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How to / Reference / Explanation /

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Clients / instructors (eventually) / prospects

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Set up a graded or ungraded course. Understand how grading works/is calculated.

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V2.7

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  • Monica

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This article is about the new JUNO learning management system (LMS). If you don’t see these features on your site, your platform still uses the legacy JUNO courses.

Learners can pass or fail a graded course and earn course credits. This article explains how grading works and what you can do to set up graded or ungraded courses.

You can also share this information with learners in a simplified guide made just for them: How courses are graded.

Before you begin

  • Open the course editor to follow these instructions.

  • Remember to click Save at the top of the page before going to a different tab in the editor. Otherwise, you’ll lose your changes.

  • If you can’t edit something, it might be locked because the course has started. See Why does lesson editing lock?

Who can edit course grading settings?

How grading works

1. Learners earn points for questions

Learners earn points when they answer questions in a lesson.

Multiple choice questions are worth points if you answer correctly. At this time, points are “all or nothing.” If learners select the right answer they get full points. If they select the wrong answer they get no points. For questions with multiple correct answers, they must select every correct answer.

All other question types are worth points for participation. These questions don’t have defined right and wrong answers at this time, so learners earn full points as long as they interact with (answer) the question. Because of this, we don’t recommend using these question types for graded quizzes at this time.

2. Learners pass or fail each graded lesson

Not all lessons have to be graded. But for those that are, the grade is calculated like this: Sum of points earned / Total points possible = %. If the grade meets or exceeds the set passing percentage, the learner passes. If not, they fail the lesson.

Lessons set to 0% aren’t included in the total course grade calculation, so if you want a lesson to count, make sure to set a passing percentage.

3. Learners pass or fail the total course

Then the lesson grades are averaged to determine the grade for the whole course. If the grade meets or exceeds the set passing percentage, the learner passes and receives course credit points. If not, they fail the course.

Learners who pass the course receive course credit points.

4. Learners, managers, and administrators get grade reports

Right away, learners get a pop-up notification when they complete a graded lesson or course, letting them know if they passed or failed. Later at any time, the JUNO team can help site admins and managers download a transcript.

Can learners retake a course?

No, once they complete a lesson and go to the next one, they cannot change their question answers for that lesson. (They can go back to rewatch or reread the lesson before they complete the course by selecting the Complete Course button.)

Set up a graded course

Steps, link out

  • 1. Define grading for the course

  • 2. Define grading for each lesson

    • Graded lessons and ungraded lessons (you can have a mix)

    • Assign points to questions (basic explanation and screenshot, but link out to Create lessons doc)

If you edit settings after the course start date, you should recalculate grades in case learners already started the course. See instructions below.

Steps, link out

  • Explain how to set up this use case. I think this is a potential use case?

  • Would it be “set passing percentage to 0%” and “make all lessons ungraded?”

  • Is there any use case for no course credits?

Recalculate grades if you make changes after learners started

To prevent issues with inaccurate grading, some lesson settings lock (cannot be edited) after the course starts. But you can still edit some settings that affect grading. When you do, you can recalculate grades for any learners that already started the course.

For example, if you change the course passing percentage, a learner who previously failed might now pass.

In the Course Info tab, select Recalculate Grades in the top-right corner.

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