thank you [Music] from the assignments page assignments is kind of like the second part of the grade book so if you remember cassette tapes at all there is a side a and then there was a side B I know I’m really dating myself um but this would be the side B to the grade book so what you have in assignments is that you’re able to create your assignment groups and these assignment groups show up in your grade book and it is also the way for you to um create weighted assignments so with weighted assignments if the way to the way that I recommend setting up your assignment groups is based on your syllabus so if you have weighted assignments in your syllabus or you want to say that an essay or a final project is worth 30 of the grade I would set up your assignment groups based on that so I have assignments I have essays I have a project I have quizzes and I have participation so these are my assignment groups based on some random syllabus that I haven’t created ever um but if you take a look at your syllabus and you have your grade system set up in a particular way duplicate that recreate that here in your assignment groups you do not need to have assignments visible to students I think I talked about that in um part one of this webinar but um you don’t need this to be visible to students because this is kind of like part of your grade book so you have your assignment groups and you can add weights to your assignments so in the top right hand corner to the right of the ad assignment button you can add weights with the vertical icon but before that because I’m jumping ahead you can add a group so if you’re going to add a group you have the add group button to the left of the add assignment button and what you get is you can add the assignment group and I am going to add um midterm as my group save name so now I have midterm as my group your mid your assignment groups can have only one assignment in it if that’s what you need so you can you can have only one assignment there it’s perfectly fine because of the weighted system you do not need to have multiple things under a group in order for it to be valid um you can have only one thing so in participation I can add an assignment for participation under midterm I can add a quiz for the midterm um for my project if there’s a final project there I can add the final project assignment to the to this group it only needs one okay and then what we’re going to do is we’re going to go up here to the the vertical dot icon and we’re going to add weights so we have um edit assignment dates and right underneath that we have assignment groups weight we’re going to click on that and we’re going to add our groups I’m going to zoom out a little bit so we can see so you’re going to check the box that says wait final grade based on assignment groups and then you see all of the assignment groups that we have created and we’re going to add um we’re going to add groups so for assignments let’s say we’re only at 10 for the assignments for the essays let’s say that’s about 15 percent for the midterm I don’t know the midterm is 20. um let’s make quizzes worth 20 I don’t know I have no idea um and all of those add up to 100 you cannot go over and you cannot have a group with oh with that doesn’t have a weight assigned to it so every group that you create in here needs to have if you’re going to do weighted grades then each assignment group needs to have a weight to it um you can’t do a zero percent grade it causes glitches um it’s not fun it’s not fun for anybody
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