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Change the default grade for courses graded on a pass/fail basis

Dee McOwen

December 13, 2017 20:08

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Dee McOwen Dec 13, 11:54 AM PST When looking at gradebooks, our faculty see a grade of P for students in his/her course that is graded on a pass/fail basis and assume the passing grade has already been entered. Solution? Set a default other than P (pass). In graded courses, it shows F rather than a letter grade for default. I would prefer to see IP for "in process", U for "ungraded" or F for "fail" (least preferred entry).  Or better yet, let us set the default grade to our school's preference (what? let us drive? Woo Hoo!). Of course that also might mean letting us add to the grade scale also. - Yes, I'm a control freak and revel in my freakishness.

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  Toby Robinson March 22, 2019 06:21 Official comment

  If a student doesn't have assignment grades and their final grade is equal to the default final grade (P/F default is 100, non-P/F default is 0) Populi will now show their final grade as --.

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  Gwen Scheirer January 18, 2018 19:40

  I, too, would like to see this

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  Jessica Babaker October 30, 2018 13:02

  Each time a new course is created and students are enrolled, the final grade automatically shows 100, PASS. Can this be made to automatically show 0, IN (and the other options listed by the original poster)?

  As it stands, the students and administration are getting the wrong impression, at a glance.

  All of our final grades are entered manually, so they need to be reviewed before course finalization. Currently, when enrolling students, I must set all final grades to 0, then update again with the actual final grade to finalize the course. 

  It would save time when creating a course to be able to skip this step!