ilrn instructions

To view or print the student grades for your course sections...

1) Log into the ilrn.com web site  (if you don't know your password, follow the "forgot your ID or password?" link; if you never changed your password or don't recall your initial password, contact Michael Ofsowitz). Use your MCC email address as your login email address.

2) The web site will run an annoying system check when you first log in; once it stops, click the "enter Cengage now" button at the bottom right of the screen - scrolling to find it if necessary. (You can check the "don't run system check again" box before you do, saving a few moments on subsequent logins.)

3) After entering, click the "gradebook" tab in the middle of the page (near the top).

4) Since you logged in using your personal ID, only your class sections will be available. One of them should appear without doing anything other than clicking the "gradebook" tab. To switch between sections, or to find one section if none are appearing, do so just as you would in the learning center, which means using the drop-down box, clicking the plus (+) sign next to the semester, and then the plus sign next to the schedule within the semester (e.g., "regular"), then selecting the class section, and triggering the "go" button to the right of the drop-down box; however, only your class sections will appear as options. On subsequent logins you probably won't have to open the semester and schedule using the plus signs.

5) To see all the students' grades from that class section at once, use the "report creator" near the top right of the gradebook window.  Using the pop-down "choose a report type" menu, select "Monroe Course Report" (about two-thirds of the way down the pop-down list), and click the "go" button.

6) Change the unit number from 10 (default) to the current unit, then click the "create report" button. (If you include units beyond the current one, the students' grade averages will be calculated as if they received zero points on all units included but not yet completed.)

6.5) Grades for a unit are immediately available for A and C tests that were completed on computer in the learning center, but B test grades and makeup (paper/pencil) C test grades have to work their way through the scanning office at MCC and then be imported into Cengage's system (by someone doing the work at a computer) before they become available. Therefore, the complete grades for a unit will probably not be available at 6:01 on a deadline Tuesday evening, but should be in by Wednesday afternoon. Delays are possible, so please be patient. You can check to see if your B test scores have been imported, simply by looking over the course grade report when it appears on your screen, as described in step 7, below, but don't complain if it takes a couple of days.

7) After you select "create report" you'll quickly get a page showing all student scores and their current grades. To print a copy, select the PDF or RTF option in the box to the right of the grades, and click "save report." (PDF will open in Acrobat Reader, and is uneditable without additional software; RTF will open in Microsoft Word, or other RTF-compliant word processing software.) Once the file opens on your computer, you can save or print it as you desire (but see point 8, below, before printing).

7.5) If you want, you can also make a "student view" copy with only student ID numbers showing, just like those posted in the "Courses" folder of the M-drive for student perusal. Just click the "report type: student" radio button before you "create report." Learning center staff will always post a student report to the "Courses" folder of the M-drive, but you might want a copy to pass around in class.

8) To print, however, there is one small trick: if using Microsoft Word with the RTF grade document, you need to change the "scale size" setting in the print window. (The PDF version of the grade document won't require this step.) Depending on your printer, you should see an option to "scale to paper size" (perhaps in the lower right corner of the print dialog window that comes up when you command "print"). Select "Letter" from the options. Then print. You'll have to change the scale size each time you print, but it's a simple thing to do. (If you're quick with computing you can record a macro to apply to these documents to use each time.)

9) If you experience troubles while trying this, high levels of frustration, and displaced violence doesn't seem to be working,  don't call the psychology learning center. Instead, call or send an E-mail to your colleague Michael Ofsowitz, who is responsible for these instructions.

10) Finally, when you get this down pat, you can spare Cindy (in the psych learning center) the work of E-mailing your grade reports, so let her know that you no longer need them.