How are unweighted Assignment Groups weighted?

[DGEmily]

When you have multiple assignment groups that are unweighted ("Weight final grade based on assignment groups" is toggled off), how does that functionally work with the total grade? I'm guessing it's one of two options:

1. The assignment groups are just there for people's organizational benefit, and they might as well be one big 100% assignment group. The total remains the same even if you move some assignments from one group to another.

2. The assignment groups are all equally weighted and add up to 100% (ex: If you have four groups, each are weighted as 25%. If you add a fifth group, they all automatically become 20%). In this case, it would matter if one group had 100 assignments and the other had 3; Those three grades would be much more impactful.

My guess is it's the first one, but I want to be sure and I'm having a doozy of a time finding that info spelled out. I'm in tech support and I want to understand this to better support my teachers. 

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @DGEmily,

Without the "Weight final grade based on assignment groups" option toggled off, the assignment groups are purely for organization purposes (so your option #1).  The total columns (for each group and the whole course itself) are purely a calculation of points earned divided by points possible.

-Chris

[DGEmily]

Hi Chris, thank you for clarifying that! I appreciate it. - Emily

[Ron_Bowman]

@DGEmily -

Here is the instructor guide page 

I thought there was a page explaining weighted versus points based gradebooks, but I cannot find it right now - which therefore means it is not as obvious as it should be.  Especially because you seemed to imply that you looked for that information already

Ron