For the past year I’ve calculated my students’ grades by hand, culminating each semester in a night of much anxiety and a very tired (and much scribbled-on) piece of paper. Probably in the hopes that he won’t have to comfort me through another night like that, Sydney recommended I figure out how to do grades in Excel.
Whoah, momma, is it ever scary what you can do with a few formulas. I now have things ready to go, so that if I put in letter grades, they’re instantly converted into numbers, weighted, and the end grades are tallied. Amazing things go on. I just have to be careful which keys I press . . .
Erin
Alan Schmierer
Excel is a wonderful tool if you are brave enough to tackle figuring it all out.
GOOD JOB! …will save you mucho time. I think there is software ‘out there’ also for just such work! I am always excited simply to hit the sum symbol and instantly have a total!