Expanded grading approaches

Feature Requests
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I’d love to see a more flexible grading system in Open edX.

Everyone eventually gets used to the current one, but it was designed for the first course ever run on the platform and everything else kind of gets wedged into it. We’ve worked around these for 12 years, so clearly we can, but it limits course design. We can’t do things like “complete one out of these three sections” or “complete 50 points worth of problems”. We can’t assign individual problems to grading types.

A few specific things that would help:

  • Right now you can weight assignment types, drop subsections, and weight individual problems. Make it so you can weight and drop all of those.
  • A “points is points” approach where the platform doesn’t bother involving subsections or types at all, and each problem is just worth the number of points it says it is.
  • Assigning individual problems to types instead of whole subsections, so that you can assess learners by topic instead of by location in the course.

Questions/suggestions are welcome.

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Grading policy configuration for sure needs a revamp, and it has come up in various places recently, especially as we look at mastery based learning, visibility into competency or skill attainment beyond just a grade score, other CBE related topics, etc.

This also warrants I think some extended community brainstorming and use case accumulation! Thanks for posting this!

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