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Please be aware that if you would like to re-import the .csv grade file back to ANGEL gradebook, the blanks in the file will not be treated as 0s, therefore will not input in the gradebook but leave what's already there there.

This will not be a problem if your gradebook was empty before the import. It will create confusion when you want to change misplaced grades to blanks.

To avoid this confusion, you may put 0s in the .csv file for users who don't have a grade. Doing so will NOT automatically check the "Treat Ungraded Items as Zero" but the zero-scored assignments will be counted in overall display.

Hi all,

Two scenarios we're trying to figure out...

2 dropbox assignments -- but only one is required.
Students can choose which one to complete. How do we capture the one grade without penalizing them for not completing the other?

Practice quizzes -- not counting toward final grade.
Students can complete these quizzes multi-times...but none of them should factor into the final grade total. How do we specify that?

Thanks!
El

The second Community Hub Podcast is now available on iTunes. This podcast features and interview with Dr. Sam Richards, Senior Lecturer in the department of Sociology and head of the "Race Relations Project", and his Graduate Assistant, Tamara Quezada. We talk about two of the new tools we have been piloting: The Course Gradebook and Discussion Forums. The conversation ranges from what it is like to participate in a pilot to the pedagogical benefits of using these tools. To listen to the discussion, select the the ANGEL Community Hub Podcast #2 link.

Currently it is possible to enter a non-numeric grade into the Course Gradebook without having a macro set for it. This will cause the averages and overall grades to not include this assignment. Ex: an editor enters a grade of A. if there was not a macro for A it does not store a numeric value. This causes the grade to not be included in the averages (Student, Assignment, Category, etc..).

A macro is a shortcut for turning letter grades into a score. For example, in this macro setup, when a letter grade of "b" is entered the student gets an 85% for their score. However, it should be noted that macros are case sensitive. In the same macro setup, for instance, when the letter grade of "B" is entered instead, the score will not be saved since "B" is not defined in the setup.

Also, it is not possible to define both cases of a letter together. If you define "B" as "80%" as a new filter in the same example, it will simply update the current lowercase entry.

Q: Say for example, a student joins a class at week two of the course and missed two assignments already that the faculty is not requiring them to make up - both assignments are in the ANGEL Gradebook, however. Is there a way to make certain assignments not count for certain students? Or is there a work around for this scenario?

A: As long as the instructor does not select to "Treat Ungraded Items as Zero" the students will be fine (figure). Those missed assignments that are excused will not be held against them. If the instructor uses this setting then at the end of the semester they will need to edit the final grade for these students when they "Publish" it.
In your scenario what is the grading mode? If the mode is points it is a non-issue

Q: We went through the ANGEL Gradebook wizard for my one class. I don't remember doing it for the other class, but since it has never come back up since, I guess we did. Is there any way to get the wizard back? It was much easier to use than editing all the options post-hoc?

A: There is not a way to bring back the wizard. To go through the wizard steps follow this order

• Preferences
• Categories
• Assignments
• Grading Scale