[ARCHIVED] Excused assignments question

rlennartz
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I want to have students participate in ten of the 15 discussions.  I was considering using the "Excused" feature and so each student is allowed five "Excuses."  But, if students participate in more than ten discussions, I want to use the ten highest scores.  The problem is I cannot think of a good way to do this.  I cannot use the "drop" feature, because the number of discussions that will be dropped will vary from student to student.  There is no "keep the highest" scores function.

Actually, I know that I could use the drop feature if I dropped the lowest five discussion grades and put "0's" for missed discussions (instead of "Excused").  The problem with that is I like to let the students see their grades in Canvas throughout the semester, and with this approach any 0's are not dropped until week 6 and then all but one grade is dropped.

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