How your results are calculated

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.

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.