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Moodle 2.8: Gradebook

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All the grades for students can be found in the gradebook. This is where various assessments are collected. They can be sorted with categories and the gradebook will calculate totals using chosen settings.

Access the Gradebook

  1. Log in with your NetID and password at moodle.rutgers.edu
  2. Find the course you want to access.
  3. Once in the course, go to the administration block.
  4. Click on Gradebook Setup. This will take you to the Gradebook Setup view.

 

Gradebook Setup View

The Gradebook Setup view is the place to go to add categories and items, or edit your gradebook.

Add a Category

  1. In the Gradebook Setup view, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
  1. Click on the “Add Category” button.

Grade Category

  1. Input the Category name.
  1. Aggregation: Determines how grades in the category are combined for the final grade. Choose an option from the drop-down menu. 
  1. You can exclude empty grades by checking the box, otherwise, the empty grades will count as zeros. 
  1. Drop the Lowest: Input the number of grades you would like to drop. For example, drop the lowest 3 grades. 

Category Total

  1. Grade Type: Choose the grade options. 
  1. Maximum Grade: Input the top grade. 
  1. Grade Display Type: Determines how the grades are displayed in the gradebook. 
  1. Overall decimal points: The number places after the decimal in a points type grade. For example, 65.7 or 48.667.
  1. You can also hide the grade from student view until a certain date (Hidden Until) or after a certain date (Lock After). Just check the box and input the date using the data boxes or the calendar icons. 

Parent Category

  1. If you want the category to be associated with another category you can choose that parent category in the drop-down menu. For example, if you have a category called, Participation, and you wanted that grade to include discussion forums, then you would create a discussion forums category and choose Participation as the parent category. 
  1. Weight: You can have the category’s weight adjusted based on how much of the parent category’s weight it is going to take up. If you set the parent category weight to 25% and check the Weight Adjusted box, then the new category’s weight will automatically be adjusted to only take up 25% of the Parent Category.

Add a Gradebook Item

  1. In the Gradebook Setup view, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
  1. Click on the “Add Grade Item” button.

Grade Item

  1. Input the item name.
  1. Item Info: Information about the item that will not be displayed to students. 
  1. Grade Type: Choose the options the grade. 
  1. Maximum Grade: Input the top grade. 
  1. Minimum Grade: Input the lowest grade a student can earn. The default is zero.
  1. Grade to pass: Input the grade a student needs to earn to pass.
  1. Grade Display Type: Determines how the grades are displayed in the gradebook. 
  1. Overall decimal points: The number places after the decimal in a points type grade. For example, 65.7 or 48.667.
  1. You can also hide the grade from student view until a certain date (Hidden Until) or after a certain date (Lock After). Just check the box and input the date using the data boxes or the calendar icons. 

Parent Category

  1. If you want the item to be associated with a category, you can choose that parent category in the drop-down menu. For example, if you have a category called, Quizzes, and you create a gradebook item for a paper quiz, then you would add it to the Quizzes category. 
  1. Item Weight: When you add an item to a category, you can determine the item’s weight compared to other items in that category. Though, you have to choose the category before setting the weight. 

Edit Your Gradebook

In the gradebook Setup View, you can:

  • Adjust gradebook item weights
  • Move items via selection or drag-and-drop
  • Edit item settings

Adjust Weights

  1.  Find the item or category you would like to edit. 
  2. Under the weights column, you will see the text box next to the category or item name. Input the weight.
  3. Click on the “Save Changes” button. 

Move a Category or Item

  1.  Find the item or category you would like to move. 
  1. There is a two-directional arrow icon next to the category or item name.
  1. Click on the icon and drag the item or category up or down the list.
  1. OR move the item to a category by checking box under the select column next to the item you want to move.
  1. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the “Move selected items to” drop-down menu.
  1. Choose the category and the item should move to that category. 
  1. Click on the “Save Changes” button. 

Edit Item Settings

  1.  Find the item you would like to edit. 
  1. Click on the Edit link. This will take you to the item’s settings page.
  1. Make your edits.
  1. Click on the “Save Changes” button.

The Different Views

The gradebook can be viewed in different ways. Click on the drop-down menu at the top of the page to see the menu. Under the View category you will see the following:

  1. Grader Report – See all students and gradebook items in one spreadsheet.
  2. Grade History – See modifications to any grades and search by the user. If an assignment has multiple attempts each grade can be seen here.
  3. Outcomes Report – See the course average.
  4. Overview Report – All your grades in every course you are enrolled. This is good for student use.
  5. Single View – Grades for a specific gradebook item.
  6. User Report – grades for a specific user.

Moodle 2.8: Manually Grade an Essay Question

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Most of the quiz question options are graded automatically, but essay questions require manual grading.

  1. Go to your course and navigate to Grades.
  2. In the Grader report, find the quiz you want to grade and click on the quiz name at the top of the grade column.
  3. Scroll down the page until you see the class roster.
  4. For each student, find the question marked with “Requires grade” and click on it. This will open the question in a separate window.
  5. Scroll down until you see “Make a comment or override points” and click on the link.
  6. You will be able to write a comment or give feedback in the text box.
  7. Under the text box is a box to input points. Type in the numbers of points earned.
  8. Click “Save”. Back in the grader report, you should see the question now has a point value.

Moodle 2.8: Add Quiz Questions

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Save and Display

  1. Once you have the Quiz settings finished, click on the “Save and Display” button to move onto adding quiz questions or, on the main course page, click on the quiz’s edit link to add quiz questions.
  2. Click on “Edit Quiz” button.
  3. Over on the right-hand side, click on the “add” drop-down menu.
  4. Choose new question.
  5. You also have the option of adding questions from a question bank or adding a random question from a question bank.
  6. Choose the type of question you want from the list. Select a multiple choice question for this example.
  7. Then click on the Add Button.

 

General Section

  1. Either leave the category as a default or select a different category for the quiz.
  2. Input the question name. This is a descriptive name to help you find it in a question bank. It is not going to be seen by students.
  3. Question text: This is where you type in the question students are going to answer.
  4. Input the default points for the question.
  5. General feedback – This is shown to all students after the quiz is complete. No matter what grade was earned.
  6. Choose whether this question has one or multiple answers.
  7. Check the box if you want to shuffle the choices.
  8. Then select the way the choices will be listed: abcd, ABCD, 1234, etc. 

 

Answers

  1. You already have 4 choices available, but you do not have to use all of them and you can always add more if you need them.
  2. For each choice, you will type in the answer option:

    • Then, choose how much that option is worth in the grade drop-down menu.

      • One answer = 100%
      • Two answers = 50%
      • Three answers = 33.33%
    • Then you have the option to supply feedback based on each answer.

 

Combined Feedback

You can provide feedback based on general conditions such as any correct response, partially correct response, and incorrect response.

 

Multiple Tries

  1. When you set a quiz up with “Interactive with multiple tries” or “adaptive mode” then this section will allow you to customize how much of a percentage will be taken off for each incorrect try.
  2. You can also provide students with hints to help them choose the correct answer. You can also let them see the number of correct responses and/or clear away the incorrect responses.

 

Tags

This helps find the question in a bank like the question name. So if you’ve forgotten the name you can search by keywords.

  1. Click on “Save Changes” to add another question.

 

Add Another Quiz Question

  1. Click on Save Changes” to add more questions. This will take you back to the Edit Quiz page and you should see the question listed. Repeat the “Add questions” steps to add more.
  2. From the Quiz Edit Page, you can reorder the questions using the cross icon on the left of the question.
  3. Delete the question using the trashcan icon to the right of the question.
  4. Edit the question’s points by clicking on the pencil icon in the points box and type in the new point value.
  5. View the quiz question by clicking on the magnifying glass icon. This will take you to a popup window with the question edit page.
    • Short answer questions require you to grade them manually so you would go in and give points.
    • Once you make a quiz with questions then you’ll be able to see it in the grade book automatically.

Moodle 2.8: Quiz Settings

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A Moodle quiz is an activity that can be added to a week/section for student interaction and assessment. Quizzes can fill multiple roles in a course. Use them to check understanding, a short quiz or even an exam.

Access the Quiz

  1. Login with your NetID and password at moodle.rutgers.edu
  2. Go to  the course you want to edit
  3. Once in the course, turn editing on
  4. Then, scroll down to the lesson or week to which you want to add the quiz and click on “+ Add activity or resource”
  5. Choose “Quiz” from the list of activities

 

General

    1. Input quiz name
    2. Include a description (this is optional)
    3. If you want the description to be displayed on the course page then check the box next to “Display description on course”.

 

Timing

  1. Open the quiz – check enable box then input the open date
  2. Close the quiz – check enable box then input the close date
  3. Time limit – (optional) check enable then put in the time
  4. When time expires:
      • Open attempts are submitted automatically
      • There is a grace period when attempts can be submitted, but no more questions can be answered.
      • Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not counted.

 

Grade

    1. Grade Category
      • This needs to be created in your grade book first, but it is not necessary for quizzes to be graded. Then you can choose that category in this section
      • Add  a Grade to Pass
      • Attempts allowed – unlimited or 1-10
      • Grading method
        1. Highest grade
        2. Average Grade
        3. First attempt
        4. Last attempt

 

Layout

  1. New Page – This setting allows you to determine the layout of the quiz in terms of whether the questions will be split into multiple pages like a book. It is recommended that questions be displayed 5 to a page to limit the amount of work lost in case of a glitch or sudden outage, but you do have the choice from the following:

    • Never, all questions on one page
    • Every question
    • Choose between every 2-50 questions. The recommended number is 5 to avoid losing too much information during a glitch.
  2. Navigation Method – This setting allows you to determine how students will be able to progress through the quiz. It is recommended to set this to Free because it allows students to skip questions and go back later just as they would a paper version, but you do have the choice of the following options:
        1. Free
        2. Sequential – cannot return to previous pages nor skip ahead.

 

Question Behavior

  1. Allows you to determine how the questions will be displayed for every student or attempt.
  2. Shuffle within Questions: This randomizes the answer options for each question. For example, students can sit next to each other and have different answers for the “A” option. This discourages cheating.
  3. How Questions Behave: This setting is about question or quiz feedback. You may want students to receive feedback only after completing the quiz (Deferred Feedback) or you may want them to know immediately if the answer to a question is wrong (Immediate Feedback) and have multiple tries to get it right (Interactive with multiple tries).
  4. Allow redo within an attempt: Once the student has answered a question, a redo button will appear which will allow the student to attempt to answer the question again without having to submit the whole quiz and opening another attempt. This setting is more useful for practice questions or low-stakes knowledge check quizzes.
  5. Each attempt builds on the last: A student can work towards getting a better grade on the quiz with each attempt by allowing the results of the last attempt to be visible as the student does a new attempt.

 

Review Options

  1. The review options control the information provided to students after completing a quiz or attempt. 
  2. Go through the categories and check the boxes that best suit your desired feedback method. Think of each category as this question, “What are students allowed to see ____?”
      • During the attempt
      • Immediately after the attempt
      • Later, while the quiz is still open
      • After the quiz is closed

 

Appearance

  1. Show the User’s Picture: You can choose to have the profile pictures of the user displayed during the quiz.
  2. Decimal Places in Question Grades: If you choose to use points for the grade, you can choose how many decimal places there are in the score. For example, 20.50 or 66.333.
  3. Show Blocks During Quiz Attempts: Show the blocks in the sidebar from your course main page while students are taking the quiz. 

 

Extra Restrictions on Attempts

  1. Require Password: Make the quiz accessible only to students who have the password. 
  2. Require Network Address: Make sure students only use the university’s internet by inputting the IP address here.
  3. Enforced delay between 1st and 2nd attempts: Require the students to take a certain amount of time between quiz attempts. You can choose between seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks. 
  4. Enforced delay between later attempts: This setting is for 3+ attempts. You can require students to take a certain amount of time between quiz attempts. You can choose between seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks. 
  5. Browser Security: The quiz opens in a pop-up window and prevents students from searching for the answers on the internet, but only works if the student has a java-script enabled browser.
  6. Allow quiz to be attempted offline using the mobile app: If the students download the app to access the course, they can still take the quiz even without internet access. 

 

Overall Feedback

Give overall feedback for the quiz after the student’s attempt. You can choose to have the feedback display immediately after the attempt or after the quiz is closed. Just input the grade you would like to give feedback on in the grade boundary box and type in the feedback in the text box. You can add more feedback boxes by clicking on the “Add 3 more feedback fields” button.

 

Common Module Settings

  1. Visible – make sure it is set to show. That way students can see the forum.
  2. Group mode – you will use this feather if you have already created groups.

 

Restrict Access and Activity completion

  • Allows you to release the assignment to students using a set of conditions. This is not necessary if you have an open and close date set. Activity completion gives you choices on how the assignment will be marked complete on the course page.
  • Click on “Save and display” to move on to adding quiz questions.