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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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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These steps will help you design your gradebook using the Percentage Layout. This is just one part of the gradebook setup that you will need to complete. Scroll to the top of the main page of your course. Select the Grades option from the secondary navigation. Select the Gradebook Setup option from the drop-down menu. [...]
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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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These steps will help you design your gradebook using the Points Layout. This is just one part of the gradebook setup that you will need to complete. Scroll to the top of the main page of your course. Select the Grades option from the secondary navigation. Select the Gradebook Setup option from the drop-down menu. Click the Edit menu to the [...]
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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. 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 in the bottom-left corner. You can tell [...]
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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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In the gradebook, you can move grade items one at a time to a specific location or you can move multiple selected grade items to a gradebook category. Move Single ItemMove Multiple ItemsMove Single Item Move a Single Item in your Gradebook Move items into an expected order (Assignment #1, Assignment #2, etc.) or move [...]
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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 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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Assignments, quizzes, forums or other gradable activities have their own built-in grading tools. We recommend that you primarily grade these activities using the built-in grading tools. There are some tasks such as bulk entering empty grades, removing grade overrides, and excusing a student from an assignment that should be done using the gradebook in Single [...]
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