How to Prevent D2L from Rounding Up Decimals in Grades

Question

Can you prevent Brightspace from rounding up a grade to two decimal places?

I am helping an instructor display up to 4 decimal places for both individual grade items, and for Midterm and Final grades. I have tried everything from changing the Org Unit Display Options on both instructor and student ends, reviewing Calculation Options, and covering Assignment grading settings.

When the instructor manually enters grades in the gradebook directly, he can keep up to four decimal places without the LMS automatically rounding up to two decimal places. But, when he enters grades into the Assignments evaluation section of Brightspace, the system automatically rounds up to two decimal places.

I've tried looking in the D2L forums for this answer as well and have come up dry. Any thoughts on this?

Ana.A.776 · Answer

Hello @Lara.A.3472,

Thank you for reaching out in the Brightspace Community.

Configuration variables (for example, d2l.Tools.Grades.MyGrades.ControlDecimalPlaces, which controls the number of decimal places displayed to learners for grade items) are available only to Admin users via the Admin Tools menu. Administrators must also have the Can Edit Config Variable Values permission in order to modify configuration variables.

You can review more details about the Config Variable Browser tool here:

https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/4387-about-config-variable-browser

It is possible to override the "Instance" (system) level value of a configuration variable for specific org units by adding the Org Unit ID and specifying the override value.

To address your question more effectively, it would be best for a Support agent to take a closer look.

If you are the ASC/Admin for your organization, please refer to our documentation on how to log a Support case or request and a member of our Support team will be happy to assist you.

Thanks, Ana

Lara.A.3472 · Answer

Hi @Sreelakshmi.N.546

Thank you for your response. I didn't see it until I searched for this topic now. I don't fully understand what you mean by Instance Value or configuration variables. I checked all of the settings for the Grades Settings and the Grade Setup Wizard, and they all specify 4 decimal places. I cannot find any settings in Assignments that indicate decimal places, or give the option for adjusting the decimal places shown for evaluated Assignments. If you could please assist and provide instructions in a more accessible way, that would be very helpful. Thank you!

Sreelakshmi.N.546 · Answer

Hi Lara,

Thank you for reaching out to us through the community.

The controlling of decimal places or rounding of grades can be done through Gradebook settings and also through Config variables

Can you please check on the following config variables and see what the value is set to?

* d2l.Tools.Grades.MyGrades.ControlDecimalPlaces ( OrgUnit )

Determines the number of decimal places to display to participants for grade items.

Can also be set from the Grades Settings area or Grades Setup Wizard.

If a value is not set for a specific Orgunit, then it will take up the Instance value for rounding the grades.

This config is applicable across all activities that is tied to grades.

2. d2l.Tools.Quizzes.NumberOfDecimalPlacesForRounding ( Org )

This setting controls how many decimal places we will round to when we grade questions

Kindly check these configs and see if this helps solve your issue.

Thanks,

Sreelakshmi