Grading System

Grade link is sometimes referred to as Gradebook. Grades are scores given to students in a Moodle course. Grade link or gradebook shows the scores given by each activity in the Course administration menu. Modules push student scores to grades.

The building blocks for grade link are;

The Grade Category

A grade category groups grade items together, and has settings for affecting these grade items. A grade category has its own aggregated grade which is calculated from its grade items. There is no limit to the level of nesting of categories (a category may belong to another category). However, each grade item may belong to only one category. Also, all grade items and categories belong to at least one, permanent category: the Course Category.

Adding a Grade Category

Add grade category;

• Select "Categories and items" from the gradebook dropdown menu.
• Click the "Add category" button near the bottom of the page.
• Give the grade category a meaningful name.
• Select grade category settings as appropriate. Advanced settings may be made available by clicking the "Show advanced" button.
• Click the "Save changes" button.

Editing a Grade Category

• Select "Categories and items" from the gradebook dropdown menu.
• Click the edit icon opposite the grade category you wish to edit.
• After editing the grade category, click the "Save changes" button.

The Grade Item

A grade item is a unit (an activity) where course participants are assessed through a grade or mark. The settings affect the calculation and display of the grades in the gradebook reports. Grade items may refer to course activities (e.g. a quiz, or an assignment), Outcomes or manual grades;

Activity-based grade items Modules that include a form of grading use the Gradebook API to generate a matching grade item, and to communicate their grades to the gradebook. The generated grade item can later be edited from within the gradebook interface through: Course > Grades > Edit Categories and items > Edit > grade item. Items that can be edited in an activity based grade item;

• Item info General information about the grade item.

Grade to pass This section specify the minimum grade a student must achieve to be considered to have passed this item. This must be in real grades, not a percentage. Once this is done, grades will be highlighted in red for fail and green for pass in the gradebook.

• Grade display type This is the type of grade that is to be shown for each individual grade. Grade disply types include;

1. Real - Grade from minimum to maximum range indicating total points received e.g. 0 - 100
2. Percentage - Grade from 0 - 100% indicating the total points received divided by maximum possible amount times 100.
3. Letter- Grade in the form of a letter representing a range of percentages.