The total category points is calculated incorrectly for categories with scores dropped and item points unequal (weights are equal)
GENERAL
TESTING
GENERAL
TESTING
Description
Create categories with drop lowest specified. add more items than the number to be dropped. assign unequal points to the items (the weights will still be equal, by definition)
note that the total points for the category isn't a meaningful number see attached screenshots for examples from both smartsite-dev.rsmart.com and smartsite-test26.ucdavis.edu
Environment
win XP, firefox 3.6.6
smartsite-dev and test26
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Activity
David Woods July 29, 2011 at 5:01 PM
QA Test
checked the display again when setting drop lowest on and off. The display now properly displays a '?' for the points total of both the affected category and the gradebook as a whole.
QA PASS
Jon Gorrono July 28, 2011 at 8:02 PM
added a flag to make the points inCalculable if any category points are. look for update in 1.6.0-b3
Jon Gorrono July 28, 2011 at 5:17 PM
So does 'QA Fail' x2 increase the priority?
David Woods July 28, 2011 at 5:04 PM
QA Fail
David Woods July 28, 2011 at 5:02 PM
QA Test
smartsite-dev 1.6.0-b2
in a category with equal weighting turned on and unequal points assigned for the items, the category total changes from the total of points to a '?' (correct) when the drop lowest is set to >zero. When all the items are set to equal points, too, then the total of the all item points minus the points of the number of items to be dropped is displayed (correct).
But, the gradebook points total is still wrong in the situation where there are unequally pointed (but equally weighted) items are set to be dropped from one or more of the categories. It should, logically, be a '?' rather than an incorrect number.
Create categories with drop lowest specified.
add more items than the number to be dropped.
assign unequal points to the items (the weights will still be equal, by definition)
note that the total points for the category isn't a meaningful number
see attached screenshots for examples from both smartsite-dev.rsmart.com and smartsite-test26.ucdavis.edu