Overview
Each activity in an EdgeEX course has a grade weight category set in the course options. A student's course grade is a weighted average based on to the values set in Grade Weights section of the course options page. Educators can change the grade weights for activities and assessments from the defaults by updating the Grade Weights course option. The values must total 100.
If a grade weight category exists in the course but there are no scores in that category yet, the grade weight category, available points are distributed proportionately across the categories that do have scores. For example, consider a scenario with grade weights as follows:
- Quizzes = 50
- Tests = 30
- Exams = 20
If there are no Exam scores, the course grade weight will be computed with Quizzes weighted at 62.5% and Tests weighted at 37.5%.
Note
A category labeled Additional will be available at a later date.
EdgeEX vs. Heritage Imagine Edgenuity grade categories
EdgeEX courses feature additional grading categories compared to Heritage Imagine Edgenuity courses. This allows for more granular control of how various activity types are weighted.
For example, EdgeEX courses provide a separate grade weight category for Practice Assessments, which are the Practice Test and Practice Exam activities that precede the actual Test and Exam.
These activities are called Test Review and Exam Review in the heritage Imagine Edgenuity courses, and they are not counted toward students' course grades. In EdgeEX, they are counted but weighted as 0% by default, allowing schools to weight them toward the course grades if they choose. If you wish to count the practice assessments toward students' course grades, increase the grade weight and modify other weights as needed to keep the total at 100%.
How the weight of EdgeEX Practice Assessments impacts the progress report
On the progress report, to accommodate presenting both heritage Imagine Edgenuity and EdgeEX enrollments in a single report, these additional categories are included in the existing categories of the report as follows:
| EdgeEX activity type | Displays on the report in this category |
|---|---|
| Quiz | Quiz |
| Test | Test |
| Exam | Exam |
|
Project |
| Essay final draft | Essay |
|
Assignment
Caution Because EdgeEX Practice Assessments are reported on the progress report in the Assignments category and they are scored but not weighted, if a student has only taken Practice Assessment assignments, the Score section of the progress report may display as 0%. The student has not earned a zero as a score in the category. Rather, as shown in the example below, a 0% placeholder score is shown. |
The result is that, for example, if Assignments are weighted at 10% and Short Writing activities are weighted at 5%, the Assignments weight on the Progress report displays as 15%. However, student course grades are computed using the weights selected on the EdgeEX Course Options page.
Customizing grade weights
For procedures to customize the options of a course, refer to Updating course options.