![]() The need to convert to percentages and then to set percentage-based grades is very awkward: 1000 points is an A+ but it is only 78% of the total points available. And, as one of your other posters noted, I like the ability to easily add extra credit - which I like to do during the semester to incentivize students to take advantage of relevant opportunities that arise only after the term is underway.Īt the moment I have established a percentage-based grading scheme but as with the prior posters I find this awkward at best and potentially very confusing to students at worst. The beauty of the points system is its utter transparency. The course contains 1300 points but I grade the course out of 1000 points. Because of this structure there is no relative weighting of anything: each assignment is worth X number of points, period. ![]() I teach an on-line introductory art history course with a pick-and-choose approach to assignments. For example, if the top number of points was 500 then: Technically the scale can be converted to a percent if we could get the top number of points available in the course. Then, as the student earned more points, their letter grade would slowly raise based on the points (technically percent) they had earned out of the total (500 in my example).ĭoes this make sense? Does this I'm actually thinking this would work. What would then happen is that all students would start the course with an F (0-19% or 0-99 points) because every assignment would show a zero in the gradebook. check the option to "treat ungraded assignments as zero" - How do I treat ungraded assignments as zero in the Gradebook?. ![]()
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