On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Neil Manson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I am busy looking at SchoolTool for use in our school, and so far it > looks great. Thanks for all the hard work. > > The one thing I am not understanding is in the grade book. Many of our > courses have an assessment structure similar to this: > Assignment 1 (15%) > Class Test (10%) > Assignment 2 (15%) > Final Exam (60%) > > I would like to set up columns in the grade book for each of the above > assessments, as well as for the Term Mark and Final Mark. The term mark > is the weighted sum of the first three items, and the Final Mark is a > formula that includes a test to check that both the term mark and the > exam mark are above 40%. Any information, or links, on how I could set > this up would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Neil, I think you're running a little ahead of SchoolTool's current capabilities. We have introduced weighting by assignment categories, which would do at least some of your basic weighting story, although it might require creating a separate category for each of those assignments. We don't currently support marks that are derived from other activity scores, or logic to test conditions of certain cells. Given that computers are very good at adding, dividing, applying logical conditions, etc. none of this is difficult. It is probably a developer/week's worth of work, and is just a question of when we will squeeze it in. Of course, if your institution is interested in SchoolTool, you could also consider underwriting the specific features you need, which would ensure that they get done when you need them to your satisfaction. Thanks for your interest! Tom Hoffman Project Manager _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
