You may have noticed that if your students withdrew from the class they are not showing in the classlist anymore. Also, their dropbox and quiz submissions are all gone. You cannot find them in Grades either. However, the messages they posted to Discussions stay there. I did not realize this until I was trying to enter zero in Grades for the students who did not submit their assignments and could not find their names in Grades. I went to check Banner and found that both of them have W as their final grades. Apparently, they withdrew from the class.
In Blackboard, you can get withdrawn students’ grades in Gradebook if you change the setting to show grades of unenrolled students. In D2L, although withdrawn students are removed from Grades, you can still retrieve withdrawn students’ grades and the comments you left for the assignments.
Go to Classlist, click on the Report icon, and you will see a list of withdrawals. Click on the yellow ruler with a green check mark icon to open the grades for the student.
Thanks to PPCC Desire2Learn for the tip information.
