You can manually set whether you want to make partial grades visible to students or hide them.

Navigate to your Brightspace course page. Then, in the green navigation bar

1. Click Grades, a drop-down menu will appear
2. Then click Gradebook

You will now land on the Grades homepage. At the top of the page, below the green navigation bar

3.    Click the tab Manage Grades

On this page you will see the list of all your grade items. Navigate to the grade item you want to hide from the student view.

4.    Click the downward arrow at the right of its name

5.    Click Hide from Users

Once you hide the grade item from student view it will be indicated by an icon of a crossed eye next to its name.

To make the grade item visible again, navigate to your grade item in the gradebook (tab Manage grades). Then,

1. Click the downward arrow at the right of its name
2. Click Hide from Users

The grade item will now be visible to students, and the crossed-eye icon will disappear.

Now you know how to manually publish or hide partial grades!

The publishing or hiding process of final grades is different from the partial grades.

Navigate to your Brightspace course page. Then, in the green navigation bar

1. Click Grades, a drop-down menu will appear
2. Then click Gradebook

You will land on the Grades homepage. On the same tab, Enter Grades, navigate to the student grades overview, to the first column Final Grade.

3.    Click the downward arrow

4.    Click Enter Grades

You will now land on the Final Grades page. Here you will see a table with the students' names and their final calculated and adjusted grades.

5.    Scroll down on the page and set the [number] per page view to maximum so you see all your students in the table

6.    Click the selectbox in the top row and first column to select all students in the list

7.    Click the Release/Unrelease button above the table to publish/unpublish grades

Now, in the column Released, last column of the table, the selectboxes will be checked to indicate that for these students the final grade will be released (published).

If the selectboxes are:

• checked - grades will be published (released) in the Brightspace page
• unchecked - grades will be unpublished (unreleased) in the Brightspace page

Now you know how to publish and hide final grades!

You can set automatic release dates for the partial grade items in your course. It can be useful to set the publishing date of the grades in advance. Keep in mind that this publishing event will take place at the same time for all students.

Navigate to your Brightspace course page. Then, in the green navigation bar

1. Click Grades, a drop-down menu will appear
2. Then click Gradebook

You will land on the Grades homepage where a table overview with students grades is. At the top of the page, below the green navigation bar

3.    Click the tab Manage Grades

Navigate to the grade item in the list you want to set automatic release date for.

4.    Click the downward arrow next to the grade item you want to modify

5.    Click Edit from the drop-down menu

This will take you to the Edit Item page. Here,

6.    Click the tab Restrictions

7.    Click the selectbox Has Start Date

8.    Fill in the date and time when this grade item will become visible to users

9.    (Optional) Set an End Date for the grade item by clicking the selectbox and filling the date and time if you want to hide it to students at a specific moment.

10.    Click the button Save and Close

The system will return you to the grade items overview page and you will see a stopwatch icon next to the grade item indicating the setting of an automatic release date.

Now you know how to set an automatic date to publish or hide the grades of your students in Brightspace!