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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

Example one — mean of grades


In this example, three assignments have been added to the Moodle course. Two have a maximum grade of 100 and one has a final grade of 50. If you would like to follow the instructions to set up an example gradebook, create three assignments (the type doesn’t matter) and choose 100 for the maximum grade for Task 1 and Task 2, and 50 for Task 3. Grade Tasks 1 and Task 2 for at least one learner. You can see the example that we will use for the activities in the following screenshot:

The aggregation type of this course will be mean of grades which will present a final average grade.

Let’s go into the grades area and choose the aggregation type.

Click on the Settings block and click on Grades. You should see a table, as shown in the previous screenshot, showing the grades of each assignment for each student. (If you see an Overall average row at the bottom of the screen, don’t let this confuse you. This is an average grade based on all the students in the course rather...