Instructors frequently ask why students are seeing grades from columns that aren’t visible to the instructor in the Grade Center. The answer is that the column has been hidden from the instructor in the Grade Center but not hidden from the students in My Grades. By using Student View and accessing the “My Grades” tool, instructors will be able to see the discrepancy and identify the columns that still need to be “hidden from users”. To fix the problem, instructors will need to first unhide the column in the Grade Center and then hide it from the students.
If the default Total column is still showing to students they are probably also seeing a score in that column. This “external grade” Total column has a green checkmark next to the title and appears in all HuskyCT sites. By default, it is set to add all columns in the Grade Center. External grade columns cannot be deleted, so we highly recommend disabling this column if not being used. Please consult this help file or the video tutorial for instructions.
For more information on this topic and links to related help files, please see this week's post on the HuskyCT Updates blog. To follow our blog and receive email notifications on HuskyCT known issues, new features, new help files, handy tips, best practices and upcoming events just click on the “Follow” button that appears at the bottom of the screen.
For more information, contact: Instructional Resource Center at 860-486-5052/irchelp@uconn.edu