Set Credit Type

Activities can be practice or graded. If the activity is graded, you can set a credit / no credit threshold that gives students full credit if they meet the threshold and zero credit if they do not.

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You can change the credit type of one activity, or multiple activities at once.

Updated look: To see the behavior of each settings group, click Course Settings › Activity Settings Templates.

Original look: To see the behavior of each settings group, click user icon › Course Settings › Activity Settings Templates.

You can create new settings templates, or edit existing templates as needed.

To see the behavior of each settings group, click user icon your name › Course Settings › Activity Settings Templates.

You can create new settings templates, or edit existing templates as needed.

Practice activities do not count toward student grades and do not sync to your LMS.

Credit/no credit activities grant either full credit or no credit based on students' meeting a threshold score for the activity. For example, if you set the credit threshold to 60%, students who score at least 60% on the activity receive 100% in the gradebook, and all students who score under 60% receive 0%.

If a credit / no credit activity also has a late penalty, the late penalty is deducted from the full credit score.

Set credit type for one activity

  1. If needed, click Learning Path to open the learning path.

  2. Next to an activity, click Activity context menu › Manage activity settings.

    This is sometimes labeled Manage activity title and settings.

  3. Click Settings.

  4. Set the Activity Settings Template to a template with the credit type you want.

  5. Click Save All.

Set credit type for multiple activities

  1. If needed, click Learning Path to open the learning path.

  2. Select activities on the learning path.

  3. Updated look: Click Apply Settings Template.

    Depending on your screen size, this might be under Menu.

    Original look: Click Edit Activities › Apply settings template.

  4. Click an option in the Activity Settings Template dropdown list with the scoring settings you want to apply.

  5. Click Save.

Set multiple activities to practice or graded

Short Description: Quickly convert one or more activities to practice or graded from the learning path.

  1. If needed, click Learning Path to open the learning path.

  2. Select activities on the learning path.

  3. Updated look: Click Edit Practice vs. Graded.

    Depending on your screen size, this might be under Menu.

    Original look: Click Edit Activities › Edit practice vs. graded.

  4. Select Convert to practice or Convert to Counts Toward Grade.

  5. Click Save.