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[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:42 PM, David Aitcheson
<david.aitcheson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well... an "A+" in every course but the instructors fail to see my humor!
>
> If every instructor/professor used the same grading scale or points
> scale then it would be easy.

Yes, that's something we could push down to the teacher level.

> But there is this one instructor that is a constant moving target all
> semester long that even halfway through the semester changes the way
> things are graded all the way back to day one so what may have been a
> "100" the first week could end up as a "50" by mid-terms and I would
> have no clue until final grades come out as a "F".  Yes we are
> complaining loudly.

Yes, I remember explaining this to our developers when we started
planning the gradebook.  One one hand, it is just simple math!  On the
other hand, many teachers use systems that don't respect simple math.

--Tom