Term Grade Calculations

Question

“I read on the syllabus that students can miss up to 1 lab report. If all lab reports are completed throughout the term, I was wondering how the grading would work. For example, does the lowest grade get dropped? If you could explain that would be very appreciative. Thank you very much for your time. “

Response

When calculating the final grade for the term we will drop the lowest grade for the discussion and for the lab report.  If you miss a lab or discussion you will have received a “0” for that work and thus it will, in effect, be dropped.

Be aware that this calculation will NOT be performed in BbLearn.  What’s on BbLearn will be the starting point for calculations performed in a spreadsheet afterwards.  The BbLearn grade will be lower than your final grade.