[Building Sakai] Gradebook question - Sakai-graded tests and relative weights

[Grossman,John E]

I’m new to the Gradebook so  sorry if this is a known issue. There seems to be an undocumented and undesirable dependency between the internal point values for a quiz and the weight for that quiz as a component of a gradebook category.

When a test is graded by Sakai (2.6.0) and sent to the Gradebook, it forces the “Gradebook Item Point Value” to be equal to the number of points on the test. It isn’t possible to set the “Gradebook Item Relative Weight” as you can with manually graded items. The impact of this is that if you want all the quizzes in a gradebook category to have equal weight, you have to normalize them so that they all have the same point values. This produces odd situations where a test with 80 questions has to have 1.25 points for each question and a test with 50 questions requires 2 points per question if you are normalizing to 100 points.

It seems like it would be better to allow the instructor to set the relative weight for each quiz independent of the point value. This behavior has caused a fair amount of confusion on the part of some of our instructors.

Am I missing something?

John

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