GRADES

I will post grade updates here based on the last four digits of your student ID. If you do not wish to have your unanimous grades posted here, please let me know.

Here is the final grades file. I will posting these final grades to the portal very shortly. I'm delayed because I was having some trouble with my computer yesterday. There are a few grades right on the border (maybe one percentage or half of a percentage point away), and I will usually round up if the student in question participated in class regularly, showed interest in the topic, tried to learn, etc. Otherwise, the number you see is the grade I post. Also, as a point of clarification, I remove the lowest quiz score, so you'll see a blank space there; that doesn't mean I'm missing your quiz. I removed it to make the calculation for the final quiz grade. I also added in extra credit.

I just want to make one comment about final grades. Those who got Ds or Fs were mainly due to assignments not turned in. As I mentioned at the beginning of the semester, scores of zero bring grades down. I feel that several people who didn't pass could have easily passed if the assignments had been turned in. In other words, people didn't fail the class because of ability but because of not doing work, and that makes me sad. I don't know how to help students understand this, but I will keep trying semester after semester.

Best wishes and happy holidays!!