Today was our first day of school, and our first day using SOS. It wouldn't flag Eli's assignments as complete until he went back and corrected the questions he originally got wrong. So he is showing as 100% on all of his assignments even though he initially got quite a few wrong. How on Earth is this helpful? I mean, I understand how revisiting the wrong answers is helpful, but how is it useful for him to always have 100% before it tags an assignment as complete?! I want an accurate picture of how he's doing in each subject and I can't always give him my undivided attention while he's answering questions to know how many times it took him to answer correctly. Ug. This really stinks.
Hmmmm....it doesn't do that on my program, albeit last year's version. I'll do some checking on the administrative pages and see if you have a setting switched to 100% accuracy or something of the like.
I would think that the only scores that are counted would be the quiz and test scores, not the daily scores. We don't move on until everything has been checked and corrected, either, and we're doing ours in books and workbooks, not on computer.
He didn't "skip" those missed problems, did he? If so, it won't complete the assignment until you go back in your program and reassign the problems that were skipped. If that isn't the problem, I'd call tech support and they will gladly help you out.
I had that happen as well, and I believe there was a way to fix it, but I can't remember how. Tech support is a good idea.
No, I was sitting and watching him answer incorrectly. But I let him learn from his mistakes, of course. He got all the way to the end so I told him to exit. When I checked my gradebook, all of his assignments were still listed as "incomplete." So I went back to his page to try to figure out why. It was only after he reanswered those questions correctly (something it wouldn't allow him to do the first time through) that we got the pop-up that said the assignment was complete. I always make him redo missed questions/problems, but I don't want him to always get 100% if he does. He needs to strive to get it right the first time.
I have ds's set to allow him 3 attempts to answer each question. We go back through his assignments almost daily just to correct things that were correct but counted wrong for misspellings, missing capital letter, etc. Ds has Tourette's which can be a problem focusing on the computer screen. Anyway, just wanted to add that we go back through the lessons so I'm sure he knows the correct answers, but it still will give me an accurate idea of what percentage he is understanding, and that percentage is recorded for his grade. I'm switching my grading standards in most subjects this year because I have always waited for mastery before moving on to another topic. I'm sure it will get worked out. We like SOS when it functions correctly.
I have both last and this year's version. Like Brooke mentioned, you can set the number of attempts your child has to answer each question. If you want to know his score after one attempt, then you need to set it to one attempt and then he won't be able to correct it. To do this go to SOS Teacher and under School Setup tab there will be Lesson Options. Under Lessons Options under the assignment part you will find where you can change attempts used. If after you've changed the attempts to 1 time and you want him to correct his mistakes, then you can go back and reassign the missed problems if you think he needs a second look at it. Also, someone mentioned that maybe it just counts quiz and test scores; It doesn't, but you can set it up that way if you want. It has a default grading setup, but you can go in under the SOS teacher and change the weight of the assignment types or what is considered an A, B and so forth. It is not the usual 90-100 A. I think it is something like 94-100 A. I may be a little off there, I'm not sure because I changed them all. But, I do know it is a little harder to get an A. Suzanne
I noticed they use the college standard, which makes As difficult. I guess I'll just have to play around a little more. Thank you ladies so much!
I didn't read all the post so you may already know this, but you can change the grading and you don't have to use the college standard.
It's usually around $80 per subject full price. You can find it 'cheaper' elsewhere, but that's the publisher's non-sale price. Thank you ladies for your help. I figured out how to change the settings. I can automatically have it dock a percentage for retries, which I like better than not offering retries in the first place. I want him to go back and figure out what he got wrong. But he has an issue with guessing (meaning he won't bother looking up the answer, he'd rather just guess) and I'm trying to teach him there are consequences for that. He cares about grades (I don't), so that's what I use as the consequence.
You can adjust the grading scale however you like, also make them have a certain amount of attempts at getting it correct before it is marked wrong. Maybe 2010 is different? The Tech support is real nice there! I would like to know what you find out!
I would also suggest tech support they will walk you through it but there is a way to set it so it does not do that. you get to choose how many times they can try each question even. you can even skip problems with and it will go on to the next thing, it depeds on if you ahve things lbocked or not though so make sur eyou ahve everything open.
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