Grades and progress
Track my Progress holds your marks. Two tabs: Pathways for longer tracks, Cohorts for the individual runs you are on.
How a course mark is worked out
Your mark for a course is built in three steps, and knowing them makes the number on screen much easier to interrogate.
1. Categories and weights
Your work is grouped into categories, each worth a share of the total. Most courses use three:
| Category | Typical weight |
|---|---|
| Assignments | 45% |
| Quizzes | 30% |
| Attendance | 25% |
Your organisation can change these per course, and the weights always add up to 100. The Grading panel on your course shows the ones your course actually uses, so check there rather than assuming the defaults.
Each category is scored as a percentage of what was available in it, then multiplied by its weight. Miss half the quizzes and you lose half of the quiz weight, not half of everything.
2. Bonus
An instructor can award bonus points for something outside the normal scheme: exceptional work, or a contribution to the cohort. Bonus is added on top of the 100 that the categories share out, not taken from inside it.
Courses can cap how much bonus is available. Where a course allows it, bonus can carry a total past 100, which is why a mark occasionally reads "108" with no denominator beside it. That is not a fault; it is extra credit doing what extra credit does.
3. The grade scale
The percentage is then mapped to a grade through your organisation's grade scale, which is the thing that turns 74 into a B, a Merit, or a Pass.
Organisations choose their own. Common ones:
| Scale | Looks like |
|---|---|
| Standard Letter | A, B, C, D, F |
| Letter with plus and minus | A, B+, B, C+, C, F |
| Pass / Fail | Pass, Fail |
| Distinction bands | Distinction, Merit, Competent, Not Yet |
Your grade letter and, where the scale uses them, your grade points are shown beside the percentage.
Your grade is frozen when it is worked out. If your organisation later redraws the band boundaries, your existing grade does not silently change underneath you.
Attempts, and which one counts
If you take a course more than once, each run is an attempt with its own mark.
Your record for that course takes the best attempt. Attempts are not averaged, and a later one does not replace an earlier better one.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| In progress | The run is under way |
| Completed | The run finished |
| Withdrawn | You left this run |
| Deferred | You paused and will pick it up later |
The gradebook
The Pathways tab has a gradebook: a printable summary of every course on a pathway with its mark and grade. The download button produces a PDF through your browser's print dialog, carrying your organisation's name and logo.
It is useful for an application, a transfer, or your own records. A mark that is still pending shows as in progress rather than as a zero.
When a mark looks wrong
Check in this order.
- Is everything marked? A category with ungraded work in it is not yet contributing its full share. A total early in a course is a partial total.
- Is a dash shown rather than a number? A dash means the platform does not know the denominator for that item. It is not a zero. Being silent about a mark that cannot be computed is deliberate; a confidently wrong grade is far worse than an honest blank.
- Which attempt are you looking at? The transcript shows your best; the cohort view shows one specific run.
- Check the weights. The Grading panel on the course is the definitive list.
If it still looks wrong after that, take it to your instructor with the specific item and number. They can see exactly the same breakdown you can.
Completion
A course is complete when you have finished its content and its grading has been settled. Completing one is worth 250 XP; finishing a whole pathway is worth 500.
Certificates, where an organisation issues them, follow the grade rather than the progress bar. A course showing 100% progress with an assignment still out for marking is not yet finished for certification purposes.