Moodle Gradebook : explore the Moodle Gradebook and discover how to set up and customize it to track students' progress / Rebecca Barrington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrington, Rebecca, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moodle.

Instructional systems--Design.

Instructional systems.

Computer-assisted instruction--Computer programs--Electronic books.

Computer-assisted instruction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

Barrington Rebecca: Rebecca Barrington has been using Moodle for over seven years whilst working at South Devon College. She provides a range of support, training and information guides for teaching staff and uses Moodle in her own teaching, including a qualification about virtual learning environments. Rebecca has a keen interest in using technologies to support learning and is continually developing new ways of using Moodle and applying these to online courses for use with students. South Devon College has a well-known reputation for its use of technology and Rebecca also travelled around the country to deliver training and advice on using Moodle to other organizations as well as at regional and national events. She is also a regular contributor to online VLE forums to share ideas and advice. Rebecca can be found online via Twitter @bbarrington

Summary:

This book is for teachers and administrators who have experience with Moodle. Basic knowledge of Moodle 2.x will be required, but no prior knowledge of grade functions is needed. This book will help you utilize the full functionality of Version 2.7.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to the Gradebook; Getting to the Gradebook; Activities that work with the Gradebook; Key features of the Gradebook; Organizing grades; Summary; Chapter 2: Customizing the Grades; Numeric grades; Letter grades; Customizing letter grades; Creating a letter grade that uses words; Creating scales to grade assignments; Customizing grade scales; Have another go!; Using Outcomes; Summary; Chapter 3: Adding Graded Activities; Adding assignments

Creating an assignment with a scaleCreating an online assignment with a number grade; Creating an assignment including outcomes; Alternative Grading Methods; Marking guide; Rubrics; Adding additional grading directly into the Gradebook; Summary; Chapter 4: Assigning Grades; Grading an assignment; The Submission Status section; The Grades section; Attempt settings; Grading options; Options; Quick grading within the assignment grading screen; Grading an online text assignment with a number grade; Grading an assignment with outcomes; Grading an assignment with a marking guide

Grading an assignment with a rubricGrading a graded item within the Gradebook; Quick grading within the Gradebook; Summary; Chapter 5: Using Calculations; Calculating the course grade; Why use normalization?; Aggregation types; Maximum grades; Example one - The mean of grades; Including all graded activities; The simple weighted mean of grades; The weighted mean of grades; Example two - The sum of grades; Viewing letter grades in the Gradebook; Setting the course default for the grade display type; Example three - using scales; Example four - using outcomes; Summary

Chapter 6: Organizing The Gradebook Using CategoriesAdding categories; Excluding assessments from the final grade; Excluding assessments from the aggregation for all students; Excluding assessments from the aggregation for individual students; Summary; Chapter 7: Reporting with the Gradebook; The grader report; Using groups to further improve the Gradebook's use; Creating groups; Enabling assignments to use groups; Viewing the groups in the Gradebook; Outcomes report; Overview report; User report; Reports that students see; Customizing the reports view; Exporting the Gradebook data; Summary

Chapter 8: Additional Features for Progress TrackingSetting pass grades; Activity completion; Reporting; Student view; Teacher view; Course completion; Reporting; Teacher view; Student view; Summary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 17, 2015).

ISBN:

9781784396619

1784396613

OCLC:

900788584