| Drop Low Scores |
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The "Drop" button on the , , or page automatically finds and drops the lowest score(s). You specify how many low scores to drop in each Category, e.g., drop the 1 lowest Test score and the 3 lowest Homework scores. (Leave it 0 to drop no scores for a categories.) This updates students' grades automatically every time you edit scores.
The original scores are still shown on reports; they are just marked as dropped and not calculated into the grade. This feature is available only if your are using Categories (weighted or unweighted) with a percent-based grade scale (not Rubrics). If your assignments have different weights, it drops the one(s) that hurt the grade the most. This is usually the one with the lowest percent, like 0/10 = 0%, but sometimes it is the one with more weight, like 30/50 = 60% — e.g., if a student already has 90/100 points, adding 30/50 = 120/150 = 80%, which is lower than adding 0/10 = 90/110 = 82%. A score is not dropped if that would result in a lower grade. This is rare, but it can happen e.g. when dropping the lowest Quiz score, but a student's lowest Quiz score is higher than their total grade. (This can happen only with Unweigthed categories.) If a new student transfers into your class part way through the term, you may want to drop fewer grades for them. In this case, give them a score of zero in one of the assignments before they arrived. That zero will then be dropped instead of one of their real assignments.
It looks for low scores within each gradebook separately, not within the larger cumulative grading period — e.g., you can set it to drop 1 low score from each quarter, but not 2 low scores from anywhere in semester. |
