Notes

Remarque : la traduction de cet article n'est pas terminée. N'hésitez pas à traduire tout ou partie de cette page ou à la compléter. Vous pouvez aussi utiliser la page de discussion pour vos recommandations et suggestions d'améliorations.

Introduction

Fichier:Grades icon link.JPG Les enseignants peuvent voir les notes des étudiants aux différentes activités en utilisant le lien "Notes" dans le bloc d'administration. Les étudiants peuvent aussi voir leurs Notes. Le terme employé est souvent carnet de note (Gradebook) et offre les fonctionnalités suivantes :

• Le total des points d'un cours
• La vision des notes d'un étudiant
• Tri (selon les noms ou les notes)
• Statistiques sur les notes
• La pondération des notes et leur catégorisation
• Gestion des notes par lettre (ABCDEF,C/NC, etc...)
• Suppression des moins bonnes notes dans le calcul des totaux
• Exclusion de personnes dans la notation d'un élément
• Exclusion de notes d'une activité ou d'une catégorie de l'affichage aux étudiants et des calculs de moyenne
• Possibilité de noter suivant les groupes

Les fonctions avancées comme la pondération ou la catégorisation, les notes lettres, la suppression, l'exclusion de note et l'affichage des notes sont disponibles en activant les fonctionnalités avancées.

Ajout d'éléments au carnet de note

Les éléments notés sont ajoutés automatiquement au carnet de note quand vous créez l'élément à partir du menu "Ajouter un activité" dans un cours. Au fur et à mesure que les étudiants complètent un activité notée, les notes sont intégrées au carnet de notes.

Prenons l'exemple d'un étudiant qui suit un cours de 5 chapitres, chaque chapitre comprenant une leçon avec des questions. Le carnet de note montrera ses notes pour chaque leçon, une fois qu'il les aura terminées.

Vous avez une note liée à un élément hors ligne à ajouter au carnet de notes ? Ajoutez un devoir et donnez à chaque étudiant une note.

Si vous utilisez les fonctionnalités avancées (voir plus bas), les nouveaux éléments notés seront dans la catégorie : "sans catégorie"

Cacher des éléments

Quand un cours ou une activité est caché, les notes sont invisibles pour les étudiants. Elles seront visibles pour les enseignants si le paramètre "Afficher les éléments cachés:" est positionné à Oui. Dans ce cas, elles apparaitront en grisé pour indiquer qu'elles ne sont pas visibles pour les étudiants. Sinon (si le paramètre "Afficher les éléments cachés:" est positionné à Non), elle ne seront pas visibles du tout.

Les fonctionnalités standard du carnet de note

Certaines fonctionnalités du carnet de note sont activées par défaut, pour tous les cours Moodle. En voici le détail ci-dessous.

Voir les vues étudiant seul ???: Single student view: Dans un cous avec de nombreux étudiants et de nombreux éléments notés, il peut être difficile de repérer les notes d'un étudiant précis lorsque vou sparcourez le carnet de note. En cliquant sur le nom d'un étudiant, vous pouvez ne faire apparaitre qu'uniquement ses notes et cacher les autres.

Réafficher les entêtes: Ce paramètre détermine le rythme de réapparition du nom de l'activité, permettant de rendre plus facile la vision d'un grand nombre d'activités notées sans s'y perdre.

Tri: Clicking the sort by Lastname will sort the list of students by their lastname. Sort by Firstname will sort the student list by their first name.

Grades may be sorted by clicking the arrows next to the course Total.

Statistics: You can view the statistics for your course's grades by clicking the "Stats" link(2).

This will open a pop-up window which will show the highest and lowest scores, the average, the median and mode, and the standard deviation.

Clicking the activity's name will bring you to the activity itself.

Activating the Advanced Features

If you would like to use the advanced features of the gradebook (such as grade weighting, letter grades, etc.) then enter the gradebook, click 'Set Preferences', then click the "Use Advanced Features" button.

The page will reload, and you will now see a new set of links for various advanced features along with new preferences settings. The settings let you choose what to display in the gradebook, as well as what to show to students.

Display Weighted Grades will show the % value of a category after the weighting you set (in the Set Weights link) has been applied. You may also limit what students see by clicking the drop-down box and choosing 'to Teachers only.'

Display Points will show the raw (unweighted) points a student has earned.

Display Percent will show the raw % (unweighted) of the total points the student has earned.

Display Letter Grade will show the letter grade earned so far (you can set the scale for this or change the grade letters in the "Set Grade Letters" link in the Advanced Features menu).

The Letter Grade preference determines how the letter grade is calculated, by Weighted Percent or Raw Percent.

Setting Categories

Once you turn the Advanced Features, all your graded items will go into the default "Uncategorized" category. If you would like to create special categories for graded items, click the "Set Categories" link.

This will open the category editing page. This is where graded items can be placed into categories, curved or set as extra credit items. New categories can also be added and existing ones deleted.

To add a new category, simply type its name in the "Add Category" box, and click "Add Category". To remove a category, select it in the Delete Category menu and click "Delete Category". Items inside a deleted category will not be deleted, they will simply revert to the Uncategorized category.

The graded items in your course will show up along the left side of the category editing page. To assign an item to a category, simply select the category name from the drop down list.

Category: Adjusts which category a graded item belongs to. Items that have not been assigned a category or were in a category that was deleted will be automatically placed in "Uncategorized"

Curve To: Allows you to curve grades. Set this item to what you would like the particular graded item graded out of. So if the max grade was 30 and curve to was set at 28 students grades and percents would be calculated against a possible 28 points rather than 30.

Extra Credit: Check this box if you would like a particular item to be calculated as extra credit. An extra credit item's points are not counted towards the category's total, so the points for these items are just added to the points of the other items in the category. Thus in a category with 100 point test and a 5 point journal, with the journal set to Extra Credit, the category total would still be 100 points, so you can give extra credit by giving students points for their journal. These points will increase their score for that category without increasing the total points for that category. Any graded item may be set to Extra Credit. When you have set your categories, remember to click the "Save Changes" button to record your changes.

Setting category weights

Once you have set up categories, you need to give the categories some weight. By default, items are put in the Uncategorized category, which is weighted to 100% the first time you start up the gradebook. To weight other categories, type the values in the weight box and click Save Changes. The gradebook with tally your weights and let you know if they add up to 100%.

Category weightings will make each category contribute X percent to the weighted total; where X is the weight that you assign to the category. This is regardless of how many points that particular category may have.

For instance you could have 4 categories with weights set to 25 each. Let's say that each category has total points 5, 100, 20, and 400. Now even though the points for each category is drastically different each category will contribute 25% to the weighted total. To elaborate further let's say a student has 3, 88, 19, and 350 points in each category (respectively). Their weighted total would be calculated as follows. (3/5)*0.25 + (88/100)*0.25 + (19/20)*0.25 + (350/400)*0.25 = .15 + .22 + .2375 + .21875 = .82625 or 82.625%

Other features of the "Set Weights" window are dropping grades, bonus points, and hiding items.

Drop X Lowest: This is used drop the X number of lowest scores from a students grade calculation. The point totals for a category should be all the same value or unpredictable results may occur.

Bonus Points: Is used to give extra points that do not change the point total for a category. This can be used to adjust for unfair questions or similiar. These will be applied equally to all students. If you wish to selectively provide extra credit; add a new graded item and set it to extra credit in "Set Categories".

Hidden: if this box is checked it will remove a category from display and also from grade calculation. This an easy way to only add items to the gradebook after they have been graded. Since graded items that have not been categorized will automatically be assigned to "Uncategorized" you can set the "Uncategorized" category to hidden and then as you grade items move them to whichever category you like and students can then see their grade.

Setting Grade Letters

To assign number values to grade letters, click the "Set Grade Letters" link.

This will show you a list of the letter grades and their current percent values. To change percent values, type in new numbers and click save changes.

You can also change the grade letters to anything you like. For instance you can delete all the letter grades and replace them with a simple Credit/No Credit scale. ===tip=== To avoid messages/errors like this "No letter grade for 111.41" enter your letter grade per cent to the second decimal.

Viewing Grades

Clicking the Grades link will show you the current state of your gradebook. In this case, we see the three general categories, the points each student has earned so fare and their weighted score for each category.

The course totals are also shown, along with the student's current letter grade.

Students can be sorted by name, or by high or low total scores (click the up/down arrows). The "Stats" link will open a pop-up window with your curent course statistics.

Clicking on a category title will show you what is in that category, the points, etc. and the totals for that category. Clicking on a student's name will show you just that student's grades. For instance, this view shows only the grades of 'Demo Student'.

Grade Exceptions

A feature many faculty have been requesting in a gradebook is a way to exclude certain students from being graded on certain assignments. The Grade Exceptions screen enables this process. To excuse a student from being graded for an assignment, first select the student's name on the left, then select the assignment's name in the center, and click the "Exclude from Grading" button.

You can select multiple students by holding down the control key when you click their names.

Grading with groups

If you have a course that has a large number or multiple classes of students enrolled, you can use groups to make grading easier.

• First, use the administration block to set up your groups. Make sure you do not use a space in the group names!
• Second, consider setting your course default to use forced groups on all assignments. You may or may not want to do this, but if every assignment should employ groups, you may find it easier to set this as the default.
• Third, use the dropdown box in the gradebook to view the grades by group or for all participants. (See image below)

Voir aussi

• Using Moodle Chapter 12: Grades and Scales
• Using Moodle taming the gradebook forum discussion
• a variant of gradebook that allows in-place multi-column editing gradebookplus
• Lesson_module#Grading is a discussion of grading