Why don't you skip all this nonsense and just give grades only for exams? This is how colleges were run before they turned into remedial high schools. If your

Why don't you skip all this nonsense and just give grades only for exams? This is how colleges were run before they turned into remedial high schools. If your course needs a big final paper, you don't grade the paper, you grade a defense of the paper, that shows they really know the material behind the paper. All the work before the final is just practice and grades don't matter.