Instructors may choose to create Extra Credit items in their Lyceum Gradebook. Extra Credit items can only be added to categories using the Simple Weighted Mean aggregation; the default in Lyceum is ...

There is a longstanding debate about whether traditional grading—letter grades based on a student’s content knowledge, classroom behavior, and extra credit—appropriately measures student success.

Years ago, if colleagues asked if I offered extra credit, my responses were some version of “Absolutely not, never, and anyway it’s fake; it’s like grading on a curve; this is college, not high school ...