Indication of how assignment affects grade

[aopell]

This can be accomplished in one or both of these ways:

• Display what percent of the grade each assignment is
• Display how many percentage points were gained or lost because of this grade

[glen3b]

Where would this be placed on the UI? The item grade UI is kind of cramped right now unless we want to start repurposing the comments column, but that seems a bit out-of-place (and visually detached from the rest of the grade information).

What percent of the grade each assignment is simply item denominator over class denominator; or for weighted classes, (item denominator / category denominator) * category weight, if I'm not mistaken.

How would percentage gained/lost from assignment be implemented? I believe Jupiter Grades has a similar feature, how does their math work?

[aopell]

So yeah, UI is definitely a limiting factor here, and may be the reason this never gets added at all.
As for the calculation for how much was gained or lost, I have a spreadsheet somewhere that I made with those calculations, so I'll find that.

[glen3b]

What I think is the relevant computation for this is being done in both weighted and unweighted gradebooks in the "Calculate Minimum Grade" feature - grade percentage points per assignment point.
The questions remain:

• Are there other potentially relevant computations?
• Where would this go on the UI?
• Is there still interest for this feature?

[aopell]

For classes with a weighted category grading system, there should also be a display for the ""true"" value of each assignment(the value multiplied by the category weight). The true value shows how much each assignment would be worth if the entire category system were removed. The true value points can also be totaled to find the percentage grade in the class. For example, for a student with these grades in the following system:

English
Test(40% of grade)
Test 1 50/65
Other(60% of grade)
Participation 20/20
Classwork 15/20
total grade= .450/65+.635/40=.8317

You should display

English (41/50) B(83.7%)
Test (40%) (20/26) C(77%)
Test 1 50/65 (20/26) C(77%)
Other(60%) (21/24) B(87.5%)
Participation 20/20(12/12) A(100%)
Classwork 15/20(9/12) C(75%)

This will allow students so more accurately evaluate how much assignments are worth by converting them into the more intuitive point based system.

maybe this could just be added in mouseover text.

I think this survey response is an extension of this issue