Tech Updates
Gradebook Revisions
Last newsletter we talked about how BAIP tutorials had been revised to include question retries. We also noted that students now get two scores at the end of their tutorials - a score that does and does not include retries. So how do teachers differentiate between these two scores?
Display Grades With or Without Retries
Fig 1. Updated Display Properties
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Because question
retries have been added to all BAIP tutorial questions, teachers have to decide if they want the correct answers achieved on these question retries to be included in their gradebook scores.
The green highlight on Fig. 1 shows a new display property that lets you toggle between including and excluding correct answers on retries.
Click "No, Ignore" and only first attempts on each tutorial question will be considered when calculating gradebook scores. Click "Yes, Include in Scores" and correct answers on retries will be counted in tutorial scores.
So what happens to tutorials taken before retries were incorporated into the system (Jan 1st, 2009)? Nothing. These scores will simply be the same with or without retries. |
Display Highest Score instead of Latest Score
Fig 2. Which Score Properties
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Fig.2 highlights a slight wording change in your gradebooks. Students might take a tutorial multiple times in an attempt to master that particular tutorial. Teachers decides if they want to display first scores or or best scores in their gradebooks.
Previously, the option read "Latest Score" but in rare circumstances, the latest score might not be the highest score. We've made small changes to the internal logic of this system and the wording of this display property to make the gradebook display the "Highest Score" instead of the "Latest Score".
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Retries Reflected In Tutorial Details
Fig 3. Tutorial Details Updated
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In addition to being able to see grades for a number of different tutorials all at once, teachers can also delve into the details of any one tutorial to see all the options a student selected in order to get the grade they received.
(To see tutorial details: Click the "Tutorial # Details" link at the top of any column in your gradebook)
Notice how Guest Student #50 in Fig. 3 now has two answers for some of the questions. This means they retried the question! As you can see, the details page has been modified to allow you to track retry choices as well!
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Thanks for using BAIP this year and thanks for helping us make BAIP
better. As always, please feel free to contact me with your questions and
comments.
Dan Spurgin
BAIP Technical Assistance
spurgin@ku.edu
785-864-1039
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