Eclass supports adding extra credit for activities: This is done by adding an extra grade column in gradebook. To add extra credit you will need to create a category that uses Natural  or Simple Weighted aggregation method.

Follow the steps below to create the category in the gradebook:

1. Click Grades in the top red navigation bar to open the Gradebook. 
2. From the drop down menu, select Gradebook setup.
3. Click the Add category button at top right of the screen. 
4. Enter the Category name. This will be the name students see.
5. Choose the Natural or Simple weighted aggregation method for the category from the Aggregation drop-down. Aggregation refers to how grades in a category will be calculated. 
6. Click on Show more
7. Uncheck Exclude empty grades checkbox if you would like to aggregate all grades towards course total. This means that the grade items that do not have a grade for the student will be counted as a zero. Otherwise, if it remains checked, empty grades (that have had no value entered) will be omitted from the final grade calculation.
   
8. Click Save changes button.

Now that you've created the category, we must create the activity itself that will reflect the extra credti. Here's how:

1. While on the Gradebook page, click select Gradebook Setup from the drop down menu. 
2. Click Add grade item button at the top left drop down menu. The setting page to add a new item appears. 
3. Click Show more...to display all the options.
4. Enter the Item name (1). This will be the name students see.
5. You may also put the grade item into the correct category, the one we created earlier in these instructions (2)
6. Enter the Maximum grade. For example, if you are marking the item out of 100, 100 is the Maximum grade.
7. Click on Save changes button at the bottom of the page
8. Click on ... (ellipses) in the rightmost column of the grade item just created, then click on Edit Settings, 
   
9. Add a check mark for Extra credit 
   
10. Click on Save changes button.