Grading students' Sessions
Breakdown of Course grades into assignments and exams
Overview
This article covers how an institution can:
- Break down a student's grades for a Course (i.e. assignment, quiz, and final exam), instead of a one-time grade for the whole Course.
- Grade the Sessions for said Course.
(Note: For information on when the grading component will be locked/unlocked, when faculty members can grade the Sessions, and re-grade, see here instead: Grading Period Type and Setting.)
Use case
An education institution evaluates its students through a series of assignments and exams for each Course.
These assignments and exams will be held during the Course's Sessions, and each will be graded with their own weightage.
For example, the grade breakdown of the Course is as follows:
- Assignment 1 (20%).
- Assignment 2 (30%).
- Final Exam (50%).
These can be set up in the Grade Criteria (see the setup section below).
The faculty will grade the students' Sessions in the Faculty Community (My Programs > Grading).
- The admin can set these to be graded in either numerical or letter grades (or both). See here.
Note: As of v3.12, you can configure an auto suggestion for the grade input. See here: Grade Settings.
Alternatively, the admin can enter the Session page in the console, and use the grading component under the 'Students' tab.
This will automatically create the Grade records for each student.
All these individual Grades are grouped under the Term Grade.
'Term Grade Type' field logic
RIO Education determines the 'Term Grade Type' field based on the following logic:
- If Session -> Course Offering -> Grading Period Type is defined,
Term Grade Type = Course Offering -> Grading Period Type.
- If not, check for Session -> Course Offering -> Term -> Grading Period Type
Term Grade Type = Term -> Grading Period Type.
- If both are not set but has Term's Default picklist value configured, then,
Term Grade Type = Get Default picklist value of Term -> Grading Period Type.
- Otherwise, Term Grade Type = 'Grading Period'.
Also, EDA uses Term Grade to store the student grades for a specific grading period.
In RIO Education grading model, we extend the model to support 2 levels of Grade Criteria: Parent Grade and Child Grade.
The information can then be rolled up to Term Grade according to customer specification.
DeleteThe Term Grades can also be viewed on the student's Course Connection.
Info
By default, the Term Grade does not automatically roll up the Grades and calculate them to produce a final score.
Also, by default, the Term Grade does not automatically populate the Course Connection's results. The faculty member will need to manually enter the Course Connection results ('Grade' field).
This is because each user might have different requirements and methods of calculating the final score of a Course.
If you wish the Course Connection's final grade to automatically take all these individual Grades, customization is required.
Setup
The admin will need to create Grade Criteria records, which will represent those assignments and exam for a Course.
The Grade Criteria records will need to be created under that Course as follows:
The weight of the grades are defined here, as well as the sequence (which of the assignments or exams will be taken first, and so on).
Note:
Multiple Grade Criteria can also be created under a parent Grade Criteria.
For example, there can be a parent Grade Criteria (i.e. 'Assignments'), which contains other child Grade Criteria (i.e. 'Lab Assignment', 'Quiz', 'Presentation', etc.) that contribute to it.
Important
Even though you might migrate grades from an LMS over to RIO Education, you must also create matching Grade Criteria, to avoid your migrated grades being deleted when you use the grading component.
Components
The RIO Ed - Session Grading (Aura) component, also known as the grading component, is required to enable faculty members to grade students' Sessions. By default, it is added in the Session page.
See here for the component configuration.
The RIO Ed - Term Grade Details (Aura) component is required in order to display the Term Grades list. By default, it is added in the Course Connection and Term Grade record pages.
See here for the component configuration.