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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Sometimes something will appear missing or misbehaving when attempting to grade assignments one-at-a-time. If none of the below options work you can always grade assignments offline entirely! Can't see or Grade all Students A new issue as of Moodle 3.8 this is the cause of an overzealous Filter on your selection of students. It can [...]
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Ideal for when you've imported duplicate or incorrect content into a course you can remove all content without making any changes to enrollments. NOTE: You will need to have either Teacher or Staging Staging Manager role in a course to make this change to a course. Enter the course with duplicated or incorrect content. Expand [...]
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Sometimes when using the PDF annotator built into Assignment grading a student will submit a file and the preview will be blank, there may still be some ways to see what the student submitted or otherwise have that student save their work before submitting it to you. Often when this happens the software the student [...]
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Atto can get a little overzealous in applying formatting that is copied or dragged into the editor, especially in the Chrome Web Browser. This is most noticeable in fonts and background colors applied to the moved or duplicated text and it can be a real eyesore. When Does this Happen? When a course has content [...]
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This is ideal for when you want to give a student a second chance to take a quiz for technical or other unique situations and still want to keep their first attempt on record or factored into their grade. If you want to provide students with a clean slate on their quiz and completely remove [...]
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Sometimes there are technical difficulties and a student will submit a quiz that is either empty or only partially filled out. In cases where you would like to give that student a fresh start you can delete their own attempt so that they can make a new one, unaffected by the erroneous grade. If you [...]
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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. Click into the Setup tab. Locate the name of your course on the table of grade items [...]
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If you inherited a course from another instructor or just plain don't remember the password you set last term/year you, as an instructor, can check and update that password for you and your students. Enter the Quiz in question as you normally would (Editing does not need to be enabled) Locate the Actions Menu (gear [...]
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If a student reports they are unable to submit work to an assignment activity or even can't see it check the following settings: Enter the Assignment activity in question Locate the Action Menu (gear icon) in the top-right of the page. Select the Edit Settings option. Expand the Availability section. If Allow submissions from is enabled, [...]
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If you have an assignment activity with cases of students submitting drafts instead of proper submissions this can be disorienting as: It will... Prevent the grading filters from showing assignments that need grading/have been submitted Will not accurately reflect time remaining (things will appear late when they are, in fact not late at all.) It will not... [...]
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This article will cover the basics of getting an existing quiz to function with your grade book. To find out more about the quiz activity as a whole, check out the quiz activity article. Setting the Point value of a Quiz in the Gradebook You won't find a place to enter the grade value of [...]
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