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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

Overview report


The next report available is the overview report. (If you have tabs at the top of your screen, click on View | Overview report. If using the drop-down list, choose Overview report under the View heading.) This can be accessed from any course, but it enables a teacher to view the current course totals for each student on all the courses in which they are currently enrolled on Moodle.

After clicking on Overview report a list of courses will appear, but the first step is to choose a user, or student, for which we want to see the current course results. This drop-down list appears on the right-hand side next to Select a user:

Once a user has been chosen, the course list will change and show all the courses that the chosen student is enrolled on and the grade column will show the current grade awarded for each course.

The grade shown is the same grade that appears in the Course total column of the grader report for each individual course. This grade is likely to change throughout...