Grades min max

Summary

When grading in Moodle, either in an activity or directly in the gradebook, you assign the student a score from a specified range. The new setting "Min and max grades used in calculation" controls how the grade will be displayed if the maximum or minimum grades are changed after students have been graded.

The 2 options are:

1) "Min and max grades as specified in grade item settings" - The students grade will be displayed out of the new range, and this will affect their percentage.

2) "Initial min and max grades" - The students grades are displayed with the range that was defined at the time the student was graded.

Example:

1. An assignment is created with maximum grade of "10"
2. Sally Student receives a score of "5 out of 10 (50 %)"
3. The assignment maximum grade is changed to "20"

If "Min and max grades used in calculation" is set to "Min and max grades as specified in grade item settings", Sally Student will have a score of "5 out of 20 (25 %)".

If "Min and max grades used in calculation" is set to "Initial min and max grades", Sally Student will have a score of "5 out of 10 (50 %)" until a teacher manually regraded Sally Student out of 20.

Information for sites upgrading from earlier versions of Moodle

The default behaviour is "Min and max grades as specified in grade item settings".

In Moodle 2.8.0 - 2.8.6 and 2.9.0 the behaviour was unintentionally changed to "Initial min and max grades".

In Moodle 2.8.7 and Moodle 2.9.1 it was restored to "Min and max grades as specified in grade item settings" and this setting was added to allow changing the behaviour. Some courses affected by the upgrade will display notices to alert them to the new setting.

See also

• MDL-48618 Unexpected changes on grades after upgrade to Moodle 2.8