| In
Easy Grade Pro, a blank score has no value and is completely ignored
when calculations are made. This allows you to add assignments in
advance without affecting calculations. It also allows you to add
assignments that are not meant for all students. If you set an assignment's
Progress Report option to
Include if Student has Score, the assignment won't even
appear in a report until the student has a score. The Show Blanks
filter can be used from the View menu to hide all scores except those
that are blank. Don't think that you'll have to spend a lot of time
filling in all the blanks with zeros; the Change Scores tool can easily
change all blanks (or just some blanks) to zeros (or something else)
with just a few clicks. This is explained next. |
| To
convert blank cells to a certain score: |
| Using
the Change Scores tool, you can change scores of one type, such as
blank, to another score, such as mi.
You can choose to change scores on all assignments, displayed assignments
or just selected ones. |
| 1 |
(Optional)
If you want to change scores on some, but not all assignments, select
the assignments (by pressing on a column number and dragging left
or right) or use a filter in the View menu to show just certain assignments. |
| 2 |
Select
the Change Scores tool or choose Change Scores from the Tool menu.
If this tool is not visible, press on any tool or empty tool location
and hold the mouse down for at least a second. From the menu that
pops up, choose the tool. |
 |
Change
Score
tool |
| 3 |
Use
the first menu to select the score to change. If you select Text Score-->
from the menu, be sure to type a numeric score. |
| 4 |
Use
the second menu to select the new score. As before, if you select
the last item in the menu, be sure to type a numeric score. |
| 5 |
Select
the range of assignments to be included. If you choose All
displayed assignments, any assignments hidden by filters
will not be affected. Choose Selected
assignments ONLY if you selected at least one assignment
column before opening the window. |
| 6 |
(Optional)
If you would like ungraded assignments to be included, select the
Include "Not
for Grade" item. The "Not for Grade" attribute
is set in the record window for an assignment. |
| 7 |
Click
the Change button. |
