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Moodle Gradebook - Second Edition

Moodle Gradebook - Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Barrington
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Overview of this book

This book is for teachers and administrators who have experience with Moodle. Basic knowledge of Moodle 2.x will be required, but no prior knowledge of grade functions is needed. This book will help you utilize the full functionality of Version 2.7.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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How to use this book
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Introduction to Gradebook
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1. Introduction to Gradebook
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Getting to the Gradebook
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Activities that work with the Gradebook
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Key features of the Gradebook
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Summary
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2. Customizing Grades
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2. Customizing Grades
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Numeric grades
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Letter grades
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Creating scales to grade assignments
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Using Outcomes
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Summary
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3. Adding Graded Activities
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3. Adding Graded Activities
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Adding assignments
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Creating an assignment with a scale
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Creating an online assignment with a number grade
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Creating an assignment including outcomes
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Alternative grading methods
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Adding additional grading directly into the Gradebook
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4. Assigning Grades
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4. Assigning Grades
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Grading an assignment
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Grading an assignment with a marking guide
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Grading an assignment with a rubric
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Grading a graded item within the Gradebook
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5. Using Calculations
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5. Using Calculations
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Calculating the course grade
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Example one – The mean of grades
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Example two – The sum of grades
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Example three – using scales
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Example four – using outcomes
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6. Organizing the Gradebook Using Categories
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6. Organizing the Gradebook Using Categories
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Adding categories
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Excluding assessments from the final grade
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7. Reporting with the Gradebook
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7. Reporting with the Gradebook
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The grader report
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Outcomes report
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Overview report
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User report
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Reports that students see
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Customizing the reports view
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Exporting the Gradebook data
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8. Additional Features for Progress Tracking
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8. Additional Features for Progress Tracking
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Setting pass grades
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Activity completion
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Course completion
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Index
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Adding categories

Categories enable you to group graded activities within the Gradebook so that they can be viewed together and provide additional options to calculate final course grades. We will look at how they can be used throughout this chapter but first, we need to add some categories. We need to create the categories using the Grades area of the course:

  • Go to the Grades area and then go to the Categories and items screen (if using the drop-down list, you will need to choose Simple view).
  • At the bottom of the Categories and items screen, there is a button that says Add category. Click on this and a new screen will appear.
  • Give the category a name (such as Unit 1). Note that the options you get when setting up the category are the same as the options we used in Chapter 5, Using Calculations to set up how the course should be aggregated. This includes the grade display type as well as the aggregation method. You can choose the same type of aggregation as the course or use one specific...
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