A short introductory presentation outlining ways of using Moodle to track student progress from simple progress trackers to full grading options.

1. Ways of tracking progress in
Moodle
Using
Core functions 3rd party plugins
Becky Barrington

2. Gradebook!
• Simple grade tracker
• Use Moodle activities and / or just use gradebook
• Customise final and category grades to show ‘grade
to date’ or ‘predicted grade’
• Hide grades from students or exclude grades not part
of final total
• Add ‘target’ columns to aid target setting and
progress
• Track progress through a range of required elements
Core function

3. Use as a simple tracker

4. Use for top level progress tracking
using category scores

5. Teacher view of Gradebook
View all students
See grade
Feedback can also be provided

6. Student view of
Gradebook
Students only see
their own
information.
Grade and feedback
provided.

7. How?
• Categories to
‘group’ work
• Set
‘aggregation’ to
calculate grades
• Weightings can
also be set

8. Moodle can do so much more..
• Than just store grades
• The gradebook can be visually enhanced by using a
few other Moodle tools!
• Activity completion unlocks a range of extra
functions
Core function

9. Activity Completion
• Activity completion can be added to most Moodle
activities
– Students manually mark when complete
– Complete when conditions met
• Viewed
• Submitted
• Discussion or reply
• Works particularly well with quizzes, forums and
assignments

10. Activity completion in action
• Student progress
• Screenshot of teacher report
• Things to consider
– Student tick items that require reading / off-line work
– Use Moodle tools where possible
– My favourite activities:
• Forums
• Submitted work to release answers
• Quizzes and assignments with pass grades

13. Assignments and activity completion
• Can help to make a visual tracking tool
• Activity completion options
– Submitted
– Passed
• Setting pass grades for work (such as quizzes
and assignments) improves the use of the
gradebook as a tracking tool.

14. Gradebook
Visual cues added when ‘pass’ grades are utilised
Core function

15. How?

16. Course Completion
• Still don’t like the gradebook view?
• If you only want to know if work is passed or not, use
course completion instead.
• Set up the required items and view the  or  to
indicate progress
• Teacher report
• Student report

19. Checklists
• You could use this as a visual
progress bar of the course
completion items.
• You could also use for students
to check progress through other
activities (such as meeting
assignment criteria). *
*watch my pecha kucha for more
ideas ;)
3rd party plugin

20. Summary
• Gradebook can be used to create a simple progress
tracker for units of work or a more detailed grade
tracker for all assessed elements of a course.
• Use activity completion and pass grades to make
tracking more visual.
• Use course completion to provide a simple visual
progress tracker.

21. Links and Contact Details
rebecca.barrington@cornwall.ac.uk
@bbarrington
Book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moodle-Gradebook-Edition-Rebecca-Barrington/dp/178439937X