I have a question about how to use the "Weight in category" setting when creating assignments. I first thought that this was a setting to weight individual assignments WITHIN a category. For example, if I set two assignments to be worth 50 points each, but I set the "weight in category" to be 50 for one and 100 for another, the one set to 100 would have double the weight as the other within the category. So to ensure that all assignments within a category are weighted evenly, I thought you could set the "weight in category" to 100 for all assignments.
However, recently someone told me that if you set the "weight in category" to 100 for all assignments, the points you assign each activity don't matter because all assignments will count evenly against each other. For example, if I created two activities - one worth 50 points and the other worth 100 points - if I set the "weight in category" for both activities to be 100, that they would be both be weighted the same and the difference in point values becomes moot.
Can someone please clarify how to use "Weight in category"? Our teachers want to be able to determine the weight of assignments within a category based on the points they assign.
Thank you!
Let's say you have two weighted categories and each have a weight of 100. Then let's assume that one of those categories have 2 activities worth 100 and the other has 1 activity worth 100.
With only having two categories and both having the same weight, each of the categories (1, 2) are worth 50% of the course's total grade.
Since the first category has 2 activities (3, 4) and each of them have the same weight, then they are both half of the category's weight. In this case, this is 25% of the whole course's total score.
Since the second category has only 1 activity (5), this one activity is worth the whole category weight. In this case, this is 50% of the whole course's total score.
The Buzz UI displays how much of the whole course does the category or individual activity accounts for.
Attached are two technical documents that may add additional information to this:
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Hello Stacey!