Blackbaud grade passback is a feature for School & District licensed organizations that allows teachers to return scores from Formative assignments back to Blackbaud.

Formative offers two methods to passing grades back to Blackbaud - Automatic and Manual.

Automatic Grade Passback is enabled at the assignment level and applies only to formatives that incorporate auto-graded questions only (no rubrics or question types that require manual scoring by the teacher), and it will sends grades back to Blackbaud without any action from the teacher once all the required conditions have been met (see below).

Manual Grade Passback applies to all formatives and can be triggered by the teacher at any time once students have launched the assignment from within Blackbaud and started working on it.

Below you can find the specific prerequisites for each Grade Passback method along with step-by-step instructions.

Toggling on the assignment setting will send grades back from Formative into Blackbaud automatically, as long as all the prerequisites and conditions below are met.
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There are a few initial steps to ensure the automatic passback feature is available on a formative:

Once the assignment is fully submitted (by the student or via teacher on behalf of the student) and all questions are auto-graded, scores are automatically sent back to Blackbaud.

Please note, that the only grades that pass back automatically are the ones fully completed at the time of the initial submission.

Any update to the grade in Formative will require a manual passback to send the updates back into Blackbaud, including:

As mentioned before, if any part of the assignment requires manual teacher scoring, like an open-ended question, automatic passback will not apply.

However, teachers can use Manual Grade Passback to send the grades back, as long as the prerequisites below are fully met.

Teachers can also use Manaual Grade Passback if any of the students' scores need to be updated after they've already been sent to Blackbaud.

There are a few initial steps to ensure the manual passback feature is available on a formative:

After your students have submitted the formative, launch the Formative assignment in Blackbaud.

This will take you to Formative where you will click on the triple dots near the top right, and select "Grade Passback."

Choose the option under "BlackbaudK12 Grade Passback" for "Pass back grades to BlackbaudK12."

You will be presented with an interface where you can choose the class / classes and which students' grades you wish to copy to the Blackbaud gradebook:

Enabling complete/incomplete grading is now an option! When enabled, it gives 100% to students who submitted. Teachers can also manually adjust the complete/ incomplete status prior to passing the grades back.

This can occur if the assignment the student(s) used to answer the formative was removed or changed not to use Formative. You will likely have to manually enter the grades in this case as Formative no longer has the right information it needs to pass grades to the right place in the gradebook.