I agree with what you are saying. My question is did I misunderstand what the materal was saying? There is no way you can be successful if you are constantly adjusting your grading procedure. "If this is the case you then have the freedom to develop a system that will enable you to come up with this end result for each student while using a number of different evaluation methods within your class." This statement, again directly copied from the course, is telling me that I should use a number of differend evaluation methods which to me means don't be consistant. Like I mentioned in my first post, I could be missing the point completely.