Pre-exam "final" grades are posted

Pre-exam "final" grades are posted

Your grades are all posted and released, and they should reflect all but the most recently approved grade book corrections. Good work on the part of our teaching assistants and the test scoring office has enabled us to score and post the exam 3a grades and publish all this information quickly.

Students should not delay in identifying any unaccounted for hotseat credit, assignment point, or other grade component.

All grade recording problems should be reported to the TAs by Wednesday, May 8, at mgt341ga@yahoo.com.  If there are still any students who have failed to check the weekly clicker points spreadsheets all semester and just now discover they have no clicker credit, they should EMAIL THEIR CLICKER NUMBER AND CLASS TIME TO THE TAs .  The TAs will look up how many points that clicker earned, add the 6 free ones, and post your credit.

Of course, you are always welcome to contact me regarding course matters or other topics of interest. (This is a lifetime guarantee.)

The column named "B Clicker points to add" reflects 0.10 course points per click up to a maximum of 15.00 course points for students credited with 150 or more total clicks. There were 170 all together--including 6 free clicks included in everyone's earned totals.

Column “C Blackboard Contribution” is your point total from assignments 1 through 10 (actually 1-9, with the last one awarded for free.

Your actual earned grade appears in the row titled “E Raw Term Grade (A+B+C+D).

Following this raw term grade is a column labeled “Final Letter Grade.” It displays the letter grade you have earned up to this point. 

A FINAL GRADE SHOULD CHANGE ONLY IF SOMETHING OCCURS TO INCREASE ONE OR MORE OF ITS COMPONENTS. The most likely reason to increase it is a student's improved performance on one, two, or  three of the "second chance" finals to be given on FRIDAY, MAY 10 at 8 A.M. Since students could earn up to 30.0 “free” points in addition to an extra five points on each exam--and given the fact that you get another chance to demonstrate your knowledge on any or all three course segments--there is no point asking for a higher letter grade if the one you earned falls just short of the next cutoff point. In most cases, the letter grade awarded is already one or more intervals higher than your exam average, or if the maximum grade possible had been 100% instead of 108.75 we are using.

CERTAIN GRADE COMPONENTS WILL NOT BE VIEWABLE FOR SEVERAL HOURS FOR SOME PERIOD OF TIME BETWEEN MAY 10 AND MAY 13. I suppress these results then to prevent confusion while final exam grades 1b, 2b, and 3b are being uploaded and the resulting term averages and letter grades recalculated.

If you want to verify the grade calculations, you can enter your scores in the "final grade calculator" spreadsheet on e-reserve.  You can also run the numbers yourself using the formula first explained when we reviewed page 3 of our syllabus during session #1:

Compute your Actual Term Grade by totaling these four numbers…
   75% of your exam average, plus
   Total assignment points (maximum = 10), plus
   Hotseat points (generally 0 or 5), plus
   Total clicker points times .01 (to a maximum of 15.00).

Locate that sum on this table, also from page 3 of the course syllabus you received before our first class meeting:
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

As was noted early on and throughout the semester, final grade percents ending in .50 or higher--not .4999--are rounded up to the next whole number.

Good luck to those who will be taking our final (Exams 1b, 2b, and/or 3b). If I won't get a chance to see you in our last class or at the exam—FRIDAY, MAY 10 at 8 a.m.—I wish you the best in your other courses and in all your future endeavors.

Prof. M. Fogelman