 Hi everyone, in this little video we're going to take a look at how you look at your grades and what some of the information you want to take a look at so you can better assess how you're doing in the course. So whenever you come into a course in Blackboard, if you want to take a look at your grades in your specific course, you come over here to My Grades. When you click on My Grades, you're going to have a listing of all of your assignments and basically what status that they're at, where are they in the process. So if you've submitted it, there's a good chance that it'll either say submitted and if it's been graded, it'll say graded. If it's upcoming, that is it hasn't been submitted yet, you'll have it listed here. Over on the right you'll have what the grade is and as you can see some of these have grades, some of them don't, some of them have the exclamation point which just tells you it needs grading. That is it's been submitted but the instructor hasn't graded it yet. And then some of them have this little word balloon here and the word balloon tells you that there is in fact feedback to be had. So if you click on that feedback, you will get whatever the commentary is that I've provided. So it might say something like this is really good but here are some concerns, here's how you might want to reevaluate it, etc. So you can look at any of your assignments and double check that they are, you know, why you got the score that you did. Now there's other assignments where you can not only just get the feedback but you can also take a look at the rubric. Particularly around discussions I use a lot of rubrics and so if I want to look at this discussion I can see, oh I can view the rubric so I can not only get the feedback but if I click here and view rubric, it shows me right here how I have done. So it's telling me, oh look, you know, for formatting I got 16.5, for organization I got this and so forth. So the rubric is really a good way for how I identify where the strengths and challenges are in your assignment and you'll want to take a look at those to better understand what it is you're doing. The other thing you really want to do particularly around major assignments is to take a look specifically at assignments where I have not only provided you feedback but if it's a paper I may have commented on your paper. So if we look at this assignment right here, I know I got an 81 but if I want to find out more about what were some of the strengths and weaknesses of it I can always click on the assignment itself and it's going to bring me to the assignment page and here is where it really gets nice in that I can actually see where the instructor has identified issues and challenges in the paper. Now if I want to see this a little more clearly I can shrink this left side and notice it expands a bit more. I can also just kind of make this a full page and that helps a little bit more. I can shrink the page a little bit and that shows me oh look this is where I had trouble this is where issues rose and then if I want to take a look at this paper if I want to download it I can click right up here where this little icon is and I'm sorry this little icon right here and it can allow me to download it as a file as a word file or as an annotated PDF. If you do download it as a word file please make sure that if you're going to be resubmitting it that you remove any of the markup that comes with it. So that's just a quick way to take a look at your grades and understand where your grades are coming from. Hopefully this will be useful and provide you with plenty of material to take a look at as grades start to come in. Thank you very much.