Changing Your Moodle Course Grade Expression

By default, Moodle displays grades in the gradebook in points. Here is how you can have the grades expressed in different ways.

Moodle Course Dashboard - Needs Grading

Instructor question:

I'm still getting used to using the grader in Moodle (I used the Joule Grader in the past).  The Joule grader "told me" when someone resubmitted an assignment.  I assumed that the one we have now would do the same.

I knew that this student resubmitted because she told me she did.  But I can't see anything in the assignment submission list that tells me there has been an updated submission.  (I'm concerned because I know that other students have resubmitted as well and now I don't know how I can track them).

Can you take a look and let me know if there is a way to figure this out?

Click the settings gear in the upper right > Open Reports:

Then select the "Needs Grading" report from the "Dashboard" dropdown menu:

See the informational notice Moodle provides:

The Needs Grading report shows you what is ready for grading. It lists each student and their activities that need grading. Select Grade now to grade the activity.

Use the filters to expand or narrow your view. You can send messages to students you see in the report. Select the student and the option to send them a message from the Action menu.

Moodle Gradebook Basics: Categories

A Great Resource on the Moodle Gradebook

"The Moodle gradebook is highly functional and flexible, but these traits can make it difficult to learn how to set things up. Here are some techniques that may be useful for setting up your gradebook."

See also:

Import Grades into Moodle

Why aren't category totals showing up in the gradebook?

Credit: Andrew Ruether

Exporting Moodle Course Grades

Whether you use an LMS or not, you do NOT want to be the instructor who failed to keep records of the courses you deliver. If you use gradable items in Moodle, that task is very easy.

First, click the "Grades" link in your course shell Administration block:

Click the "Export" tab:

Click the "Excel Spreadsheet" link:

Keep everything selected, and click the "Download" button:

Your Excel file containing all of the grades in your course will be downloaded to your computer.

From there, we recommend keeping your course grades spreadsheets in your Google Drive, but that's another blog post…

Again, you REALLY want to make sure you keep records of your students' grades.

Moodle Gradebook Scoring Issue

Hi everyone;

There’s a characteristic of Moodle’s grade book we all need to be aware of. If we do not follow this procedure, the grades could be seriously skewed across campus.

When we enter a student’s score on the grid after a test or assignment, that number will indicate not only the student’s performance on that item, but in some cases also indicate her overall performance on the course, based on that item alone.

If a student is missing an assignment, we must manually enter the appropriate cell on the grade book and enter a “0”.

The hyphen that is already in the cells by default simply takes the cell(s) out of the total calculation.

What This Means

If you have ten assignments for the course, each graded out of 10 points, for a course total for 100 points, and a student hands in only one assignment on which he scored 9, then his course grade will read as 90% or A- even though he did only 10% of the course work.

You must open the other cells and enter a “0”.

Onward!

Terrance Millet M.A., M.F.A.