[ARCHIVED] Contract Grades Needed

[tillingt]

Canvas Colleagues,

I see a couple posts about contract grades from over a year ago, but I don't see a resolution to this challenge. If students are on a contract, is there a way to make the majority of assignments ungraded? Or, perhaps there is a way to make all scores the default grade in the grading contract?

Because of issues of bias and grading being inherently racist, or biased at least, there should be a way to offer students feedback and assign no grades or assign a default grade for the course.

Thank you for any solutions or work arounds you can provide. Hopefully, Canvas will provide a solution soon.

Be well,

Tandy

[baileyh]

Tandy,

Thanks for following up. I have the same question as I switch all my classes to Grading Contract for Winter and Spring 2023.

At the moment I am wondering how to convert my points-based rubrics to Complete/Incomplete and be able to score the boxes or not for each criterion. I may have to resort to making each item worth less than zero (0.1) but that is confusing to students.

Would love to hear what you have come up with.

Would be down for a phone or Zoom call too!

Yours, Holly

West Los Angeles College

[EmilyRude]

This is a hack someone else came up with -- it still uses points, but (sort of) hides them from students by using a custom grading scale based on percentages: https://youtu.be/3zzX2wlb0zY