Adding Graded Items

When you add certain activity types to your Moodle course, they will automatically be added as grade items within the gradebook. The most common examples are Assignment and Quiz, but you can also have graded Forums and other activities. In general, these will be items that are submitted or completed within Moodle itself. Setting point values, due dates, and other relevant information for these is handled through the interface for that particular item. Beyond this, however, it is possible to add manual grade items for things like attendance, participation, or assignments/papers/etc. that you want students to hand into you directly rather than submit through Moodle, which will be discussed below.

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. In the gradebook, you can then control the weights of individual activities, or categories of activities, to aggregate a final score for the class