This document provides an overview of the Moodle Gradebook, including its benefits and various features. It discusses how to access and navigate the different views in the gradebook, set up categories and grade items, enter and aggregate grades, submit mid-term and final grades, and export the gradebook. The gradebook allows instructors to automatically calculate grades, drop scores, and weight assignments differently. Grades from Moodle activities are embedded and columns can be created for offline assignments.
2. AGENDA
1 Benefits of Using Moodle Gradebook
Using Moodle Gradebook with Embedded Moodle Activities 2
3 Accessing the Gradebook – Understanding Gradebook Views
Aggregation Strategies – Points versus Percentages 4
5 Categories versus Grade Items
Setting Values in Grade Items 6
7 Submitting Mid-Term and Final Grades
Exporting your Gradebook 8
3. Gradebook Features
• Automatically calculate grades
• Drop lowest scores
• Aggregate scores in different ways
– Sum of Points
– By Percentage
• Different Weights per assignment
4. Accessing Gradebook
• To access grades, view the
ADMINISTRATION box on
the left
• Click GRADES
• To manually enter grades,
Go to GRADER REPORT and
TURN EDITING ON
5. AGENDA
1 Benefits of Using Moodle Gradebook
Using Moodle Gradebook with Embedded Moodle Activities 2
3 Accessing the Gradebook – Understanding Gradebook Views
Aggregation Strategies – Points versus Percentages 4
5 Categories versus Grade Items
Setting Values in Grade Items 6
7 Submitting Mid-Term and Final Grades
Exporting your Gradebook 8
6. Aggregation Methods
• Sum of Grades – Adds
all grades and take the
average
• Mean of Grades –
takes an average of all grades
• Simple Weighted Mean of Grades --
• Weighted Mean of Grades – items are given
individual weights by the instructor
13. AGENDA
1 Benefits of Using Moodle Gradebook
Using Moodle Gradebook with Embedded Moodle Activities 2
3 Accessing the Gradebook – Understanding Gradebook Views
Aggregation Strategies – Points versus Percentages 4
5 Categories versus Grade Items
Setting Values in Grade Items 6
7 Submitting Mid-Term and Final Grades
Exporting your Gradebook 8
14. Views in the Gradebook
• View
• Grader Report – show all
grades
• User Report – show
grades for one student
• Categories and Items
• Set up gradebook
• Letters
• Setup numerical cutoffs
for letter grades
• Import/Export – Import or
export gradebook
16. Getting Grades in Gradebook
• Assessments created on Moodle’s main page
can be placed in the gradebook
– Assignments
– Journals
– Forums …
• Columns can be created for offline
assignments
17. AGENDA
1 Benefits of Using Moodle Gradebook
Using Moodle Gradebook with Embedded Moodle Activities 2
3 Accessing the Gradebook – Understanding Gradebook Views
Aggregation Strategies – Points versus Percentages 4
5 Categories versus Grade Items
Setting Values in Grade Items 6
7 Submitting Mid-Term and Final Grades
Exporting your Gradebook 8
18. Submitting Grades
• Mid-term and final grades are
submitted via Moodle
• Grades are exported into
Trinity’s student information
system nightly
• Grades can only be submitted
once
19. AGENDA
1 Benefits of Using Moodle Gradebook
Using Moodle Gradebook with Embedded Moodle Activities 2
3 Accessing the Gradebook – Understanding Gradebook Views
Aggregation Strategies – Points versus Percentages 4
5 Categories versus Grade Items
Setting Values in Grade Items 6
7 Submitting Mid-Term and Final Grades
Exporting your Gradebook 8