Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why when I taught in MCPS I only entered grades on Friday. Otherwise I spent all my work week answering emails.

That's what teachers are not doing. Pick a damn day or two and get those in AND synched.

Anonymous wrote:Parent and teacher here. OP- is this an error/miscalculation you found or your child? If it was you, my advice is to teach your kid how to check their grades on their own. Mine did it every Friday and went from there. If you’re doing more work than your child, that’s on you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my kid's grades dropped, and I checked the grades for the individual assignments in gradebook, and they average to a higher grade than shown at the bottom of the Gradebook for this class.

What could explain this? I used the same weights for each assignment that were in Gradebook, but it's not adding up...if the individual assignment grades are correct, my kid's grade should be higher...

You can’t just use the number of points (denominator) each assignment is worth and add them up to one total. You need to add up all the practice/prep assignments separately, all the all task assignments separately, and the district assessment. You then need to weight the AT as 80 percent of the grade and each of the others as 10 percent of the grade. You also need to check and see if the teacher entered in an upcoming assignment/grade that hasn’t happened yet. Sometimes teachers put them in as 0 or 50 percent, and then change them after they administer the assignment or test. It can artificially deflate the grade.

If you’ve done all that, then ask the teacher. There are lots of errors and glitches. I know teachers get annoyed when you proactively reach out before the quarter ends, but trust me when I say it is a much more tedious process to fix the error after the fact than before grades lock.

Anonymous wrote:One of my kid's grades dropped, and I checked the grades for the individual assignments in gradebook, and they average to a higher grade than shown at the bottom of the Gradebook for this class.

What could explain this? I used the same weights for each assignment that were in Gradebook, but it's not adding up...if the individual assignment grades are correct, my kid's grade should be higher...

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thanks for the responses. I don’t think it’s a math error on my side-I copy pasted the grade book data into excel because I couldn’t understand how my kid’s grade had suddenly gone from B to A and because all of their assignments were graded at near perfect scores and there were no missing assignments.

In the assignment view, my kid had 161/170 points, which is a 95 percent, but the Gradebook says my kid has a B with a 88 percent in the same assignment view.

So maybe it’s a sync issue and somehow my kid has bombed or is missing some assignments but right now-the system doesn’t add up from what I can see.

And no, I don’t want to micromanage or bring myself unnecessary anxiety if the system is prone to sync issues or incomplete info, but we’re new to MCPS and I also don’t want my kid told, “yes there was something wrong with how your grades were recorded, but it’s too late for the teacher to fix it, with the marking period end date coming up so soon…”

Did you account for grade reductions for things that were late? Or things not yet due or graded?

Honestly I’d have my kid talk to the teacher. If the grade is lower than she is hoping she needs to know if and how to get it up. I feel like these are regular conversations my DD has with her teachers.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thanks for the responses. I don’t think it’s a math error on my side-I copy pasted the grade book data into excel because I couldn’t understand how my kid’s grade had suddenly gone from B to A and because all of their assignments were graded at near perfect scores and there were no missing assignments.

In the assignment view, my kid had 161/170 points, which is a 95 percent, but the Gradebook says my kid has a B with a 88 percent in the same assignment view.

So maybe it’s a sync issue and somehow my kid has bombed or is missing some assignments but right now-the system doesn’t add up from what I can see.

And no, I don’t want to micromanage or bring myself unnecessary anxiety if the system is prone to sync issues or incomplete info, but we’re new to MCPS and I also don’t want my kid told, “yes there was something wrong with how your grades were recorded, but it’s too late for the teacher to fix it, with the marking period end date coming up so soon…”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why when I taught in MCPS I only entered grades on Friday. Otherwise I spent all my work week answering emails.

I would be delighted if teachers entered once a week at a set time. Surely you know that some of your former colleagues are entering a quarter worth of assessments this week.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why when I taught in MCPS I only entered grades on Friday. Otherwise I spent all my work week answering emails.

I would be delighted if teachers entered once a week at a set time. Surely you know that some of your former colleagues are entering a quarter worth of assessments this week.[/quote]

Wonder who is holding them accountable? werent they supposed to enter within 2 weeks of assessment or assignment? Are they giving tasks only in last two weeks of quarter?