Extra Credit

There are two ways to include extra credit in a students grade.

Option 1. Include Extra Credit in a Regular Assignment

You can give students extra credit is by keying in more points than the assignment is worth. 

For example, if the Max Score on an assignment is 20 and you want to give the student 5 additional points for extra credit, key in 25 as the student’s score. The grade book will figure out what percentage increase will apply to the student’s overall grade. 

This method only applies to assignments with raw score or percentage scores. The extra credit cannot be more than twice the high score value.

Option 2. Create an Extra Credit "Assignment

The assignment is an opportunity for the student to improve their overall grade. Extra Credit does not negatively affect their grade. 

1. If you weight your grades, you will need to select which of the weighted category that you want to include the extra credit points in...in other words, you can have an extra credit assignment in your Tests category, HW category, and so on, but you cannot create and use an extra credit assignment category (because it wouldn't be weighted in the class...if you do this, the EC will not count in the student's grade). 

2. If you use straight points and do not weight your grades, you can create an extra credit assignment type for use with extra credit "assignments." See example image below.

Note: If an extra credit assignment is part of a weighted assignment category where no ’Normal’ assignments have been scored yet, the grade book will count the extra credit assignment. It is very important when using extra credit assignments to create them only in assignment categories that have at least one other assignment entered in that assignment category.