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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

Excluding assessments from the final grade


There may be elements of the online course that are assessed, but they do not count towards a final grade. These could be formative assessments such as homework activities, quizzes to enable self-assessment, and so on. These graded items will automatically appear in the gradebook, but you may not want the grades to count in the final category or course total.

There are two main ways in which we can do this. One is to exclude a graded activity for all students, and the other is to exclude individual grades for each individual student.

Excluding assessments from aggregation for all students

There are two ways in which this can be achieved and both require the use of categories.

If you would like all the graded items that do not count towards the course total to be in one category, you can do the following:

  1. 1. Go to the Grades area and go to the Categories and items page.

  2. 2. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on Add category.

  3. 3. Give the category...