Student View: Hiding and Releasing Grade Items and Details

LEARN’s gradebook is a flexible tool that gives instructors a great deal of control over how information is released to students.

Hiding a Grade Item or Category from Student View

There are many reasons you may wish to hide a grade item or category from student view. You may wish to release grade items on a specific date, or only show a cumulative grade through the category.

Note: Hiding grade items within a category may still display a grade on the category depending on the category settings.

Hiding/Releasing a Grade Item

1. Access your Course, click “Assessments” (1), and then “Gradebook” (2).

2. From “Manage Grades” click on the drop-down next to the grade item you wish to hide/release, then click “Edit Grade Item”.

3. Click “Restrictions”.

4. Adjust the “Visibility” settings:

“Hide from Users” – will hide the grade item from student view until this setting is removed.
“Availability” – will allow a grade item to be is visible for a specific date range.
“Release Conditions” – can be applied to any grade item. A release condition in its simplest form is a setting that will restrict the release of an item until a defined condition has been met.

Hiding/Releasing a Grade Category

To hide/release a grade category follow the same steps outlined for a grade item. When you apply a restriction to a category it will apply the chosen settings to the items within that category. Individual settings can still be applied to the item within allowing for staggered releases etc. Note that even if an individual item in a category is hidden from student view a category by default will show a cumulative grade unless you change those settings.