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