When I started implementing MCP, I eventually fell into giving pass/fail grades because I couldn't enter specific numbers in the MCP tracker.  I guess keeping my gradebook and tracker next to each other as independent documents was just too much.

There is a technical fix for this problem.  I want to start with the video Robert Barnett made:

Then, you can put in grades to transfer to your gradebook later:

But to students, it looks like this:

Which creates this:

I also had to change the conditional formatting to get the color to change.

Mostly, this is to help me with teaching specific things in the future after the essay and paper conferences.