Pre-exam "final" grades are posted

 Pre-exam "final" grades are posted

Your grades are all posted and released, and they should reflect most grade book corrections requested via mgt341ga@yahoo.com up to this point. Excellent work on the part of our teaching assistants and the test scoring office has enabled us to score and post the exam 3a grades and publish all this information so quickly.

Students should not delay in identifying any unaccounted for hotseat credit, assignment point, or other grade components.

With the exception of clicker points, all grade recording problems should be addressed to the TAs before 5/10 at mgt341ga@yahoo.com. Email me personally at fogelman@albany.edu regarding any clicker point questions you have.  If you are one of the small number of people who have failed to check the weekly clicker points report and just now discover you have no clicker credit, EMAIL ME YOUR CLICKER NUMBER AND CLASS TIME.  I will look up how many points that clicker earned and instruct the TAs to post your credit.  Of course, students and former students are always welcome to contact me regarding concerns associated with this course or any other matter.

(The column named "B Clicker points to add" reflects 0.10 course points per click up to a maximum of 15.00 course points for students who registered 150 or more clicks. There were 170 all together. Column “C Blackboard Contribution” includes your total points on assignments 1-10. )

Your actual earned grade appears in the row titled “E Raw Term Grade (A+B+C+D).

Following this raw term grade is a column labeled “Final Letter Grade.” It displays the letter grade you have earned up to the point. 

A FINAL GRADE SHOULD CHANGE ONLY IF SOMETHING OCCURS TO INCREASE ONE OR MORE OF ITS COMPONENTS, THE MOST LIKELY REASON BEING IMPROVED PERFORMANCE ON ONE, TWO OR THREE OF THE "SECOND CHANCE" FINALS TO BE GIVEN ON THURSDAY, MAY 10 AT 8 A.M. Since students could earn up to 30.0 “free” points in addition to an extra five points on each exam--and given the fact that you get another chance to demonstrate your knowledge on any or all 3 exam segments--there is no point asking for a higher letter grade if your new one falls just short of the next cutoff point. In many cases, the letter grade awarded is already an interval higher than the one you would have earned if exams and course grades had been based on 100% instead of 105%.

SOME CALCULATED GRADE VALUES WILL NOT BE VIEWABLE FOR SEVERAL HOURS SOMETIME(S) BETWEEN MAY 10 AND MAY 14. I SUPPRESS THESE RESULTS AT THAT TIME IN ORDER TO PREVENT CONFUSION WHILE FINAL EXAM GRADES 1b, 2b, AND 3b ARE BEING UPLOADED AND THEIR ASSOCIATED TERM AVERAGES AND LETTER GRADES RECALCULATED.

If you want to verify the grade calculations, you can run the numbers yourself using the formula first suggested when we reviewed page 3 of our syllabus during session #1:

Compute your Actual Term Grade by totaling these four numbers…

   75% of your exam average, plus

   Total assignment points (maximum = 10), plus

   Hotseat points (generally 0 or 5), plus

   Total clicker points times .01 (to a maximum of 15.00).

Locate your total on this table, from page 3 of the course syllabus you received on January 19:

Grades:
92-100+	A		77-79	C+
90-91	A-		73-76	C
87-89	B+		70-72	C-
83-86	B		60-69	D
80-82	B-		Below 60	E

As was noted early on and throughout the semester, final grade percents ending in .5 or higher--not .4999--are rounded up to the next whole number.  

Good luck to those who will be taking our final (Exams 1b, 2b, and/or 3b). If I won't be seeing  you in our last classes or at the exam—THURSDAY, MAY 10 at 8 a.m.—I wish you the best in your other courses and all your future endeavors.

Prof. M. Fogelman