The workplace courses in my environment often change with new grading activities often added or swapped (i.e. a Quiz gets replaced by a graded SCORM activity).
To avoid the issues of resetting course completion when activities change and losing previous completion dates, I encourage course developers to set course completion based on Course Total and use a category with grade type = None to store any graded item to exclude from the course total. I prefer the course completion block to list activities to be completed rather than the blunt course grade = 100 AND course developers tend to intuitively use this option BUT avoiding resetting course completion dates is the bigger issue)
This works OK until a course isn't based on 100% in all activities for a course total of 100% and there is a mix of passing grades for the individual graded items - if 2 activities need 100% and 2 activities need 80% , what is the best way to still use course grade total that works on the passing grades of each graded item:
- I could use a blunt average of 95% but 100%, 100%, 70% (fail) and 90% (pass) would also pass the course
- I am aware it's possible to use calculated activity totals to treat a passing grade as 100% (e.g. if item grade > 80% set to 100% to allow setting the course completion criteria to course total 100%)
Is there a more elegant way (and easier for course creators to use) to manage mixed passing grades when using course total as the course completion criteria?
Any suggestions welcome.