Use Excuse/Include Grade to exclude a student grade for a specific Gradebook item or component of the course. This is a helpful method of not penalizing students who have been excused from an assignment. An item can be added back in the grade calculation by again selecting Excuse/Include Grade from the grade cell dropdown menu.
Go to Gradebook.
Select Gradebook from the site Tool Menu.
Select the gear icon and then Excuse/Include Grade.
- Select the gear icon to reveal a dropdown menu.
- Select option Excuse/Include Grade.
Verify the excluded grade.
A calculator icon (Grade has been excluded from grade calculations) will appear in the affected cell, and if there is a score, the score will appear with strikethrough, indicating that the score is not being calculated in the student's course grade.