Adjusting assignment groups weight for Sem 2

Hello, we are new to Canvas this school year and have encountered a roadblock. I’m curious whether any other K–12 schools here are experiencing the same issue or have found a solution. We have several high school teachers who use total points with weight and adjust their weights midyear. Our courses are set up as a single record - we do not create new course shells for Semester 2. Ideally, we would like teachers to be able to adjust weights, but we are now learning that doing so affects Semester 1 totals. Does anyone know how to address this, or perhaps have a creative workaround?

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LyndseyMartin

Hi @joannaszymanski

Correct me if I'm understanding this wrong-

Hypothetically- as a teacher, I have 3 grade categories:

Quiz- 20%
Classwork- 70%
Test- 10%

In 2nd semester, I want to change this to make quizzes worth 30% and classwork down to 60%.

If I'm on the right track with this, what I would suggest is creating 6 grade categories, Quiz S1 and Quiz S2, Classwork S1 and 2, Test S1 and 2. And make each one worth half of that percentage, since they are half of the year of grades.

For Quiz S1, the weight is 10% (half of before)
Classwork S1 35%
Test S1 5%
For Quiz S2, since I want it to be 30%, I would make that 15%
Classwork S2 30% (60% of the semester)
Test S2 5%

I hope this helps!

jeremyfw

Thinking outside the box! Love it…

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