Defining Gradebook URLs

Instructors can export Gradebook data to their local drive. Gradebook provides an export utility. To use it, you must first define an FTP server and URL address for the extract file.

This section lists a prerequisite and discusses how to define an FTP server and URL address.

Prerequisite

Set up the FTP server and confirm its full FTP address.

Page Used to Define Gradebook URLs

Page Name	Definition Name	Navigation	Usage
URL Maintenance	URL_TABLE	PeopleTools, and then Utilities, and then Administration, and then URLS, and then URL Maintenance	Define an FTP server and URL address.

Defining an FTP Server and URL Address

Access the URL Maintenance page (PeopleTools, and then Utilities, and then Administration, and then URLS, and then URL Maintenance).

Field or Control	Description
URL Identifier (uniform resource locator identifier)	Define this value in Add mode. Enter GRADEBOOK in uppercase letters, American English, for all versions.
URL (uniform resource locator)	Enter the FTP location that your institution uses to store temporary file attachments. When the instructor clicks the Export button on the Class Gradebook page, the system exports the class grades to the server in csv format and prompts the instructor to save the file to his or her local directory (where the file can be launched in Microsoft Excel).
Comments	Make notations and comments; these do not appear elsewhere.

See PeopleTools: System and Server Administration