Edit calculation settings

You can set the criteria used to calculate grades and display folder-level statistics in the Gradebook and under Performance in the Notifications channel. Calculations update about every two hours so your changes may not be immediately visible.

To display the Edit Calculation Settings page, click Performance > Grading and then click Edit calculation settings. Alternatively, you can click Customize on the Today's View page , scroll to the bottom, and click Edit calculation settings.

To select a calculation type:

1. In the Student Performance and Gradebook Calculation section, select an operation from the Calculate the list:

   Average (default) is calculated by averaging the raw scores the student received on all assignments, including assignments in folders. If an assignment appears more than once in a course, each instance of the assignment is counted in the average.

   Sum is calculated by adding the raw scores the student received on every assignment and dividing by the total possible points for those assignments. If the course is set to display raw scores on the Preferences > Grading page, the raw score appears as "total acquired points ∕ total possible points."

   Calculations do not include assignments that are:

   • Set to practice mode
   • Anonymously submitted
   • Not submitted and not yet due

   Note: Assignments that are not submitted or are submitted after the due date are counted as 0 (zero) unless you extend the due date to some point in the future, allow credit for activities submitted after the due date, or edit the grade. The maximum score (total points) for past due activities that have randomization turned on is considered to be "1." If an activity is assigned without a due date, it is considered to be due on the course end date and the previous rules apply.

2. Select the activity filter you want to apply. Options are: All, Assigned, and Unassigned.
3. Choose an Activity type option:
   • All Activity types: (default) Select to have student performance and gradebook calculations consider all activity types.
   • Select Activity Types: Select the specific activity types you want to include in student performance and gradebook calculations. If an activity is set to practice mode, Time on Task is reported in the Performance channel and in reports, and the activities are included as part of the % Complete calculation.
4. Under % Complete, select Only count content whose score is at or above passing threshold in % complete to include only activities that the student passed in student performance and gradebook calculations.
5. Under Levels the calculation will be shown and applied, specify the levels to which the above calculations should be shown and applied in the gradebook. Choose one of the following options:
   • Folder Calculation Level: Select to specify the folder levels to include in the calculations.
   • Overall (shown at first level): Default. Select to have the calculations apply to the whole course. The column appears as the first column when you navigate to the top level of the gradebook.
   • Folder level (shown inside folders): Select to apply the calculations at each folder level. All of the activities/readiness checks in the folder and any sub-folders are included in the calculation. The column appears as the first column when you navigate to a folder in the gradebook.
   • By default folder columns should be: Set the default state of folder columns in the student view of the gradebook. You have two options:
     • Release: Select to have folder columns appear in the student gradebook and have column names appear to instructors without strikethrough.
     • Revoked: Select to have folder columns not appear in the student gradebook and have column names appear to instructors with strikethrough.

     Click Apply to All to apply the selected display (released or revoked) option to all folders.

6. In Gradebook column prefix, enter text that will be used as the column prefix in the gradebook. For example, you may want calculated column names to reflect the content you are calculating, such as "Sum of all Assigned." For the first level gradebook folders, this name precedes the name of the course (My Course) folder. For the second, third, and subsequent folder levels, this name precedes the folder name. Click set to default to revert to the default name (Course Average or Folder Average) for each level.
7. Under Course performance settings, choose how to incorporate readiness checks in the performance settings. To use this feature, click Enable study plan results. When you select this option, readiness check results appear under Performance in the Notifications channel and you can select to include them in the gradebook columns. The following options also become available:
   • Count Study Plan as single entity in % Complete: Select to count the readiness check as a single item, rather than counting each readiness check element (pre-test, post-test, and study materials) individually. When selected, the % complete value in the Performance channel matches the value in the Student Progress report.
   • Include pre-test results in Calculation: Select to include pre-test results in the performance calculation.
   • Include post-test results in Calculation: Select to include post-test results in the performance calculation.
     • Count Study Plan as single entity in % Complete: Select to count the readiness check as a single item, rather than counting each readiness check element (pre-test, post-test, and study materials) individually. When selected, the % complete value in the Performance channel matches the value in the Student Progress report.
     • Include pre-test results in Calculation: Select to include pre-test results in the performance calculation.
     • Include post-test results in Calculation: Select to include post-test results in the performance calculation.
8. Click Save.

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