The document provides guidance on navigating and using the key features of Moodle's gradebook, including creating and modifying categories, adding grades for assignments, providing detailed feedback, and setting aggregation and grading options. Key areas covered include locating the gradebook, adding new categories, inputting grades, and adding content like assignments to grade.

1. Grade Book:-
• Aims and Objectives
Guidance in the creation of
Grade Book Area.
After the completion you
will be able to:-
• Create a new Grade Book
• Navigate through the
grade book.
• Create Categories,
• Modify grade settings,
• Add grades…..
• Modify report
preferences…..

2. Grade Book:-
• All the grades for each
student in a course can
be found in the course
gradebook, or 'Grader
report' in Settings >
Course administration >
Grades.
• Icons may vary
depending on version or
theme but the location
will always be the same.
• Setting> Course
Administration> Grades

3. Grade Book:-
• The grader report
collects items that have
been graded from the
various parts of Moodle
that are assessed.
• Allows you to view and
change them as well as
sort them out
into categories and
calculate totals in various
ways.

4. Grade Book
Navigation:-
• There are several
common icons/function
buttons that you use to
navigate round the
grader.
Grader Report
drop down window
option.
Grade Input
Window
Edit Icon. Takes you
to detail input
Total Bar
Assignment and
Sorting Option
Feedback window Update Button to
save and update
input data.
Turn Editing
On/Off

5. Grade Book Navigation
Detailed Input:-
• To input detailed
feedback and modify the
options for grading use
the detailed feedback
window by clicking on
the hand icon.
Detailed Grades
and feedback
window.
Add detailed feedback.
Can include links, images,
files etc.
Option to Override,
Exclude, Hide and
Lock grades
Set time frame for
grading.

6. Grade Book:-
• In this example we
already have some
marked assignments.
• To add content and
categories, click on the
drop down window, top
left and then select “Full
View” or “simple view”.

7. Grade Book Adding a
New Category:-
• To add content, click on
the drop down window,
top left and then select
“Full View”.
• This is the full View.
• Next we can add a
category by clicking on
Add Category button.

8. Adding a new Grading
Category:-
• To add a category, click
on the drop down
window, and select
option or modify in
Grade Book.
• Give the Category a
Name.
• Decide on Aggregation
• Category total and
• Grade type etc.
• Save Changes.

9. Adding a New
Category:-
• The new Category is now
in place and a new
Category Total is
indicated.
• Once you have your
categories sorted you
can then add
Assignments, Quizzes or
anything that requires
grading and recording.

10. Grading Rubrics:-
• Decide on aggregation :-
The aggregation
determines how grades
in a category are
combined, such as
• Mean of grades - The
sum of all grades divided
by the total number of
grades
• Median of grades - The
middle grade when
grades are arranged in
order of size and so
on……..
• Click Save Changes

11. Grading Rubric:-
• Decide on aggregation :-
The aggregation
determines how grades
in a category are
combined.
• For your information the
link provided goes
through the options in
detail with examples.
http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/grade/aggregation

12. Grade Book Adding
Content :-
• To add content, click on
the drop down window,
top left and then select
“Grader report”
• These are assignments
that were made in
Adding Activities.
• Once marked you can
use Grade Book to add
comments and grade
using numerical grades,
scale or letters.
• Click on Turn Editing On

13. Grade Book Adding
Content :-
• You can now see the edit
icon (hand) and a text
window
• You can add grades in
quick mode or add more
detail by clicking on the
hand icon. (Edit Grade)
• Click on Save Changes