{"id":19884,"date":"2024-02-27T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/TEL-Support-Staff\/?p=19884"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:52:51","slug":"key-topics-gradebook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/TEL-Support-Staff\/key-topics-gradebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Topic: The Gradebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;min-height:115px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#f5f5f5\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-ast-global-color-2-color has-text-color\">The Gradebook<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/reading.yuja.com\/V\/Video?v=928629&amp;node=5015656&amp;a=171196886\">Watch 4 minutes video intro \u279c<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:0;min-height:327px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-ast-global-color-5-background-color has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-4\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-left-color:var(--wp--preset--color--luminous-vivid-amber);border-left-width:4px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-ast-global-color-2-color has-text-color\">Key information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">The Gradebook is an area of your Ultra course where you can access assessments and view student activity. 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There are tabs in the top left-hand corner of the Gradebook which allow you to toggle between these views. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">Explore guides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-8\" style=\"margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-855ff6388e4c5a9344ba05abbb21c7c9 is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-color:#d1c4e9;border-top-width:4px;color:#000000;background-color:#f5f5f5;padding-top:2em;padding-right:2em;padding-bottom:2em;padding-left:2em\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"single\">View submissions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-css-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#000000;color:#000000\" \/>\n\n\n\n<ul 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