Summary
Both items and categories can have weight in the overall grade calculation. This allows instructors to weight high stakes assessments while also weighting categories.
Instructors may unlink items from categories to assign weight at the item level. Unlinked items appear ahead of the related category. An instructor may specify the weight and lock it to prevent further changes to the weight. Locking is helpful because the weights auto-adjust to ensure that the weighted calculation sums to 100%.
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Click "Announcements" in the top navigation.
Click the (+) sign in the top right-hand corner.
Enter in a Title and a Description.
(Optional) Select "Send an email copy to recipients" if you want the announcement to also go to your students' RIC email address.
(Optional) Turn on "Schedule announcement" if you want to make the announcement available to your students at a specific day and time.
Click "Save".
If you scheduled to release the announcement at a specific date and time to you students, then you will see the following:
If you did not schedule a time for the announcement to be available, then you will need to click "Post Now" when you want to make the announcement available to your students.
Edit an Existing Announcement
Click the three dots to the right of the announcement and select "Edit".
