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  • Re: Extra Credit with Letter Grades only; no points

    I think I will follow your suggestion and enter the quiz grades as points. I want to be sure, though, that his will not mess with the calculation of the weighted total. Am I correct in assuming that it's no problem to have only one of my categories entered as points, and the rest as letter grades?
    Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by KA on 19 Mar 2012
  • Re: Extra Credit with Letter Grades only; no points

    Okay, that makes sense. So if I enter individual grades as letters, and not as points, there is no way the percentage can be over 100%, even for purposes of calculating the weighted total?
    Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by KA on 16 Mar 2012
  • Re: Extra Credit with Letter Grades only; no points

    Mike, I am trying to calculate a weighted total. I enter letter grades, which correspond to certain percentages in my schema. It's my understanding that even if you enter in points in a column (which I don't), the points are converted to percentages, and then percentages are used when calculating the weighted total. The same happens with letter
    Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by KA on 15 Mar 2012
  • Re: Extra Credit with Letter Grades only; no points

    Thanks, Mike. My schema is set up with a conversion of letter grades to percentages, even though I don't use scores. But let's say I do what you suggest and enter the quiz scores (and only quiz scores) as scores instead of letter grades, and let's say that a student's total percentage for all quizzes is 102% (they got some bonus questions
    Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by KA on 14 Mar 2012
  • Re: Extra Credit with Letter Grades only; no points

    Right, but if I enter an A for 4/3, then that student really isn't getting the benefit of any extra credit; they get the same letter grade as someone who received 3/3. What would happen if I set only the reading quizzes, and no other assignments, to points schema? How will the Grade Book factor the points into other categories that are all letter
    Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by KA on 14 Mar 2012
  • Extra Credit with Letter Grades only; no points

    I use letter grades only in Bb. (Since the point values are irrelevant, I enter a value of 1 for every assignment.) Each letter grade corresponds to a percentage in my letter schema. I'm trying to figure out how to add extra credit to quiz scores in my class if I don't use points. In my category 'reading quizzes', there are about 30
    Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by KA on 13 Mar 2012
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