Making a single result for a student

The steps above started with the assumption that you had a single task in SM-Marks Online that represented the overall achievement of the student as a single number out of 100. How you calculate this result will depend on the policies of your faculty or school. One possible method is:

Weighting a set of tasks

To do this you do not need to have the tasks to be out of 100, the task maximum can be any number and the calculation will take this into account when weighting the tasks. In this case, the Calculation Assistant is used.

1. Choose the Help|Calculation Assistant command.
2. Click on the Next button.
3. Select the first task that will determine each students overall result to select it.
4. Repeat step 3 to select each other task to be included in the weighting.
5. Click on the Next button.
6. Leave Yes selected and click on the Next button.
7. Enter the name of the task, for example, Overall Result.
8. Leave the maximum at 100 and click on the Next button.
9. Select Weight the tasks while adding.
10. Click on the Next button.
11. Enter next to each task the percent weighting to be used. You can enter whole or decimal numbers, for example, 12.5 and 15 to represent the percents. Do not enter the % symbol.
12. Click on the Next button.
13. Leave Yes selected and click on the Next button.
14. Review the calculation that has been set. You can use Back button if you need to change anything.
15. Click on the Finish button.

The Overall Result task now includes the single number out of 100 to represent each student's achievement. Which makes the markbook ready for generating a single student grade as detailed at the start of this section. In some schools the Standardise the columns before adding with weights option may be what is needed in step 9.

Averaging grades

In some cases, it is not a set of tasks with numbers that need to be weighted, instead it is a set of letter grades that need to be used to work out the single overall grade. When you have a set of grades from A to E that need to be averaged to make a single grade for each student you can do these steps. These are not done with the Calculation Assistant and are instead done with the Edit|Calculation command.

1. Choose the New|Task command.
2. Enter the task name Overall Report Grade.
3. Enter the task maximum 100.
4. Click the Create Task button.
5. Choose the Edit|Calculation command.
6. Choose the Edit|Calculation.
7. Select Grade Average in the Calculation list.
8. Select a task that has the grade that will contribute to the average from the Tasks list.
9. Click the Include button.
10. Repeat steps 8 and 9 for each task that is to be averaged.
11. Click on the Save Changes button.

The new task now shows the averaged grade for the tasks selected in step 8 to 10.

 

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