Nice work! I love the improvements (both in setup and in presentation) you've come up with. Extra columns *before* the pivot columns seems obvious in hindsight. I added it to my PT Gradebook playlist as the first video: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

That's a neat site. I'll play around in it. Also, check out Advent of Code. It's something I look forward to each December.

In the same vein, asking teachers if they ever had a student pass (or fail) a class that they didn't think really deserved to. Or did they ever fudge numbers to move a student up to a higher letter grade? If trad grading is "objective", those things shouldn't happen, right?

For my standards-based courses, I use ✔ and ✖

I'm tired of topology discourse. Every argument has holes in it.

Looks like you went back-to-front and I went front-to-back Wordle 210 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We have weekly 2hr labs for calc2 (I use desmos). In non-lab classes, I start calc2 with integration stuff, but the labs start with taylor polys (only needs derivs; follows nicely from calc1). Ignore conv/div until the non-lab material gets to series. LMK if you want my labs.

In calc, I assigned 1-2 (short) hw exercises due each day. Spot-check for completion (no pressure). Students can email a pic before class (no penalty or questions asked if absent). Attendance improved even though this system doesn't "require" attendance.

Ear decompositions only work when you start with a cycle. 😁

I learned it as "dots and bars" from Doug West's book.

Using logic is an absolute must. Sincerely, a mathematician. (Although we might be talking about different things 😜)

You too!

I *really* want to get a Canvas gradebook to be clear, but I have yet to get something as clear as using mail merge in Word to send out something like this.

Example: I have 25 standards, students can pass each twice. Each pass is a "checkmark". Completing at least 90% of daily homework across the whole semester is worth 4 checkmarks that just get thrown into the pool with everything else. They can fill in gaps but aren't required.

Yay! I have tenure!

I've been using it with great success in grad math courses. Having LaTeX support is great. They're more intrinsically motivated, so I use it more as a carrot than a stick (simplified scoring system; scores visible to students in real-time). Great for finding typos in the text!

I use a mixture of fill-in-the-blank and using "☆" as a wildcard to be selected later. So far, I've been happy with the results. (Example video: youtu.be/HDmFE49fLDs?t=454)

The next level is saving the comments for each problem in a spreadsheet that you can reuse each year. It gives me an incentive to carefully word feedback to common mistakes knowing that I can reuse it.

I keep a notepad file open while grading. If it's going to be longer than a sentence, it's worth putting in the file. Then I can edit it, reuse it on multiple students, and it's safe from comments not getting saved.

I saw @_qnlw's example below, and it makes a lot of sense. I had considered Σ(-1)^n/ln(n), but not fixing the denominator for a few terms and going -,-,+,-,-,+,...