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There are three different types of spreadsheets inside LON-CAPA: Assessment Spreadsheets, Student Spreadsheet, and Course Spreadsheet. |
There are three nested levels of spreadsheets inside LON-CAPA: a Course Spreadsheet, \index{course level spreadsheet} a Student Spreadsheet, and various Assessment Spreadsheets. The Course spreadsheet provides an overview of student performance and links to each student's details. |
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The Student Spreadsheet configures how the overall course grade is to be calculated. Each graded item can |
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be configured using an Assessment Spreadsheet to specify how the problem parameters are to be evaluated. |
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Course Spreadsheet \textless -- Student Spreadsheet \textless -- multiple Assessment Spreadsheets |
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\item \textbf{The Assessment Spreadsheets} |
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An assessment-level spreadsheet provides access to all of the parameters |
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associated with a student's performance on a particular homework assignment, quiz, |
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or exam. |
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Each student has an assessment spreadsheet for every assessment in the course. |
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The assessment spreadsheets provide data to their parent, the student level |
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spreadsheet, via the assessment spreadsheet \textbf{export row} (\ref{Spreadsheet_Export_Row}). |
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Multiple assessment spreadsheets can be used in cases where the instructor configures |
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grade categories. |
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\item \textbf{The Student Spreadsheet} |
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The student level spreadsheet summarizes the assessment spreadsheet data for the students. |
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There is only one default student level spreadsheet definition, |
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but the data varies for each student. |
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The student spreadsheet is programmed to permit the instructor to assign different |
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assessment spreadsheets for different grade categories or other uses. |
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The data present in the student spreadsheet is imported from the |
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\textbf{export row} (\ref{Spreadsheet_Export_Row}) |
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of each assessment spreadsheet for all of the assessments currently in |
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the course. |
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The student spreadsheets pass summary data to the course-level spreadsheet |
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via the student spreadsheet \textbf{export row} (\ref{Spreadsheet_Export_Row}). |
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\item \textbf{The Course Spreadsheet} |
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The course spreadsheet contains all of the summary data for the students in |
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the course. |
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\end{enumerate} |
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