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Using the Moodle Gradebook

How to Effectively Use Moodle's Gradebook
This guide includes strategies to effectively and efficiently manage your grades in Moodle.
Grading Scenarios and Recommendations
Don't know where to start with Moodle Grades? Check out this guide with some examples and recommendations based on your grading practices.

A Tour of Views Available in Moodle's Gradebook
(5:38) There are a lot of ways to view and manage grades in Moodle. This video will provide an overview of various ways to view and manage grades.

#1: Know your grade aggregation method.

What is grade aggregation in Moodle Grades?
(7:24) This video walks through the different types of grade aggregation available in Moodle.
Getting Started in Moodle Grades: Specifying Grade Aggregation and Adding Grade Items
(2:55) When you are getting started in Moodle grades, you need to address two key areas: Grade aggregation and adding grade items. This video will help you get started.

How do I choose/specify a grade aggregation method in Moodle?
It's important that grades display the way you prefer or are used to seeing them. Moodle defaults to a "Simple weighted mean of grades" grade aggregation, but you may prefer to view a sum (natural grades) or weight based on categories of grade items.
How do I use a weighted gradebook in Moodle?
Use a weighted gradebook if you have categories of items assigned a percentage of the final grade, or if you have individual items assigned a percentage of the final grade

#2: Remember that activities in Moodle can be graded/assessed via the activity itself.

Adding Grade Items to the Moodle Gradebook
(3:00) Grade items in Moodle's gradebook can be added by adding graded activities for manual grade items.

How do I manually add grade items or categories to the gradebook?
You can still use the Moodle gradebook as a grade repository without setting up Activities for each graded assignment.
How do I import/move manually created grade items from another course?
When you are setting up your grades for a new term, you may want to import or move manual grade items from a course you previously taught. This tutorial shows you how to move those grade items to your new course.

#3: Keep your gradebook orderly!

Using Categories in Your Moodle Gradebook
(4:15) Categories are used to organize sets of grade items in Moodle's Gradebook. This video will walk through some additional considerations and how to set up a gradebook category.
How to Put Grade Items in Order in Moodle Grades
(2:14) As you add activities or manually-created grade items, the Moodle gradebook can get pretty messy. This short video shows you how to put it in order.

How do I move or reorder grade items and categories in gradebook?
As you add assignments, quizzes, discussion forums, and categories to your class gradebook, you may find that you’d prefer to change the order the categories and graded activities appear, both to you and your students.

**#4: Believe that Moodle will accurately keep track of grades.**

How to create an Extra Credit Grade Item in Moodle
Moodle allows for extra credit items to be added into your grade book. You can place the extra credit item in a category that you create if you would like the extra credit points added towards that specific category total, or you can place it in the parent course category and the extra credit points will be added to the course total.

How to Specify a Moodle Grade Item as Extra Credit
(2:32) There may be times when you want to provide extra credit or bonus points in your Moodle gradebook. This video outlines how to do that.

How do I define letter grades in Moodle?
Moodle includes the ability to display letter grades.You can designate what percentage value corresponds to a particular letter grade, though a default, is set up as part of the Moodle course shell

Moodle Gradebook Setup: Scales, Letters, Import, and Export
(4:08) Want to set up a scale vs points? Customize the values of your letter grades? Want to export or import grades? This video shows you how.

How do I change my settings and preferences in grades?
The settings and preferences in grades control the visual aspects (what you see, what students see) of grades in Moodle.

How to Adjust Settings and Preferences in the Moodle Gradebook
(4:40) This video outlines additional settings on how you can customize your Moodle gradebook.

How do I make grades visible (or invisible) to students?
If students are reporting that they cannot see their grades, walk through this guide to show or hide grades in the gradebook.

Typically, you will want to grade activities in Moodle via the activity itself. For example, if you create an assignment, you should grade the assignment by clicking on the assignment itself and reviewing/grading student submissions. For more information about grading assignments and other activities, see the information below.

How to grade an assignment (via Assignment Activity)
Depending on the assignment, grading can be done with or without a file submission by the student. The following document outlines direct grading (entering of a number vs use of a rubric or marking guide), and methods of reviewing student submissions, such as Word or PDF documents.
How do I grade assignments with a rubric?
Rubrics can be used in the Assignment and Discussion Forum activities to assess and provide feedback for students based on particular criteria. In Moodle, a rubric will have the same performance scale for each chosen criteria in which you can grade the student submission on.
How do I grade assignments with a grading guide?
The Assignment and Discussion Forum activities allows you to create and use a grading guide, similar to a rubric, as an advanced grading method from within the Moodle interface. Your students can have access to the grading guide before submitting their assignments as well as after. You have the option to provide comments for each criterion and overall comments.

How do I grade a wiki?

There is no in-built grading facility in the wiki but you can manually add a grade item in the gradebook called (for example) "yourwikiname" and enter your grades there.

How to Effectively Use Moodle's Gradebook
This guide includes strategies to effectively and efficiently manage your grades in Moodle.
How do I enter grades manually into Moodle's gradebook?
There are many ways to enter grades for student assignment submissions in Moodle. The methods in this guide outline entering grades directly into the gradebook (manually). Doing so for activities listed on the main Moodle course page may “override” the activity grade, so make sure that the activity will not be graded both via the gradebook and via the activity. For example, if you are using an Assignment activity, consider entering grades via the assignment and not directly into the gradebook.
Entering/Changing Grades in the Gradebook Using Single View
Single View Grading is a tool in Moodle that helps instructors look at grades for one student or one assignment at a time. This tool is useful when you need to quickly review or change grades without going through the entire gradebook. Single View gives you a simple way to focus on specific students or specific assignments.
How do I upload an excel spreadsheet of grades into Moodle gradebook?
Use when you are grading assignments offline using Excel
How to Exclude a Certain Grade for a Certain Student
Exclude/excuse a grade item in Grades for a student.
How do I take attendance in Moodle?
The attendance module is a convenient way to track class attendance and/or participation. The activity can be graded or ungraded, depending on if you assign points for class attendance.
How do I back up my grades in Moodle?
You can export your grades to make sure you don't lose any, or keep a copy for safe-keeping.

OK, I've entered my grades in Moodle. How do I submit them to the registrar?

The answer: Viterbo Self-Service! See links below:

VitNet Self-Service
https://www.viterbo.edu/vss

How to Enter and Submit Grades into VitNet Self-Service
To enter and submit student grades for recording keeping, grades entered in Moodle have to be manually transferred to and entered in VitNet Self-Service.

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