• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    12 天前

    What a weird max score… as someone who grades, you generally want it in a way that gives a clean percentage, mostly for transparency and tracking for students. My class does 500 total points (thus a 5 point quiz is 1%, 100 point exam is 20%, etc.), which is what previous instructors did and helps students figure out what is needed for an A.

    But 59/59? Thats confusing af. Bet it’s out of some arbitrary total, too.

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      12 天前

      Come on, give the teacher some slack. This is such a small detail, and every decent grade keeping software handles arbitrary max scores just fine.

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      12 天前

      lol you’re inventing issues

      there are 59 points to be gotten on this work. they got all 59. somebody who missed three points would get 56

      it doesn’t make a difference for record-keeping and final grading, it’s all going in a spreadsheet anyways. if students care about percentage on that specific item, they can calculate it themselves

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        12 天前

        In University some professors like to make life easier so it all adds up to 100 points. The finals would be 40, >80% attendance 10, midterm 20, and 3 assignments 10 each. So u can know if u passed the course even before finals.