FAQ: Gradebook
FAQ: GradebookNo. When students click Grades, they see only their own grades.
If you view more than 25 students at one time, ICON can take a long time to update calculations. Try changing your Paging to show 25 students.
There may be a name (or group or section) in the Search for: box, in which case ICON is displaying only those students who meet that criteria (sometimes no students meet the criteria). If this is the case, delete the item in the Search for box and click on the Search button. If this doesn’t solve your problem, contact ICON support at icon-support@uiowa.edu or 335-6139.
If your students names have never appeared in your Grades List, you may need to activate your course. To do this, click on the Edit Course link on your course homepage, click Course Offering Information, and then click to place a checkmark in the IsActive? box, and then click Save.
The following will not copy and will need to be manually recreated:
For step-by-step instructions on copying a gradebook, see the Online Help section Importing Content/Components from Another ICON Course.
All new ICON courses have Points System gradebooks by default. The weights you copied from your earlier course will reappear if you change your new gradebook to the Weighted System. Here’s how:
Grades Settings. 
Calculation Options.There are two Final Grade columns in the current version of ICON: one for the Calculated Final Grade and one for the Adjusted Final Grade. The difference between the two Final Grade columns is that the Calculated Final Graded strictly calculates the final grade, while the Adjusted Final Grade allows the instructor to manually adjust the Final Grade (i.e. manually bumping a student up from 89.95% to 90%).
To change the column names in the gradebook, click Manage Grades, then click one of the "Final Grade" links and edit the name.
To delete a grade item in ICON, click Grades in the nav bar, click 
Manage Grades, and then click 
Delete at the top of the page. Then select the item you wish to delete, click Delete Selected, and confirm.
Yes. You can ask Examination and Evaluation Services to email you your scores in a form that can be uploaded to your ICON gradebook. For instructions on how to request this file and then upload your scores, see the Online Help section Importing Examination and Evaluation Services Scores.
If you’re having trouble uploading an EES file, ask yourself these questions:
Manage Grades and click on the name of the grade item. Then look in the Name field on the grade item Properties page.)For further help, see the illustrated step-by-step instructions in the Online Help section Importing Examination and Evaluation Services Scores or contact ICON support.
Unfortunately, there aren't any simple, elegant methods for recording absences and including them in the final grade calculation. But here are some approaches other instructors have taken:
Some instructors create a separate grade column for each class period. The Checkbox grade item type works well for this because you can simply click on Check all Items and then de-select the names of students who are absent. Students receive either 100% or 0% of the credit allotted for that day's attendance. If you are using the Weighted Grade System, you could group these items together in an Attendance category, assign the category a certain weight toward the final grade (e.g., five or ten percent), and instruct ICON to distribute that weight evenly across all items in the category. If you are not using the Weighted system, you could count the absences yourself or create a Formula grade item to count them for you (keep in mind that ICON won't include Formula grade items in the final grade calculation unless you are using the Formula Grade System).
Creating a separate column for each class date can result in a lot of scrolling for you and your students, especially if your class meets three or more times a week. A simpler approach is to create only one grade column, say, a Text grade item, in which you keep a running tally of student absences. You could just manually update the number of absences as the term progresses (e.g., replace "1" with "2" after the second absence). If you want students to know when they missed, you could enter the dates instead (e.g., "8-27, 10-2, 11-19"). When the term is over, you would need to count these absences yourself, since ICON cannot compute the content of Text grade items.
Suppose you don't want to bother with formulas or weights. You simply want to add or deduct points based on the number of absences.
You do this in the Edit Final Grade screen. Here's how:
Enter Grades - Final Grades above the Final Grade column. 
Re-Calculate All (unless
you have instructed ICON to keep the final grade updated automatically). 
Transfer All. We welcome any other suggestions you may have for recording attendance in ICON.
You can give extra credit in two ways. One is to allow bonus points within a particular assessment or assignment. For example, let's say you want to give students extra points for answering a bonus question in a quiz. You can decide whether the quiz grade could exceed the Out of: or Points: grade (e.g., could a student earn 110 percent?). If the quiz is in a category, you can choose whether to allow the category grade to exceed the total points for the category.
A second way to give extra credit is to create a stand-alone bonus item using the Numeric, Checkbox, or Selectbox grade item type. When you create a bonus item, the Out of or Points grade for that item will display as "0." However, any credit earned on this item will be added to the category and/or final grade. If the bonus item is in a category, you decide whether to allow the category grade to exceed the total points for that category.
ICON does not have a built-in function for grading on a curve. However, there are at least three different work-arounds:
For instructions on each of these three approaches, see the Online Help section Grading on a Curve.
If you plan to use Excel to calculate your final grade and/or make other modifications to your gradebook, you can create your gradebook in ICON, export the gradebook as a comma-separated-value (CSV) file, and then open the CSV file with Excel. When you finish making your changes in Excel, save your file in CSV format and import it back into ICON. You’ll find step-by-step instructions in the Online Help section Exporting to, and Importing from. Excel.
It depends on what grading system you are using—Points, Weighted, or Formula. ( If you're not sure, click 
Grade Settings, and then click 
Calculation Options and see which system is selected.)
If you’re using the Points System, you could easily create a Calculated grade item, which allows you to select which grades to include in the calculation. Be aware that the calculated item will not drop the lowest grade in a category. (See the Online Help section Creating a Calculated Grade Item).
If you’re using the Weighted System, the Calculated grade item type is not recommended because it redistributes the entire weight of each category among your selected items, giving you skewed results. You could use the Formula grade item to calculate mid-session grades, but this can be tricky if you’re not accustomed to entering formulas. Your best bet is to contact ICON support.
If you’re using the Formula System, you can create a Formula grade item to calculate mid-session grades. See the Online Help section Creating a Formula Grade Item.
You can keep the Calculated final grade updated automatically. However, the ongoing final grade can be deceptively low if there are nongraded items in your gradebook and ICON is set to count nongraded items as zero. Also, automatic update of the final grade can slow performance if your course is very large.
To have the final grade update automatically:
Grade Settings 
Calculation Options . You can update the final grade calculation anytime. Here’s how:
Enter Grades icon in the final grade column heading. 
Recalculate All (top).Keep in mind that this grade can be deceptively low if there are ungraded items in your gradebook and ICON is set to count ungraded items as zero.
You cannot prevent ICON from displaying the grade scheme grade (which is percentage by default). But you can create a new grade scheme that converts all scores in the 0-100 percent range to a meaningless symbol, such as two hyphens. In this case, your students would see the points grade and the hyphens. An illustration of this grading scheme appears under "Sample Grade Schemes" in the Gradebook Online Help section Creating, Modifying, & Applying Grade Schemes.
ICON expects you to enter percentages--not points--when creating your grade scheme. For example, if the total possible points are 500 and you want to give a B- to students who earn 400 points, then you would enter 80 (percent), not 400 (points) in the grade scheme Start % box.
For instructions on creating a grade scheme, see Creating, Modifying, and Applying Grade Schemes.
This problem can occur when you have instructed ICON to exclude non-graded items from the grade calculation (to check, click Grade Settings and then click Calculation Options). Here's how to get around it: When grading a Pass/Fail item, click the 
Grade All icon at the top of the item Properties page and select Pass from the Grade dropdown menu; then manually enter 0 for students who did not complete the task satisfactorily. Otherwise, items for students you do not enter a grade for ("none" in the pass/fail menu) will be nongraded items, which will be excluded from ICON's calculations.
Important: When you use the Grade All function, your action affects all students in all sections of this course.
You may need to release the grades.
To make the Final grade visible:
Enter Grades beside the Final Grade (Adjusted or Calculated) that is being released to students. 
.To see how your Final Grade appears to students, click Grades in the Navbar, click on Enter Grades, click on any student name, and then click Preview (top).
To make other grade item types visible:
Manage Grades.