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Grading across subject areas
Grades@CU—a website allowing students to see grade distributions for a variety of Columbia classes—has recently debuted a search function and a new design (we hope it involves comic sans).
The website, founded by Daniel Liss, CC ’16, allows students to input into an online database the A-range percentages available on their transcripts, which can easily be downloaded from SSOL. The hope is that enough students will enter their information that the website will include the grade distributions for nearly all Columbia classes.
According to Liss, Grades@CU has already received the distributions for over 600 classes, which is considerable in light of the fact that Columbia offers about 300 courses per semester.
Liss is also running for the position of CCSC University Senator. You can read information about his campaign here.
Dat graph via Grades@CU
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@BC '16 there should be a way for barnard students (who don’t use ssol) to be able to enter their information
@Anonymous Barnard transcripts don’t say the percent of A-range grades…
@CC14 No way I’m typing in all that information. Please have a feature where you update the pdf and it fills in all of the information automatically, preferably with a strong privacy policy that does not collect any identifying information from the transcript.
@Anonymous how fucking lazy are you? I bet it would take less than 20 seconds a class
@CC14 First of all, I’m pretty lazy. Second of all, if the average student has taken 5 classes each semester, that’s around 15 minutes of mindless data entry. You’re free to do that…I’ll pass.
@wow political move, Liss. Not impressed.
@thomas political move or not this guy actually did something for the school. better than all of that empty other campaign bullshit being slung about. i’d vote for him on that basis alone
@Anonymous I think the point is that he barely made any changes to the site: it’s not a “makeover,” it’s not even “sort of” a makeover. This is more to promote his USenate campaign, not to talk about the site.
@wow exactly, all he did was just move the search bar to the top.
@Anon The update isn’t aesthetic. The site went from ~50 to about 600 courses.
@Anonymous It seems he’s collecting the data in a google spreadsheet, and then occasionally manually copying it into a javascript array on the website. Awesome…
@not necessarily (to Anonymous –^)
fyi, you can also use php to access the database and then output/copy it to the javascript.