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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 additional grades directly into the gradebook


We have looked at how we can add graded activities to a Moodle course so that they can be awarded a mark and used with the gradebook. This is the main way in which we grade work as the students need to complete something to be graded (whether this is an assignment, quiz, discussion, or other Moodle activity). With the offline assignment type, it is possible to have an activity on the Moodle course where there is no requirement for the student to complete any work online but still allows us to provide feedback and grades on activities such as class presentations or practical work.

However, what if you would like a grade to be added to the gradebook that is not linked to any activities? Perhaps students receive an additional grade based on their attendance in lessons. You may want the grade to be calculated within the gradebook for the final course grade, but you do not want it to appear as an activity within the Moodle course. This is where...