There are essentially two ways that grade items are created: by creating graded content in the Course Content area, such as assignments, quizzes, discussions, and so on. When creating these items, Blackboard will create a grade item in the Gradebook for you automatically. Alternatively, you can create items in the Gradebook manually to grade other types of activities such as those that occur outside of Blackboard, like presentations and performances, participation, or physical artifact creation and submission.
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