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Author Barrington, Rebecca, author

Title Moodle gradebook : explore the Moodle gradebook and discover how to set up and customize it to track students' progress / Rebecca Barrington
Edition Second edition
Published Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series Community experience distilled
Community experience distilled.
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
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
Notes Previous edition: 2012
Includes index
English
Online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed January 22, 2015)
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SUBJECT Moodle. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008006148
Moodle fast
Subject Educational technology.
Open source software.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Educational technology
Open source software
Moodle
Open Source
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781784396619
1784396613
178439937X
9781784399375