Synchronize your grade book with other tools
Your grade book synchronizes automatically with the published scores and feedback that you enter for grade items in Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes. All scores and feedback on grade items that you directly enter in Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes in your grade book synchronize directly with the associated tools and appear automatically as published grade items that are visible to learners.
Entering grades into your grade book using the import via CSV, import via Excel, or using the Brightspace API methods for grade items in Assignments and Discussions also appear automatically as published feedback in the tools.
Synchronize with Assignments
- Scores and feedback that you enter and publish for grade items directly in Assignments automatically synchronize with Grades and appear in your grade book. Any scores and feedback that you retract from publication are removed from the grade book automatically.
- Scores and feedback that you enter and keep as drafts do not synchronize back to Grades until they are published.
Synchronize with Discussions
- Scores and feedback that you enter and publish for grade items directly in Discussions automatically synchronize with Grades and appear in your grade book. Any scores and feedback that you retract from publication are removed from the grade book automatically.
- Scores and feedback that you enter and keep as drafts do not synchronize back to Grades until they are published.
Synchronize with Quizzes
The grades you enter directly in Quizzes automatically synchronize with Grades and appear in your grade book. The scores and feedback for quizzes grade items that you enter directly in your grade book synchronize automatically with Quizzes and overwrite any calculated score for the quiz.
- Overall scores and feedback that you enter and publish for grade items directly in Quizzes automatically synchronize with Grades and appear in your grade book. Any scores and feedback that you retract from publication are removed from the grade book automatically.
- Overall scores and feedback that you enter and keep as drafts do not synchronize back to Grades until they are published.
- Scores and feedback that you enter for quiz attempts in Quizzes only synchronize with Grades if you have selected the Automatically update evaluations in grade book when published option for the quiz. If you have not enabled Automatically update evaluations in grade book when published then the quiz attempt score and feedback will not synchronize to your grade book until you click Export to Grades and you publish the attempt score and feedback.