Overview

Different institutions may adopt different grading approaches. By default RIO provides Grade Criteria on each Course, to specify how each assignment weighs against the total grade. However some institutions grade students at the Course Offering level, where all students within the offering share the same grading structure, while others grade at the Session level, allowing individual sessions to maintain their own grading requirements.

To allow both approaches, RIO provides configurable options that allow faculty members to add custom Grade Criteria to the specific Course Offerings or Sessions they teach, in addition to the standard pre-defined Grade Criteria configured by the institution at the Course level. This flexibility enables faculty to accommodate unique assessment requirements while maintaining the institution's standard grading framework.

Please refer to RIO Ed - Sessions For Grading (Aura) for further information about the grading component and its setup options.

Setup for Sessions and Course Offerings

To allow faculty members to add additional Grade Criteria to the Course Offering and Session through the Faculty Portal, configure the following options on the “RIO Ed - Sessions For Grading (Aura)” component in the Digital Experience builder:

• Show Course Offering Grade Criteria = checked
• Show Session Grade Criteria = checked
• Allow Custom Grade Criteria = checked
• Allow Course Offering Custom Grade Criteria = checked
• Allow Session Custom Grade Criteria = checked

This combination of options allow Custom Grade Criteria to be defined at both the Course Offering and Session levels. If none are specified, the default values are pulled from the Course.

For faculty to add the Custom Grade Criteria, they can open the Settings pane on the grading wizard by clicking on the icon in the top right.

This opens the following screen and allows faculty to add their custom criteria. In this example, the Session contains an extra group work component that needs to be marked.

Once saved, the additional Grade Criteria will be available for faculty members to enter and manage student grades for that Session.

These custom Grade Criteria configurations for Course Offerings can be disabled when Session-level grading is used, and vice versa. This ensures that Grade Criteria are managed based on the institution's grading requirements.

Setup for Sessions Only

If you don't want your faculty members to be able to add criteria to the overall Course Offering, you could restrict them to just adding criteria to the Session. This configuration is suitable for institutions where students enrolled in different Sessions within the same Course Offering may be assessed using different grading criteria, allowing faculty members to define assessment requirements specific to each Session.

It is recommended that institutions enable only one configuration model at a time - either Course Offering-level custom Grade Criteria or Session-level custom Grade Criteria.

The config on "RIO Ed - Sessions For Grading (Aura)" in this case should look like the following:

• Show Course Offering Grade Criteria = unchecked
• Show Session Grade Criteria = checked
• Allow Custom Grade Criteria = checked
• Allow Course Offering Custom Grade Criteria = unchecked
• Allow Session Custom Grade Criteria = checked

When set up like this, the settings pane will look as below: