The Home Calendar shows all events from all of the sites in which you are enrolled. In addition, you may also create individual, private calendar entries that are only visible to you from your Home area.

The Recent Announcements area in Home displays announcements from all of the sites in which you are enrolled. You may use the drop-down menu to view All items, Public items only, or items By Group. (You must be a member of a group in order to see group announcements.)

In this scenario, you are setting up a simple gradebook without any categories or weighting. It provides a straightforward calculation of total points earned in the course. With this type of gradebook setup, you cannot use the Group by Category option to organize the visual layout of your gradebook items. You also cannot drop scores automatically.

In this scenario we will pretend that you have homework, projects, a midterm, and a final to grade. You would like the weighting to be as follows:

• 3 Homework assignments - 24% of the total grade
• 2 Projects - 26%
• 1 Midterm - 20%
• 1 Final - 30%

The percentages of all the weighting must add up to 100% .

It is easiest to set up your gradebook first, and then create or add items to the gradebook. But don’t worry, if you have already set up your gradebook items (homework assignments, projects,etc), you can come back and do this setup later and then assign the gradebook items to the appropriate categories. It is also easy to add categories and even change the weighting of grades at any time.