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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

Grading an assignment


Let's first find our way to the assignments and the grading screen:

  1. 1. Within the course, click on the name of the assignment that you would like to grade. This will take you to the assignment details screen that has already been set up to provide the assessment information to the students.

  2. 2. Within the assignment screen, the top-right area will have a link to the grading area. Where no files have been uploaded, the text will say View assignment grades and feedback. If work has been uploaded or written online, the text at the top-right of the screen will show the number of submitted assignments: View (number)

  3. 3. Click on this link to go to the assignment grading area.

The grading screen will look like this:

There is a lot of information on this screen, so we will look at each individual section. The first area we are going to use is in the central table, which has the name of each student on the left and a Grade button on each student row. This is where we will access...