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Setting up Outcomes for use with Grade book Mastery View
Set up and manage learning outcomes in Brightspace for use with the Gradebook Mastery View. This process includes creating and linking outcomes to grade items and ensuring accurate tracking of student progress. Aligning assessments with specific outcomes and customizing how these outcomes are displayed in the Gradebook Mastery View,
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Overall Achievement Calculation Settings
Configure overall achievement calculation settings in Brightspace, including the use of weightings, grade items, and integration of various assessments. It allows instructors to customize how overall progress is calculated, ensuring accurate reflection of student mastery levels.
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Viewing Grade book Mastery View
The Gradebook Mastery View in Brightspace helps instructors track student progress on learning outcomes by displaying mastery levels. It provides insights into areas of strength and improvement and offers the flexibility to customize how mastery data is shown, based on specific course settings. This feature supports instructors in assessing individual student performance and aligning grading with course objectives.
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Manually overriding achievement levels in Mastery View
Instructors can manually adjust achievement levels in Brightspace's Mastery View. This feature allows flexibility in grading, enabling adjustments when automatic calculations do not reflect student performance.
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Publishing and retracting achievement evaluations in Mastery View
Publish and retract achievement evaluations in Brightspace's Mastery View. Instructors can publish evaluations to make them visible to students or retract them when adjustments are needed.
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Best practices for using Grade book Mastery View
Best practices for using the Gradebook Mastery View in Brightspace include setting clear learning outcomes and aligning assessments with those outcomes. Regularly reviewing mastery data helps track student progress. It’s also recommended that the view be customized for better clarity and communication with students while maintaining flexibility in grading to accommodate individual needs.
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