You can create “Extra Credit” activities
in 1st Class GradeBook by creating an activity with the “Raw Total
Points” set to 0. This will give extra
credit points within the ‘activity type’ you have chosen.
Note that
the percent and the letter grade columns in the mark screen will appear
blank. The concept of percentages and
letter grades does not apply to extra credit.
Example
If you
wanted to give 5 extra credit points to a student’s “Homework” category, you
can simply create an activity with an “Activity Type” of “Homework” and “Raw
Total Points” set to 0. If you enter 5
points for a student, they will now have 5 extra points added to their existing
‘homework’ grade.
Note that
if “Homework” was worth 10% of the student’s over-all grade then the 5 extra
points would be worth 0.5 points to the student’s final average. (5 points X 10% =0.5 points) If you would like these extra credit points
to be applied to the final average, you will have to do a little math. In this case, if you wanted to give the
student 2 extra marks in their final average; you would give them 20 extra
credit points. (20 points X 10% = 2
points)
Previous
versions of 1st Class GradeBook required that you put extra credit
activities into a pre-existing activity type (category). If you put extra credit activities in their
own Activity Type (category), the extra credit points were ignored because the
activity type (category) had a total possible points of zero which caused the
program to skip the activity type altogether.
The new release of 7.0y (or higher) allows you to make an activity type
designated as “Extra Credit”. Any
points added to activities in this activity type category will be added
directly to the final average.
To test to
see if you have this feature, go to the “Class” screen and click on the “Activity
Type Weighting” column. A button with a
down arrow on it should appear to the right.
Click on it and a drop down list should appear. It will have entries such as “Don’t AVG”,
and “Use Points”. If you have this new
feature, you will also see an entry called “Xtra Credit”. If you have this feature and are still
experiencing this problem, it is because you probably designated the “Activity
Type Weighing” as something other than “Xtra Credit”.
If you do not have this feature, you
will need to upgrade (upgrades are free for a year from the date of
purchase). To use this feature, simply
create an Activity Type (category with the “Activity Type Weighting” set to
“Xtra Credit”). Now add one or more
activities in the ‘Activity’ screen with the “Raw Total Points” set to “Extra
Credit”. Now when you add any points to
a given student in this extra credit activity, the points will be added onto
the student’s final average.
4. Deleting an Activity
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