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Ok so I need to figure out how this works for my grades for school, I have till midnight tonight to get everything turned in and i'm trying to see how much I have to have completed to get me to a B for everything. This is just once class:

Grade to Date: 2177/2566 (84.8%)
Quality: 2177/2303 (94.5%)
On Target: 2303/2566 (89.8%)
Progress: 2303/2566 (89.8%)

Now the on target is how much work you have completed versus how much you're supposed to have completed.
Quality is how good you have done on your assignments over all.

I know to get the grade to date you combine the on target and quality BUT it has to figure in everything that you don't have points for like for instance the 263 points that i'm missing for on target or 10.2%. It has to calculate 0's for that and then average everything else out.

Can someone explain how to do this on a calculator?

I need to know how it figures in the 0's for things.

And in the next little bit please.

Ha never mind.
I figured it out..super easy.

I'll give a cookie to the first one that gets it...

Wait no I didn't.

If you divide your quality by how much you are supposed to be on target than you get that percentage but that doesn't make sense because how does that factor in how on target you are?

This post has been edited by mv08jml: 05 June 2009 - 03:12 PM

I'm sure I could do the maths for you, but I don't understand the situation you're describing. You do need to provide your would-be helpers with some context.

If you multiply "On Target" by "Quality", then you shouldn't need to take account of the "zeros" from work you haven't completed, as these are already included in the "On Target" metric -- are they not?

For example, if you had completed 50% of the total work, but achieved a 100% mark for it, then your overall grade would be 50%. Or if you only managed a 50% mark, your grade would be 25%. Is that the idea?

Yet your remaining work has yet to be graded, and therefore you can't tell how much work you would have to hand in to reach a certain grade -- unless you have already attained that grade by virtue of your previous work.

For example, if you had completed 70% of the work and its quality was 100%, then your Grade to Date would be 70%. You would then be guaranteed 70%, but even completing all the remaining work would not guarantee you 80%. All you would know is that, depending on how well you did in that remaining 30% of work, your final grade would be between 70 and 100%.

So you can calculate pairs of values only. In the above example, you could achieve an overall 80% by getting a 34% grade on all of the remaining work, or you could hand in half the remaining work but would need a 67% grade (both rounded up).

I suspect what's going on here is that I don't actually understand how your system works.

lol. ill explain this:

Grade to Date: 2177/2566 (84.8%)
Quality: 2177/2303 (94.5%)
On Target: 2303/2566 (89.8%)
Progress: 2303/2566 (89.8%)

Right now the Maximum quality I could have which would be 100% would be 2303 points.
All of these points come from the worth of the work that there is.

The on target is how much I should have done BUT whats throwing yo off is the progress. Today is the end of the progress so everything through to today is due. I have completed 2303 points worth of work out of a possible 2566 points. Now in most cases I have a couple hundred more points to add with that with work that i'm working on. So by the end of the day my on target would be 2503 which would bring the on target to 98% so what would my grade to date be then?

Each one is dividing what I have done to what perfect would be..if that makes sense.

Because its not that the points missing haven't been graded, its the fact that I haven't completed them and just like regular school you get zeros for all that work. So it has to account for the points missing and thats what really effects the grade to date. but i just don't know how it does it.

mv08jml, on Jun 6 2009, 12:08 AM, said:

Eh? This Quality metric isn't making any sense to me. What exactly does it measure?

I was expecting Quality to measure how well you have done on the work you've handed in. Precisely:

Quality = (number of marks gained) / (total number of marks available for work handed in)