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Moodle Gradebook

By : Rebecca Barrington
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Moodle Gradebook

By: Rebecca Barrington

Overview of this book

Moodle, as a learning management system, is used to provide resources, interactive activities and assessments to students. Through the use of the gradebook, Moodle can also be used to store grades, calculate final marks and track student achievement and progress to help the teacher manage the learning process.Through the use of the gradebook, Moodle can also be used to store grades, making it much easier for you to organize your work and relay information to your students. This book provides examples of practical uses of the gradebook to demystify the terminology and options available, allowing you to make full use of the assessment tracking features and, most importantly, customize it to meet your needs. Moodle Gradebook will introduce you to the core functions of the gradebook as you will learn how to add your own graded activities before marking this work. You will customize how you view the grades and organize the activities so that your course needs are met. You will also use the new completion functions within Moodle 2.x to track progress further. Make the gradebook accommodate your requirements by adding your own grading options and setting it up to present the information you need.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle Gradebook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Scales


Scales are a list of words or characters that can be used to grade work. Each scale needs at least two choices, but you can have as many options in the scale as you want. You can also use lots of different scales within one course. Examples of scales could include:

  • Refer, pass

  • Unsatisfactory, satisfactory, good, outstanding

  • Reviewed, feedback given

  • A, B, C, D, E, F

  • Fail, pass, merit, distinction

The scale is created prior to the graded activity being added to the course and, when an activity is added to the course, the required scale can be selected. When marking work, the teacher is given the scale options in a drop-down list, so that they can select the grade to be awarded.

Scales are useful when work is assessed using words or phrases or when a course needs to use a range of grades to provide feedback to learners (as letter grades will only let you have one option per course).

Scales can still be used for calculating final grades, but the scores are based on the number of items in the...