With just a few clicks, you can see the problem. You can run reports from your gradebook that help you see patterns in student learning.You can still review them and make changes, rounding that 79% up to a B- if you want, but you donвЂ™t have to hand enter every grade. Your LMS may give you the option of rolling grades directly from your gradebook into your grade recording system, such as Banner.Yes, some still may write to you to ask what they need to earn on the final to earn an A in the course, but far fewer will be confused about their grades than will be otherwise. Your LMS will weight grades for youвЂ“and for your students.All of these wick away student energy for thinking, which is the point of the class. If you DONвЂ™T do this, students will have to return to wherever it was where you wrote this information (yeah, probably the syllabus), which, again, means one more click, one more link, more more thing to open. When you create assignments in your LMS, you will assign each assignment a category and a point value or letter grade.They are better able to take responsibility for their grade if it is within the system they are already working in. Everything in the LMS helps students stay organized. If you keep a separate system, it is either inaccessible to students or they have to go outside of the LMS to access it.(And you know meвЂ“I donвЂ™t encourage folks to try things that are too burdensome for little payout.) HereвЂ™s why: It will likely save you hours (like, many hours) of work in your semester.Д®ven if you have a method of keeping track of grades that already works for you, I encourage you to use the gradebook in your LMS. In terms of helping me manage the unpleasant tasks of teaching, I think the gradebook is especially helpful.

If you havenвЂ™t taught online before, you may never have used an online gradebook (though many who do teach only F2F still use the gradebook in their LMS).

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