{"id":222,"date":"2026-03-27T09:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:07:44","slug":"change-assignment-point-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/de\/instructor-support\/change-assignment-point-value\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I change the point value of an assessment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, you cannot directly set a total point value for an assessment. The point value for the assessment is the sum of the point values of all the questions it contains. You <em>can<\/em> change points for individual questions, but it takes time and may not give you the exact total you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Better Option:<\/strong><br>In your LMS course, set up assignment groups\/categories and weightings that achieve the desired weighting towards the final grade. For example, create a \u201cChapter Quizzes\u201d assignment group, weight it as 25% of the final grade, and add all of the Insight chapter quizzes to that group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LMS Help Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Canvas<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/t5\/Instructor-Guide\/How-do-I-weight-the-final-course-grade-based-on-assignment\/ta-p\/746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Blackboard<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Learn\/Instructor\/Ultra\/Grade\/Grade_Columns#ultra_overall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grade Columns<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>D2L\/Brightspace<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/kb\/articles\/3521-grading-systems-types\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grading systems types<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Moodle<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/500\/en\/Grade_categories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grade Categories<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Need further help?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordinsight.oup.com\/tech-support-ticket\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/s\/contactsupport\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordinsight.oup.com\/tech-support-ticket\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/contact-us\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"667\">Contact Us<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, you cannot directly set a total point value for an assessment. The point value for the assessment is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/what-is-oxford-reading-buddy.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment-settings","category-instructor-support","tag-assignments"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.6","language":"de","enabled_languages":["en","es","de","fr","ru"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.insight.oup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}