View your overall score

The score table gives you a precise report of how you are doing in the course. For each type of assignment, the table shows the information that counts toward your overall score:

• Your Average Scores - Shows your average in each category.
• Category Weight - Shows the weight, in points, your instructor has assigned to each category.
• Points Earned - Shows the number of points you have earned in each category. If you have a 75% average in a category that contributes 50 points to your overall score, you have earned 37.5 of those points.
• Time Spent - Shows the time you spent working on assignments in that category.

Below the table you see a summary of the information on this page:

• Overall score - Shows your overall score and explains how it is calculated, based on the total points you earned out of a total possible points from all Gradebook categories.
• Total time spent - Shows the total amount of time you spent doing work online that counts toward your overall score.

If you are in a math course, you also see a bar chart that gives you a visual report of how you are doing in the course and how much work you have completed so far. The chart shows a bar for each Gradebook category that counts toward your average. So, if your instructor counts only homework, tests, and Other work toward your grade, the chart will show only three bars.

The bars show the following information for each category:

• How much the category counts - The height of a bar shows how much the Gradebook category contributes toward your overall score. If one bar is twice as high as another, then it counts twice as much.
• How much work you have completed - The amount of the bar that is filled in shows how much work in that category you have completed. If you completed 12 of 16 homework assignments, then the homework bar will be three-fourths filled.
• Your average - The fill color shows your average for that category:

  Above 85%   70% - 85%   Below 70%

  Position your mouse pointer over a bar to display your exact average in that category. The average is shown above the bar.