Qualitative Assessment of Online Participation

As mentioned in Discussion Feedback and Grading, there is no simple way to get grading for the online parts of class (Online Discussions and Seek and Finds).

There are the “quantitative score” (the 1-5 score you got each week) - these are uploaded to Canvas.

Then there is the qualitative part. Where we group things together into 5 week chunks and give an overall assessment. We had given you the statistics for your posts for the first weeks, but the actual grades were done manually.

The “qualitative scores” are posted as a Canvas comment to the grading column “Qualitative Discussion” (please do not reply to Canvas Comments!).

We will explain how we will use these scores later.

These are assembled from a spreadsheet. To explain the columns…

The three most important columns are the first three:

• Post (average) - the average score for your initial posting “grade”
• Reply (average) - the average score for your replies “grade”
• Late (total) - the total amount of lateness for the semester

The “grade” numbers are as described on Discussion Feedback and Grading.

The late total is a measure of how often you were on time. For almost everyone, this is below 5 - which is not a problem. For those few (2) above 20, lateness is a problem and will be penalized.

The rest of the numbers are the ones from Discussion Feedback and Grading, there are 3 sets (weeks 1-5, 6-10, 11-15).