Creating a column for extra credit in the Grade Center

1. Login to your Blackboard course site, and scroll down to find the Control Panel (see Fig. 1) in the bottom-left corner of the browser window.
   
   
   Fig. 1, Control Panel in a Blackboard course site
   
   
2. In the Control Panel, click Grade Center. The Grade Center category will expand with two options: Needs Grading and Full Grade Center (see Fig. 2).
3. Click Full Grade Center. The full Grade Center will display.
4. In the upper-left corner of the Grade Center, click the Create Column  button. The Create Grade Column page will display.'
5. In the Column Name field, type a name for your column (e.g., "Extra Credit").
6. In the Points Possible field, type 0 (zero). 
7. Verify that Include this Column in Grade Center Calculations is marked Yes.
8. Click Submit. Now, any points you enter into this column in the Grade Center will count as extra credit.

Creating and Removing Columns from the Grade Center