Greetings! I set up my gradebook to handle weighted categories (i.e. Exams=50%; Essays=30%; Participation=20%). My issue is that the students tend to panic (or at least their morale is lowered) when they see an F grade in both the category totals columns and the final grade field. (Of course, this is just because they haven't completed many of the assignments yet, but still, an F is shocking to many students... ;)) I realize that I can turn on the "Aggregate only non-empty grades," but I've found that this, too, is unreliable because for students who don't submit all (or most) of their coursework yet have achieved high grades on the coursework they did complete shows totals that are obviously much too high. I could enter 0 as the grade for those who didn't submit, but, unless there's a way to do this "in bulk," that would drive both my TAs and I crazy! ;) One other point: I've tried "hiding" some of the "total category" fields, but this seems to effect the entire view-state of the student's grade report such that they don't see any of the grades - I haven't had much luck with "hiding" things....
Thanks very much!
