Recommended Set-up for Your Gradebook

To get started, determine how your grades will be calculated and use easy math

Course Site will allow for multiple grading schemas, but it is easiest to use natural aggregation and total all of your assignments out of 100 or 1000 points. You can also choose to make all assignments 100 points and weight each category. It is normally less troublesome to use either a set points value or weights, but not both. 

1. Go to your Course Site Grade Set-up

   

2. Confirm that Aggregation is set to Natural (Default)

3. Leave all other settings at default 

4. Set up categories ("Folders") and organize in your grade book setup

   Add Categories

   *Go to Gradebook Set-up, Add, and add category

   

   Example categories: Discussions, Exams, Weekly Quizzes, Attendance, Turnitin Assignments, etc.

   Organize your grade items
   
   

   Update Item point values as needed
   If you have added an electronic assignment that students will upload their work to, you can only change the point value by editing the item located in your course topics. The default value will be 100 points. 

   If you added a line item directly to your gradebook to manually enter a grade for a collected written assignment, you can change the point value by going to the gradebook setup and clicking on ...>edit grade item.

   Note: If grades have already been awarded, you will have to rescale to make adjustments in point values.

   Able to edit values New item - no grades awarded

   Must rescale Grades already awarded

   
   

5. Clean up the Student View

   Go to Gradebook Set-up> Course Grade Settings tab> Scroll down to User Report
   If required, hide Weightings, hide Contributions to Course, hide Ranges -- leave remainder at default.

       

6.  Change Grade Display Types to Letter, Percentage, Real (Point Tally)

Change All Default Grade Display Type

Go to Gradebook Set-up> Course grade settings tab> Grade Item Settings> Grade Display Type

Change Total Grade Display Type Only

Go to Gradebook Set-up> Top Folder Level (course name)> Edit> Edit category> Category Total > Show More> Grade Display Type

Note: When you are in edit mode, the REAL points value will still be be the default.

BEST PRACTICES

Always Grade from the Assignment Page

When grading activities integrated in your gradebook (electronic submissions)- items that students have submitted in course site, you SHOULD ALWAYS grade from the assignment page.  There are a few ways to find the assignment's page.  Click on the blue assignment name in column header from the grader report OR find the assignment listed in topics or use the activities block, click on the name, and go to “Grade”. By default, students will be notified via email when graded.

https://docs.moodle.org/404/en/Grading_quick_guide

Overrides

If you grade any item from the grader report rather than from the assignment page and the item has already been given a grade -- the previous grade will be overwritten.  

If you would like to change, you will need to clear this override in the SINGLE VIEW and SAVE your changes.

Don't forget to SAVE changes.

More information:

https://docs.moodle.org/404/en/Grade_settings