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<h1>Managing Multiple Activities, Categories, Worksheets<a class="headerlink" href="#managing-multiple-activities-categories-worksheets" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Multiple Activities<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-activities" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>Now, we will make a second activity and score it:</p>
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<p>As you can see, after you <strong>Update</strong> the changes, the <strong>Total</strong> and <strong>Average</strong> columns are also updated.</p>
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<p>If you want to change the order of the columns, you can select <strong>Move Left</strong> or <strong>Move Right</strong> from each activity’s contextual menu.</p>
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<h2>Weighting Categories<a class="headerlink" href="#weighting-categories" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>The most straightforward way of maintaining a point-based gradebook, like SchoolTool’s, is to assign the number of points according to the importance of the assignment. For example, a weekly quiz might be worth 10 points and a major exam worth 100. If you do it this way, you don’t have to weight categories.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, if you want to score all types of assignments the same – say you want to assign percentage scores to both weekly quizzes and major exams – then you may need to weight by category. For example, quizzes are worth 25% of the grade and exams worth 75%. If weighting categories doesn’t make sense to you, you probably don’t need to weight categories.</p>
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<p>If you don’t need or want to weight categories, you can skip the rest of this section.</p>
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<p>Categories are weighted <em>by worksheet</em>. So this must be defined on each worksheet.</p>
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<p>While viewing the relevant worksheet, click <strong>Settings: Category Weights</strong> in the sidebar. Enter the weight of each category by typing numbers in the available fields. The sum of the weights must total 100.</p>
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<p>In the above case, exams are 75% of the calculated average, quizzes are 25%.</p>
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<p>Click on <strong>Submit</strong> and the scores will reflect the new weights:</p>
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<h2>Multiple Worksheets<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-worksheets" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>You can create multiple worksheets to organize your work in various ways. One straightforward use is if the section is defined by a semester which is divided into two grading quarters, each quarter might be assigned its own worksheet.</p>
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<p>First we’ll change the name of the default “Sheet1.” Click on the <strong>Settings: Worksheets</strong> link:</p>
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<p>Then, click on the yellow pencil icon next to to “Sheet1” and switch the name to something more descriptive:</p>
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<p>Click on <strong>Submit</strong> to finalize your edit:</p>
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<p>Now we’ll add a second worksheet. Click on <strong>Done</strong>, and from the main gradebook view click <strong>Add: Worksheet</strong>:</p>
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<p>Click on <strong>Submit</strong>. Now you’ve got two tabs, with the new (empty) worksheet active:</p>
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<p>Add a new activity as we did above and score it:</p>
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<p>You can add a summary worksheet to each of your Gradebooks that automatically includes a column for the average of all existing worksheets. From the main Gradebook page, go back to <strong>Settings: Worksheets</strong> and click on <strong>Create summary worksheet</strong>:</p>
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<p>The summary sheet should look like this:</p>
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<h3><a href="index.html">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Managing Multiple Activities, Categories, Worksheets</a><ul>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#multiple-activities">Multiple Activities</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#weighting-categories">Weighting Categories</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#multiple-worksheets">Multiple Worksheets</a></li>
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