When you link a discussion topic’s score to a numeric grade item in your grade book, your users’ scores automatically transfer to the grade book. This enables you to factor the topic score into users’ final grades for the course. It also enables you to display the result to users since users cannot view their topic score directly through the Discussions tool, but can view their grades in the grade book.
You must publish the score to the grade book in order for iLearn Learning Environment to update the grade item. This prevents the display of inaccurate grades before you finish assessing users. When you publish the topic score, iLearn Learning Environment updates the grade item in the grade book. Any additional changes you make to a user’s score automatically release to the grade book. Note that you can only link numeric grade items to discussion topics.