Blended Teaching provides real-time data on student progress throughout your course. You can see in real time how much of the course each individual student has completed. This allows you to award points based on how much students have studied.

Rewarding Performance

Until recently, exam and quiz performance has been a reasonably reliable representation of the abilities of a student.

But with online examinations and the rapid development of AI, there has been a lessening of the correlation between student ability and exam / quiz performance. It's now possible for a student using AI to score 100% in any quiz and exam, without having to study at all.

We have an alternative approach that could be worth trying.

Rewarding Effort

An alternative to rewarding performance (which is now harder to measure with confidence) is to reward effort.

One proxy for effort is how much of a course a student has studied. Blended Teaching can show exactly what percent of videos a student has completed in your course, allowing you to award points for progress.

We call this - Points for Progress

Example Points for Progress

Let's say your class has 1,000 total and you want to allocate 100 of those points to progess.

Create an assignment called "Progress" in Canvas or Blackboard.
In the rubric, state how many points are available to earn in this assignment (in this case, 100).
In the rubric, set the minimum threshold a student must achieve before they start earning points (say 40% of the videos completed).
In the rubric, set the maximum threshold a student must achieve in order to receive all of the points (say 70% of the videos). Why 70% and not 100%? Well, that depends on how many videos you have, and whether you have made all of them mandatory. All of the Chapters include introduction and summary videos that students may skip without damaging their learning. So we recommend to max out at 80%.
At the end of the semester, you will be able to download the exact percentage completed for each student and manually add in the points earned to the assignment in Canvas and Blackboard
We recommend a linear relationship between points and percentage.

Here's an example calculation.

Let's say 100 points are up for grabs, between 40-70% of the videos completed.
Each %age of videos completed is worth 100 / 30% = 3.33 points per %age completed above the minimum threshold of 40%.
This student has completed 62% of the videos, which is 22%age points above the minimum threshold of 40%.
22 x 3.33 = 67 points out of 100 awarded for this assignment in Canvas or Blackboard.

Automated Version - Coming Soon

We appreciate that manually calculating and adding points to an assignment in Canvas and Blackboard is a painful use of precious time. We're here to save you time, not make more work!

We're building a fully automated assignment feature that will calculate the points and add them to Canvas and Blackboard for you.

This will be available in Spring 2026.