I have a cross listed lecture + lab course: two separate courses with two separate final grades, in just one online classroom. I am currently converting it over from Blackboard. In its gradebook, Blackboard allows for creation of calculated final grade columns. So, I created a column that contains all the lecture assignment grades with their respective weighting, and a different column contains all the lab ones. How do I do this in Canvas?
Thanks!
Melissa
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Robbie
The answer that was given didn’t really help me. It is too complicated to go through all the various assignments and adjust the points so that the weighting comes out correct in each subtotal grade (each assignment group). I just had to create a whole separate Canvas classroom for the sole purpose of housing the grades of the lab section of the class. It is not an ideal solution.
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I have an issue much like this and have not found a solution.
Hi melissa. There may be other ways to accomplish what you are looking for, but I would suggest trying the following. Create two assignment groups in the Assignments tab, one for the lecture and one for the lab (How do I add an assignment group in a course? ) Drag all of your lecture assignments into the lecture assignment group and all of the lab assignments into the lab assignment group. In the gradebook, Canvas will still calculate a "final" grade from both of these assignment groups together, but will also give a separate subtotal grade for each. You can weigh the lab and lecture groups as you desire to create the one final grade as well (How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?). What I don't believe you can do now is weigh items in an item group differently, however if your assignments have point values you can give different point values to assignments within each group to accomplish something similar.
Hope this helps!