Weighting Final Grade

Weighting grades in Canvas is done from the Assignment page using Assignment Groups. Create Assignment groups to categorize your graded activities. You can also drop low/high scores for an Assignment group.

Canvas organizes all graded student work into Assignment Groups.  Your course may already have some default groups like Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes; and you can create new groups to fit your grading style and requirements.  Assignment Groups can then be weighted with a percentage to calculate the final grade. 

Weighting is done in the Assignments page rather than in the Gradebook.

• Create an Assignment Group
• Assign Weights to Assignment Groups
• Dropping Grades

Create an Assignment Group

1. Select Assignments from the Course Navigation Menu:
   
    
2. Click the +Group button:
   
    
3. Enter a Group Name (i.e. Homework, Presentations, Project, etc.).  Note: if you haven't enabled weighting yet, the % of total grade field will not be editable.  Create all your required groups and the next section will guide how to enable weighting.
4. Click Save.

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Assign Weights to Assignment Groups

1. Select Assignments from the Course Navigation Menu:
   
    
2. Click the three dots in the top-right corner of the page:
   
    
3. Click Assignment Groups Weights:
   
    
4. Check the Weight final grade based on assignment groups box.
   
    
5. Enter your weights and click Save.
6. Your weights will show on the Assignments page to the right of the Assignment Group name.
   

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Dropping Grades

You can drop a specified number of lowest or highest scores from an Assignment group.  Note: when dropping grades, a student must have at least one more submission than the number of grades being dropped.  For example, if you are dropping the 1 lowest grade in a group, a student must have at least two graded submissions in that group before the grade will be dropped.

1. Select Assignments from the Course Navigation Menu:
   
    
2. Click the three dots next to the right of the Assignment Group name and choose Edit:
   
    
3. Enter the number of scores to ignore in the Lowest/Highest Scores fields.  You can also designate Assignments that should never be dropped:
   
    
4. Click Save.

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