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Grade Rounding

At West Coast University, all student assignments, quizzes, tests and examinations are entered into the learning management system gradebook as points are earned.  When points earned are fractional/decimal score, faculty will enter to one decimal place without rounding and automated scores are populated as earned.  For programs with a critical assignment grade, the learning management system automatically calculates cumulative achievement or non-achievement.  

At the end of the course, the final grade will be entered as a percent for each student by the faculty.  The final course percent is rounded to the nearest whole number using the tenths place (i.e., one number past the decimal point).  A score of .5 and above is rounded up and a score below .5 is rounded down.  

Examples of rounding for final course percent for final course grades:

89.7 = 90%
83.2 = 83%
75.5 = 76%