Scoring methods

You can select from the following four ways to calculate students' scores.

• Straight addition

• Normalization

• Averaging

• Hide Score

Each method described below applies to both curriculums with a list of courses built inside, and courses with a list of content items inside.

Straight addition

For courses, CourseMill adds all posted scores for content items in a course, regardless of the status of the content items.

For curriculums, CourseMill adds all posted scores for courses in a curriculum, regardless of the status of the courses.

Normalization

You must have the managed property NormalizeScoreForStudents set to Yes.

For courses, CourseMill:

• Adds up all posted scores for content items in a course regardless of the status of the content items.

• Divides that sum by the number of content items that had a score posted.

For curriculums, CourseMill:

• Adds up all posted scores for courses in a curriculum, regardless of the status of the courses.

• Divides that sum by the number of courses in that curriculum that had a score whether or not the course is complete.

Averaging

You must have the managed property AverageFinalScoreForStudents set to Yes.

For courses, CourseMill:

• Adds all posted scores for content items in a course for only those content items that are completed.

• Divides that sum by the number of content items that were completed and had a score posted.

For curriculums, CourseMill:

• Adds all posted scores for courses in a curriculum for only those courses that are completed.

• Divides that sum by the number of courses that were completed and had a score posted.

Hide Score

You must have the managed property HideScoreFromStudents set to Yes.

For courses, CourseMill hides all scores both at course and content item level.

For curriculums, CourseMill hides all scores both at curriculum and course level.

Examples

The following represent examples of each scoring method:

Course Scoring

The Clothing course has multiple content items in it as shown below with the following scores and statuses of each content item.

Let’s look at the four different methods of scoring at the course level first:

Curriculum Scoring

Our Threecourses curriculum has three courses as shown below with their scores:

Let’s look at the four different methods of scoring at the curriculum level:

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