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Investigate Educational Technologies :: Illinois Compass

Finding and Sorting Users

Illinois Compass provides search and sorting tools to find, sort, and view students by name, group, or section in the grade book.

Searching for a Student

To access the Grade Book tool, select the Teach tab, and under Instructor Tools select Grade Book.

Screenshoot of the Teach tab

Screenshot of Gradebook button

From the Grade Book Options, click on Find Members.

Screenshot of Find Members button

From the first dropdown list under "Column," select Last Name.

From the second dropdown list under "Condition," select Begins with or Contains.

In the third dropdown list under "Value," enter the first few letters of the student's Last Name.
Note: Search criteria are case sensitive. (To add additional criteria to further limit the number of returned matches, click Add Criteria and repeat steps 3-5 in the next row of fields that appear.)

Click Run Query.

Screenshot of Find Members By Last Name

The grade book will display the results of your query.

Click Show All Members to return to the original grade book list.

Viewing Students by Section

Section information for students is provided in Illinois Compass under the "Section" column in the grade book. To view students from a particular section:

  1. Go to the Teach tab and click on Grade Book.
  2. Click on the Members or View All tab, and choose Find Members.
  3. From the first dropdown list under "Column," choose Section.
  4. From the second dropdown list under "Condition," select Equal to.
  5. From the third dropdown list under "Value," type in the section letter or number.
  6. Click Run Query.

The grade book will display students from that section.

Click Show All Members to return to the original grade book list.

Viewing Students by Group

To access the Grade Book tool, select the Teach tab, and under Instructor Tools select Grade Book.

Screenshoot of the Teach tab

Screenshot of Gradebook button

Click on the Members or View All tab, and choose Find Members.

Choose the Groups checkbox.

Check contain and select the appropriate Group.

Screenshot of Find Members By Group

Click Run Query.

The Grade Book will display students from that group.

Click Show All Members to return to the original Grade Book list.

Sorting Students by Name

To access the Grade Book tool, select the Teach tab, and under Instructor Tools select Grade Book.

Screenshoot of the Teach tab

Screenshot of Gradebook button

Left click on the title of the Last Name column. In the dropdown menu that appears, click on Sort Column. Once the column is sorted, you will be able to re-sort the column by clicking on the arrow that appears under the column name.

Screenshot of Sorting Column button