[LON-CAPA-users] weight to a folder?

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Lars,

> > > FOLDER:			WEIGHT:
> > >
> > > Homework 1		3%
> > > Homework 2		3%
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > Homework 10		3%
> > > Midterm exam		20%
> > > Final exam		50%
> >
> > It is possible to do something like this using the Spreadsheet (SPRS)
> >
> > Others have implmented this by using something akin to the uploaded
> > score problem, with multiple fields and then calculating the grade for
> > the student based off an upload of scores that have been downloaded
> > from the system and then massaged in Excel.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the response. It sounds like a fair amount to trouble to do
> it this way.

Aye.

> Most folks I know prefer to grade as I indicated above:
> fixed weights for labs, homework and exams. Whether there are 8 or 10
> problems on a homework set or exam, they do not change their grading
> scheme. Above grading is also much more transparent for th student.

The problem here is that everyone has their own grading scheme. And we
have heard of some pretty unique ones.

So we generated the SPRS in response to this. However the level of
flexibility the SPRS has makes it unfotunately a bit unwieldy and slow.

> Is there any chance that this could be incorporated into lon-capa.

Well there is always the chance. And if you had some code the
changes. It's even more likely. :-) 

Feel free to bring it up on the dev list when we start looking for
ideas for the version past 1.3.

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guy@albertelli.com  LON-CAPA Developer  0-7-3-2-