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Grading Policies

Be sure to check your course for any grading policies specific to your course.

  • Multiple Attempts: You may attempt each question over and over until you either get it right, or give up and request the solution.
  • Attempt Penalty: Each wrong answer docks 5% from your score on that question. For example, if you get a question correct on the third try, you get a 90% on that question. The individual question scores then get averaged to give your score on the assignment.
  • Partial Credit: Each successfully answered blank within a question contributes points toward your assignment score.
  • Hints: A hint is located in the bottom panel of each question. You do not lose any points for viewing the hint.
  • Tutorials: Some difficult questions contain tutorials, groups of questions to help you answer the original question. Viewing and answering the tutorial steps will not cost you any points, regardless of whether you get them correct or incorrect.
  • Significant Figures: You will not be graded on the number of significant figures in numeric answers (unless the question specifies that you must include the proper number of significant figures). In general, you just need to be within a certain tolerance (usually 2%) of the correct answer. To prevent errors, do not round off answers at each intermediate step of your calculations. Instead, keep all the digits until the very end, and even then, it is better to keep too many digits than too few.
  • Saved Work: Within an assignment, all of your responses are saved every time you click "Check Answer." Thus, you may exit a partially completed assignment, then return to it later and resume where you left off. If you have entered an answer without clicking "Check Answer," that answer will not be saved.
  • Reporting to Gradebook: Your score in the gradebook is updated every time you click "Check Answer." An asterisk (*) in the gradebook indicates that you have not yet finished the assignment, but it does not affect your score. Scores for test-style assignments do not appear to you in the gradebook until you click "Submit" (if available) or the due date passes.