How do I weight grades for assignments?

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To create weight grades in your course site, you will first need to create Assignment Groups, put your individual assignments into them, and then weight them. For step-by-step instructions, please see the following Canvas guides:

  1. How do I add Assignment Groups?
  2. How do I use the Assignments Index Page? (scroll all the way down to the heading titled "Manually Reorder Assignment" to see how you can move assignments into a group)
  3. How do I weight the final grade based on Assignment Groups?