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eSchoolPlus Extra Credit

Extra credit is selected when an assessment is created.

Indicates if the assessment is only used to allow students to earn extra credit. Three options are available:

Add to Total Points. The extra points will be added to the numerator before averaging. Thus if a student had 180 points out of 200 possible points, plus 5 extra credit points, the average would be 185/200 or a 92.5 percent.

Add to Average. The extra points will be added after the average is calculated. Thus if a student had 180 points out of 200 possible points, plus 5 extra credit points, the average without the extra credit would be 180/200 or 90 percent. With the 5 extra credit points, the average would be 95 percent.

Not Extra Credit. The regular calculations apply.

Extra Credit Notes:

You cannot define a category to store only extra credit assessments if you use category weights to calculate averages. You must have at least one regular assessment included in a category that includes extra credit assessments.

If an assignment allows a student to earn extra credit in addition to the possible score, select Not Extra Credit. For example, if a 10 point quiz has a 2 point extra credit question, then the assessment is not an extra credit assessment. When you enter student scores, you can enter more points than the possible points for the assessment to indicate that extra credit points were earned.

Extra credit scores are only counted if not blank.

The possible points are not included in the denominator before averaging for a category or a mark.

Extra credit is never dropped as part of a Drop lowest score.