Calculating the course grade

All graded activities that are added to the online course will automatically be added to the gradebook. The students can have a range of assessments for which they will be given a range of scores. Apart from storing these grades, the gradebook can also calculate a final grade based on a range of preset aggregation settings available within the course. Aggregation is bringing together all the scores and then doing a calculation to present a final score.

Before this aggregation takes place, a normalization process occurs. Normalization is when the grade given to an individual assessment is converted into a percentage and then used as a decimal for the calculations.

Why use normalization?

Normalization is necessary to ensure that all the grades have the same base value so that they can be calculated fairly in relation to the maximum grade. For example, a grade of 20 out of 100 is a lower percentage score than 20 out of 20. So, using both scores as 20 would not represent...