The gradebook can be difficult to use due to the amount of information shown within the table, especially in a course that uses a lot of graded activities. Often, the main course screen is arranged by topics to organize the content. We can apply a similar process to the gradebook through the use of categories to group grades by topic, assessment type, or other preferred arrangement.
We have seen how we can carry out course calculations based on how we want all the work added together. But what if you want unit one assignments to be calculated as a mean of grades and unit two to be the highest grade? What if you don’t want some of the grades used in the calculations? These are other uses of categories. In this chapter, we will:
Create categories and learn how to add graded activities into them
See how categories can provide a range of aggregation types within one course
See ways in which we can exclude grades from the final course total