Brightspace Content is Getting Upgraded
Beginning with the Fall 2027 semester, Brightspace courses will begin using the New Content Experience by default. Additionally, Instructors now have the ability to enable or disable the New Content Experience in their own courses ahead of the change in Fall 2027. For more information about this transition, see our New Content Experience Transition page.
To听keep a running total of the student鈥檚 grade, configure the grade book to release the calculated final grade for all students. At the end of the course, you can retract the calculated final grade and instead release the adjusted final grade.
Note: Final Grades in Brightspace do not transfer into YES. You will also need to submit your final grades to YES.
Confirming Grade Book Settings
Release Final Grades
Updated Fall 2025
Confirming Grade Book Settings
Before you release your final grades of the year, it鈥檚 important to review how you have your Grade Book setup. If needed, you can also听review our guide on how to set up your Grade Book.
1. Once in your course, click on Course听Admin, and then听Grades. Click on听Settings听in the upper right-hand menu.
2. Select the Calculation Options听tab.
3. Set Final Grade Released to either Calculated Final Grade听or听Adjusted Final Grade, set Ungraded Items to either Drop ungraded items or Treat ungraded items as 0, and听choose Automatically keep final grades updated.
4. Click Save
5. Click Close
Release Final Grades
1. Return to Grades, and click the听Enter Grades听tab.
2. Identify which Final Grade column has the unreleased symbol听
3. Select Enter Grades听from the unreleased Final Grade context menu.
4. On the Final Grades page, select Release All听from the Final Grades context menu.
5. Select Yes听on the last pop-up window, and your changes will be saved.
Remember that Final Grades in Brightspace do not transfer into YES. You will also need to submit your final grades to YES.