By default, all grades are placed into the Uncategorised category. You will need to create one or more categories so that you can set up a formula for the computation of the current numeric course grade.
Procedure 12. Creating a new category
From the course page, under , click .
From the pull-down menu, in the Categories and items group, select .
Click the button at the bottom of the page.
You are now on the New category page. Under Grade category, enter the name in the Category name field.
Then choose a value from the pull-down menu. The default choice is , but there are several other choices.
There are many other choices here, but for most cases you can just click on .