I am finding that a my institution’s grade scoring program (mycourses) is not able to handle the grading algorithms that I typically use in TBL, particularly when I use the Peer Evaluation score to modify the Team Score. I have sometimes made an excel spreadsheet for students to input their grades, but this is still cumbersome for some students, and leads to comments that grading is not transparent.

1. Has anyone encountered a similar problem, and how have you handled it?

2. Is anyone aware of a java app (or similar program, say on excel) where students can configure the grading system, input their current scores, then play around with various values for peer evaluation to see what they need to achieve in order to get various final grades?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts (and Happy New Year!).

--Nick

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