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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

Adding assignments


All graded activities are added through the Add an activity drop-down list available within each topic or week within a Moodle course. We will use the assignments to explain how to add customized options to the graded activity. These instructions will not explain how to add each assignment, as we will concentrate on the options that are available to all graded activities rather than in assignments only.

For this example, we will use the offline assignment to look at the options available and how to choose them. The offline assignment allows teachers to add the assignment details and due date, but the student will not submit any work electronically. However, through adding the task details as an offline assignment, the teacher will be able to add the grade and feedback received, so that the student can review the information in the gradebook. For details of the other assignments available, please refer back to Chapter 1, Introduction to the Gradebook.

The area that we...