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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 with a rubric


In Chapter 3, Adding Graded Activities, we created an assignment that used the advanced grading methods, and we also created a rubric grading profile. As with grading outcomes, previously explained, the only element that is different when using the individual grading screen for a rubric-graded assignment is the Grades section. However, within rubric grading there is no Grades drop-down list. Instead, there is a table that enables specific criterion to be graded.

You can see the rubric criteria and levels in the previous screenshot. The table enables us to easily grade work even though there is a lot of information on the screen.

When grading, the teacher reviews the work and simply clicks on the box that contains the statement and points that they want to award.

At the right-hand side of the row that contains the criteria, there is a textbox to enable additional comments to be made. However, the main assignment feedback screen is still available on the...