Weighting a category

You can, and probably should, assign a weight to a grade category. By default, a weight of 100 maximum grade is applied to every category. This means that each category contributes equally to the course total. In the following screenshot, you can see that the Collaborative and Individual categories are assigned a weight of 100. The Analysis category has a weight of 200 as the maximum grade:

The weight for the category is set by selecting Edit settings for that category. On the Edit settings page, you can enter the total number of points possible for the category.

No matter what numbers you enter for category totals, you ...

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