Final grades and best wishes

 Final grades and best wishes

Your final grades and all their component scores are now accessible from the Blackboard "My Grades" tab. (See note** below.) If you did not receive credit for any assignment or other obligation you completed, please let the TAs know right away.  If you're just realizing now that you have no clicker points, email the TAs and include your class time and clicker number.  They will adjust your Total Clicker Points, your raw grade, and your letter grade, if necessary.

I enjoyed teaching you and invite you to keep me abreast of your successes and challenges in the future. The TAs and course clerks join me in wishing you an enjoyable summer and a future of good health and prosperity. Special best wishes to those of you who are graduating this semester.

I am in my office much of the time when school is in session and fairly often during breaks, and you are always welcome to email me or come in to discuss topics from the course or other matters.   It is usually best to call first, especially during any school vacations. I'll be in my office this coming week, but I suggest you call or email for an appointment if you want to meet with me then.  I will be away from my office for much of the week following commencement.    I expect to answer my email at least a few times a day, maybe as regularly as I do during the school year.

ANSWER SHEETS: I plan to dispose of all unreturned 1a, 2a, and 3a exams by June 1. The papers include students' names, grades, and Albany IDs. In order to protect your privacy, I have them sent to a secure disposal facility. If you’d rather handle these documents yourself, either come in soon to get them or email me a request to hold them for you until it is convenient for you to come for them.

(As a privacy advocate, I instituted this policy years ago to protect people's Social Security numbers. Almost nobody took me up on it then, nor has anyone done so since we changed to local ID's. Still, if you want your in-term exams and scantrons and neglected to get them when I returned them in class, feel free to request them.)

I may post one last message on this BMgt341-L distribution list before it expires over the summer.

Again, my best to you always.

Prof. M. Fogelman

**Note regarding students’ Blackboard --> My Grades listing: Exam average is calculated using Exam 1, Exam 2 and Exam 3 values.  Each of these is the higher score of a pair, 1a/1b, 2a/2b, and 3a/3b, respectively.  Also, please ignore the denominators following the actual grades.  Though they are supposed to indicate “points possible," they are often inaccurate.  These errors are due in part to Blackboard's inability to account for my practice of selecting the higher one of each pair of grades.

If you wish to recalculate your final grade on your own...

Average the higher of each pair exams 1a/1b, 2a/2b, and 3a/3b (those higher values also appear on MyGrades as exams 1, 2, and 3).


    Start with 75% of the average of exams 1, 2, and 3.
    Add your clicker-based course points (10% of your total clicks up to a maximum of 15)
    Add your total assignment points (from zero to 10, in half-point intervals;) 
    Add your hotseat points  (0, 2.5, or 5.0)

Round any final numeric total ending in .50 or higher  up to the next whole number.

Locate your total on this table, from page 3 of the course syllabus you received at our first class:

92-100+  A
90-91      A-
87-89      B+
83-86      B
80-82      B-
77-79      C+
73-76      C
70-72      C-
60-69      D
Below 60  E