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05-03-2016
12:45 PM
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No he is not saying that as he is not talking about category weighting but individual assignment weighting. He is for instance talking about a case where your Papers category would have 2 papers but with difference impact levels at 60% and 40% but assigned 150 points each. In this case a score of 90 from the first and 60 from the second would register a 50% on Canvas. But the correct score with the impact you would like to have should be (90/150)*(60%)+(60/150)*(40%) = 36% + 16% = 52%. In other words instead of earning 156 points out of 300 points, Canvas is giving this student 150 points, and of course that impact the total percentage of the student.
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05-03-2016
12:35 PM
That is definitely not the way how weighted average works mathematically, unless HW1 is exactly and precisely one fourth of the weight of HW2, which is nowhere assumed or stated (and almost never the case in real life teaching). I am very surprised how Canvas would not have an option for giving weights to individual assignments, or at least have the option to weigh them equally.
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