Overview of Grades for Instructors in Moodle

1. Grades
Overview of Grades in a Moodle course.

2. Grades
 Accessing Grade Book
 Grader Report
 Categories & Items
 User Report
 Grade Columns
 Weighted Grades
 Review of Grade settings

3. Course Admin block
Click Grades
Grade Administration
Opens
To Access the Grade Book:
1. Click the Grades link in
Course Administration block
2. Grader Report displays by
default.

4. Navigation Tabs
Subcategories of
Navigation Tabs
Grade book Grid

5. Categories and Items is located under the Setup Tab.
• Categories & Items list all the Graded items within a course.
• Using the Categories & Items makes it easier to assign weight values to specific
Grade items.
Navigation Tabs
Settings tabs for the Navigation tabs
Course Name
Grade Category
Graded Items in Category
Category
Weight
Individual
item
weight

6. Students Name
Choose specific user or
select view All
The User Report – Displays the progress an individual is making through the course.
• Note: When a student clicks My Grades under their Administration block, this is
what they will see.

7. How are Grade Columns Created?
• Grade Columns are created automatically when you create an
activity.
• As you build your course, your Grade book is being built at the
same time.
• Columns can be created manually, please make sure that there
is not an existing column.
• To Create a manual Grade Column:
1. Click the button in the upper right corner of
the Grade book
2. Click the tab in the Grade Navigation bar.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the Categories & Items page.
4. Click button.
5. Enter the information for the Grade Item
6. Click Save Changes.
• Note: this column will not be automatically populated
with any scores, this requires manual grade entry.

8. Weighted Grades
 Weighted grades is also known as Grade aggregation
 Choice of the aggregation strategy that will be used to calculate each participant's overall grade for a grade
category.
 Mean of Grades - The sum of all grades divided by the total number of grades.
 Weighted Mean - Each grade item can be given a weight, which is then used in the arithmetic mean
aggregation to influence the importance of each item in the overall mean.
 Simple weighted mean - The difference from Weighted mean is that weight is calculated as Maximum
grade - Minimum grade for each item.
 Mean of grades (with extra credits) - Arithmetic mean with a twist. An old, now unsupported
aggregation strategy provided here only for backward compatibility with old activities. A value greater
than 0 treats a grade item's grades as extra credit during aggregation.
 Median of grades - The middle grade (or the mean of the two middle grades) when grades are arranged
in order of size.
 Smallest grade - The result is the smallest grade after normalization. It is usually used in combination
with Aggregate only non-empty grades.
 Highest grade - The result is the highest grade after normalization.
 Mode of grades - The mode is the grade that occurs the most frequently. It is more often used for non-
numerical grades.
 Natural - This is the sum of all grade values, scaled by weight.

9. Review of Grade Settings
• Turn on Editing (click the button in upper right corner)
Edit course grade settings
Edit category grade settings
Edit activity grade settings