How your results are calculated
Your instructor has an online Gradebook to track your scores. When you do an assignment, the results are automatically entered in your instructor's Gradebook.
Depending on the assignment, your scores go into one of these Gradebook categories:
- Homework for homework assignments
- Quizzes for quizzes
- Tests for tests
- Other for other types of work. Often this category is used for work you do offline - for example, a class project or a score for attendance
- Study Plan for the practice questions you do from the Study Plan
Weighting assignments within a category
Your instructor assigns a point value to each assignment in the Homework, Quizzes, Tests, and Other categories. If all assignments in a category have the same point value, they are weighted equally. If they have different point values, they have a relative weight. For example, a final test may count twice as much as the other tests you take during the semester, so it would have twice as many points assigned to it.
Calculating test and quiz averages
Your instructor may allow you to take assigned tests and quizzes multiple times. Since you may have multiple scores for the same test or quiz, your instructor must specify which of those scores to use in calculating your test and quiz averages. You instructor chooses one of these options, which applies to all your tests and quizzes:
- Best score uses the best score among all your attempts.
- Most recent score uses your latest test score.
- Average score uses the average of the scores for all your attempts.
- All scores uses all your scores.
Weighting categories
Each of the five Gradebook categories has a point value. Your instructor may assign different weights to different categories. If a category is assigned 0 (zero) points, it does not count toward your class average. Here’s an example of how the Gradebook categories could be weighted:
Example
- Homework 30 points
- Quizzes 25 points
- Tests 50 points
- Other 10 points
- Study Plan 0 points
In this example, you can see that tests contribute the most to your class average. Work you do off line, in the Other category, contributes a little, and Study Plan work does not contribute to your average at all.
To see your overall score, go the Results page, and click Show Overall Score. The Overall Score page appears and shows your average in each category, the weight of each category, the points you earned in each category, and your overall score.
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