Using the whole grade data entry feature on markbooks

When assessments are set up by publishers, they can choose to make markbooks editable at question level only, or at both question or whole grade level. This article describes how to enter marks as whole grades. For information on how to enter marks into a standard question level markbook, view this article on standard markbooks. 

1. Check your markbook is enabled for whole grade data entry. Markbooks that allow whole grade data entry have a slider at the top that allows you to switch between whole grade and question level data entry (see screenshot below). If this slider is not on your markbook it has not been enabled for whole grade data entry.
2. Choose which mode to use. There are two ways to enter whole grades, which can be selected using the above slider:
   1. Whole grade data entry only. This will only show the "Total" column and you will only be able to enter a total mark.
   2. Question or whole grade data entry. This will give you the option to enter question level marks for some students and total marks for other students.
3. Fill in the marks.
   1. In Whole grade data entry mode, you enter your total marks into the total column (see screenshot below):
   2. In Question or whole grade data entry mode, you can enter some marks at question level (as has been done for Dale Marks in the below example) and others at the whole mark level (as is the case for Monique Cummings in the below example).

Tips and tricks

1. As with all markbooks, copy and paste is enabled, so you can use this to enter marks from a spreadsheet, or to copy-paste between cells.
2. If you enter a question level mark into a row that already contains a manually entered total mark then the total will be deleted and replaced with a calculated total based on the question level marks.
3. If you attempt to enter a total mark in a row that already contains question level data, you'll see a warning modal allowing you to cancel the total mark data entry (see below). If you choose to proceed, the question level data will be lost and cannot be recovered.

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