Two New GradeBook Features

In celebration of the holidays, we have just rolled out two much-requested features related to the WebAssign GradeBook: Automatic Updates and the ability to apply GradeBook settings to multiple sections/classes at once.

Automatic Updates

If you've already set up a GradeBook, go to the main GradeBook page, click Settings, and make sure you're looking at the Basics tab. You should see a new set of controls called "GradeBook Automatic Update Settings", as shown below.

You can decide what time of day (in your local timezone) the GradeBook values which your students see should be updated to reflect recently completed assignments, score overrides or extra credit you have granted, etc.

I've set this class to auto-update in the middle of the night before my class meets; over the weekend I grade student essays and handle extension requests, so I decided to not have the GradeBook auto-update on those days.

If you're creating a GradeBook for the first time using the Wizard, you can also specify these automatic update settings, as you can see below.

Apply GradeBook settings to multiple sections/classes

We've also updated the last step of the GradeBook settings wizard to make it easy to use the same group of settings for all your classes. On the final review step page, you'll notice that we've moved the "Save Settings" button from the bottom of the page (where it sometimes was easy to miss) to a location closer to the top.

Below the Save button, there is a new set of controls that lets you either save your GradeBook settings to the current section only (as previously), or to more than one section. Click "Apply to this section and others" and you'll see a list of other current sections you can apply the settings to - saving yourself lots of clicks and chances for errors.

We hope you find these new features helpful. As always, let us know if you have any ideas on how we can make WebAssign better for you!

The WebAssign Team