Tiered Grading Option in Grades?

Natalie.M.650

Hi everyone, first time using Brightspace here!

I am trying to understand how to make a kind of tiered grading option for course activity participation in the university course that I teach.

I am envisioning a kind of system in which students have options to engage with a bunch of different activities (such as Discussions, little Reflection assignments), and they get a kind of point value for each activity. Say there are 10 activity options, and they complete 6 of them, they would get a 75% in that Course Engagement category. If they complete 7 activities, they get 80%, 8 = 85%, 9 = 90%, all 10 activities = 95%, or something along those lines. Is this possible to make within the Grades section?

To reiterate it is kind of pass/fail like, in that they must complete 6 activities to pass that category, but if they do that minimum, they automatically get the 75%. Any ideas for how to do this kind of tiered system within Grades in Brightspace?

Many thanks for your time and consideration!
Take care,
Natalie

Dmitry.L.956

Hello Natalie,
D2L Brightspace allows assigning weight to grades and grade categories.
So if these selected activities should sum up to 95% of the total grade, you can create a category for those activities, and make this category equal to 95% of the total grade.
However, it looks like you would like to implement a different policy, i.e. a specific percentage for a specific number of randomly selected assignments from the category (which is not proportional to their default weight).
Unfortunately, this feature is not currently implemented in Brightspace.