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Assignment GradesA student's grade for an assignment.
Category GradesThe average of all assignments grades in a category.
Grade To DateA student's current cumulative grade. Displayed as an average or sum based on Grade Calculations.
Class Grade

The letter grade equivalent of a student's Grade To Date.

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That is to say, in the example above, even though Exams are worth 50% of a student's overall grade (Exams weight 50 out of a Category weight total of 100), a grade for Exam 1 only accounts for 1/3 of that 50 weight value. (The 1/3 figure is because Exam 1 has a weight of 10, out of an Assignment weight total of 30 among the Exam assignments). That means Exam 1 is only worth 16.7% (1/3 of 50%) of a student's cumulative grade.

Likewise, even though Homework 1 has a weight of 100, it accounts for 90.9% (100/110) of the overall Homework category value of 20. Taking the calculation one step further, Homework 1 would only account for 18.2% (90.9% of 20) of the cumulative grade in this example.

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Category grades are determined by finding the weighted grade for each assignment within the category. Then the weighted grades are 

Assignment 1 Grade

Student Grade ( g1 )Max Points ( m1 )Assignment Weight ( w1 )Weighted Grade ( x1 / w1 )
9010010990%

g1 / m1 = x1 / w1

90 / 100 = x1 / 10

x1 = 9

9 / 10 = 0.90

Assignment 2 Grade

Student Grade ( g2 )Max Points ( m2 )Assignment Weight ( w2 )Weighted Grade ( x2 / w2 )
3050201260%

g2 / m2 = x2 / w2

30 / 50 = x2 / 20

x2 = 12

Category 

12 / 20 = 0.60 

Category Grade

x1

x2

Assignment

Assignment 1

Weight Grade ( x1 )

Assignment 2

Weighted Grade ( x2 )

Assignment

Weight Totals ( w1 + w2 )

Category Weight ( W )

Category Weighted Grade ( X / W )

91230503570%

( x1 + x2 ) / ( w1 + w) = X / W

( 9 + 12 ) / ( 10 + 20 ) = X / 50

21 / 30 = X / 50

X = 35

35 / 50 = 0.70