Handling 2nd attempts / gradebook total

[natalie_norton1]

I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to set up 2nd attempts/ alternative assignments and the impact on the gradebook total?

For example:

1) Students submit to 'assignment 1', some fail and need to resubmit or need to take an alternative assignment. Graded accordingly and feedback given.

2) To handle the resubmissions etc we advise staff to set up an new assignment, and 'assign to' the relevant students only. These are then graded.

Issue - the gradebook total is then incorrect as it is including both assignments. 

- We don't really want staff to delete the original grade as that is needed for audit purposes and needs to be clearly recorded.

 - We especially don't want to replace the grade with a "0" as that has specific meaning, which is different to being eligible for a 2nd attempt.

- I thought about asking them to move the original grade to a comment and replacing it with "EX" but again that means 'excused' which is quite different.

Would be really grateful for any suggestions as to how other people handle this?

Many thanks

Natalie

[rake_9]

I'd really love someone to answer this question!  I don't have anyone currently wanting to do this, but I would not be surprised to see it!

[Stef_retired]

 @natalie_norton1 ‌ and  @rake_9 , I'm going to share this question with the Higher Education‌ and K-12‌ groups who probably have experience putting this kind of workflow into practice in their courses. Also, Natalie, it seems to me that Mastery Paths (https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-8492-canvas-release-masterypaths andHow do I use MasteryPaths in course modules?‌) is tailor made for this; have you investigated Mastery Paths?

[natalie_norton1]

Thank you. No, we don't currently use Mastery Paths, and I have struggled a bit to understand them but I will take another look!

[dwillmore]

Assignments are fairly easy to do.   Simply put the assignments that have multiple attempts into their own assignment group and drop the lowest score.

With quizzes, you simply allow multiple attempts and keep the highest score.

[natalie_norton1]

Thanks David. Sorry, is that manually deleting the lowest score or is there an automated way to do it? Many thanks!

[dwillmore]

No problem at all.    Here is the doc on how to create the drop lowest, and once set it is fully automatic.

https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-2626 

[natalie_norton1]

Thank you!

[sbeck1]

We are waiting until fall to add Mastery Paths to our instance. In the meantime, our faculty have been setting up assignment groups for instances like this. Then they set the assignment group to drop the lowest grade. That way if a student doesn't do well on the first one, that grade will be dropped. If they do well on the first one, and don't complete the second one, then it will be dropped.

We are looking forward to enabling Mastery Paths!