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You can easily change how students see their Grades, especially if you do this before you start setting up your Grade Items.

You can choose to allow students to see one or all of the views seen in the image below: these instructions will show you how. We wouldn’t recommend showing all of these, as it can be quite confusing! To demonstrate, however, we have chosen to show all the views in the image below. The image shows what a student would see.

• Points grade (shown as Points to students)This shows students their raw score out of the total possible points associated with the task. In the image below, Assessment 3 is an example of two items that are marked out of 100 points, but weighted to their true value. Generally, this view is not displayed to students.
• Weighted grade (shown as Weight Achieved to students)This shows the student what they have received out of the total value of the assessment task. In the image below, Assessment 3 is worth 35% of the unit. Two tasks (Grade Items) combine to provide the student with 28 out of 35 possible marks. This view only works when a ‘weighted’ grading system is in use. Note that it is the only view that will show an overall score for a Category to the student.
• Grade scheme symbol (shown as Grade to students) What the students see will depend on what you choose as the Grade Scheme for each Grade Item. You can choose the Percentage grade scheme (so students see their score represented as a percentage) OR the UTAS Grades scheme, which shows students their grade (e.g. NN, PP, CR, DN or HD). To save time, you may wish to change the default Grade Scheme for your unit (see instructions on p. 6). In the image below, the UTAS Grades scheme was used for all Grade Items, except Assessment 4, which uses the Percentage grading scheme.