Grade categories not only organize grade items for the course, but they also have their own aggregated grade which is calculated from the items it contains. We have a number of articles that describe the most common uses for gradebook categories in more details: Creating a points-based gradebook Creating a percentage-based gradebook Create an ungraded [...]
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Sometimes you may have optional or hidden Moodle activities that show up in the User and Grader Report. This can cause course totals to not be accurate and confusion for students that are viewing the gradebook. We recommend that you follow these steps to create a hidden Not graded category to eliminate these issues. Scroll [...]
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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 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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What does this mean? The numbers in the far-right column on the Edit Quiz page represent individual value for each question. This is, by default, one (1) point but the instructor you can alter the weight of individual questions. For example, you might want an essay question to be worth five (5) points and a [...]
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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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Ratings allows you to grade the posts as you read them in the forum. To use this grade method you need to first create a Forum with Ratings. Click the Forum link. Enter the Discussion you want to grade. NOTE: You do not need to enter the discussion for the forum type A single simple discussion [...]
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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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