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
How?• Categories to
‘group’ work
• Set ‘aggregation’ to calculate grades
• Weightings can also be set
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
Links and Contact Details
@bbarrington
Book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moodle-Gradebook-Edition-Rebecca-Barrington/dp/178439937X