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OpenSubmitted bympedersenon03-17-201610:26 AM
Currently instructors cannot create hypothetical scores for students like What-If scores. This would be very helpful as we get close to the end of the quarter to see if a student has the ability to reach a particular grade or not.
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It would be helpful if this screen didn't actually change the grade book (keeping with the what-if theory) for teachers so a banner displaying that everything is read-only would be very helpful.
This would be a very helpful feature for advising students. I want to be able to show students what they can achieve based on different circumstances and help them make good decisions.
I would find this extremely useful. I use weighted grade categories with dropped assignments in each category and it's definitely a multi-calculation process for me to see if so-and-so's grade would be likely to go up to a different letter grade if they came in to take the final (which replaces the lowest test score) and also turned in two more of the weekly problem-solving assignments.
I'm a math teacher and I can do the math just fine, but if I'm on the phone with a parent while I'm trying to do the math it certainly takes longer than being about to hit a "what if" button and get a screen where I can play with things directly in response to each of their questions and new proposed scenarios. Also, I could then print that page and email it to the parent as a reminder of the "plan" if it were formatted in such a way as to make the "what if" parts clear.
This is already available in the student gradebook. If they're using Canvas to check their grades, why can't they look at a what-if grade for themselves?
This is true, but sometimes I have requests from others such as counselors, funding agencies, or parents. There are also times when I’m just curious. It is usually just past mid quarter; someone wants to know if they should even bother continuing in the course. The other thing I would like is to be able to do the “what if” with work that hasn’t been published yet.
I’ve not seen that feature. I checked it out, and it appears we do not have that feature enabled. I don’t see a what if in it, but I agree that it would be a good place for the feature.
