How coursework works
Coursework is everything you put a mark against that is not attendance — quizzes, assignments, midterms, finals.
Assessment → Grades → Breakdown
(the thing) (per student) (what it all adds up to)
Assessments
An assessment is one graded thing. It has a title, a type, a maximum score, and a track — general, lecture or tutorial. It belongs to a group.
It can optionally be tied to a session, so a quiz sits with the tutorial it was handed out in rather than floating loose in the term.
Grades
A grade is one student's score on one assessment — a number out of that assessment's maximum. Students you have not marked are simply ungraded, which is distinct from scoring zero.
The breakdown
This is where coursework stops being a list and becomes a course grade.
The breakdown groups your assessments into weighted categories — typically something like quizzes, coursework, midterm, final — decides how scores combine inside each category, and produces one figure per student.
Attendance can be one of those categories, which is how the two halves of Quorum meet. See The coursework breakdown.
Raw and weighted
Two ways of reading the same marks, and both appear in exports:
| Means | |
|---|---|
| Raw | Marks added up as they are. 18/20 plus 40/50 is 58/70 |
| Weighted | Each category contributes its weight, regardless of its size |
Raw answers "how many marks did they get". Weighted answers "what is their course grade". A one-mark quiz and a hundred-mark final are worlds apart in raw terms and can be equal in weighted terms if you set them that way.
Coursework and attendance stay separate
They are tracked independently and only combine where you ask them to — in a breakdown category, or as an optional column in an export.
That separation is deliberate. Attendance is a record of who was there; coursework is a record of how they did. Merging them by default would make both harder to check.