Best Practices for Grades Journey

Best practices for common use cases in Grades Journey

I need to...	Action Steps:
Capture only final grade, specific data, or specific colums	Grade Extract Settings > Column filter: specify list of items you wish to extract
Use specific vendors (Ellucian/Banner, Peoplesoft)	Ellucian – Banner, Colleague, or PowerCampus ILP – Grades Journey not needed XE – TBD – could be another extract option LMB – In Development Custom – Can use delimited file, REST API, or LIS integrations Peoplesoft SAIP – Can configure to use LIS Custom – Can use delimited file, REST API, or LIS integrations Jenzabar – Can use delimited file Other or Custom SIS – Can use delimited file, REST API, or LIS integrations
Enable grade lockdown	Grade Approve and Transfer Settings > Enable "Lock on approval"
Create content	For flat file, create files using the .asg file type to create assignments. For REST, create transaction to create items using the attributes specified in the REST transaction documentation.
Map column to 1 or N gradable items in learn and extract that column (provisioning enabled mode)	Go to the Grade Center, find the column created by the integration, chose edit, and update the mapping as desired.
Create assignment hooks – flat example with assignment	See Create content above.
Find out more on LIS or SITS data format uses (Tribal SITS Customer)	Contact your International Sales Executive for assistance.
Find out more on any SIS or middleware and the desired transactional flow (REST or LIS data format uses)	Contract your Sales Executive for assistance.
Provision Turnitin submission points	Turnitin manages its own grade columns, so Blackboard suggests that Grade Journey users create a weighted column and then map it 100% to that Turnitin column. Set up Turnitin assignments. Provision extract columns with Grades Journey. Manually map the extract columns to the Turnitin columns. If using REST, set to 100% to the Turnitin column. Extract grades.