You may want to drop the lowest grade for students to increase their overall final grade for the course.
To drop the lowest grade
- On your course homepage, navigate to Grades.
- Click the Actions drop-down menu beside a student's name and click Bulk edit exemptions.
Figure: The Bulk edit exemptions option in the Actions drop-down menu in the Grades tool.
- On the Edit Grade Exemptions page, for the column that says Exempt, click the checkbox for the graded assessment whose grade you want to drop.
Note: You can exempt or drop more than one grade item.
Figure: The Edit Grade Exemptions page showing the Exempt column.
- Click Save and Close.
In the grade item's column for that student, the assessment is noted as Exempt and the grade for the assessment is dropped.
Figure: The Grades tool showing the Exempt status for a grade item.