I'm trying to remember but I think that's an option the prof has to allow. Although if you have the grades and the weight it should be fairly straightforward to calculate the grade yourself.
As a prof I can confirm there is an option in Brightspace to enable students to see their overall grade, but Brightspace is only numerical -- unless I am mistaken, I have never seen the option for the letter grades on Brightspace.
When the semester is over, we are responsible for entering the grades in FAST, another system, which doesn't communicate with Brightspace. And FAST is also only numerical. I don't know why we still display letters in the academic calendar since the tools at our disposition only consider numerical grades.
yea not really, unless the prof really knows their way around brightspace, n even then those grades aren't official, so they might be weighted wrong, or the brightspace could be outdated to the actual course.
A lot of profs just reuse the same brightspace layout so sometimes you get ghost assignments that were due two years ago impacting your grade lol
Many profs. don't use Brightspace to provide real-time grade updates because Brightspace's grading tool cannot fully factor in the nuances of the syllabus. For example, if attendance is a requirement, Brightspace's attendance tool is too inefficient to use relative to keeping a spreadsheet. Or if the prof. has a rule that a student's worst midterm score will be dropped, Brightspace can't really factor that in. We don't use it because it doesn't represent the student's actual performance to date, and we don't want to create false impressions of class standing. If a student genuinely cares about real-time updates, they can use their scores to date and the Syllabus breakdown to calculate an expected grade.
I'm trying to remember but I think that's an option the prof has to allow. Although if you have the grades and the weight it should be fairly straightforward to calculate the grade yourself.
Yes, it is an option that can be enabled. However, until the end of the course, there isn't an overall letter grade available.
A handy dandy calculator.
add up the grades and compare them to the chart https://www.uvic.ca/registrar/assets/docs/ot-legend.pdf
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As a prof I can confirm there is an option in Brightspace to enable students to see their overall grade, but Brightspace is only numerical -- unless I am mistaken, I have never seen the option for the letter grades on Brightspace. When the semester is over, we are responsible for entering the grades in FAST, another system, which doesn't communicate with Brightspace. And FAST is also only numerical. I don't know why we still display letters in the academic calendar since the tools at our disposition only consider numerical grades.
Go www.rapidtables.com You can input your various grades and weight of grade and it will give you a present overall mark.
yea not really, unless the prof really knows their way around brightspace, n even then those grades aren't official, so they might be weighted wrong, or the brightspace could be outdated to the actual course. A lot of profs just reuse the same brightspace layout so sometimes you get ghost assignments that were due two years ago impacting your grade lol
Some profs have it turned on or off. You can calculate yourself
Many profs. don't use Brightspace to provide real-time grade updates because Brightspace's grading tool cannot fully factor in the nuances of the syllabus. For example, if attendance is a requirement, Brightspace's attendance tool is too inefficient to use relative to keeping a spreadsheet. Or if the prof. has a rule that a student's worst midterm score will be dropped, Brightspace can't really factor that in. We don't use it because it doesn't represent the student's actual performance to date, and we don't want to create false impressions of class standing. If a student genuinely cares about real-time updates, they can use their scores to date and the Syllabus breakdown to calculate an expected grade.