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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

Course completion


Course completion enables the teacher to set the required elements that must be completed in order to complete the course. This can be used in the same way as the activity completion, but it can also be used to complement it.

For example, the online course may contain a wide range of resources and activities that could be a mixture of required elements, alongside further supplementary resources. However, some of these activities, such as the assessed elements, may need to be tracked separately by the teacher, and looking through the whole activity report could be quite time consuming. This is where course completion can be used.

Within the course, where course completion is to be added, click on the Settings block and click on Completion tracking.

Note

This needs to be enabled within the course first as explained in the Activity tracking section of this chapter.

The completion settings that we will be changing are Manual completion by and Activities completed, and the changes...