I've heard some of the other LMSs provide tools to allow students to project their final grades. Does anyone know of a plugin that can do this in Moodle? We'd love for students to be able to either enter a target grade, or to enter assumed grades on future assignments, to determine what they need to get to pass a class with a particular grade.
The quiz has certainty based grading which is similar...
I think I've heard of that, but never seen it in an LMS, are you talking about something like this: https://www.calculator.net/grade-calculator.html that interacts with the gradebook and you and plug in numbers to see what possible outputs are?
Yes, that is what I was thinking of. Canvas has a feature that let's students plug in grades for ungraded assignments to project a score and see what they need to get on assignments to make a particular grade. Just curious if anyone in moodle has seen anything like this?
Probably "Canvas." But for that to work, I believe that all activities have to be turned on, and I also believe that the grade system has to calculate absolute grades at a point in time, so if only one assignment is due, and the student gets 10/10, their final grade might be showing 10/200, or 5%.
I never like that method, but I understand it. Why not tell students to do their best on every assignment. I don't like a "C" student saying, "I'm satisfied, I am not doing any more learning in this course."
Having said this, a spredsheet file might suffice.
I never like that method, but I understand it. Why not tell students to do their best on every assignment. I don't like a "C" student saying, "I'm satisfied, I am not doing any more learning in this course."
Having said this, a spredsheet file might suffice.
I understand what you're saying Rick. Checking out cause they're satisfied with a grade doesn't seem like a great choice. But we serve primarily working adults and it sometimes its a choice between family and school or work and school and tools like this could help students acheive their goals and not sacrafice their lives.
Makes sense. One approach is to allow your gradebook categories to *not* 'exclude empty grades' so the grade they see is their standing grade -- I hate when users see an "A" to start because they submitted 1 thing but they still have 45 other things in the course, though on the flip side, students hate seeing the "F" for a few weeks until they have submitted enough work to earn past that intial F. But a built in calculator would be neat.
Maybe it has something to do with whether you are a right-brain or left-brain person???🧠
In my courses, I never told students how many graded items the course contained. This gave me the ability to change my mind.
In my courses, I never told students how many graded items the course contained. This gave me the ability to change my mind.
There were a few situations where students might want to do this calculation.
1) At the end of the course, before they took their final exam.
2) During a semester, when a student wondered how much they should argue for more points on an assignment.
I found that less than .5% of the students would ask for this feature.
For me, the instructor, I would do a little "what if" to decide if a student very short of a grade boundary should be moved up, such as a student getting a 92.92, when an "A" would be 93. But I would only mention this small adjustment near the end of the semester.
I think the bigger issue that I saw was that many instructors would take weeks to grade assignments.
You will find in many places in the world institutions MUST tell a student how they will be assessed before they enrol in a course, and in some sectors such as vocational training it's prescribed by the curriculum.
That said it's a far larger number of students than 5% who want this functionality. I worked for canvas and during 2 implementation I was involved with institutions ran surveys and the majority of students wanted this. Post implementation reviews found the majority used this with an average of at least 3 times a semester.
I did the same thing as Canvas projected grades, but with Moodle and a sheet of paper. I did this for fifteen years and it was very motivating, so I support doing a more automated approach on Moodle. On the paper, students would make a list of every graded part of the course, with points totalling 100. They then would keep adding the grades to the list as they go in the course and multiply by the percentage of that assignment. They could estimate their grade manually--it was good math practice too. . Result: more students did all the assignments, and more students got "A"s because grades were not on a curve--but based on effort and qualitative rubrics for performance projects.
Hi Mike, yes I created custom plugin which is activity plugin. This target to create a bit activity on any course with adding advanced grading including rubric, marker and other grade.
Overall grade of a student will added in gradebook. Can be categorised or add on u categorised category in gradebook.
Overall grade of a student will added in gradebook. Can be categorised or add on u categorised category in gradebook.