Brightspace offers various ways of assessment, and you can customize many aspects to suit your preferences and needs. With Grades, you can:

• Quickly and easily review submitted work (this can also be done via Quick Eval and Assignments).
• Accurately and automatically calculate grades.
• Keep track of student grades in the Gradebook in an organized manner.
• Communicate results to students in a controlled way.

You can decide:

• How you want to assess different course components.
• Whether you want to calculate a final grade and if so:
  • which course components will/will not count toward the final grade.
  • how to include course components without a score in the final grade.
• Which grading model you will use to calculate grades.
• How grades are displayed.
• What information students can see.
• When students will see their course results.

Below is the recommended workflow for setting up Grades in your course:

1. Determine what you want to assess and grade.
2. Decide how many assessments you want to conduct for this purpose (this includes assignments, tests, etc.) Note: The (results of) assessments with a decision function must be recorded in Osiris.
3. Determine whether you want to calculate a final result/grade for the entire course in Brightspace for entry into Osiris, or if you want to establish multiple grades, for example, because Osiris requires partial grades.
4. In the case of a final grade: determine the weight of each assessment in the final grade.
   If the course unit in OSIRIS includes partial grades, you must define in Osiris the weight of each partial grade in the final grade for that course unit.
5. Configure your Gradebook using the Setup Wizard.
   It's useful to set up your Gradebook before creating grade categories and grade items for the assessments. The Setup Wizard helps you configure your Gradebook. The first three steps are focused on calculating a final grade for the Brightspace course. If you do not want to use this feature, but rather transfer individual grades (results on grade items) to Osiris, these steps are not necessary.
6. Check the structure of assessments in Osiris and create the same structure with grade items in the Gradebook in Brightspace, possibly adding grade items that do not count towards the final grade or subgrades that do not need to be specifically registered in OSIRIS. You can use Grade Categories to organize grade items (for example: three assignments in the "Assignments" category) and optionally calculate a grade based on these grade items. For instance, if subgrades in OSIRIS are made up of further sub-subgrades that do not need to be specifically listed in OSIRIS, you can create a category for these subgrades and add the sub-subgrades as grade items underneath (for example, a category "Final Assignment" with three sub-assignments that together form the final grade for the Final Assignment).
7. Create assessments in Brightspace (such as assignments or tests).
8. Link grade items to the assessments.
9. Review (and edit) your Gradebook.