Re: Gradebook

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

Bill Tihen wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> A truely useful gradebook for all teachers will be difficult, because there
> are so many systems of grading.  For example there is the US system A, B,
> C, D, F.  And there are US standards for what each grade gets then there
> are the German grades (7 - 10) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (1 is the best), then there
> is the German Abiture system (grades 11 - 13) 15, 14, .. 1 where 15 is the
> best.  I am sure there are different systems everywhere.  However, too much
> flexibility may lead to a difficult to use product, but just wanted to
> remind poeple to think this through so that the comprimises that will have
> to be made are known ahead of time.

I suppose we should handle this by allowing the teacher to select the
grading style from a pull-down menu or dialog box.  It shouldn't be
*too* hard for us programmers to implement support for all of them.  If
a teacher needs a different style, they can talk to us and most likely
it will be easy to implement...

I agree it would be a pain to make a totally flexible gradebook where
EVERYTHING is completely customizable, and that's probably not
necessary.

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