See here where I answer another user's question that was very similar. It even mentions the block Rosario created.
P.S. If you are currently using the Courses block, it will show you all the course categories as an admin. If you are logged in as a student though and are enrolled in a couple courses, it should only show those courses as selectable links.
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I don't understand what you mean by transfer students over. Are you talking about having to assign users to the role of students in a course? Because that is necessary otherwise they wouldn't be "students" in the course. You should only have to do that once though. Once they are in the course, they are in the course.
Perhaps you can create a screencast recording showing your current method and then we can point out where you are going wrong or where you can do something else that is easier.
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Grader report orders assignments in the order that they were created. If you want them in a specific order, go into your Categories and Items page and re-order to desired. This will then be reflected in Grader report as well.
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It looks like you may have a <br/> or <p> return in the question answer HTML field. Go into the question edit page and check by selecting the Toggle HTML source in editor for the answers and see if you see any extra HTML in there.
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Hey Glenn,
The quick version is that extra credit does not work in a category or sub-category if that category or osub-category is set to be Weighted means. If the category or sub-category you want to add extra credit to is Sum of grades or Simple weighted, then extra credit will work. So if your top-level category is Weighted but your sub-categories are Sum or Simple weighted, then you can only add extra credit to those sub-categories.
The long explanation of why this is that when you use Weighted, you are dealing with weights, not points. Although they both appear as numbers, there is a difference. Weights are weighing points vs other points. So you could have a 1000 point category that is worth 5% of the overall grade and then a 10 point category that is worth 95% of the grade. Using the previous example, when comparing points from one category vs points from the other category, they are not equal. If those categories are set to Sum or Simple weighted, when comparing one point in that category vs another point within the same category, those points are equal.
Looking back at my explanation, I may add more confusion to the topic but that is how it functions.
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