How to Transition to a Points-Based Grade Book

1. Go to the Grade Settings tab > Grading Options

2. If you are a Course Administrator, select the instructor.

3. Uncheck the box ???Assignments and Assignment Groups are worth a certain percentage of a student???s overall grade???

4. Save Changes

Once updated, the Assignment Groups page will only display the assignment groups and number of assignments contained in each group.

Updating Reports View Settings

To ensure instructor and student reports reflect in points rather than percentages:
1.    Go to the Tools tab > Display Options

2.    SELECT Display points earned for each assignment

3.    SELECT Display points possible for each assignment

4.    (OPTIONAL) UNSELECT Display overall grade percentage

5.    (OPTIONAL) UNSELECT Display grade percentage (points earned/possible) for each assignment

6.    SELECT Points radio button under ???When editing assignment scores, enter them as:???

Points-Based Grade Book Caveats

• Students and instructors cannot see all the points possible to earn in the course until all the due dates of assignments have passed. As due dates pass or students complete assignments, the running totals of points possible and earned updates, but you won???t be able to see how many points are possible to earn until all assignments are graded.
  

• You may need to modify the point value associated with the Lessons. All lessons are worth a default of 10 points each, but if you want to change that, go to the Assignments tab > Lesson Due Dates and open one of your due date templates to update it
• You may need to modify the total points possible on any assigned WebTests if you want them worth a certain number of points. To do this, go to the Assignments tab > WebTests and open the test to update the points per step