Follow this procedure to add a column to the gradebook for exams and other graded items that are not assignments.
Your teaching assistants and graders who have the “Non-editing teacher” role cannot enter grades of this type. If you want TAs and graders to enter a grade, make it an assignment of the type; see Section 11, “Assignment activities”.
Procedure 13. Adding an external grade to the gradebook
If editing is turned off, click the button near the top right corner of the page.
Under on the left side, click .
From the pull-down menu at the top left, under Categories and items, select .
Click the at the bottom of this page .
You are now on the New grade item page. In the Grade item group, enter a unique name in the field.
In the Parent category section, you can select a category for this item (see Section 12, “Grades”). However, better practice is to leave the grade category in the default category (which has the same name as your course) until you have all the grades entered.
Click . This takes you back to the Simple view page.
From the menu, under View, select .
In the column for this item, enter the grades for each student.
Be sure to click when you are done. If you leave the page by any other route, any grades you have entered will be discarded.
Now move the graded item from Uncategorised to its proper category. In the pull-down menu, select .
In the row for this item, click the checkbox in the last column.
At the bottom of the page, in the pull-down, select the proper category for the item.
The page will be reformatted so that the item moves into the color-coded block for that category.