A manual grade item populates a gradebook with work that occurs outside of Moodle: Work hosted elsewhere, such as required emails or outside tools from publishers Extra credit above normally graded work, such as a student earning 12/10 points on an assignment In-Class work Anything that is not completed using a Moodle Activity or Resource Scroll [...]
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The Moodle Book is similar to an e-book and—unlike a standard PDF or Word document—is designed to be accessible for all users, regardless of disabilities, devices, or screen sizes. The multi-page resource is compact and easily navigable via its table of contents. Create a BookAdd a ChapterEdit ChapterImporting Word DocumentsOrganize ChaptersCreate a Book A Moodle [...]
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The Ask & Share forum is a special forum for class announcements. This forum appears in the Course Essentials section of each course. Additionally, the Latest Announcements block can work in tandem with the Ask & Share forum to display recent posts. You and your students may post or reply to the Ask & Share [...]
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When you Enable Completion Tracking in your course, all new activities and resources will default to Students can manually mark the activity as complete since that is the only option available for all activities and resources. If you wish to change the Default activity completion for specific types of activities and resources, you can do so [...]
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Setting up Completion Tracking The completion tracking feature allows you and your students to track course progress. Please follow these steps to utilize Completion Tracking in your course. Enable completion tracking in your course. Set up Activity Completion for activities and resources in your course: Individual Activities and Resources Allow students to manually mark the [...]
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These steps require that completion tracking be enabled in your course. A common activity in Moodle is to have students submit a file or text to an assignment. You can set up Activity Completion to mark a forum as complete if the student makes a submission. NOTE: You can't automatically check to ensure your student's [...]
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These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course. A common activity in Moodle is to have students participate in a forum. You can set up Activity Completion to mark a forum as complete if the student completes a specified number of posts/discussions/replies. NOTE: This will not check for a substantive post, [...]
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These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course. A common activity in Moodle is to have students earns a specific score on a quiz. You can set up Activity Completion to mark a quiz as complete if the student earns a passing grade. This is ideal for warm-up quizzes and terminology [...]
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Follow these steps after you have enabled completion tracking on all relevant activities in your course. NOTE: The block does NOT update immediately and changes to a student's progress will update every few minutes. From the top-right corner of the page toggle Edit mode into the On position. Locate the Add a Block item at [...]
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You can bulk apply settings to ALL activities but your completion tracking options may be limited to none or manual. Use this process for one type of activity/resource at a time for the most control and the best results. Enter the course with completion tracking enabled. From the Secondary navigation expand the More button. Select [...]
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These steps require that Completion tracking be enabled in your course. You can have students track their progression by manually marking activities and resources as complete. Although, you can have Moodle automatically mark activities and resources complete by meeting specified conditions there may be times you wish to let students check off their own progress. [...]
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Enabling Completion Tracking in a course allows your students to clearly recognize and track the work they need to complete. It will have no effect on their grade. To add Activity Completion to existing activities and resources, use Bulk Edit Activity Completion. To make sure Activity Completion is set up properly for new activities and resources, [...]
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What does this mean? The weight of a question within a quiz is the ratio of its worth compared to other questions in a quiz. If one question has a weight of 2 and all questions have a weight of 1 then that 2 point question is worth twice as much as its peers. The [...]
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Some quiz questions will grade automatically. For those that don't or for when you need to override a grade, you can manually grade quiz questions. Most types of quiz questions will be automatically graded by Moodle: True/False Multiple Choice All forms of Matching Calculated Cloze Short Answer* However, some question types must be manually graded [...]
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Extra Credit You can identify an extra credit item from the Gradebook Setup view. The Max grade will followed by a dashed underlined + symbol. Make an item Extra Credit If you want your category to contain an extra credit grade items you need to set the aggregation to one of our suggested aggregation methods: [...]
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Gradebooks in Moodle are very powerful with many features. OLET can help you match your gradebook to your course syllabus. Design (Percentage vs. Points)GradeStudent ViewFinal GradesTroubleshootDesign (Percentage vs. Points) Designing a Gradebook There are two standardized Gradebook layouts: Percentages and Points. Example Percentage Layout In situations where your syllabus has grades broken down into percentages like [...]
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Rubrics in Moodle allow instructors to use criteria-based assessment forms to grade student work consistently, quickly, and transparently. The tool allows instructors to create their own rubrics from scratch or use an existing rubric that can be modified and filled out online. The rubric is available to students reviewing their grades, and can also be [...]
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The Attendance activity is designed for teachers to be able to take attendance during class, and for students to be able to view their own attendance record. A teacher can mark the attendance status of a student as "Present", "Absent", "Late", or "Excused". These status descriptions and point values can be modified to align with your syllabus. CreateAdd SessionsMarking AttendanceModify [...]
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