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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 outcomes to an assignment


Another option we can add to a graded activity is outcomes, which can be graded with a scale along with adding a final grade for the assignment. In order to grade an outcome, the outcomes need to be added to the course.

In Chapter 2, Customizing the Grades, we created three outcomes and these can be added to any activity. Not all outcomes have to be added to all activities; different outcomes can be added to different activities. Let's have a go at adding some outcomes to an assignment.

  1. 1. Within a course where outcomes have been added, turn editing on and click on Add an activity.

  2. 2. Choose Offline activity (under the Assignment heading).

  3. 3. Give the assignment a name (for example, "task three").

  4. 4. In the Description box, give the assignment details.

  5. 5. In the Grade section, leave the Grade as 100 and the Grading method as Simple direct grading.

  6. 6. When outcomes have been created within the grades area of the course, an Outcomes section will be shown in the assignment...