Connect FeedbackFruits to the Brightspace Gradebook
Introduction to Instructional Steps
Grades from FeedbackFruits are not automatically published in FeedbackFruits or to the Brightspace gradebook. Additionally, FeedbackFruits cannot create its own grade items in the University of Arizona instance of Brightspace. Grade items must be manually created and connected to the FeedbackFruits activity. Unpublished grades in FeedbackFruits are invisible to students until the instructor manually publishes the grades, or schedules a date and time for automatic publishing to occur.
Step 1
By default, when a FeedbackFruits activity link has been selected within a course content module, it will automatically open in a separate browser tab to ensure fullscreen view.
When the new tab opens in your browser, navigate back to the Brightspace page that you came from and you will find the Assessment section at the bottom of the External Resource screen.
Step 2
Proceed to create a grade item. There are multiple ways to create Grade Items in Brightspace. For more information on creating Grade Items, please visit the Create Grade Categories and Grade Items in Brightspace help page.
Once the grade item has been created, select the Add a grade item... button.
Step 3
Then select the Grade Item from the drop-down menu, and select Save.
Step 4
Once the Grade Item is saved, you must relaunch the FeedbackFruits activity, either by selecting the Open in a New Window button on the External Resource page, or select the activity link again from Course Content.
Step 5
Within the FeedbackFruits activity, navigate down to the Grading module and select the Publish Grades button to check if the grade item has successfully been configured to your course.
If you have correctly configured the Grade Item you should see the screen below indicating a successful sync with the Brightspace Gradebook. It will display a message that reads, "Success. Are you sure you want to publish the grades? This can not be reverted" and you'll have options to cancel or publish.
Success
If the Grade Item is not configured, or you fail to relaunch the activity, you will see the screen below on an unsuccessful Gradebook sync. It will display a message that reads, "Unsuccessful. Are you sure you want to publish the grades to Brightspace? FeedbackFruits can't find a location in Brightspace to publish the grades to, but the grades will still be visible within this activity. If you also want the grades to be published to Brightspace, please check your Brightspace settings." It will have a link to more information about publishing grades and have a cancel and publish button.
Unsuccessful
