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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

Chapter 8. Additional Features for Progress Tracking

The gradebook is a very useful tool to manage the progress of students. It enables teachers to review and manage the grades awarded for each graded activity in the course. However, there are also some other functions within Moodle that enable the gradebook to be further enhanced or to track progress outside of the gradebook. In this chapter, we will:

  • Set pass grades to visually show achievement and progression for individual pieces of work

  • Turn on activity tracking to show progress through activities on the course

  • Use course completion to track progress through required elements of the course

  • Use course and activity completion reports

Setting pass grades

As we know, we can view the grades awarded in the gradebook. However, we can also set pass levels for each graded activity to provide a visual view within the gradebook. When pass grades are set, the gradebook will not only show the grade, but a background color will also be applied. If the...