There is now a cumulative grade for the course showing in VistaBB, labeled Grade Calc. I plan to update it every week or two. It shows your numeric grade (out of 100) including all of the graded elements so far, which are the ones that will be visible to you.
Notes about the Grading Calculation
- Allowance for the “free” (ie. you can miss without penalty) items will be made only at the end of the term. That means that you will see an increase in your numeric grade at that point if you’ve missed something. I’ll make that calculation in a separate spreadsheet so the final exact grade will probably not appear in VistaBB, but it will be the same as or higher than what shows in VistaBB.
- Att – stands for Attendance. What’s shown is the number recorded for you by counting the signatures on the sign-in sheet. This total is multiplied by “5” in computing the cumulative grade. There are 3/week.
- You can see the weighting of the various components in the “Assignment Weights” page of the syllabus.
- Note that the Labs were originally going to be 20 points each with a weight of 5. We changed that to 100 points each with a weight of 0.4. There is no overall change in the contribution of the labs to your cumulative grade.
- The cumulative grade column may be hidden for periods while we input grades and update the calculation. Check back the next day it it will probably show again.
Jim Mitchell
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