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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
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Preface

Customizing the reports view


We have seen how the grader, outcomes, overview, and user reports can be used and the information that can be shown on each of them. The information shown in the screenshots used are based on the default settings of each report. However, each of the reports can also be customized to change the information shown.

For example, if the percentage column is not needed in the user report, then this can be hidden. Within the Grades area of the course, there is a Settings section that can be used to change how each report is viewed on the course.

This is accessed through the Settings tab (if using the tabs layout) or click on the drop-down list, find the Settings heading, and click on Course (if using the drop-down list option).

A range of options available for each type of report is shown in the following screenshot:

Change the settings to meet your needs and click on Save changes at the bottom of the screen. These settings will be applied to the course rather than the...