if you have 50 students and want to drop the lowest quiz for each of them, Populi is not the answer currently. My suggestion is simple. Let the "Assignment" editor automatically "drop lowest " "1 or 2" quizzes or exams or keep "5" of the "highest scores" for an Exam or a category of your choosing. This feature is immensely popular and allows faculty to spend more time teaching rather than dropping lowest grades one at a time in the gradebook ( i attached a screen capture from another system we used to use."
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Daniel Baer Many of our faculty routinely drop the lowest grade. This would be very valuable.
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Rodney Holloman This would be a wonderful help especially in classes with a lot of daily grades.
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Marc Holloman I concur with the others that this would be very beneficial in many of my classes.
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Edward Estes This would be very beneficial to our professors as well.
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Baron Harris This should be a very basic feature. I have been able to easily do this in Grade Keeper since the 1990's. Every other grade/course manager has this basic function, e.g. Moodle, Blackboard. Please get this done ASAP.
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Marc Holloman Bump. It would be very helpful to add this feature to the grade book.
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Adam Sentz You can now drop lowest grades from assignment groups.
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Judy Fasone How does this feature work? I see the drop the lowest box, and the cursor accesses it, but there is no key that will activate it? Please help
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Adam Sentz @Judy - Here's an instructional video you might find helpful https://support.populiweb.com/entries/100013126-Dropping-lowest-graded-assignments
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Matt Hale I realize this is an old thread, but I have a question (possibly an additional feature request).
When you choose to drop the lowest 'X' number of grades in a given Assignment Group, it does not affect the "% of Course" value for assignments in that group, but shouldn't it?
Here's a very simple example:
In a class I'm teaching there is an Assignment Group worth 20% of the class, and there are only two assignments in that group. If I drop the lowest of those two grades, then whichever of those two assignments gets the highest grade is ultimately going to be worth 20% of the course (which is what I want), is it not?
But the "% of Course" column shows each of those assignments as worth 10% of the course. This is not actually the case! Shouldn't they both show up as 20%?
Even though that would mean that adding up the percentages in the "% of Course" column would give you a value higher than 100%, it would in fact more accurately reflect the weight of each assignment on the students' final grades. That seems like the preferable behavior to me.
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Adam Sentz @Matt - That's an interesting point. Really the % of Course on the Assignments page is giving you a picture of the relative weights of assignments irrespective of their assignment groups. On a student-by-student basis different assignments may be dropped, excused or simply ungraded, all of which will affect their actual percent weight in the final grade. Having that be dynamic could work if you were just looking at one student, but it could get pretty confusing if we tried to do it in the Assignments list.
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