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Ii due dates, grade reduced for the second one?

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I apologize if this has been addressed before, merely I could not discover it via my searches.

To avoid repeated requests by students to change due appointment of a homework set, I would like to be able to set 2 due dates for the set:

  • If a trouble is finished by the outset date, then the student gets full credit for all correct answers.
  • If a problem is finished betwixt the first engagement and 2 days (equally an example) past the outset due date, so the student gets something like l% of the credit.

But I'd want the student to be able to retain any credit earned on problems and parts of issues prior to the first due (i.e., those bug or parts of problems on which the student earned 100% of the credit).

Is this done with a custom grader? Or with an additional grader after the standard (or other) grader?

I'm assuming that the official (co-ordinate to Webwork) due date of the problem would probably be the 2d due date in my scheme. And then the grader would accept to check whether the time was before this second due date - 2 days to make up one's mind the percentages of credit to give.

I'm not sure how to implement this.

Also, could the variable having the value "two days" exist a stored variable for a particular form, and so that the professor would just set this variable at the beginning of the grade and have information technology apply to all homework sets in the form?

Hello Patricia,

This is a request we have non seen before. I think doing this with a custom grader is the way to become. Y'all tin see a sample of a custom grader in the problem

.../Library/Rochester/setSampleGraders/sample_myown_grader.pg

(WeBworK/Demos/Grading from the Library Browser). Also await at webwork/pg/macros/PGgraders.pl. Finally do a "grep -r grader *" in the webwork2 and pg subdirectories and you lot volition detect other examples of custom graders.

After you lot go it working (which will probably take some endeavor) you can set it every bit the default grader to use in the course configuration file (look at how this is washed in global.conf). If you complete this project, delight post the case. It volition be an instance of a different kind of grader from those that we at present have.

Arnie

I'd very much like that capability, besides. It'southward available and relatively easy to use in some other on-line homework systems; I and colleagues have establish that capability extremely useful.

One of the things usually done is to open all homework assignments again almost the very end of the course and permit students to get more questions there completed correctly that they omitted or got wrong earlier -- all for but a fraction of the original credit. Nosotros've institute this an excellent tools for students to review for the final exam, motivated by that additional credit (which often, in fact, makes little difference in their ultimate course grade).

Hi,

WeBWorK now has a Reduced Scoring Flow, that is a flow before the due engagement during which all boosted piece of work done by the pupil counts at a reduced rate.

The to a higher place two requests resonated with me since they reminded me of one fashion I used WeBWorK fashion back in the autumn of 1996. I taught a small class (the first class WeBWorK was ever used in) and instead of giving partial credit on exams, I used WeBWork for partial credit. The exams were standard newspaper exams merely at the end I told the students the right answers and gave them 24 hours to do any problems they missed on WeBWorK. The WeBWorK problems were the same as the exam bug except for constants. If they got the WeBWorK problem correct, the student was given 25% of whatever they missed on that problem. The average examination score went up from effectually 70 to 75 or and then. Not a big departure but near students put a large effort into this. Most xx% didn't bother, lx% did all the problems they missed on the exam and xx% did all the problems (even thought they didn't get any extra credit for the ones they got correct on the exam). They liked it and I liked information technology. I never tried this in a large class because to practice information technology you lot would have to record and enter student exam scores on individual problems (which is too onerous for the professor) or crave students to do the whole exam on WeBWorK (which is also onerous for the student).

Here is how the Reduced Scoring Menstruation works. There are ii parameters, the reducedScoringPeriod which is the length in minutes and the reducedScoringValue, a number in [0,1] which gives
the value of work done in Reduced Scoring Catamenia. Suppose the reducedScoringPeriod = 60*24*two (two days) and the reducedScoringValue = .v. On the folio listing the problems, the student will see a message like:

This consignment has a Reduced Scoring Period that begins 11/08/2009 at 05:00am EST and ends on the due appointment, eleven/10/2009 at 05:00am EST. During this period all additional piece of work done counts fifty% of the original.
(Note: if Reduced Scoring Flow = 0, there is no message).

Before the Reduced Scoring Period everything is exactly similar a normal problem. For example if a educatee does 6 parts of a 10 part question correctly, they see
You received a score of 60% for this effort.
Your overall recorded score is threescore%.

During the Reduced Scoring Period the student sees the message

Note: You tin earn partial credit on this problem.
Y'all are in the Reduced Scoring Period: All additional work done counts 50% of the original.

Suppose during the Reduced Scoring Menstruation they try the trouble again and get nine of the ten parts right. They meet

You received a score of 90% for this attempt.
Your overall recorded score is 75%.

Finally if they go dorsum to the problem and go all x parts correct they see

Yous received a score of 100% for this attempt.
Your overall recorded score is 80%.

I think this is exactly what Patricia was requesting. As for Murray'due south asking, all you have to practise is toward the end of the semester, alter all the due dates to reopen all the assignments and set up the reducedScoringPeriod to some big number (e.g. 60*24*30 = 30 days).

The style I implemented this it applies grade wide, i.e. to all open assignments in a course. Information technology wouldn't be also hard to plow it on and off for specific assignments, just first let's see if anybody finds this useful.

Since this involved a lot of mostly modest changes to a lot of files (ten in fact), I put this in the head distribution and did non port it back to the curreent rel-2-4-patches distribution. It will be included in the side by side release of WeBWorK.

If you desire to employ this now you take to update ten files to the head version instead of the rel-ii-4-patches version. I recommend doing this as follows where I'll use the example PGanswermacros.pl.

cd /opt/webwork/pg/macros/
mv PGanswermacros.pl PGanswermacros.pl.save
cvs update -A PGanswermacros.pl

This way you have saved the original file and since the original file has been moved (NOT copied) the is no chance the cvs upgrade will corrupt the file. cvs will study that the original was lost and download the new re-create. The -A flag (don't forget this) removes gummy tags (i.e. the rel-2-iv-patches tag) and downloads the head version. If you lot want to get dorsum to the original file you can just move the saved version back or, after removing or moving the current file, run the command cvs update -r rel-2-4-patches PGanswermacros.pl

Hither are the ten files that demand updating

/opt/webwork/pg/macros/PGanswermacros.pl
/opt/webwork/webwork2/conf/global.conf.dist
/opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/Constants.pm
/opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/Problem.pm
/opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/ProblemSet.pm
/opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/PG/Local.pm
/opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/PG/Remote.pm
/opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/Utils/Tasks.pm
/opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/DB/Utils.pm
/opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/DB/Record/UserProblem.pm

After this do a unequal between your global.conf and the new global.conf.dist and update your global.conf adding the two new items in $pg{ansEvalDefaults} near line 1000. If you desire to set a Reduced Scoring Period for the unabridged organization (which is doubtful) you can edit the default values. Think you have to restart Apache for the changes to take issue. Otherwise to configure the Reduced Scoring Period for a specific course, goto "Grade Configuration", select "PG - Trouble Display/Answer Checking", and edit the terminal 2 items (the help icons give an extended explanation).

This volition work out of the box for whatsoever new course you create. For a current class, you first have to update the database. Unfortunately there are still bugs in the head version of wwdb_upgrade and so we take to update the database one course at a fourth dimension. To do this log into the admin form, select "Annal Class", select your course and so striking the "annal Course" push button. This commencement checks the database, finds that it is not upto date and gives y'all the choice of bringing it up to appointment. Select that option and after it completes select the option "Don't archive" (archiving doesn't injure).

Arnie

To keep this thread current, Reduced Scoring now must be enabled or disabled for private assignments. The default is disabled since having it enabled for gateway tests doesn't seem to brand much sense to me.

Again these changes are but in the caput version. Equally there are updated to 12 files, I won't listing them here.

Arnie

Is information technology possible to change the argument the student receives after an incorrect respond or during the reduced scoring period? Thanks.

Hi Alina,

Information technology is possible but it'southward not that piece of cake. If you use a custom grader instead of the default grader (which is the avg_problem_grader) then y'all can put in your own bulletin.

For example you lot tin re-create the sub avg_problem_grader which yous volition find in the file /opt/webwork/pg/macros/PGanswermacros.pl so edit that copy. Near the finish of that routine you volition discover the line:
$problem_state{state_summary_msg} = ''; # an HTML formatted bulletin printed at the bottom of the problem folio

Yous can put your ain message there. You tin can use the aforementioned method to put your own bulletin in whatever grader.

For examples of how in utilise custom graders, use the Library Browser and look under WeBWorK/Demos/Grading

Hope this helps.

Arnie

Hi Arnie,

This is a very useful characteristic. Cheers!

Currently, I am doing what Murray is proposing, so I reopen all my homework sets the terminal 2-3 weeks of the semester and reset the due date to let students to complete the sets for full credit. Students seems to exist quite interested in completing assignments.

Considering I reopen the sets, I have to fix the answer appointment to the very end of the semester, subsequently the re-opened sets are due. This is the one drawback I encounter to reopening the sets. What I'd similar to see added to webwork is an choice to reset all parameters (east.g. to assign a new seed to problems) when the sets are reopened during the reduced scoring menstruation. This would permit the instructor to set an answer twenty-four hours at the end of the normal open menses too, instead of only at the end of the semester.

Lars.

Howdy Lars,

If I understand you correctly (and I'chiliad not at all sure that I practise) you want to have two dissimilar reply dates for an assignment. This really would be a major change to WeBWorK. Just y'all can accomplish almost the aforementioned affair --- see below.

Every bit far as reopening assignment at the end of the semester, I was assuming people would simply reopen assignments which were already airtight. Since yous have to select which assignments reduced scoring applies to, you can certainly exclude consignment(s) (e.m. the last assignment of the semester) which may still be open up at the finish of the semester.

Every bit far as resettting seeds with a dissimilar due engagement, you lot could easily ready up a new homework assignment which is a copy of the original. Then information technology would automatically have the same problems with different seeds. You lot would then have two assignments covering the same material and yous could decide how to combine the grades from the two assignments.

Arnie

How-do-you-do Arnie,

The essence of my question is whether it would be unproblematic to reset all seeds in a problem set (for all students in the class) without affecting the credit students have already received for the problems they have correct at the fourth dimension reseeding occurs.

Lars.

Howdy Lars,

This wouldn't exist that hard technically. Although it could require a pregnant corporeality of coding about of it could be closely modeled on existing code. I'd like some discussion on the user interface showtime nevertheless.

I could only add a push to the Hmwk editor which simply replaces the seed for each trouble. This would be relatively uncomplicated to implement, but if it'due south used by accident the harm might be hard to undo.

It would accept some side effects:

Each student'due south grade would remain unchanged but the answers they had correctly entered in old problems would now annals equally incorrect. This could exist educationally disconcerting.

Ane could instead make a version which cloned the current set and too retained student records but changed seed values. (A related project would brand it easier to clone a fix to a new set maintaining all records so that one could alter the name of the set.) If the procedure were more than intelligent information technology could only change the seed numbers on the wrong answers -- but we are starting to go pretty specialized and other instructors might want different variations.

Information technology would also exist possible to directly access the database and make changes in the trouble seeds using mysql queries. This could easily be done without affecting existing lawmaking so it might be a adept way to experiment with what features are really desirable and which ones aren't.

We're looking for projects for a google summertime of code -- this could be one.

-- Mike

Howdy Lars,

Look Davide's macro http://webwork.maa.org/md/cvs/pg_CURRENT/macros/problemRandomize.pl.html

and also the discussion

http://wwrk.maa.org/moodle/modernistic/forum/hash out.php?d=1948

Arnie

Hi Arnold,

Thanks for the link to Davide'south macro. If I sympathize the macro right, it looks similar the student is permitted to do the reseeding, right?

A similar macro giving the teacher the option to force a reseeding (for the whole form) would be nice to accept.

Davide'due south macro allows an selection to reseed either (a) all problems, or (b) correct issues. in the instructor version of the macro, information technology would be overnice to have the additional option to reseed incorrect problems only.

Lars.

With the semester's end I'1000 but now finding the time to read the forums again after my initial posting on this subject. Many cheers for your piece of work on this, Arnold! It's exactly what I had wanted. smile I will be making use of the Reduced Scoring Flow next semester.

In the last paragraph, you mention using the "Archive Class" method to update the existing class databases. I did this, but it never asked for the databases to get updated. This is the message from the professor trying to use these existing classes:

Unfortunately I at present get an error bulletin when trying to admission all homework sets

Tin't locate object method "enable_reduced_scoring" via bundle "WeBWorK::DB::Record::UserSet" at /opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/ProblemSet.pm line 78.

The information beneath tin help locate the source of the trouble.

  • in WeBWorK::ContentGenerator::ProblemSet::initialize called at line 192 of /opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator.pm
  • in WeBWorK::ContentGenerator::become called at line 353 of /opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK.pm

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Steve Plemmons

Can anyone help with this message posted on 12/30, regarding the installation instructions given past Arnold Pizer for the Reduced Grading Period ? Our webwork is disabled until this problem is fixed, and the new semester is kickoff soon. Thank you.

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In the terminal paragraph [of the instructions given by Arnold Pizer] , you mention using the "Archive Grade" method to update the existing class databases. I did this, merely it never asked for the databases to get updated. This is the bulletin from the professor trying to utilise these existing classes:

Unfortunately I now get an fault message when trying to access all homework sets

Tin can't locate object method "enable_reduced_scoring" via package "WeBWorK::DB::Tape::UserSet" at /opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/ProblemSet.pm line 78.

The information below tin can help locate the source of the problem.

  • in WeBWorK::ContentGenerator::ProblemSet::initialize called at line 192 of /opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator.pm
  • in WeBWorK::ContentGenerator::get called at line 353 of /opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK.pm

Whatsoever ideas?

Thanks,

Steve Plemmons

This type of fault usually does come from the database for the course beingness older than the current version of Webwork.
If you are non seeing the update database pick, information technology'due south probably considering you are running a slightly older version of Webwork. This feature was added relatively recently.
I have three different suggestions that could each make this work for you, depending on how dauntless y'all are:
i) You could create a new class, and just consign your classlist and all assignments from the broken course, then import them into the new course (though I gauge this depends on the old course being functional enough to do an consign).
2) You lot could upgrade the residue of Webwork to the latest release version (two-4-patches I believe). Once this is done, Arnold'southward instructions for upgrading the individual courses should work, though y'all may need to update the 10 files he mentioned again.
3) Yous can manually update the ane table that has changed for each of your quondam courses. Since there is only one new column, this ways issuing a single "Alter table" mysql statement on the server for each quondam course. Information technology's just a matter of determining the name and type of the column to be added.
Hopefully one of these three gets you back up and running.
Danny

Hi,

I'm lamentable if my directions in a higher place were disruptive.

After I made the final changes (which require Reduced Scoring be enabled or disabled for individual assignments), in order to use Reduced Scoring, you lot have to upgrade to the head version of WeBWorK. This involves living on the edge but should be stable. We currently take 100 odd courses using the head version on servers at Rochester.

If you don't want to do this and followed the original instructions, you can just move the saved versions of the ten files back. If you didn't relieve the ten files, you lot can motion or remove the files and and then reinstall the patched version with e.g.
update -r rel-ii-4-patches PGanswermacros.pl. Run into the instructions above which describe how to go back to the original configuration.

I would suggest trying the head version. To do this showtime movement the webwork2 and pg directories.

mv webwork2 webwork2_save
mv pg pg_save

This means yous can easily move your current installation back and too you accept easy access to your global.conf file.

And then download the head version of webwork2 and pg

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.webwork.rochester.edu:/webwork/cvs/system checkout webwork2 pg

Note the absence of "-r rel-2-iv-patches". Then follow the installation directions for setting permissions and where to motion the webwork2 and pg directories.

For the configuration files do the following:
cp database.conf.dist database.conf
and use that. For global.conf, do a diff between the new global.conf.dist (in .../webwork2/conf/) and the old one in your .../webwork2_save/conf/ directory). And so re-create .../webwork2_save/conf/global.conf to ../webwork2/conf/global.conf and and then edit it adding the missing lines the diff found.

After that is washed restart apache2 and hopefully all should work. You don't need to practise anything with MySQL.

This will work out of the box for whatsoever new form you create. For a electric current course, you lot first have to update the database. Unfortunately there are yet bugs in the caput version of wwdb_upgrade so nosotros take to update the database one course at a time. To do this log into the admin course, select "Archive Course", select your form and then hit the "archive Course" button. This first checks the database, finds that it is not upto date and gives you the choice of bringing information technology upwardly to date. Select that option and afterwards information technology completes select the option "Don't archive" (archiving doesn't hurt).

Arnie

Arnie,

I reinstalled and have the same problem. I remember I might not be getting what you telephone call the "head" version. I cannot use cvs since it is blocked at my University. I am downloading from sourceforge. Which version should I be downloading?

Thanks,

Steve

Howdy Steve,

Unfortunately you accept to utilize cvs

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.webwork.rochester.edu:/webwork/cvs/system checkout webwork2 pg

to install the head version. I have never heard of cvs being blocked (but at that place are many things I oasis't heard of). Maybe cvs is not installed on your server. It should be very piece of cake to install. For example see http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Installation_Manual_for_2.4_on_Ubuntu_9.10#Ubuntu_Software_Packages
if y'all are using Ubuntu.

E.thousand. as root

aptitude install cvs

The reduced scoring period has been very useful for our large lecture classes (where the bottom quarter of the students tin't ever seem to terminate something on time).

However the way that due dates are at present listed is causing a skillful fleck of confusion. For example,

HW#1 at present open, due 1/eighteen/2010 at 09:00am EST
HW#2 at present open up, due i/18/2010 at 09:00am EST

now occurs when

  • HW#ane has a 3-24-hour interval reduced scoring menses which follows the 100%-credit due engagement of 1/xv/2010 at 09:00am EST
  • HW#2 has no reduced scoring period; the 100%-credit due date is 1/18/2010 EST.

When students click on each of the assignments they are given more data at the elevation of the page regarding reduced scoring periods, but often they look but at the listing of all homework problems to see what is due when. [ We just passed the deadline for an consignment like HW#1 and, even though they were warned about this, instructors and students were taken off-guard. For this reason we extended the 100% due date for HW #1 (which is what we wanted to avoid with the use of the reduced scoring menstruum). ]

Is it possible for me to alter the wording that appears above on the master listing of homework? Better would be something like:

HW#1 at present open, due 1/15/2010 at 09:00 EST, followed by a 3-24-hour interval reduced-credit grace menstruation
HW#two now open, due ane/eighteen/2010 at 09:00 EST

or, even something like this would be helpful (but not optimal) for the latter:

HW#2 now open, due 1/18/2010 at 09:00 EST, followed past a 0-day reduced-credit grace period

P.Southward. There is a existent need to have assignments with no reduced scoring menses, such as right earlier an exam. So at that place needs to be diction to handle both cases.

If there's a style for me to modify the existing wording, I'd like to know how to practice it. Thanks.

Hi Patricia,

WeBWorK is open source and so you tin modify whatsoever you want only maintaining your own custom version may not be that much fun later on a few years.

With WeBWorK the due date is the latest (final) date and is proceeded by a reduced scoring menstruation. Changing this logic would mess upward a lot of other stuff.

When I have a run a risk I will look at putting some type of message alert most the reduced scoring period on the folio that lists assignments. I would like a succinct remark that doesn't take up to much space. Whatever ideas?

HW#one at present open, due 1/15/2010 at 09:00 EST Reduced scoring starts 1/12/2010 at 09:00 EST

with the terminal phrase in red would do it I remember but this may take it as well much space.

If students look at this kickoff page it takes only i click to get the full data on the reduced scoring period for the assignment and then ane only has to alarm them.

Arnie

Arnie--

Your suggestion looks great:

HW#1 now open up, due ane/15/2010 at 09:00 EST Reduced scoring starts i/12/2010 at 09:00 EST

with the terminal phrase in blood-red would do it I think merely this may take it also much space.

Taking slightly less space would be:

HW#one open, due i/15/2010 at 09:00 EST, Reduced credit > 1/12/2010 at 09:00 EST

As far as my implementing something similar this, is there an easy identify to do information technology? Or practise I end up rewriting basic code (not my idea of fun).

Thanks

Hullo Patricia,

In the by week or and then I was really thinking of using "reduced credit" instead or "reduced scoring". Interesting that you came up with the same word. I think it's better. Too bad I didn't think of it originally. Thanks for the suggestions.

To brand the alter yourself you would have to edit system code and search for the correct file (equally I will when I make the modify). It shouldn't exist that difficult just you practise have to exist a niggling conscientious. E.g. you don't desire the bulletin afterward a gear up has closed and probably practice not want it before a set opens since at that point nosotros don't tell students the due date.

When I make the change I'll postal service something. It should exist a change in just one file. If I modify "scoring" to "credit" everywhere that modify will be made in a number of files merely there volition be no real reason to make such a change in mid semester.

Arnie

Thanks, Arnie. Changing system code is non high on my wish list right at present! I have put large red warnings about the disparity in due dates in the course_info.txt file, and by now near of the students and instructors are starting to catch on. But information technology's definitely confusing to them.

I other thing I noticed. Afterwards a homework set has closed, information technology withal says "You're in the reduced scoring catamenia..." at the lesser of every trouble in that ready. A couple of students thought that this meant they could yet get reduced credit afterwards the homework set was closed, but most have figured that out without needing explanation from me.

Thanks over again.

Thanks Patrica.

Re: Later a homework set up has airtight, it still says "You're in the reduced scoring flow..."

I consider this a bug and will fix it.

Arnie

How-do-you-do,

I take now implemented a alarm bulletin on the folio that lists all assignments.

This only involves updating 1 file and then is pretty unproblematic. If you want this, practice the post-obit.

cd /opt/webwork/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/
mv ProblemSets.pm ProblemSets.pm.save
cvs update -A ProblemSets.pm

Note that in gild to use Reduced Credit (my new name for Reduced Scoring) you have to be running the head version of webwork2. At some indicate I will remove the warning messages that still appear after the due engagement and systematically supplant "Reduced Scoring" by "Reduced Credit" but these are minor annoyances.

Arnie

Thank you for your work on this, Arnie.

Some other thing to put on your to-do listing: Right at present the reduced credit flow must exist implemented course-wide for a given homework. Simply if one pupil has a expert, legitimate excuse to get actress time, generally the instructor asks for a new due appointment for that student with 100% credit until that time. We accept handled this past making a clone of the original assignment for that educatee only, turning off the reduced credit option in the clone. So later the due dates are over, we have to copy the student's scores on the clone over to the original assignment. (This happens surprisingly often.) All of this would be simpler if the reduced credit selection could be changed on a pupil-by-student ground.

Thanks...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll probably hold off on this until later the next stable release and so that any changes I brand can exist tested for awhile before beingness added to the stable release.

Yous are probably the major user of reduced credit in the beta lawmaking. I assume everything currently implemented has been working OK and that this should be added to the next stable release.

Arnie

Hi Patricia,

Another take on this. If a educatee has a skilful reason to get extra time, why not just give him/her say an extra two days? That would requite the student 2 extra days at full credit followed by the standard reduced credit menses. It seems to me that this would encompass most people'southward needs (it's what we do when not using reduced credit) and doesn't add any extra complication to WeBWorK.

This will not cover the case when you practice not want to give a student any extra time just just don't want to penalize that particular pupil for doing piece of work at the end of the standard period. But I would call up this would be a rare occurrence and you have found away around that, albeit non a user-friendly one.

Arnie

Hello Arnie,

I'm actually not teaching the course this semester, but am working behind the scenes to become all sections of this course using webwork (5 instructors, 12 TAs, etc.).

I think the reasoning is as follows: The students are given 100% webwork credit upwardly through Monday, and 50% webwork credit up through Wed. They have an exam on Thursday. So for whatever reason an teacher agrees a educatee can have a full-credit extension, just the instructor stil wants the student to complete the problems prior to the exam (or prior to the next homework set being assigned). This is the nearly typical request I get from instructors, to just eliminate the reduced-credit period for i or more students then that they get 100% credit through Wednesday.

Does this make sense?

Thanks,
-Patricia Lamm

Hi Patricia,

It does. I'll put it on my "to do" list. No promises equally to when it gets done.

Arnie

Howdy Arnie,

Some other unforeseen problem occurs considering due dates for an individual pupil (east.g., for homework extensions) are given precedence over due dates for the unabridged class. For case, at the finish of the semester, a professor may decide to reopen multiple closed homework sets with the reduced scoring pick enabled. If a student has received an individual extension on a homework set in the past, then they will be unable to submit answers for fractional credit considering their individual due date supersedes the class due date.

Information technology is possible for the professor to manually reset the due engagement for the student, but sometimes that is a hard task (peculiarly for professors new to webwork or for very large classes).

Would it be possible to add an option to webwork's grade configuration menu that would allow professors to choose whether they want

ane. Individual due dates to always accept precedence (electric current default)

2. The later of the 2 due dates to take precedence

iii. Form due dates to always take precedence

4. The earlier of the two due dates to take precedence

The solution I am proposing would apply in full general (for all homework sets, not just for reduced scoring). I am aware that choices 3 and 4 seem not to be useful, just I included them for completeness anyway.

Thanks!

Paul Pearson

Skilful betoken Paul and one I hadn't considered.

I'll have to look at the lawmaking and run across if information technology is easy to insert such an choice. Information technology seems like it should exist only that'south piece of cake to say without looking at the code.

Arnie

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