The Moodle gradebook offers quite a bit of flexibility in setting up your grading method. There are numerous ways you can aggregate grades such as Simple weighted mean of grades, Weighted mean of grades, and natural. The most common aggregation method is weighted mean of grades. Using this method you can determine how much weight to give each item and/or category. The default is Simple weighted mean of grades which determines the weight of each item based on its maximum allowable points. One of the most common grading methods is Weighted means of grades. Use this method if you would like to setup your gradebook in a way that gives…

There are numerous views and screens available of the Moodle gradebook, but only a few are commonly used. When you first access the Gradebook by clicking on “Grades” under the Navigation box, the Grader Report view is shown as the default.  This view shows all the grades for all the students in the course, with scrollbars along the right side and bottom for classes with a large number of students and/or assignments.  To sort the students by a grade column, click on the arrow symbol next to the column name.  This will allow you to toggle between ascending and descending views of the grade column. To modify grades within this…

When working with categories in the Moodle Gradebook, you may find that not all the grade item columns and category totals are showing in the grader report.  This is due to the different views for the columns, and can be easily fixed. The top row of the grader report shows the course name, and the row underneath shows the different assignments, such as quizzes or tutorials.  Note that if a grade column has not be assigned to a category, it will only show within the general course ‘uncategorized’ category. Next to the course name and each category is a small box. Clicking within this box changes the view between three…