One decimal place to the left of the decimal point is the ones place. One decimal place to the right of the decimal place is the tenths place. Keep your eye on the 9 to see where the decimal places fall.
Instructors have a greater level of precision and transparency in calculations, so they can choose to round up as appropriate when giving a final grade or in compliance with institutional policies that support rounding up.
The WEIGHTED TOTAL column enables instructors to set the weight (or value) of individual assignments and assignment categories independent of the number of points in an assignment. If you set every assignment to 100 points but count one assignment as 10% and another as 25%, this is the column for you.
Blackboard Learn uses a consistent software library to perform all gradebook calculations to 15 decimal places. This precision ensures final calculations appear as close to what might be manually recalculated using the displayed values in the gradebook.
The decimal in the grade level can be thought of as the number of months. For example, 5.8 can be interpreted as the 5th grade level and 8 months.
To the nearest TENTH of a number: This setting rounds the student's average to the nearest tenth of a number. With this setting, an 89.55% is rounded to 89.6%, and an 89.96% is rounded to 90%. DOWN to next whole number: This setting rounds the student's average down to the next whole number.Feb 3, 2017
Weighted Total vs. Total: the two columns are created by default in every Blackboard space. The Total column shows the number of points attained out of the total possible. The Weighted Total shows the current total as determined by the weighting scheme set in the Edit Column Information page as above.
A: Remember that grades are weighted by category. So if the score on the assignment is lower than the average for that category, the overall grade will go down. Example: Student's current overall grade is 90% for all categories (tests, homework, etc.) and they get a 92% on the next test.
Weighted grades appear to benefit students in most cases. Weighted grading systems foster equity and encourage students to take the more challenging classes. There is no consistency among schools on how classes are waived, which classes may be waived, or how waived classes figure into a student's Grade Point Average.
Numbers between 1-4 are rounded down while 5-9 are rounded up. If your professor decides to round off final grades, expect 89.4 to be 89.0 while 89.5 to round up to 90. It is just the basic concept of significant digits, no way for your professor would decide to round off a 0.4 to 1 on a good day.May 28, 2021
If it doesn't say anything abour rounding in the syllabus, and it doesn't specify grades to the first decimal place, it should be expected that percentages will be rounded to the nearest whole number. If 90% is an A, 89.5 is an A; 89.4 is a B, because it rounds to 89.
B+ letterLet's take a look. A 3.6 GPA, or Grade Point Average, is equivalent to an B+ letter grade on a 4.0 GPA scale. This means is equivalent to a 87-89%.