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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:56:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: moodleadmin
Reply-To: Online@lanecc.edu
Subject: Re: Grades in Moodle
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Faculty webmasters,

Looking at Laura's grades, I'm guessing that the percentage error she's talking about (fake student gets 103.61% out of 100% on assignments when full points are given) are due to rounding.  There are a lot of assignments which constitute a small percentage of the grade, and it seems like there's a lot of chance for those to add up.

Any thoughts?  Is there anything that can be done about this, other than reduce the number of assignments?

David

>>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at  3:11 pm, Laura Maitland wrote: 
> Hi David,
> 
> This is in regards to BT243 Document Formatting (CRN#32012).
> 
> I have included "Fake Student" in this class so that I can check the 
> accuracy of grades for my students. I put "Fake Student" as earning 100% on 
> all assignments and tests so far in the term. The Grade link in Moodle shows 
> this "student" as having a 100% average for tests and 103.61% average on 
> assignments (which is an error).
> 
> Last term when I was determining final grades for my classes in Excel I 
> noticed percentage discrepancies between those amounts in my Excel 
> spreadsheet compared to those showing in Moodle. There was no established 
> "pattern" such as Moodle percentages always being 2 percentage points higher 
> (or lower). Percentages in Moodle varied...some were higher, some lower, and 
> some were the same as my Excel spreadsheet....go figure!
> 
> I was wondering if you knew why this is happening and if there is anything I 
> can do on my end to fix this problem.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Laura




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Lane Community College
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