Grades pre-1.9
Introduction
The Moodle 1.5 Gradebook has these features:
- Course Total Points
- Single Student Grades View
- Sorting (name or score)
- Grade statistics
- Grade weighting and categorization
- Letter Grades (ABCDF, C/NC, etc)
- Dropping lowest scores
- Excluding individuals from being graded on particular items
- Hiding the grades from an activity or category from student view and grades calculation
- Edit Assignment and Quiz grades in the gradebook
The default settings of the new gradebook are similar to the old gradebook, with 5 added features:
- Single student view: click a student's name to view just their grades for all activities
- Reprint headers: this setting can be used to reprint the activity titles ever X students (X being a number you set).
- Sorting, students in the gradebook may be sorted by their names (first or last) or by scores (high or low).
- Statistics: a report of the highest/lowest, mean/median/mode and the standard deviation for your grades
Advanced features such as grade weighting and categorization, letter grades, dropping and excluding scores and hiding scores are available by turning the advanced features on.
Adding items to the gradebook: Graded items are added to the gradebook automatically, when you create the item from the "Add" menu in your course.
So if you add an Assignment with a grade of 50, once you finish adding it, check the gradebook and it will be there. If you are using the advanced features covered in Chapter 4 , newly added items will show up in the "uncategorized" category.
Hidden items Items hidden in the course page using the 'eye' tool, may show up in the gradebook in two ways. There is a preference setting in preferences. If 'Show hidden items" is set to "No", hidden items will not show up in the gradebook for either instructors or students.
If 'Show hidden items' is set to yes, hidden items will still be invisible to students, as will their point values in the student view of the gradebook. However, in the instructor view, hidden items will show up with a white header box to show that they are currently hidden from students.
