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Click the Control Panel button on the left side of the screen in your Course homepage.
Under Assessment, click Grade Center.
To begin editing scores, find and click on the cell to edit.
Enter the new score for the student.
Strike the Enter key to save the new score and move down the column.
Note: It will not be uncommon to see the Saving… message when entering scores in the Grade Center. Once the score is saved, the points will appear in the cell.

Score is being updated

Score is updated

Note: Notice Blackboard adds an orange triangle in the upper left hand corner of cells which have been edited. This triangle provides a visual indicator that a score has been altered.
To remove the orange triangle indicator, click the down arrows for the specific cell.
Click Clear Modified Indicator.

Note: The modified grade indicator is removed.

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Last Updated: 07/18/2009