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Dropping lowest score for extra credit assignments - use after new version of KSOL is released
Scott Finkeldei, Office of Mediated Education
You had contacted us about the ability to create a group of online assignments specifically for extra credit and have the lowest score(s) dropped. This did not work currently as 'extra credit' assignments were not following the group rules. They are special case for a couple of reasons (as far as the computer coding goes) and this made it difficult. We were able to come up with a solution that I hope works for you and should be useful to other instructors as well.
The extra credit assignments need to be in a group of their own if you want to drop an extra credit score. If they are not in their own group, they will still not be dropped as this can mess up the calculating of grades across all the various groups, dropped scores, etc. So the new feature is:
In an Assignment group consisting of all extra credit assessments, the lowest grade(s) can be dropped. If there is extra credit mixed with other assignments and the extra credit is the lowest score, it does not get dropped (since it is presumably extra credit, even if it is the lowest).
This will be released in the August K-State Online 8.0 version. Thanks for your input and let us know if you have any questions.
Assignment Listing - e-mail from Scott Done May 6, 2008
Assignments listed on the student's My Assignments page will *always* be listed in the order they are due. The Expiration date of the assignment decides the order in which they are listed.
In the example that came to me today the instructor had 3 assignments, all with a due date of the same day near the end of the semester. They were listed for the students in the order of 3, 1, 2 because the expiration date of #3 was the same date as the others but happened to have its expiration time at 1 minute after 1 and 2 closed.
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one more detail to add to this...what happens when an assignment *doesn't* have an expiration date - how does that get listed?
Where comparing two assignments, it uses the expires on
first. If that's is not set (if the assignment is has an 'open' end date), it falls back to the ordering set by the instructor in the Assignment Listing (that numeral in a dropdown on the instructor side).
Can I move columns around in the Gradebook? Done May 20, 2008
Scott Finkeldei, Office of Mediated Education
Is it possiblee to move columns around within the grade book?. I would like the Total points to be right after the student name so that it is easier to go down the list and see what the final grades are at the end of the semester.
There is not an option to allow any sort of arbitrary movement of the gradebook columns. There is an option in the Gradebook preferences (a small icon and the text 'preferences' in the upper right hand corner of the gradebook screen) that allows you to put the students names on the left, right or both so that you can have the student name next to the total column on the right. That is the best option we have at this point. So you cannot put the total columns on the left by the name but you can put the name by the total column on the right.
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