Caleb, If these ideas works for you, that's great. For me it's about learning, and if a learned topic needs to be assessed, there's little doubt the student either correctly answers it or doesn't. Like math problems, there can be no "abouts", but there must be "exactly". So my biggest issue is good solid A students who work hard to learn the material get offended when they see lesser performing students getting their grade boosted due to EC. That's really not fair to them. But I understand opinions differ and each instructor and institution has to decide on what works best for them, and that's cool, too. I am not opposed at all to extra assignments, which I will occasionaly get requests for. This is where a student independently wants to push themselves futher than what is minimally required. So I'll give extra assignments, typically a bit more difficult, and reward and recognize student achivement. It's just that the reward does not impact their grade. Barry Westling