Managing Gradebooks

Overview

The Moodle Gradebook automatically aggregates scores and feedback from Assignments, Activities, and/or Manual grades from your Moodle course. Students can view their own grades in individualized reports which protect student privacy. Instructors can decide when and how students see the gradebook. Instructors can use the gradebook to manually enter and edit grades (Overriden) or export the gradebook to manage it in another software (like Excel).

The gradebook maintains a running course total for students based on a grading scheme set by the Instructor. Faculty can then import the final grades can be then be added to SSIU at the end of the term.

How Grading Works in Moodle

The scores for graded Moodle activities are automatically aggregated into the gradebook. In order for Moodle to easily aggregate scores automatically, entries in the gradebook are numeric by default. The default score for each activity is 100, though this can be updated in the Assignment settings for each activity.

Some activities allow you to use a rubric or grading form to calculate a score. Faculty can add written feedback for students to see next to their grade. For some activities (such as Assignments, Quizzes, and Workshops) there is a field for providing written feedback when grading from within the activity. You can also enter feedback for grade items in the gradebook.

If you follow Moodle methods, grading can be very easy.