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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

Advanced grading methods


Advanced grading methods are now available to enable individual elements of an assignment to be awarded a grade, and the final grade is calculated as a total of each of these grades. For example, the teacher grades element one and element two and the grades given will contribute to the final activity grade. The teacher will not choose one final grade for the assessment. This is achieved through the use of rubrics.

Rubrics

Rubrics are an advanced grading method. Until Moodle 2.2, advanced grading options have only been available in the Workshop activity, but the rubric option is now available for use with assignments as well.

Note

Currently, Rubrics can only be used with assignment activities and as part of the Workshop activity. However, future releases of Moodle are likely to enable advanced grading methods to be used with other activities such as forums and glossaries.

Rubrics allow a set of criteria to be set up for the assessment along with descriptors to outline...