Yes, that calculation will give you legal values to enter for the
"will calculate as" column, but there's no reason you would be tied to
these values - they are completely your choice within the interval
that you specified for that grade. For example, you are giving the
grade value of "Merit" for any point value the student achieved that
is between 60% and 65% (always excluding the upper end of the
interval), so that means only those values are legal to enter for
"will calculate as" for the "Merit" grade, and 20% is not legal
because you specified on the left that this percentage corresponds to
a grade of "Fail".

The meaning of the "will calculate as" column is as follows:
Suppose the instructor has graded the items offline and now does
manual grade entry. He may enter *numeric* scores, in which case the
*textual* grade value is determined by looking at the *left* side of
the grading schema as you have it laid out on screen, or he may enter
*textual* grade values, in which case the *numeric* score is
determined by looking at the *right* side of the schema, from the
"will calculate as" column. The system always stores both a numeric
score and a textual grade value for each attempt (with the exception
of columns set to use the "Text" grading schema, which means there is
explicitly *no* numeric score underlying the grade).

Note that if you later alter the grading schema, any existing grades
using that grading schema are NOT re-calculated unless you re-submit
each grade. Thus this is not a recommended thing to do.

--Volker

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Paul Rettey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for the response, I was 'playing' and came to the same results, all working fine now!
>
> Basically the calculation is add the start point and end point for example 70+100 together to get 170, divide by 2 and you get the midpoint in this case 85, and this becomes the 'will calculate as' value for that 'band'
>
> I am still mystified as to why it works like this.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rijssen van, H. (Henk)
> Sent: 01 May 2009 10:13
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Grading Schema
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Your values of "will calculate as" should be a value between your grades scores.
> When f.i. you have a grade score between 70 and 100% the value for "will calculate as" should between 70 en 100% and can't be less (like you did with 30%).
> This holds for all score bands.
> So when creating a score band the "will calculate as" value should lie between the upper and lower limit of that specific band.
> For that reason the values in your second example have been accepted :-)
> It also means that the "will calculate as" values can't be used a weighing factors.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Kind regards/Met vriendelijke groet,
> Henk van Rijssen
> ROC Miden Nederland
>
> ________________________________
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> Van: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist namens Paul Rettey
> Verzonden: vr 1-5-2009 11:03
> Aan: [log in to unmask]
> Onderwerp: Grading Schema
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
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>
> I'm sure someone out there has encountered this before, so here I go...
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> I am trying to set up a Grade Schema based on 6 bands, so for example
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> I have created the rankings in the Grade Schema, however when I click submit
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> This occurs.
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> I understand from examples given in blackboard documentation that for a simple pass / fail criteria
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> Where 50-100 = Pass therefore is a 100% of the mark
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> Where less than 50 = Fail and is 0%
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> I created the 'default'
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> And this works fine, however I do not understand how the 'will calculate as' column works from this, how can a mark between 50 and 100 calculate as 75%, and a mark of between 0 and 50% = 25%? And how does this translate to grade thresholds
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> Blackboard documentation I found  on this really does not go into the detail I need.
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> Thanks
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> Paul
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