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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Moodle, as a learning management system, is used to provide resources, interactive activities and assessments to students. Through the use of the gradebook, Moodle can also be used to store grades, calculate final marks and track student achievement and progress to help the teacher manage the learning process.Through the use of the gradebook, Moodle can also be used to store grades, making it much easier for you to organize your work and relay information to your students. This book provides examples of practical uses of the gradebook to demystify the terminology and options available, allowing you to make full use of the assessment tracking features and, most importantly, customize it to meet your needs. Moodle Gradebook will introduce you to the core functions of the gradebook as you will learn how to add your own graded activities before marking this work. You will customize how you view the grades and organize the activities so that your course needs are met. You will also use the new completion functions within Moodle 2.x to track progress further. Make the gradebook accommodate your requirements by adding your own grading options and setting it up to present the information you need.
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Moodle Gradebook
Moodle Gradebook
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First published: April 2012
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Rebecca Barrington
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About the Author
Rebecca Barrington has been using Moodle for over seven years while working at South Devon College. She provides a range of support, training, and information guides for teaching staff. She 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 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.
Follow Rebecca on Twitter: @bbarrington
I would like to thank my family and friends, in particular Maria, Rob, Marilyn, and Dave, for checking that the information I had written made sense before I shared it with anyone else. I would also like to thank Bayley, Emilie, and Ava for allowing me to use their names (and their parents who gave their consent). I should also say hello to Madeline who would also have been in the book but was only born while I was writing the fourth chapter!
I would like to thank South Devon College for allowing me to write this book and, in particular, Paul Vaughan, who ensured that I had the latest versions of Moodle to play with!
I would also like to thank all at PacktPub, especially the reviewers, for their support while writing my first book.
About the Reviewers
Carol Hampton works at her local college as an Educational Technologist. She encourages and supports staff to use different technologies within their teaching. Moodle is one of the larger areas she helps staff with, and the has been involved with the implementation and upkeep of their Moodle since 2005. She has worked, in collaboration, on a number of projects with other colleges in her region, as well as internationally.
Jim Judges is a freelance eLearning consultant. He has previously worked as a Lecturer in Further and Higher Education, a Teaching and Learning Development Manager, JISC eLearning Adviser, and Senior Lecturer and Partnership Manager at Birmingham City University. He has been using Moodle to support teaching and learning since 2006, and continues to develop and deliver a range of face-to-face training and online courses using Moodle.
Since 2010, he has worked as an eLearning Associate for the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), and as a consultant and trainer for a range of clients, including UK-based Moodle partners.
He lives in the Midlands, UK, with his wife Jo and two teenage daughters.
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Preface
Moodle is used in many areas of education to provide a range of resources and activities to support learning. However, it can also be used to manage learning and record progress.
This book will explain the uses of the Moodle grades area, also known as the Gradebook, to record grades for work completed and to calculate final grades. You will also learn the different options for grading work, customizing how the grades appear, and how to view progress through a range of reports. This book is based on Moodle 2.2 and will highlight some of the new features within Moodle 2 that complement the gradebook. However, many of the general gradebook instructions will also be useful for Moodle 1.9 users as the core gradebook is the same within both versions.
The book will provide step-by-step instructions, with screenshots, to take you through setting up the gradebook, adding tasks with grades, and reporting progress.
What this book covers
This book is an introduction to the gradebook and how it can be used to manage assessment. It does not explain every option possible within the Grades area and activities, as there are too many! However, it will cover the most commonly used elements that can be used and adapted to meet most course needs.
Chapter 1, Introduction to the Gradebook: In this chapter, you will be given an overview of the different elements of the gradebook and how they apply to an online course. This will set the scene for the practical instructions throughout the book.
Chapter 2, Customizing the Grades: In this chapter, you can follow the step-by-step instructions on how to create your own custom scale (using statements rather than numbers) and use letter grades (letters or words linked to a percentage). Outcomes will also be explained to enable more detailed recording within assessments.
Chapter 3, Adding Graded Activities: In this chapter, you will learn how to add grading options to assignments and also the use of advanced grading methods to enable grading using multiple criteria.
Chapter 4, Assigning Grades: This chapter will demonstrate the various ways in which assessments can be marked with written feedback and grades.
Chapter 5, Using Calculations: In this chapter, we will take a look at using the gradebook to calculate final grades for online courses. We will review the different options available and how each one can be used.
Chapter 6, Organizing Using Categories: In this chapter, we will add categories into the gradebook and move assignments into them. We will also look at ways of using categories to further customize how we use the gradebook.
Chapter 7, Reporting with the Gradebook: This chapter will show you the different reports available to view all grades or individual user information, plus how to export the gradebook data.
Chapter 8, Additional Features for Progress Tracking: Finally, in this chapter, we will look at other features within Moodle 2 that complement the gradebook. We will use the activity and course completion features to provide a pictorial view of the student's achievement.
How to use this book
Users that are new to Moodle assessments and the gradebook can read the book from beginning to end and follow the instructions to get some practical experience. Users that are already familiar with the basics of the gradebook can use each chapter individually to customize the gradebook according to their needs.
If you would like to work through the instructions in this book, you will need editing access to a course in Moodle 2.2.
Tip
You can also use the instructions if you are using an earlier version of Moodle, but the advanced grading/rubrics section of Chapter 3, Adding Graded Activities, should be ignored. The gradebook in Moodle 1.9 is also very similar to Moodle 2.x, so most of the instructions can still be followed, if you are using that version.
What you need for this book
This book assumes that you already know the following:
Some of the features and activities explained will need to be turned on in the administration settings. Where this is required, it will be explained how to do it in an information box.
Who this book is for
Moodle Gradebook is for anyone who uses Moodle as a course instructor. You will need to know the basic functions of using and navigating Moodle, but no prior knowledge of the grades functions will be required.
Conventions
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "view the Settings block on the course".
Note
Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.
Tip
Tips and tricks appear like this.
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Chapter 1. Introduction to the Gradebook
If you are using Moodle, you are likely to be delivering some form of course content or providing resources to others. This could be for supporting learning, training, or other educational activity. Many online courses, qualifications, or educational resources have a final goal which is likely to include required elements to be completed. The gradebook can be a valuable tool to help the teacher to manage the online course and track the progress of the student through the required elements.
This chapter will introduce you to the gradebook and the key features it offers. It will outline the benefits of using the gradebook, the activities that can be graded and used within the gradebook, and the types of grades that can be used. You will be given an overview of how it can be used to manage learning before moving through the rest of the chapters to learn how to set up the different elements.
Getting to the gradebook
All courses in Moodle have a grades area, also known as the gradebook. A number of activities within Moodle can be graded and these grades will automatically be captured and shown in the gradebook.
To get to the gradebook, view the Settings block on the course and then click on Grades.
The following screenshot shows an example of the teachers' view of a simple gradebook with a number of different graded activities within it. Let's take a quick tour of what we can see!
Using the gradebook, we can see all the assessments and grades linked to each student from one screen.
Users with teacher, non-editing teacher, or manager roles will be able to see the grades for all students on the course. Students will only be able to see their own grades and feedback.
The advantage of storing the grades within Moodle is that information can be easily shared between all teachers on the online course. Traditionally, if a course manager wanted to know how students were progressing they would need to contact the course teacher(s) to gather this information. Now, they can log in to Moodle and view the live data (as long as they have teacher or manager rights to the course).
There are also benefits to students as they will see all their progress in one place and can start to manage their own learning by reviewing their progress to date as shown in the following example of student view:
