How can missing assignments be averaged into the overall grade?

[JLegler]

I have some students that have not completed some assignments, how can I have the 0% averaged into the student's overall grade?  currently I am grading it at 1% so their overall grade reflects the missing assignments.

TYIA

[Ron_Bowman · Accepted solution]

@JLegler -

I think I am losing my mind.  I was going to tell you there was a way to count ungraded as 0 in the grades (I remember that being possible), but I cannot find where that setting is located now.  Hopefully someone else will see this and give us the answer.  

Okay I may have found it - they changed how it was setup (I think) -
1) go to the settings icon on the gradebook
2) Select the "Late Policies" tab
3) click on the box next to "Automatically apply grade for missing submissions"
4) give the grade of 0 for the grade to assign to missing solutions.

Hope this does what you want

Here are the instructor manual pages

How do I apply a Missing Submission policy in the Gradebook
How do I apply a Late Submission policy in the Gradebook?

[chriscas]

@Ron_Bowman, @JLegler,

There is a gradebook option to "view ungraded as 0."  That option only changes the instructor's view of the gradebook though, and not the student (so the student would see a higher overall grade than the instructor.  Because of the confusion that causes, many schools/institutions (including ours) turn off that feature completely.  I always recommend that teachers give a grade (usually 0) to missing assignments.  That way a student can see how their grade is affected and may be more motivated to the the assignment done and turn it in late if the teacher allows that.

-Chris 

[Ron_Bowman]

@chriscas -

Thanks.  That was what I was thinking of.  However, I think the edit I made to my original post may be what @JLegler was looking for.

Ron

[JLegler]

Thank you - I tried to give a 0, but it didn't affect the overall grade. When I started putting 1% it did bring their overall grade down.

[Ron_Bowman]

@JLegler -

Was it past the due date/until time for the assignment?  if not, it may not count the 0 until that time has been reached.

After posting the above, I went and checked in my course.  You are correct in that it appears that assigning a 0% to missing submissions does absolutely nothing to the score.  Interestingly enough I put in 0.01 to see if it had to be a non-zero value to take affect.  I just checked it and now it shows as 0.010000000000005116 

I took away the score for an assignment that requires a submission (and it was past the until date) and the 0 was not applied for the student or for me.  So it looks like that functionality does not work - or there is something else that must be done to make it work

[Ron_Bowman]

@JLegler -

I did some more playing around with this issue and have some more information.  Evidently the assignment of 0 only works if a grade has never been entered for a student (and then taken away).  I created an assignment only for my dummy student.  made the due date earlier (I have not checked for a due date in the future to see if the 0 is reported right away or after the due date).  In any case, the 0 is assigned to the student and I see the grade as 0 and the student does as well.  If I change the grade on the assignment and then delete it, the 0 is not reassigned.  So that is probably why you are not seeing that affect on current assignments that you have manipulated grade wise.

In writing this, I decided to check an assignment with a due date in the future.  In this case I do not think the 0 is applied.

In all of this I will say that that feature is not something I would rely on to be correct.  Also, it may only apply for assignments that require a submission - not just assignments in general.  

[JLegler]

Thank you so much!