[COOL Insight｜Issue 15] Teachers ONLY – How to View / Edit Grading Scheme ?

Dear Professors and TAs,

Grade inflation has long been a topic of concern in higher education, both in Taiwan and abroad. A common indicator of grade inflation is the proportion of the highest grades (such as A+ or A). When this proportion becomes too high, it undermines the discriminative power of grades, making it difficult to highlight excellence. This, in turn, may affect resource allocation, the overall teaching culture, and public trust in academic evaluation.

In response to the current situation of grade inflation, the Office of Academic Affairs at NTU has been developing seven related measures since the 112-2 Spring semester. As part of these efforts, NTU COOL would like to introduce the “View/Edit Grading Scheme” feature, which allows instructors to align course assessments more closely with students’ actual learning performance.

Currently, all courses on NTU COOL use the “default setting” grading scheme, which converts letter grades to percentage ranges based on a preset rule. We recommend that instructors create your own custom grading scheme according to course difficulty, student level, and grading criteria, ensuring that grades accurately reflect the course design and learning objectives.

You may refer to the explanations and step-by-step instructions provided in the newsletter to learn how to set up and apply custom grading schemes.

1. A custom grading scheme can be applied to all grade calculations within a course (including final grades) or to individual assignments.

2. If your course currently uses only the default setting or a single custom grading scheme and you wish to add multiple schemes, please use the “Manage Grading Schemes” function.

3. If multiple grading schemes already exist in your course, you can use the “Select Another Scheme” function to apply a chosen scheme to either the entire course or a specific assignment.

Through this introduction to the “View / Edit Grading Scheme” feature, NTU COOL hopes to help instructors review and refine your grading standards, design assessments that better differentiate levels of student performance, and ultimately mitigate grade inflation — thereby maintaining the credibility and international competitiveness of NTU’s academic evaluation system.

For detailed instructions, please refer to the How to view / edit grading schemes? section.

For more details, please refer to the User Support Site
and User Guide (Teacher & TA version / Student version).