FoxTALE Managing the Gradebook: Categories

How to Create Categories that are Weighted by Percentage to Produce the Course Total

• On the course Home page click on the Actions menu and select Gradebook setup
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Add category
• In the Category name setting, type the name of the category into which you will place a group of assignments
• Save changes
• Select assignments and click on the Move selected items to dropdown menu to select the category into which the assignments should be placed
• Click on the course level Edit and select Edit settings
• In the Aggregation setting select Weighted mean of grades
• Save changes
• Return to the category and, in the Weights column, type the percentage that this category contributes to the Course Total
• Save changes
• Confirm that the sum of all percentage totals in the Weights column equals 100 percent