Creating Extra Credit Tasks

Overview

You are a teacher and would like to add an optional assignment that will bring extra credit to students who complete it. In this way, for students who will receive a low score (e.g., 40%), the final grade will still improve; for students, who will not complete the assignment, the final grade will remain the same.

Prerequisites

You have enabled Grade Weighting for the corresponding Gradebook.

Solution

1. Log in to your Teacher account.
2. Click Settings.
   
   
   
   
3. Select the required Gradebook.
   
   
   
   
4. Click Go under Weighting.
   
   
   
   
5. Select the Extra Credit Category. You can use the Extra Credit option, which is available by default.
   Make sure that the category has 0 percentage weight.
   
   
6. Enter the Max Extra Credit percentage. 
   In this example, it is 5% - if a student completes the extra credit assignment with a perfect score (100%), their final grade will improve by 5%.
   
   
   
   
7. Click Submit.
8. Publish an assignment using the same category you selected in step 5.

Testing

To test how the extra credit impacts the final grades, you can follow the steps below:

1. Open the corresponding gradebook.
   
   
   
   
2. Check the existing final grades for students.
   
   
   
   
3. Add grades for the newly created assignment and click Save.
   
   
   
   
4. The final grades are refreshed and should be improved accordingly.
   
   In this example, the max credit amount was selected as 5% and max points for the assignment are 5; hence, each point increases the final student's grade by 1 percent. Please notice that even grade 1 (out of 5) for the extra credit assignment improves the final grade.
   
   Note: After testing, make sure to remove the grades and click Save to avoid having incorrect grades for students.
   
   

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