Exporting Grades to STORM
Blackboard provides an integrated tool that exports grades from your Blackboard course site to the university STORM system. The directions are as follows:
1. Go to Control Panel > Course Tools and click Export Official Grades.
2. You should add a calculated column (e.g. Weighted, Total, Average column) or a regular grade column on the Grade Center for your midterm or final grade (see the tutorials for the Grade Center overview and adding grade columns). If you want to export the column of grades to STORM, you must set Primary Display to Letter. (See the screen shot shown as below)
3. Select either Midterm Grades or Final Grades for the export grade type.
4. A list with all the columns from your Grade Center will appears. Select the item that you would like to export. Items displayed in standard font color, black, have a Primary Display of Letter and can be loaded into STORM. Items in red are not of the 'letter' grade format.
! Caution: When you manually create a Grade Center item, the Points Possible in the Item Information shown below must have at least 1 point or the grades will be exported as blanks.
5. On the Review Grades screen shown below, confirm that the list is correct. If you need to make a change, click Cancel at the bottom and go to Control Panel Grade Center and make the appropriate changes; otherwise, click OK. Please note that student names and grades have been invented in this screenshot and are for demonstration purposes only. Any resemblance to real names and grades is purely coincidental.
6. On the Save Files screen, click the link of the course grades you want to export. There may be more than one link if your Blackboard course site represents a cross-listed class or a combination of multiple sections of a class.
Note: A warning message and a list appear if you have any students who are in your Blackboard course site roster but are not officially enrolled in the class.
7. Your browser will give a prompt to either Open or Save. Select Save which will save the grades on your computer’s hard drive in a format that is ready to upload to STORM.
8. You have now exported a Grade Center item from Blackboard. To Load and Approve Grades, click Load and Approve Grades in Control Panel Course Tools. Click the STORM link and you will be logged into STORM.
9. For more information on uploading and submitting grades to the STORM system, please visit:
http://www.sissoffice.duke.edu/recordTrain_online_grading_upload.htm
