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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

Exporting the gradebook data


Apart from viewing the data within Moodle, it is possible to export the gradebook data and download to view and use it offline. There are four options for downloading:

  • Open document spreadsheet

  • Plain text file

  • Excel spreadsheet

  • XML file

You access these options from the Grades area, in Moodle, in the same way as accessing the reports. How you access the export options will depend on whether you are using the drop-down menu or tab navigation within the Grades area. Both options are shown in the following screenshot:

If using the drop-down menu, find the Export heading and click on OpenDocument spreadsheet (or you can also choose other export options from here).

If using the tabs layout, click on the Export tab. Within the Export tab, a second row of options appear which provides the export options. Once you are in the export screen, a range of options are available for choosing the information to export and download.

  • Include feedback in export: This will include the...