Assigning Extra Credit

When to Use?

Faculty can add extra credit to their course, either by adding an extra column in the gradebook or creating an extra credit assignment.

Procedure

Create an Extra Credit Column 

  1. Navigate to the Gradebook.
  2. Hover in between 2 sections of your Gradebook and select the “+” sign that appears.

Purple plus sign for adding an item to the course.

 

  1. Select Add Item.

Settings layer for adding a column to the gradebook. Give it a name, make it visible to students, set a due date, points, and assign it to a category.

The name of the column is up to the instructor.

  1. You do not need a due date.
  2. Choose Grade using Points and set max points to Zero.
  3. Choose a category you would like the column to fall under. If you want to add this one column to the Assignment score, choose Assignment, etc.

Since the column has a max score of 0, you can manually override with the desired amount of points, which then will be considered extra credit.

Listed students in a gradebook showing the grading pill for the extra credit. Zero points is shown as the points possible with the added points from the instructor.

Using the Default Overall Grade Column with Extra Credit 

If you are utilizing the default overall grade column, the points will be added automatically via the category it is in. Since this extra credit column is inside another category, the weight of the category will not change, only the numerical value should change.

Using an Extra Credit Category 

This section is helpful if you wish to have multiple extra credit columns. For example, if you have multiple extra credit columns for miscellaneous items in you Gradebook

  1. Navigate to the Gradebook.
  2. Find the Settings icon in the top right part of the Gradebook.

The gear icon to reach the settings.

  1. A side panel will open and the Categories that are exist will be listed as you scroll down.
  2. Once you find the Category section in the settings, select Add New Category.

Add New Category option in the gradebook settings. Click the button to add a new category.

  1. Create an Extra Credit category.

Adding Extra Credit to a Total Column 

  1. Create an Extra Credit Category (above)
  2. Create an a Extra Credit Column (above), but for the category option, choose the extra credit category you just made. Keep all other settings the same.
  3. Create a Calculated Column by hovering in between 2 sections of your Gradebook and selectinng the “+” sign that appears.

Purple plus sign to add an item to the course.

  1. Select Add Calculation
  2. You can name your column anything you like. For this purpose, we will name it “Final Grade”.
  3. Set the grade schema to points.
  4. Add a Total function and select everything you would like to include in the total grade.

Total function in the Overall Grade column. Select all items that should be added to the total points calculation.

  1. Press Save.

 

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