Preferences: Grading

Grading Preferences allow you to enable, disable, and set various grading aspects of your myitlab course.

The options available in Grading Preferences are listed below. Note: If a preference setting appears grayed out with a locked icon, this preference setting is unavailable and cannot be change for your course or product. Preference settings that appear with an unlocked icon are available and can be changed.

Main

• Enable letter grade schema for Instructor Course and Class Test Course: Using a Grade Schema allows you to apply a letter grading schema to a graded activity in the Gradebook (for example, 90% or above = A, 80-89% = B, and so on.). Select this check box to make grade schema options available in the Gradebook (Apply Grade Schema, Remove Grade Schema, Edit Grade Schema). Note that, if this check box is not selected, instructors will not be able to add or edit grade schemas, as described below.

• Show grades as a fraction (x/y) where x = number correct and y = total possible correct: Select this check box to enable the Usepercentage grade for this course and Use raw score grade for this course options in the Gradebook. By default, all grades appear in the gradebook as a percentage score.

• Click Use percentage grade for this course to change the reporting of grades from raw score to percentage across the entire course, for both students and instructors.

• Click Use raw score grade for this course to change the reporting of grades from percentage to raw score across the entire course. In the Gradebook, each column will display all grades as a fraction (x/y) where x = number correct and y = total possible correct.

• Enable "Filter by Content type" filter: Select this checkbox to display the filter in Gradebook tool. When enabled, the Filter by Content type drop-down list is seen in the Grades tool for Students.

• Enable folder level calculations for Gradebook and Today's View: Select this check box to allow folder level calculations. When enabled, the Course Average and Folder Average options appear in the Gradebook and the Course Performance and Student Performance notifications view appear in Today's View. When this option is selected, the Edit Calculation Settings links displays.

• Edit Calculation Settings: Allows you to edit the folder level calculations. For more information on editing calculation settings, click here.

• Folder Level Threshold Score: Enter the folder level threshold score in the text box to define the passing threshold for each folder.

• Enable Rubric Grading: This feature is not used in myitlab courses and thus is locked and not available for setting changes.

• Hide Gradebook Course Content Navigator by Default: Select this check box to hide the Course Content Navigator in Gradebook. When enabled, the Course Content is unavailable for all the users by default.

• Hide Show ID in Student Name column: Select this checkbox to hide the Show ID link in Student Name column of Gradebook. When enabled, the (Show ID) link is not displayed in the Student Name column of Gradebook.

• Provide a class average: Select this check box to track class average for the activities. When selected, instructors have the option to select a class average option for the activities/assignments, which is reported in the Reports and View Submissions page of the Gradebook.

• For unassigned items display: Activities that are assigned will display grades in the Gradebook by default. For unassigned activities, you can select whether to display a grade or a checkmark in the instructor and student Gradebook. Options include:

• Grade: Select this option to display a percentage grade for the unassigned items. The scores obtained for unassigned items are not used in calculating the average scores. The grades are displayed in the Gradebook for instructors and in Grades tool for the students.

• Checkmark: Select this option to display a checkmark for the unassigned items. Grades will be displayed to the students but will not be calculated in any calculated grades (when using a calculated column in the gradebook). The score and grades will be displayed for the students on the view submission page, but the score will not be available for the instructor. The instructor can only view the icon in the Gradebook for this item and cannot view the submission.

• Default display in Gradebook: The Gradebook allows you to filter the view to show all, completed, or only assigned items. Using this setting, you can define what activities (or items) appear in the instructor and student Gradebook by default. Options include:

• All Items: Select this option to display All Items as default view in the Gradebook (default).

• Completed Items: Select this option to display Completed Items as default view in the Gradebook.

• Assigned Items: Select this option to display Assigned Items as default view in the Gradebook.

• Default student list in Gradebook: The Gradebook allows you to filter the view to show all students or enrolled students. Using this setting, you can define which students appear in the Gradebook by default. Options include:

• Enrolled Students Only: Select this option to display only the enrolled students as a default view in the Gradebook.

• All Students: Select this option to display All Students irrespective of their status, as a default view in the Gradebook.

• Display integrity detection to students automatically for Grader projects: An integrity violation occurs if the student uploads a file that is different than the file the student originally downloaded. Select this check box to display a message to students if an integrity violation is detected during the automatic-grading of a Grader Project activity. When checked, the message is shown to students by default. Instructors still can hide the message using View Submissions.

Fill in the Blank questions

• Enable Fill in the Blank Case Sensitive: Select this check box to require case sensitivity in student responses, when grading fill-in-the-blank questions. If this check box is not selected, questions will be graded ignoring case sensitivity. Click the Apply to all link to apply the preferences settings to existing and new fill-in-the-blank questions as a default.

• Ignore Extra Spacing: Select this check box to ignore extra spacing in student response, when grading objective-based questions. If this check box is not selected, questions will be graded based on the spacing. Click the Apply to all link to apply the preferences settings to existing and new objective-based questions as a default.

• Ignore punctuation: Select this check box to allow incorrect punctuation in a student response, when grading objective-based questions. Click the Apply to all link to apply the preferences settings to existing and new objective-based questions as a default.

Accents

This feature is not used in myitlab courses and thus is locked and not available for setting changes.

Grade Schemas

Using a Grade Schema allows you to apply a letter grading schema to a graded activity in the Gradebook (for example, 90% or above = A, 80-89% = B, and so on.). The Grade Schemas area of the Preferences page allows you to create new schemas and modify existing schemas.

myitlab comes with one default grade schema, which you can edit to reflect your course grading scheme. You also can create new grade schemas for other types of grading. For a Pass/Fail grading schema, for example, you might have only two grades for Pass and Fail. Alternatively, you could create a grade schema that reflects competency levels. In this case, you could create a grade schema such as beginner, intermediate, or advanced. The Grade Schema window displays the existing grade schemas.

Adding a New Grade Schema

1. Click Add New Schema in the toolbar at the top of the Grade Schemas window. The Add New Schema window opens.

2. Type the Grade Schema Name and the Description in the corresponding text boxes.

3. For the first grade in the schema, type the Grade, % Score from, % Score to and Feedback in the respective text boxes. Note: The grade scores
   can not overlap. For instance, you can not enter a grade of F with a score from 0% to 50% and then a grade of A with a score from 50% to 100%. You must enter 51% to 100% as the scores for the A grade (or 0% to 49% for the F grade).

4. To add more grades to the schema, click the Add Grade link. Again, enter Grade, % Score from, % Score to and Feedback in the respective text boxes. Continue until all grades are added. If you need to delete a grade, select the check box next to the grade(s) to delete and then click the Delete Grade link.

5. Click the button . A new grade schema will be created.

Deleting Existing Grade Schema(s)

1. In the Grade Schemas window, select the check box next to the Grade Schema(s) you want to delete and then click the Delete selected grade schemas link. Note: you also can delete a grade schema by clicking the options menu next to the Grade Schema and then clicking Delete.

2. A message 'Are you sure you want to delete the selected grade schema(s)? This action cannot be undone'. is displayed. After a grade schema is deleted, it cannot be retrieved.

3. Click OK to delete the grade schema or click Cancel to cancel the delete.

Edit an Existing Grade Schema

1. In the Grade Schemas window, click the options menu next to the Grade Schema you want to edit and then click Edit.

2. The Update Schema window opens. Modify, delete, or add Grades, Scores, and Feedback, as appropriate.

3. Click Save and Close to save the changes or click Cancel to cancel the edits.

Copy an Existing Grade Schema

1. In the Grade Schemas window, click the options menu next to the Grade Schema you want to edit and then click Copy.

2. A copy of the grade schema appears in the Grade Schema window. After creating a copy of a grade schema, you should edit it and assign a new name, so that each grade schema is uniquely identifiable.

After you have made your selections, click the button at the top of bottom of the page to save your preferences.

Not sure what a preference setting means? You can view contextual help for each Preference setting by pointing to or clicking the corresponding icon.