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Moodle Grade Book 2.8: E-Mail: DELTA Website: Phone: (919) 513-7094
Moodle Grade Book 2.8: E-Mail: DELTA Website: Phone: (919) 513-7094
Moodle Grade Book 2.8: E-Mail: DELTA Website: Phone: (919) 513-7094
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Overview
The Moodle grade book is a very flexible and powerful tool that can help
instructors monitor their students performance and provide timely feedback.
The grade book is, however, a complex tool, and it can be confusing to
instructors at first, before they get familiar with how the tool works. This
workshop provides an introduction to the Moodle grade book, and is
designed to help instructors get started using this useful component of
Moodle.
Table of Content
Overview..........................................................................................................1
Table of Contents.............................................................................................1
Grade Book Basics...........................................................................................2
Navigating the Grade Book..............................................................................3
View Grader Report.....................................................................................4
Setup Categories and Items........................................................................5
Aggregation.....................................................................................................6
Submitting final grades through WolfWare......................................................8
Additional Resources........................................................................................8
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View User report: grades for a single student or all students; similar to
what a student sees; suitable for printing.
Setup Categories and Items: create and modify grade items; described
above.
Setup Course Grade Settings: change grade book appearance and set
options; affects all course members.
Grade history: view the grade history for a student, grade item, or grader
NCSU Grader report: same as the grader report but the row and column
headers are frozen to make grading more convenient
Outcomes report: statistics related to any Outcomes that have been
created within the course. Contact the LearnTech help desk for assistance
using Outcomes.
Single View: view all the grades for one student or one grade item
User report: see Most commonly used above.
Setup
Categories and Items: see Most commonly used above.
Course Grade Settings: see Most commonly used above.
My Preferences: Grader Report: see Most commonly used above.
Scales
View: Grading scales (other than numeric) that are being used or are
available in the course. Use caution with grading scales, as they may not
function the way you think they do! Contact the LearnTech help desk for
assistance.
Outcomes
Outcomes used in course: Select Outcomes to use in the course (if you
have created any).
Edit outcomes: Create and edit Outcomes.
Letters
View: The table that your Grade Book uses to convert percentages into
letter grades. By default, the standard NC State undergraduate grading
scale is used.
Edit: Allows the instructor to override the default letter grade scale and use
a different conversion of percentages to letter grades in the courses Grade
Book.
Import
CSV file: Import grades to the Grade Book using a file formatted into
comma-separated values. Contact the LearnTech help desk for assistance
with importing Grade Book data.
XML file: Import grades to the Grade Book using an XML file. Contact the
LearnTech help desk for assistance with importing Grade Book data.
Export
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Export Grade Book data to a variety of formats. Exporting can be used for
backup purposes, or can be useful for managing grades outside of Moodle,
such as in a spreadsheet application. Contact the LearnTech help desk for
assistance with exporting. Available export formats are:
o OpenDocument spreadsheet
o Plain text file
o Excel spreadsheet
o XML file
The Grader Report is made up of rows and columns, with students listed in rows
down the left side and grade items and categories displayed as columns and
arranged across the top.
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o If, instead of one long page of students, youd prefer multiple pages
with fewer students per page, you can change the number of students
that appear per page in Setup My Preferences: Grader Report.
In the General section, enter any number you like as the Students
per page setting, and then click Save changes at the bottom.
o Graded activities allow you to enter feedback to the student. If you
want to see this feedback in the Grade Book, go to Setup My
Preferences: Grader Report. In the General section, set Show
Quick Feedback to Yes. Now, when you turn editing on in the Grade
Book, both the score and the feedback are visible.
The Categories and Items screen displays all of your grade items and categories
but does not display anything related to individual student scores. Use this screen
to create, edit, and organize the items in your grade book and to define how
overall scores will be calculated from multiple grade items.
Create a grade item. Click the Add grade item button. To use the basic
default values (you can always change them later), just enter a name for
the new grade item in the Item name field, and then click the Save
changes button at the bottom. The new grade item will appear both on the
Categories and Items screen and the Grader Report screen.
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Create a grade category. Categories are useful not only for better
organization but also for calculating grades. For example, you might use a
category like Exams to generate an overall Exams score that is calculated
from the scores of the individual exams. This calculation might be a sum, or
an average, or some other formula. To add a category, click the Add
category button.
Organize items and categories. Your grade items and categories can be
displayed in any order you wish. The order of items in the Categories and
Items screen also determines the order of the columns on the Grader
Report.
o To move a single item, find the row for that item and then click the
Move icon
next to the item name. A new window will appear that
displays all of your grade items separated by dashed boxes. Click the
dashed box that corresponds to the position you want the item to
have (above or below some other item). For example, if you were
moving Quiz 2 to place it directly below Quiz 1, then you would
click the dashed box below Quiz 1.
o To move multiple items between categories, select the items to move
by checking their boxes in the Select column. Then, select the
destination category from the Move selected items to menu at the
bottom. To move multiple items so that they are in no category, then
select the course name from the same menu.
Make grade items visible or invisible to students. You can make grade
items visible to students, or conceal them entirely with the Show/Hide icon
located in the drop-down menu in the Actions column.
Configure grade item settings. Click the Edit Settings icon from the
Edit menu in the Actions column to view the settings for any grade book
item or category. These settings can be used to change the way that a
particular grade item is displayed in the grade book. If you are unable to
change a setting, it may be because that setting is configured in the activity
itself rather than in the grade book.
Aggregation
Moodle uses the term aggregation to refer to the method used to combine a set
of multiple scores into a single score. Mathematically, there are many different
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Natural Weighting
Natural Weighting is default aggregation method in the Grade Book. It replaces
the Sum of Grades in Moodle 2.6. Natural weighting allows instructors to sum all
of their grades, weight all of their grades, or use some combination of sums and
weights. All Moodle 2.6 aggregation methods can be duplicated with this setting.
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Graded items all have equal weight regardless of their individual number of
points.
Example of when to use: In a set of quizzes, you want all to have equal
weight, but the individual quizzes have a different number of total points.
Item
Quiz 1
Quiz 2
Quiz 3
Quiz 4
Total Points
100
50
30
20
Weight (% of total)
25%
25%
25%
25%
This aggregation method is more often used within a grade category (e.g.,
to generate the average score within a set of equally weighted quiz grades)
than to aggregate the entire course grade, since in most courses all
assignments do not carry equal weight toward the final grade.
The number of points that a grade item is worth determines the weight of
that grade item.
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Total Points
100
50
30
20
Weight (% of total)
50%
25%
15%
10%
By default, items that are not yet graded do not contribute to the total
score, so students see a grade based only on what has been marked rather
than all (non-graded) items. The default can be changed to include nongraded items as zero if desired.
Additional Resources
http://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Grades
http://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Grades_FAQ
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