{E2020} Weekly Update

Some thoughts specifically targeted to the group of students assigned to work 6th hour on their online classes:

1)  Your course progress is calculated with the assumption that you will be working over the holiday break next week.  That means that if you are caught up now, and you do not log in during the vacation, you ~will~ be behind.

2)  From here on out I will be recording your "Actual Grade" in the class every week in Skyward.  For those not familar, here is how it is computed:

First they compare where your student is in the course and where they "should be".  Every assignment that they are behind is assigned a grade of a zero.  If a student is caught up or ahead, then there are no zeroes to record.  The grade is then calculated based on the average of all grades.

So, if they are behind a few assignments their "Overall Grade" may be a B but because of those zeroes it shows as a C.  Likewise if they are ahead, then their Overal and Actual grades will be the same.  If you are unsure you can ask your student to log in for you and you can see their progress in the class for yourself, along with grades.

Also as a reminder, notebooks are required for me to approve them for tests, and there are ~no~ retakes of quizzes unless I have evidence that the system glitched while they were testing.