Illinois Compass provides search and sorting tools to find, sort, and view students by name, group, or section in the grade book.
To access the Grade Book tool, select the Teach tab, and under Instructor Tools select Grade Book.
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From the Grade Book Options, click on Find Members.

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.

The grade book will display the results of your query.
Click Show All Members to return to the original grade book list.
Section information for students is provided in Illinois Compass under the "Section" column in the grade book. To view students from a particular section:
The grade book will display students from that section.
Click Show All Members to return to the original grade book list.
To access the Grade Book tool, select the Teach tab, and under Instructor Tools select Grade Book.
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Click on the Members or View All tab, and choose Find Members.
Choose the Groups checkbox.
Check contain and select the appropriate 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.
To access the Grade Book tool, select the Teach tab, and under Instructor Tools select Grade Book.
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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.

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