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One way to do this is to hold the mouse over the lower right corner of the cell. The mouse pointer will become a plus. Double-click.  The cell should get copied to the whole column. One way to do this is to hold the mouse over the lower right corner of the cell. The mouse pointer will become a plus. If you double-click, the cell should get copied to the whole column.

Using Excel's vlookup function to copy grades into a Learn@UW spreadsheet

This tip for submitting grades applies to the following scenario: You have a spreadsheet in a format specific to your course that includes student IDs, grades, and perhaps other information. One way to submit these grades is to export a grades spreadsheet from Learn@UW, copy the grades from your spreadsheet into the designated column in the Learn@UW spreadsheet, and import that spreadsheet into Learn@UW.

The procedure below shows how to use Excel's vlookup function to copy the grades from your spreadsheet into the Learn@UW spreadsheet.

Example class grade sheet

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Example Learn@UW sheet

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Note that the two sheets do not need to be sorted in the same way.

Use vlookup to copy grades from the class grade sheet into the Learn@UW sheet

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The arguments to vlookup are:

* The name of the cell in the Learn@UW sheet containing the student ID to match.

* The range of columns in the class grade sheet that contains the student ID and the grades. It doesn't matter if additional columns are included in this range. The first column in this range must be the student ID column. One way to enter the range in this column is by navigating to the other sheet and dragging the mouse over the column headers.

* The index of the column within the selected range that contains the grade in the class grade sheet. The first column in the range is index 1, the second is index 2, and so on.

* Whether to do partial matches. Enter FALSE to get exact matches.

After entering the vlookup formula, pressing Enter should show the correct grade in the cell.

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Copy the vlookup cell to the rest in the column

One way to do this is to hold the mouse over the lower right corner of the cell. The mouse pointer will become a plus. If you double-click, the cell should get copied to the whole column.

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Copy the '''values''' of the vlookup cells into the grades column

Copy the cells and then use "Paste Special" and choose to paste the values.

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The result:

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Clear the vlookup column, now that it is no longer needed

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Import the completed sheet into Learn@UW

In rare cases, an error may reported about the roster not matching. In this case, it may be necessary to import section by section.

fw: LearnAtUWVlookup (last edited 2015-12-18 16:04:53 by DanBradley)