Gradebook Setup

Gradebook

All of your assignments and graded activities will automatically be placed into the gradebook. After grading assignments, the grades that have been assigned to students will be reflected in the gradebook. If there are no assignments or activities created in Moodle, the gradebook will not display any grades. For more information on how to create and grade assignments, see the Creating Assignments and the Grading Assignments tutorials respectively.

Setting up the Gradebook

Note: The following steps will need to be performed once to set up the gradebook for each course you are teaching.

  1. Access the course you are teaching.

  2. Click on Moodle Gradesin the Administration block. #1

  3. Click on the Set Preferences tab. #2

 

Gradebook Preferences

After you have activated the Advanced Features option, the Set Preferences tab will present the following options that you may choose from.
Display Weighted Grades: Shows the weighted contribution to the total grade of activities in percent.
Display Points: Shows the point value of activities—specified during activity creation—and categories.
Display Percents: Shows the percent value ((score earned/points total)*100) of activities.
Display Letter Grades: Shows a letter grade for all of the activities in the entire course.
Letter Grade: Determines how the letter grade is calculated; using either percent or weighted percent.

  • Use Weighted if you have set category weights in the gradebook.
  • Use Percent if you have not set weights and want to use a point system in the gradebook.
Reprint Headers: Determines how often the column headings are reprinted. This can help to keep track of a large class of students.
Show Hidden Items: Setting this to “No” will remove hidden items from the grade calculation.

The suggested gradebook preferences are located below depending on your preferred grading system. Please note that these settings should be used for a gradebook system where the weight of all the course items equal to 100.

Suggest Gradebook Preferences

Setting up Categories for Grades

Each assignment that is created will appear in the gradebook. By default all gradable items appear under the category “Uncategorized”.  Categories, beyond serving an organizational function, are used to set weights to all grades contained within them. To set up categories, follow these steps:
  1. Click on Grades n the Administration block.
  2. Select the Set Categories tab from the top menu. #1
  3. To add a new category, type the name of your category in the Add Category text box. Then, click the Add Category button.  (Note: Be sure that the category name does not contain a symbol, e.g. #,@). #2

Note: To delete a category, select it from the drop-down menu next to Delete Category field and click the Delete Category button.

 

Assigning Items to a Category

By default, all gradable items appear under the category “Uncategorized.”  All graded items should be assigned to their respective categories.

  1. Once a category is created, it
    can be assigned to specific quizzes,
    activities, or assignments. Select the appropriate category for each
    of the items in the gradebook respectively. #1
  2. After all the activities have been assigned to a category, click on the Save Changes button.

 

 

Setting Weights to Categories

Note: If you do not use weights for your gradebook, there is no need to follow the steps below. However, the “Uncategorized” category should be set to hidden.

  1. Click on Grades in the Administration block.
  2. Select the Set Weights tab from the top menu.
  3. The next page will display all the categories created by an instructor. In the weight column, type the percentage number of how much each category contributes to the final grade. #1
  4. Click on Save Changes.

Note: The Hide Category check box will remove a category from display and from the grades calculation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setting Up Grade Letters

The letter grade scale in Moodle can be adjusted to a numeric range from 0 to 100 only to calculate the final grades for a course.  Grade letters will not be calculated correctly if the numeric range is greater than 100.  To change the number range for letter grades, follow these steps:
  1. Click on Gradesin the Administration panel.
  2. Click on the Set Grade Letters tab from the top menu.
  3. Type in the letter grade in the appropriate tab and choose the point range it will correspond to. Be sure to carry out all of the grade ranges to the second decimal and keep from overlapping numbers. #1

Note: To delete a grade, erase the numbers in each text box and click Save Changes after changing each grade.
 DO NOT hit the REFRESH BUTTON because it will cause errors in the formatting of the Letter Grades.

  1. Click on Save Changes

Note: Letter Grades to will not be set unless you click on the Save Changes button in the ‘Set Grade Letters’ tab.

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