NOTE: This is a work-in-progress.
Enable viewing of Rainbow Grades
Before beginning, you must enable viewing of Rainbow Grades:
- Navigate to the
Course Settings
page for your course. - Check the checkbox next to
Display Rainbow Grades Summary
.
This will enable the Rainbow Grades
tab on the navigation bar. Currently, there are no grades to view, but that will be handled in the next step.
Customize Rainbow Grades
- Navigate to the
Grades Configuration
page for your course. - Using the form, customize Rainbow Grades how you see fit, or upload a manual JSON file.
- Some customization options will not appear unless a corresponding checkbox under
Display
is checked.
- Some customization options will not appear unless a corresponding checkbox under
- Press the
Generate Grade Summaries
button at the top of the form. - Press the
Build
button at the top of the form.
Every time you save changes using this form, rainbow grades will be automatically updated.
Automatic Nightly Build
In your Course Settings
page, you may see an Automatic Rainbow Grades generation checkbox. This setting allows your
Rainbow Grades to be automatically rebuilt every night at a time determined by your system administrator. If you do not
see this option then the system administrator has not configured it.
Troubleshooting
Limited functionality mode
This tool is designed to run with no extra configuration on the instructors part. If you see a message about limited functionality mode, then please direct the system admin to the Rainbow Grades configuration page.
You may continue using this tool in limited functionality mode, however extra steps are required. Before each use
of the rainbow grades web interface, you must manually generate grade summaries by navigating to the Grade Reports
tab and pressing the Generate Grade Summaries
button. Rainbow Grades uses this data to generate it’s tables,
therefore Rainbow Grades will only be as recent as grade summaries.
When Submitty is properly configured and you do not see this message, there is no need to manually generate grade summaries.