experimental: gb tutoring

What is this all about

The Case for Cases

In the various agonies of thrashing through our journey into the new and improved gradebook it became self-evident that we really needed quite a few tutorials that addressed a number of different ways of looking at gradebook and that to be most effective the tutorials needed to look at the gradebook the way we looked at grades, in a multitude of different ways and formulations.

Part and parcel of looking at things differently we thought it would be handy to perhaps identify sets of GB settings (much as Gary started to do with his first tutorial) so that eventually, someone who wanted to set up a gradebook like such and such would have a suchandsuch guide, while the teacher across the campus, who felt such and such was just so much could set up a grade book so and so....

And, the thought was that when others had an additional cases, having watched as we stumbled through these initial examples, they would empowered to likewise offer their illustrated examples so that the community could document how all this is supposed to work.

The Initial Three

Below are some brief descriptors and links to our first three cases.

Case 1 - Brand new course, no existing assignments or categories. Sum of points grading with a single category

This case begins with a brand new course without any previous content, grade categories or assignments.

Case 2 - New Course (Weighted Mean of Grades)

Using "Weighted Mean of Grades" to weight categories containing assignments