Weighted Grades

[WilliamKucera]

In Chemistry, I currently calculate a weighted lecture average AND a weighted lab average in Blackboard.  After completing Canvas training (which we switch to this fall), I notice that only ONE weighted average is permitted in Canvas. I've also searched online for an option to calculate separate weighted averages - any thoughts?  I haven't discovered a means to complete this task in Canvas.  As an alternative, I can record the individual lab report/quiz grades in Canvas and then load them into Excel to calculate a weighted average for Lab.

[kmeeusen · Accepted solution]

Hi @WilliamKucera 

I am not sure where you learned that only one weighted average is permitted in Canvas, but any and all assignment groups can be weighted, so you could create an assignment group for labs and weight it, you could create an assignment group for assignments, one weighted group for quizzes, etc. within one course. The following guides will help.

• How do I add an assignment group to a course?

• How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?

If this is not the answer you are looking for, please provide further details so that we can better help you.

Kelley

[James]

@WilliamKucera 

You can weight assignment groups, so lectures can be (for example) worth 10% of the grade and labs can be worth 20% of the grade.

Weighting within each assignment group is controlled by the number of points each assignment is worth. There is no ability to have three exams, each worth 100 points, and then say exam 1 is worth 10%, exam 2 is worth 15%, and exam 3 is worth 20%. To accomplish that weighting, you could make exam 1 be worth 100 points, exam 2 be worth 150 points, and exam 3 be worth 200 points (or 10, 15, and 20; or 1, 1.5, and 2 -- anything as long as the ratios between them were 10:15:20).