Assignment Type Fields
To
ensure that each student's academic progress is accurately recorded, it is
essential to create distinct assignment types for the course and determine
their weight on the total grade.
Assignments
may often include a variety of forms, such as the following.
- Students are expected to complete 10
assignments for a combined 50% of the course grade;
- Students are expected to take a midterm
assessment that accounts for 20% of the course grade.
- Completing a final exam that will count
for 30% of their overall grade
A
new course is equipped with four different types of assignments by default:
- Homework
- Lab
- Midterm Exam
- Final Exam
Assignments
can be tailored according to specific needs, modified or removed as necessary, and new assignment types created.
Note: In a MOOC, it is expected that students may be confronted with personal
predicaments or technical complications such as power failures and lack of
internet connection. As an instructor, you won't have the capacity to grant
extra time on an individual basis; however, flexibility can be provided by
formulating longer deadlines and permitting droppable tasks.
You can
arrange the fields that follow for each type of assignment.
- Assignment Type Name
The
general assignment category. The learners will be able to view this name.
The weight of each type of assignment within a course is fixed, regardless of
the number or complexity. Therefore, whether there are 10 questions on a
homework sheet or 20 does not affect its numerical worth in terms of that
student's grade.
- Abbreviation
On
the Progress tab of a learner's account, this is the short name of an
assignment.
- Weight of Total Grade
This type
of assignments together will comprise the percent value which is set in Weight
of Total Grade.
The
aggregate/total weight of assignments of all types must equal 100.
Please do not put the percent sign (%) in this field.
- Total Number
The
aggregate of subsections in your course which include problems of the same type
as this assignment.
- Number of Droppable
The set of
this type of assignment which the grader will drop. The grader
will have the choice to drop the lowest-scored assignments before other
assignments.
To
produce a different kind of assignment, check the base part of the Grading
page for the New Assignment Type.
Afterward, customize it as per the instructions presented below.
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