Introduction
You're packing for an upcoming trip, so you pull out your luggage: your big suitcase, a smaller carry-on, and your backpack. Your clothes, toiletries, and personal items make up 100% of your gear, but will be distributed across a suitcase that can hold 60% of your things, a carry-on that can hold 30% of your things, and your backpack that can hold the remaining 10%.
You make similar choices when you weight your course grades. Let's pretend this is our course grading system:
- 60%: Quizzes
- 30%: Assignments
- 10%: Participation
Since all your quizzes and assignments are virtual, you need to "tell" AsULearn to pull out some digital luggage so you can pack your grades for the semester-long trip you're about to take. Categories are to grades what luggage is to your things.
In this course grading system, we'll use Weighted Mean of Grades to calculate a course total (see Gradebook: Weighted Mean of Grades (Percentages) for more information).