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+Checking Student Progress and Issuing Certificates
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+ 
+As will be discussed more in later sections, the grading policy and stored
+problem scores are used to record progress through the course, determine
+final grades, and issue certificates at the end. This unit will give you
+some advance information about how the grading policy will be visible to the
+students during the run of the course and what you will need to do at the
+end of the course to give out grades.
+ 
+ 
+Checking Progress as a Student
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+ 
+ 
+During the run of a course, students can check their progress by clicking on
+the Progress tab of the course on Edge. (This is the same page they would go
+to to view subsection problem scores, as described in Viewing Scores.) The
+student's progress through the graded part of the course is displayed at the
+top of this page, above the subsection scores, as a chart with entries for
+all the assignments, total percentage earned in the course so far and
+percent needed for each grade cutoff. Here is an example of a student's
+progress through edX101.
+ 
+ 
+.. image:: images/image245.png
+
+ 
+ 
+The student will be able to see from this page that, at the time this
+screenshot was taken, edX101 was graded as a Pass/Fail course with a cutoff
+of 34% and that the grading rubric contained one assignment type, called
+Learning Sequence, consisting of 11 assignments total. Furthermore, this
+picture says that this particular student has only submitted correct
+responses to two assignments, and that their current total percent grade in
+the course is 6%. By hovering over each progress bar, the student would be
+able to get further statistics of how much each assignment was counted as.
+ 
+ 
+As was mentioned in the unit on Viewing Scores, further down on the Progress
+page is a list of all the subsections in the course, with the scores
+recorded for the student for all problems in the course. Here is a scrolled
+down view of the example Progress page for the student in the example above:
+ 
+ 
+.. image:: images/image247.png
+ 
+ 
+Again, note that point scores from graded sections are called "Problem
+Scores", while point scores from ungraded sections are called "Practice
+Scores".
+ 
+ 
+Checking Progress of Students as an Instructor
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+ 
+ 
+To check the progress of the student through the course, visit the
+Instructor dashboard of your course in instructor view on Edge and click on
+the Grades page. The Instructor dashboard for courses sometimes changes as
+more course-specific tools get added. Here is the current view of the top of
+the Grades page of the Instructor dashboard for edX101:
+ 
+ 
+.. image:: images/image249.png
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+ 
+Here you see several options for viewing or downloading student grades,
+viewing individual progress through a course or resetting problem attempts.
+(Note: only the top part of the Grades page is shown. The page continues
+with some more information about course statistics.) The link to the
+student's progress page should give you a view of exactly what the student
+would see, including scores for graded and ungraded assignments.
+ 
+ 
+*Note: The stored scores visible to you on the Instructor tab and to
+the students from the Progress tab in the course on Edge are a snapshot of the
+current state of the problem score database. They may be slightly out of
+sync with actual problem scores. (Asynchronicities may happen if, for example,
+the weight of a live problem was changed during an assignment, and not
+everyone has yet resubmitted their answers for that problem.) Scores and grades
+are usually recomputed at the end of the semester before determining final
+grades and issuing Certificates.*
+ 
+ 
+Assigning Final Grades and Issuing Certificates
+===============================================
+
+The final grades of a student in the course and the grading
+rubric you have set are used to determine whether the student has earned a
+Certificate of Mastery for the course. The process for issuing Certificates
+has to be started manually by you or by the edX support team at the end of the
+course run. For more information about issuing Certificates, see TBD.
+