Assign a value to icons
What is it for?
It is a different way of inserting a grade or mark. Typically, icons are used in iDoceo as helpers, with no numeric value, but sometimes the more conventional grade isn't as effective for a quick look (and icons look better in your reports).
Can conventional grades (either numeric or text) be mixed with icons in the same cell?
Yes.
Let's imagine a student has obtained a score of 100 in his exam but because of some sort of penalty you need to decrement it by 10 while keeping the original 100 score for reference.
In our example, we would type the original score in the cell, 100 and then assign a -10 value to an icon that would represent that penalty.
The resulting (internal) value for that cell would be in effect 90.
Can we use icons without any additional text in the cell?
Yes, you can do that too.
An example, please!
For this example we will use a conventional grade From 0 to 100. We will then add some icon-values as a bonus (i.e. with positive values), others as penalties (i.e. negative values) and we will look at the results using a simple calculation
This is the original grade (from Main menu > Grade Types and Rubrics ), a simple 0 to 100 score.
We will now add our values. Tap on the Icons tab.
This will be our sample data. All the students some numeric score but we have added a different number of icons.
, but because of the icons in each cell, the real value taken into account will differ of just the numeric value
Now we will add an Add calculation column by tapping on the upper right plus sign button, select Addition-Total points grading
Now select the Simple addition modality, the result will show the real value of the Icons Test Column 'cell content' + its icons
This new calculation column is not required. It is only shown in our example as a way to display the internal value of our 'Icons Test' column
And here we can see the column with numeric values plus icons and besides the obtained column with only numeric values:
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