Deleting Grade Items from the Grade Book in Brightspace

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This Information is Intended for: Instructors, Staff
Created: 12/27/2022 Last Updated: 05/06/2024

If you want to delete items from your Grades, perhaps because you imported content-including grades-to your Brightspace course, use these steps to do so. Note: Before deleting a grade item associate with a quiz, assignment, or discussion, you must first disassociate it.

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Deleting a Grade Item

Before deleting any grade items, be sure to verify that this is the correct option for you. Deleting items includes deleting all associated grades, removal from calculations, and removal from other tool associations. Consider hiding the items instead. If you have decided that you would like to delete, be sure that you have selected the intended grade items and that there are no associated grades that are needed.

To delete a Grade Item from your Grade Book, follow these steps:

  1. In your Grade Book, go to the Manage Grades tab
  2. Choose More Actions
  3. Select Delete
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  4. Choose the grade items you wish to remove
  5. Click the Delete button
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Disassociating a Grade Item

If you are unable to select a Grade Item to delete from the Grade Book, it is most likely because the Grade Item is associated with a Discussion, Assignment, or Exam/Quiz. In the Association column in the Manage Grades tab, you will see which association the Grade Item has. 

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Once you have disassociated the Grade Item from the Discussions, Assignments, or Exam/Quizzes tools, they can be deleted using the instructions above. 

Disassociating an Assignment

To disassociate an Assignment, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Assignments tab from the Navbar or the Course Admin menu
  2. Select the downward facing arrow next to the assignment you wish to disassociate
  3. Click Edit Assignment
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  4. Choose the drop down option that says In Grade Book
  5. Select Not in Grade Book
  6. To finish, choose the Save and Close button
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Disassociating a Discussion

To disassociate a Discussion, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Discussions tab from the Navbar or the Course Admin menu
  2. Select the downward facing arrow next to the discussion topic you wish to disassociate
  3. Choose Edit Topic
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  4. Choose the drop down option that says In Grade Book
  5. Select Not in Grade Book
  6. To finish, choose the Save and Close button
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Disassociating an Exam/Quiz

  1. Go to the Exams/Quizzes tab from the Navbar or the Course Admin menu
  2. Select the downward facing arrow next to the exam/quiz you wish to disassociate
  3. Choose Edit
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  4. Choose the drop down option that says In Grade Book
  5. Select Not in Grade Book
  6. To finish, choose the Save and Close button
    Image of the Edit or Link to Existing option highlighted

 

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