Administration

The first table on this screen shows how the the overall grades for the submissions are calculated. The overall grades are a weighted sum of two components.

1. The teacher's grade for the student's (initial) assessment of their own work. This can be termed the "grading grade". Once the student has submitted their work the assessment is not revised. The student is NOT asked to re-assess their work each time they resubmit their work. The grade given to student's assessment is relavant to the student's performance but it is not as important as the (teacher's) assessment of the work. In general it should be given a lower weight than...
2. The grade given by the teacher to the student pieces of work. These assessments are the normally the main assessment element of an exercise assignment. When the students are allowed to make more than one submission the teacher can decide whether the final grade for the exercise should be the average grade of a student's submissions or the grade from the student's best submission.

These two components are weighted as deemed appropriate for the assignment. The teacher can, for example, weight the (initial) assessment grade (the grading grade) very low, even zero. In this case the student grade is determined largely by or entirely by the grades given to their submissions. The two weighting factors can be changed at any time during the exercise, the effect of any change on the grades seen in the Grades page and in the Final Grades list is immediate.

The Administration page also lists the teacher's submissions (the decriptions of the Exercise), the students' (initial) assessment of their own work, and the students' submissions. These tables allow all these items, where appropriate, to be re-titled, deleted, viewed or re-assessed. This part of the page can be used to monitor the students' progress throughout the course of the exercise.