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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

Quick grading within the gradebook


As in the graded item, turning editing on within the Grades area will allow us to grade any graded activity.

In the previous screenshot, we can see two different types of grades. Task 5 and Assignment one are both examples of assignments that are graded with a scale, and therefore quick grading provides a drop-down list to enable the teacher to choose the grade they would like to award. Assignment two, however, has been set as a numerical scale, so we need to type the number indicating the grade awarded directly into the empty box.

There are a few things to consider when using quick grading:

  • We cannot see the maximum grade when adding number grades

  • Rubric graded assignments cannot be marked through the quick grading option (but outcomes can be graded through quick grading)

When using the quick grading within the assignment area, we can add quick feedback as well, but this option is not shown on the current screen. However, we can change a setting to enable...