Downloading Grades from the Grade Center

Blackboard allows you to download and save a grade center for use in a spreadsheet program or as a comma-delimited file.

Step 1: Login to your course, click on the Control Panel link and select Grade Center.

Step 2: Run the mouse over the Manage tab and a menu should appear underneath. Click the Download button.

Step 3: Under Data, you will select what you wish to download. You will download the entire Grade Center by selecting Full Grade Center. If you wish to download a certain column you would click Selected Column and then choose which column. If you want to download just user information you would select User Information Only.

Step 4: Select how you wish the file to be delimited, with fields either separated by commas or by tabs. Then, select if you wish to include Hidden Information which would include columns and users that have been hidden from the view.

Step 5: Select where you wish to save the file, in the download location of my computer or in your content collection. Hit the submit button after selecting an option.

Step 6: Click on the Download button to download the Grade Center.

Step 7: This will bring up a File Download window. Click on the Save button and this will bring up a Save As window. Select a location on your computer and click Save.

Step 8: This will bring up a Download Complete window. Click the Open button. The grades will then be downloaded as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.