To export the grades from Brightspace follow the next steps:

1. Click on Grades in the green navigation bar

2. Click on the Enter Grades tab
3. Click on Export

This will redirect you to the Export Grades page.

Under the Export Options section,

4. Select the fields you would like to include in your file

We recommend the following:

5. Scroll down to the section Choose Grades to Export
6. Select the grade items you would like to import grades to by clicking the select boxes on the left side
   Grade items will have a type description on the right side of the table.
7. Click on Export to CSV

The pop-up window Export Grades will appear. When the loading bar shows as 'Complete':

8. Click on Download

This action will download the .csv file to your computer.

Importing Grades into Brightspace can be a bit tricky, since the import .csv file needs to have very specific settings in order to work without errors. The best way is to Export a template file directly from the course's Gradebook,  fill in the grades, and then Import that file back into Brightspace.

To do so:

1. Export a .csv file following the steps on the previous section.
2. Open the .csv file you just downloaded

The document will look something similar to this:

3. Add the grades to the Excel file under the column with the corresponding assignment name
4. Important: Make sure your last column is named End-of-Line Indicator and includes the # symbol in all the cells of the column from the first to the last user

5. Save the file on your computer

Now you have a .csv file ready to be imported into your Brightspace Gradebook.

To do so:

6. In the Grades page, navigate to the tab Enter Grades
7. Click on Import

In the page Import Grades - Step1: Select File to Import:

8. Click on Choose File and select the .csv file you just created
9. Click on Continue

The next page, Import Grades - Step 2: Errors and Warnings Found, will show any errors that the import might have. If the box shows the text "No errors or warnings found":

10. Click on Continue

In the next page, Import Grades - Step 3: Preview Import, you will see a preview of the grades to be imported. You can occur a final check and then:

11. Click on Import

After the process completes, the message Imported successfully will be shown on the screen and you will be directed back to the Enter Grades page.

 Some computers have the decimal separator shifted between comma (,) and dot (.).
To check this, on the .csv:

1. Go to File
2. Click on Options
3. Click on Advanced
4. Make sure the "Decimal Separator" is a comma (,) and the "Thousands separator" is a dot (.)

Then do the Data > Text to Columns steps again.

You can find more help about this in this article from Microsoft.