Grade Book - Extra Credit Assignments

You can create an extra credit assignment that reflects actual points possible. 

To give extra credit create a separate extra credit assignment that has a Points Possible value of zero (0).  Students who have not done the extra credit will not be affected by this assignment. 

An assignment with zero points possible cannot be the first assignment in the Grade Book for a given task or standard.

Exempt Extra Credit Assignment

Another common way to give extra credit through a separate assignment is to create an assignment where the points possible reflects actual points possible for the extra credit and then mark all other students exempt from the assignment. This option allows you to use the Use Scores' % Value; however, this style will have a lower impact on the extra credit student's grade since that student's points possible will be higher than the rest of the class.

The following image shows three students, Andrew, who earned no extra credit, Bree, who received 5 points on an extra credit assignment with 0 possible points and Brooke, who received 5 points on an extra credit assignment with 5 points possible from which all other students are exempt. Note that the In Progress Percent is higher for Bree than for Brooke.

Methods to Avoid

Teachers should not create a separate category for Extra Credit assignments. Additionally, creating a category that currently has only Extra Credit assignments, even if you intend on adding regular assignments later, may cause errors in the grade calculation.