Dropping the Lowest or Highest Grade within a Weighted Gradebook Dropping the Lowest or Highest Grade within a Weighted Gradebook
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Dropping the Lowest or Highest Grade within a Weighted Gradebook

You may find it necessary to drop grade items from a category in your grade book. There are two options when dropping grade items from a category: Assign a number of the highest scoring items to drop per user. Or, assign a number of lowest scoring items to drop per user (recommended). 

WAIT UNTIL THE END OF TERM TO SET DROPPING: If you set up your gradebook categories to drop grade items before there are any grades entered, the first grades you enter in the category will drop automatically, leaving your gradebook unbalanced. This will continue until you have entered all of your grades; only then will the grade items in each category drop.

There are two conditions that must be met before you can drop a lowest Grade Item:     

1. The grade item must be in a category

2. The weights of all grade items with the category must be distributed across all items. 

 

Step-by-Step: 

  1. Click on Grades on the Navbar
  2. Click on the drop-down arrow expand carrot.pngnext to the category name
  3. Click on Edit Grade Item
  4. Under Distribution, enter either number of non-bonus items to drop for highest or lowest grades

    • Dropping the Highest non-bonus items options is used to drop users' highest grades in the category from their final grade

    • Dropping the Lowest non-bonus items options is used to drop users' lowest grades in the category from their final grade

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    • Click on Save and Close
Questions? Contact the MyCourses Support Team by email at  MyCourses4Faculty@spcollege.edu 
or by phone at 727-341-3500 (Hours: Mon.- Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST).

For after hours or weekend assistance, contact the SPC Helpdesk at 727-791-2795 or onlinehelp@spcollege.edu 

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