Sometimes the easiest things are the most difficult. An instructor wanted to add extra credit for the completion of a course evaluation in her course. But wouldn't it be great if it was not necessary to manually search the submissions and award points for each and every course? What do we want?! Automaticity! When do we want it?! Now!
First we changed the anonymous survey to a quiz since surveys cannot have point values in WebCT 4.1. Then the quiz column total points -- which always works out to 4 points as long as every question is answered -- is added to the total. Well, WebCT, being the smarty that it is, naturally includes the 4 points as part of the new total. It's no longer extra points it's just become part of the possible points.
Turns out the instructor had another assignment that is a manually graded numeric column, so she might just lower that by 4 points. Not ideal since it will need to be explained to students that the total isn't really the total on that assignment. Still, it works.
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