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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

Letter grades


Some assessments or homework activities, such as GCSE subjects, may need to be graded with a letter such A or D. In Moodle, letter grades are essentially number grades that are shown as letters in the gradebook. The advantage of using letter grades is that they act like numbers, so can be used for course total calculations.

The default grade letters within Moodle courses are shown as follows:

When the teacher grades the work, they give a numerical grade which is then converted by Moodle into a percentage and shown as the relevant grade letter in the gradebook.

For example: If the course uses the default letter grades and an assignment is given a grade of 85 percent, the letter grade shown in the gradebook would be B because the grade is between 83.00% and 86.99%, as shown in the previous screenshot.

The letter grades can be customized to link to any percentage in order to meet the course needs. The letters can also be changed into words.

Customizing letter grades

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