More flexibility with grading

More flexibility with grading

by David Brotman -
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A student currently sees the following grade display for a particular course:

Student ActivityMax GradeGrade
Writing Assignment10070
Final Exam1514
Total11584

In the above example, the student got a total score of 84/115 = 73% but the individual scores are 70% and 93% respectively. Suppose I wanted the student to achieve a minimum of 80% on each individual activity, ideally it would be nice to have the following revised grade table:

Student ActivityMax GradeGrade% scorePassed?
Writing Assignment1007070No
Final Exam151493Yes
Total11584No

Of course, having this type of setup would require an additional field in each activity module creation that would ask what constitutes a passing grade in either decimal or integer format. Additional flexibility would be nice if teachers could choose either individual passing grade format or entire course passing grade format. Regardless, it would be helpful to display a true/false column that shows passed/not passed for both students and teacher. This gives both parties instant feedback upon completion of class.