Working with an Extra Credit Assignment Group that is Weighted

* If your extra credit assignment group is not weighted, you can simply add extra credit assignments with 0 possible points. Refer to Extra Credit - Simple.

The items in the extra credit assignment group are set with 0 possible points. You may give any amount of points/percentage/grade you see appropriate, and it will be added as extra credit. For example, a student did a perfect job for an extra credit activity, then you may gave 100 points. That activity has the base point of 0, so anything over 0 will be calculated as extra. Students who don't do the activity, they will get 0 out of 0 which won't affect their overall grade.

One except in this assignment group is the Null Assignment. It has a possible point of 0.0001 (or any minuscule value), and it should remain published. There is nothing for you and the students need to do with it (you may want to explain the purpose on the assignment page). It allows the the Extra Credit assignment group to be included in the final grade calculation.

The image below shows an extra credit assignment group with 5% of the final grade.

Here is a reference on how to give extra credit (Links to an external site.) at Instructure.

Extra Credit Assignment Group