Ability to adjust individual student grades within the group

[ShanEllis]

For proposal through final report, there are cases where I decrease (or increase) a student's individual score relative to the rest of the group.

Having the ability to pass a dictionary where I could specify student identifiers and values to adjust by in say a dictionary to the grade posting would be super helpful.

I'm envisioning something like passing a parameter:

student_adjustments = {student_id1: 0.8, student_id2: 1.1}

Then, after grades are collected from the GH issue and when being posted to Canvas, student_id1 would earn 80% of the group grade (decrease) where student_id2 would earn 1.1*group grade (increase), etc.

Happy to discuss more my idea if unclear here. (Note there's no rush. I'll do this manually this quarter, but wanted to put in a request for the future if possible)

[scott-yj-yang]

What is a good way to keep track of the students' weight? I am thinking we can have a google sheets that could export a csv with the weights associated with each students. Subsequently the _post_grade function read in that csv file and apply the weights.

Upon a second thoughts, we will only have those weights after grading all the final project right? So it is more like a grade adjustments for each project components after the grades are published. In that way, we can definitely implement something like the LatePenalty packages but apply a specific weights to students' existing scores.

@jasongfleischer what do you think on this?

[jasongfleischer]

Sorry @ShanEllis I missed this last spring. Assuming this is about 108 groups?

In COGS 108 I handle this via a separate Canvas grade column for grade adjustment on the project. The adjustment column is default 0. Once we identify students who contributed more or less tot he group by other means the TAs or I make the appropriate adjustment for that student (in RAW POINTS, so we precalculate the 5%, 10% etc things)

Obviously this could be done as proposed, but I'm wondering just how useful that enhancement would be since there's a very easy native Canvas mechanism. I see CanvasGroupy's grade importing as a connective tissue from Github to Canvas, not a replacement of Canvas.

But I'm certainly willing to listen to a counter argument!

So @scott-yj-yang hold off on doing anything until we resolve this discussion