Extra Credit is Not Calculating It's best to have a single "layer" of extra credit as close to the gradebook total as possible. Either the grade item(s) need to be marked as extra credit OR a single category within the Course's category be marked as extra credit (with all category content's normal- NOT marked as [...]
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Grades do not automatically move from Moodle to MyClackamas at the end of each term because not everyone uses Moodle or its gradebook; you must do this manually to officially submit grades. Login to the My.Clackamas.edu portal. Ensure you're in the Faculty view (if you aren't already, you'll find links to different views in the [...]
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This is an element of the gradebook setup for a percentage-based gradebook. Repeat these steps for each grade category you mention in your syllabus. Create a new Category Scroll to the top of the main page of your course (if you aren't there already). Select the Grades option from the Secondary Navigation. Select the Gradebook [...]
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Change the Default for All Grade Totals The Current default display in the gradebook is Real (Percentage) and may appear overwhelming. You can change this in the course settings for each of your noted courses with the following instructions: Enter the course you wish to modify gradebook defaults in Select the Grades option on the Secondary [...]
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This setting is used to ensure that the lowest graded assignments (you choose how many) are NOT factored into a category's total worth within your gradebook. It is strongly recommended this not be used on a points gradebook unless all items in a category are the same value. Scroll to the top of the main page of [...]
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While student grades could be appearing incorrectly in the gradebook for a number of reasons the most common issues we see can be fixed with the following steps. Enter the gradebook of the course with oddly low grades. Select the Grades option from the Secondary Navigation. Select the Gradebook Setup option from the Tertiary Navigation. Locate the name [...]
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This is an element of the gradebook setup for a points-based gradebook. Repeat these steps for each grade category you mention in your syllabus. Scroll to the top of the main page of your course (if you aren't there already). Select the Grades option from the Secondary Navigation. Select the Gradebook Setup option from the Tertiary [...]
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This will ensure that any grade items and categories will total in points rather than "Out of 100" , which is probably not what your points add up to. Scroll to the top of the main page of your course (if you aren't there already). Select the Grades option from the Secondary Navigation. Select the [...]
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Moodle's Gradebook aligns with the best practice in online pedagogy to provide learners with a well designed and up-to-date gradebook. However, if your gradebook needs some work, you can temporarily hide it until it's ready: Enter your Moodle course. Select the Settings option on the Secondary Navigation. Expand the Appearance section. Change Show gradebook to students [...]
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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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This applies to Forums set up to use Ratings (Option 1 in Create a Forum Activity) Enter the (Open) Forum you wish you enter grades for. Enter the Discussion you wish to enter grades for. (Does not apply for Single Simple Discussion or Blog style forums) Read over a student's post. Locate the Rating... drop-down menu [...]
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You can change the course total or a category total to display letter grades in the gradebook. Set a Single Gradebook Category to Display Letter Grades Scroll to the top of the main page of your course (if you aren't there already). Select the Grades option from the Secondary Navigation. Select the Gradebook Setup option [...]
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Fancy Title Optional Summary In the Moodle gradebook you can move things around either one at a time and fine-tune their location in the process or you can grab a bunch of items at once and move ALL of them to the end of a selected gradebook category. Move Single ItemMove To CategoryMove Single Item [...]
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To remove Moodle activities like Forums, Quizzes or Assignments you will need to set their grade type to None or delete them from the main course page/weekly view of your course. Steps for doing that are not covered in this article. Scroll to the top of the main page of your course (if you aren't [...]
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Extra Credit is not an option for an Item in a gradebook category set to use Weighted mean of grades. (It does work for Natural and Simple weighted mean of grades which are our suggested aggregations.) How do you identify extra credit? You can identify an extra credit item from the Setup view of the [...]
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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 (without setup or available plugins); Extra credit on top of normally graded work, such as a student earning 12/10 points on an assignment; In-Class work; there is also the [...]
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If you are using assignments (How to grade an assignment), quizzes (How to grade a quiz), forums or other gradable items they have their own built-in grading tools that will be overridden by entering grades for them directly into the gradebook. The built-in grading tools have superior ways to provide feedback and provide clearer grading [...]
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