North Dakota State University

Smart Views can be used to filter the Grade Center for both "stand-alone" courses (sections not combined using the Master/Child relationship) or Master/Child courses.

See "Create and Manage Smart Views" in Blackboard Help

You can create five different types of Smart Views in the Grade Center:

• Course Group: display different groups of students - groups must first be created in the course (Users and Groups | Groups)
• Performance: filter student rows based on performance on a single grade column
• User: filter by individual students
• Category and Status: display rows and/or columns based on your categories, user or users, and grade status
• Custom: create a query for selecting students using a combination of custom criteria

To make grading easier, filter the Grade Center display using Smart Views!

(for <8 child courses)

1. Open the full Grade Center and make note of the different values listed in the Child Course Id column
   (they will be similar to 161-NDSU-XXXX with the correct term and class numbers)
   
   
2. Highlight Manage and choose Smart Views
   
   
   
3. Click Create Smart View
   
4. Give the Smart View a descriptive name that identifies which section it is
5. Add as Favorite - add checkmark
6. Type of View - Select Custom
   
   
   
7. Set the Select Criteria to "Child Course ID' | "Equal to" | enter one of the Child Course IDs you noted in step 1 as the Value
8. Set Filter Results to "All Columns"
   
9. Click Submit to finish
10. Repeat Steps 2 - 9 to create a Smart View for each course section

Once you've created a Smart View, you need to "turn it on" in Grade Center:

How to use Smart Views to filter the Grade Center