grade/index

Clicking Grades you will see the grades of tests, quizzes and projects that students have done.

Many Moodle activities allow grades to be set. By default, the results of all grades within the course can be seen in the Grades page, available to students from the course home page "Administration" block.

If a teacher is not interested in using grades in a course, or just wants to hide grades from students, then they can disable the display of grades using this setting. This does not prevent individual activities from using or setting grades, it just disables the results being displayed to students.

BASIC MODE

You can sort by student last name or first name by clicking the respective links under the student column on either the left or right side. The gradebook initially sorts by lastname. The student names are links that will display just that student and their grades. This is useful when a student is looking at the gradebook with you and you need to protect the privacy of other student grades. The button at the top will create an excel spreadsheet or a tab separated text file for the course grades which you can download to your local machine. The main heading will display 'Grades' if you are using the normal mode (default). Otherwise it will show the category name which you are currently viewing if you have turned advanced settings on. In the middle you will see all graded items for a course (or just a particular category in advanced mode). The names for each graded item are links that take you to the settings for that particular item. A total column will be located to the right of all assignments (or categories in advanced mode). There are two arrows to the right of the Total heading that sort student totals in descending and ascending order respectively. To the right of the total heading (or for each individual category in advanced mode) is a 'stats' link that will display a popup of statistics based on total for the class. How to adjust specific gradebook settings. The link that you need to click to adjust a setting will be in double quotes. More information and help will be available on each respective screen.

In the basic mode you will see two tabs.

View Grades

Here you will see all students, their grades for each graded item, and a total for each student.

Set Preferences

Here you can switch the basic and advanced mode by clicking You will

Reprint Headers

It determines how often the column headings are reprinted. This can help to keep track of a large class of students.

Show Hidden Items

Enabling it will show grade items that are hidden. This applies to the instructor view only. Students will not see gradebook entries for items that are not visible to them. Student totals will include hidden items if this is set to "Yes"

ADVANCED MODE

If you decide to use advanced options, you will see six tabs:

Grade Exceptions

This can be used to exclude students from individual assignments. This is useful if two class sections merge or a student transfers from a different section several weeks into a semester. It is also useful for extenuating circumstances: sickness, injury, etc. There are three columns:

Left: Is students for the course that are "Included in Grading" for an particular graded item. Middle: A listing of all graded items followed by a total number of students excluded from grading in parenthesis. Right: A list of students that are excluded from a particular assignment To exclude students click the assignment in the middle and then click the students name in the left column (holding down CTRL or APPLE will allow selection of multiple items). Then click "Exclude from Grading" at the bottom. The student(s) should be moved from the left column to the right, and they will now be excluded from grade calculations for that assignment.

To include students that have been excluded; Choose the appropriate assignment, click the student in the right column and finally "Include in Grading" at the bottom. The student should be moved from the right column to the left column.