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- Prof. Klodginski uses Gradebook for grading and final grade submission. She teaches single section and multiple section courses. She generally joins the sections in Gradebook for multiple section courses. Mix of herself and her TA for grading.
- Mostly a good grading experience. An exception was uploading grade files and access issue.
- She uses a grader on some categories and would like to be able to limit grader access to a particular category rather than giving them full Gradebook access.
- The grader emails the graded spreadsheet to the TA who enters the category grades online. Their first try at this process was difficult because of the required format for uploading. She uses a MS Office Works program on her PC, and even though she downloaded the spreadsheet from Gradebook, she had difficulty uploading back to Gradebook.
There were no instructions found for explaining the required Excel format for upload. Found out by experimentation what the proper format should be for upload.
- She submits final grades through Gradebook
- She has emailed for help when needed and received a prompt response.
- She uses a primary/alternative weighing option for determining student grades - and would like Gradebook to be more flexible. For determining final grades, she allows student scored to be weighed either with both mid-terms or with only the higher mid-term grade, whichever is higher.
She currently downloads the grading output to Excel so that she can add a third column that automatically determines which of the two scores is higher. - Since she's using two grading alternatives, she finds the stats and graphics are unclear. When she sets the cutoffs - not sure which method is being used to generate those stats. She uses the stats primarily so students can see where they are in the standings
- She believes it is important that students are able to see their grades all through the course. She noticed that the student view stats feature displays a lot of information to students except for their overall average (score) for the course. She provides them with the formula for grading in class, but students must calculate that information for themselves.
Dan Nurco, Chemistry, Teaching Assistant
May 9, 2005
Gradebook comments:
- Had difficulty finding the grade breakdown by category after final grades were submitted. Feels this is an issue for checking scores of students with incompletes.
- Would like to see graphs generated for letter grades as well as for detailed grade cutoff. Would use these stats (letter grades w/o + or -) to determine cutoffs prior to final grade submission. Would like this available w/o special prompts/inputs
- Would like more warnings. I.e., he changed the cutoffs after reviewing the final grades, but did not realize that the grades were not recalculated to his new cutoffs prior to submission.
- Would like TA's access limited to proxy for their students (sections) - but needs to be able to grade all students in fully-joined sections. This is especially important when uploading outside grading content (like exams) that is geared for the entire course.