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As an instructor/learner, I need to be able to calculate the peer step grade as the average of all peer scores received, instead of the median.
Supporting market data: Please share any relevant user data, interviews, survey results that support the need for this proposalThis has been requested by the consortium of spanish universities who use open edX intensively both in the mooc and in campus contexts.
Proposed solution:
How will you solve this problem?The proposed solution is to add a setting to the peer step where course creators will be able to select the preferred grading strategy.
Include any UX/UI designs
TBDThis requires a simple intervention in the instructor UI for configuring an ora problem. In the modified UI, the peer configuration step would have this extra setting:
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and then, in the learner UI, after the peer assessment step has been completed, the system tells what the calculation strategy was, so the interface will be adjusted accordingly:
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Other approaches considered:
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Plan for long-term ownership/maintainership
TBDedunext is commited to build and contribute this work as part of the unidigital (spanish government) project. As part of that commitment, edunext would commit to maintain the feature for a minimum of 2 years and after that, either find a suitable maintainer to hand it over to, or to follow a the deprecation procedure in case the feature has any inconvenience or its maintenance is a burden that no one can carry.
Open questions for rollout/releases
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